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Here Are the Songs They Play at a Middle School Dance

[Editor's note: The following post by Houston writer and ESL teacher Shea Serrano was named the best blog post of the year in the first-ever Voice Media Group music writing awards. Originally published by our sister blog, West Coast Sound at L.A. Weekly, it's a hilarious real-time account of an afte ... More >>

Avoid This on Black Friday: New Michael Jackson Video Game

​Hopefully you've prepared yourself for this year's lamest Christmas gift. According to Paste, Ubisoft just dropped a Michael Jackson video game available for Nintendo DS and PSP.As if there weren't enough terrible video games that revolve around dancing already. Yet this one might take the cake. ... More >>

SxSW: Japan Nite and the Future of Japanese Music in America

Jonathan McNamaraJinnyOops! performing at Japan Nite 2010. See more shots in our Japan Nite slide show. ​The chances are fairly good that you have never heard of Japan Nite. Never mind the fact that this SxSW showcase has been going on for 15 years; the odds are you won't recognize any of the band ... More >>

New Release Tuesday: Passion Pit

Cambridge, Mass' own Passion Pit have released one of 2009's finest Summer has unceremoniously slapped us Valley residents in the face, making us long for those sub-100 degree days that October will eventually bring. Thank goodness there are bands like Passion Pit releasing albums that make for the ... More >>

A Two-Point Plan to Save Gaming News

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Smash Bros. Brawl and the biggest game tournament ever

Fans of Nintendo's popular fighting series waited for hours to get this game

A Little Sucky-Sucky

Two vampire classics are back. Unfortunately, they bite

Fun With Fluids

The revolution will be televised — and plenty addictive, too

Playing Dumb

Jackass presents the world's biggest waste of time

Star Dreck

Alien Syndrome will alienate some, infect others

Student Bodies

Brooktown High takes you under the bleachers

Lousy Hustler

Paul Newman and Larry Flynt would be ashamed of Pocket Pool

This is Madness

PSP players, tonight you game in hell

Arrested Development

Heard about the 29-year-old sex offender who posed as a seventh-grader? Here's how the sordid case was broken

All Dressed Up . . .

PlayStation 3 has potential -- but for the moment, little else

Puddle of Fun

LocoRoco is the perfect one-night stand

Glacial Profiling

Slow-paced Valkyrie Profile offers dull apocalypse

Next Big Things

The five biggest attention-getters at E3

Law and Disorder

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is guilty of being bizarre fun.

Shoot 'em Up

Tabb takes aim at new video games

Addicted to PSP

Tabb finds several more things to glue him to the screen

Flying Solo

Falling in love with the GameBoy all over again