​Anyone who follows Roots drummer and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon staple Questlove on Twitter knows that he puts a lot of thought into the walk-on music the band plays for each of the guests on their show. One of the Roots' finest zingers to date was playing the Milli Vanilli song "Girl You Know It's True" when infamous lip syncher Ashlee Simpson came on the show -- complete with a skip on the main chorus to accentuate the part of the song that revealed that Milli Vanilli did not, in fact, sing their own music. More >>

​The semi-relaunched Paste Magazine is at the halfway point in their Mason Jennings-a-thon, premiering a video a week from the songwriter in advance of his ninth long player, Minnesota, releasing early next month. The second video, out today, is a little special though -- Jennings animated the entire thing himself. So... how is it?
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​The Internet is abuzz with the news that Spotify is coming to the United States. But what does that mean for us, exactly?

Their website lists an excited an announcement that the music service is coming to the U.S. (no date in mind), along with a few choice quotes from Mark Zuckerberg and Demi Moore (@mrskutcher, in case you forgot) singing praises of Spotify.

Here's what we know:

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​It's that time again. Radio K, the student run station from the University of Minnesota very humbly has launched another pledge drive and is asking for your help.
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​"Life had been almost ridiculously easy, and now things were going to get worse. Much, much worse."More >>

Antoine Dodson plays live on BET

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The BET Awards may have just scored the biggest viral coup of the awards season: A live performance of "Bed Intruder" by Antoine Dodson.

For those who haven't yet had the pleasure, "Bed Intruder" is an auto-tuned mix of the viral video in which an excitable young man warns that "they're raping everybody out here."

Run and tell that, homeboy.
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​Every '70s rocker's "first favorite band" Kiss is known for being outlandish, over the top, dirty old man-like and typically first of a kind for many things. Kiss coffeeshops, blood in their comic book ink, or doing an online press conference for their fans, as they did Tuesday in full make-up backstage before rocking Koenig Pilsner Arena in Oberhausen, Germany.

Questions hit the screen like pizza orders on a Friday night as folks who zapped to the band's facebook page for about 45 minutes of Q&A could type in whatever they had always wanted to know (and not to know) about the band.

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​Odd, that a pop star would appear vapid under the microscope. Lynn Hirschberg, longtime writer for The Grey Lady, may be best known for her super smackdown of Courtney Love, pointing out Courtney's drug abuse while pregnant (and which ended with an attempted bludgeoning by an Academy Award). Hirschberg's honesty has made her another enemy, this time as a result of her story on MIA in the most recent New York Times Magazine. Maya Arulpragasam's (in my opinion, transparently facile) image of rabble-rousing revolutionary is severely upended in the piece, MIA coming across as a trendy moth, flitting from one bright light of controversy to another, regardless of context or content. It's harsh, and fascinating, and more than likely true. It's so harsh, fascinating, and likely true that earlier today an incensed MIA sent out a tweet with Hirschberg's cell phone number and a winking pair of punctuations:
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​Interviews with musicians that are set up in a Q&A format can get a little tedious sometimes -- reporters tend to stick too close to the same sets of questions, and the musicians reply in turn with rote, rehearsed responses. But occasionally a music Q&A breaks the routine and brings us something fresh, as with this week's interview with Coolio conducted by the Minnesota Daily music editor Jay Boller.

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