"Willard Mitt Romney Song": for Florida's many glowstick-waving voters.

​Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a new song dedicated to him with a message he probably won't approve. "Willard Mitt Romney Song" by Minneapolis electro-hop act the Sicko Pervs arrived over the weekend -- just as the former Massachusetts governor heads into a heated Republican primary election this week in Florida. This is a markedly better soundbite-chop than Dubnasty's "Newt Gingrich Sucks the Iowa Caucus Remix," but it seems that this political-sparring dubstep subgenre inspires some of the most uninspiring song-titling around.
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​Just when we thought the Double Rainbow meme had run its course and then some, Jimmy Fallon busts out his uncanny Neil Young impression, the same night Lynyrd Skynyrd's least favorite canuck visits us (less than transcendentally). What does it mean?

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All your cutes are belong to us

​Since signing a 360 deal with Warner Bros. last September, Devo has been sort of everywhere; playing shows, giving interviews, planning trips to animation spaceland in defense of mutants, and changing the color of their uniform's centerpiece, the energy dome (Mark Mothersbaugh told Billboard: "We'd been getting some reports back that red might not be the safest color for an energy dome"). All in preparation, of course, for the release of their first new record in twenty years.  Something For Everybody  is a deep lambaste of us robochildrens' need for comity and consensus in a world of memeology ("Don't Taze Me Bro!"), and everything they've done to promote it has been firmly in service of that central critique. Maybe.

So in the spirit of everything crowdsourced and bloggable and viral, Devo are streaming a video of twenty cats listening to their new record for nine hours straight. Because fer cute. The stream starts at 1 p.m. CST, or you can stream the record at any time on their website. But...fer cute.

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If there was anything the VHS boom of the '80s taught us, it's that nobody underestimated the necessity of time-filling, supposedly-disposable and cheaply-made diversions for the VCR-owning masses. Whether through hastily-assembled celebrity vanity projects, public access rantings, stiffly-acted corporate training videos or handheld footage of that wicked awesome weekend back in '92 where everyone got totally blitzed, the omnipresence of videotape exponentially increased the posterity of whatever completely ridiculous nonsense might have passed for entertainment and edification at some point or another.

There's been a major YouTube-fueled boom in goofing on long-lost, unintentionally hilarious and/or horrifying audiovisual detritus. Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, the two tape-hoarding masterminds behind the five-years-running Found Footage Festival, rank among the most accomplished, with some of their most notorious finds -- like the temperamental Winnebago salesman Jack Rebney -- becoming the stuff of legend, and comedy stalwarts like David Cross chipping in to contribute their own found footage to the Fest (like this popular montage of late '80s video dating bachelors). Not content to stick with just putting streams of their choicest finds online, Nick and Joe have made a riotous roadshow of their choicest thrift-store/yard sale/dumpster acquisitions, combining clips, commentary, skits and the occasional surprise guest star. Their current tour puts them in Minneapolis for two just-announced shows at the Heights Theatre on December 10th, and like many of their previous installations, there's a few notable links to the Twin Cities. I interviewed both Nick and Joe on seperate occasions to get an idea of just how some of this stuff comes to see the light of day.More >>

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Back in August, Mattel announced that they'd be introducing a "Ladies of the 80s" line of dolls, a collection of 80s rockers molded in the plastic, homogeneous image of Barbie.

And now, they've released the hellish images of its poor, unwitting subjects--Joan Jett, Cyndi Lauper, and Blondie's Debbie Harry. Head below the jump for a look at these unholy countenances.

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​Might want to skip the dietary advice.

Andrew W. K.-- noise musician, party God, Fox News commentator, and fitness guru.

Mondays are bleary-eyed affairs for us all, be you a beleaguered music blogger gazing wistfully at the lapis sky, or a high-fallutin' investment banker nursing a hangover from Sunday's three-martini lunch.

So head below the jump for a flummoxing work-out video from the Man In White himself, Andrew W. K.

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