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Lady Gaga vs. king Bowie, “Let’s Just Dance” [Mashup]
DJ Terry Urban treats mashups same Cage treats composition, descending meet a micro-fragment of Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” behindhand Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” — to startling effect. This also marks the prototypal occurrence for either creator where difficultness has served as an asset.

Kids in the uranologist vs. Grizzly Bear, “Leisure Man” [New Track/Mashup]
Well, Grizzly Bear’s entré into hip-hop is officially complete; prototypal Jay-Z shows up at a borough show, today Kidz in the uranologist are rapping over “Two Weeks.” Be honest: did anyone wager this coming? And if you did, is there some artefact we crapper offer your brainwave on, say, the incoming 15 World Series?

Raekwon, “About Me” & “Cataline” [Live]
This is the thanks Rae gets, for swing discover a achievement expected for a decade that actually lives up to the hype? He gets more-or-less ignored, relegated to springy performances on an extremity sports network?

Rihanna, Full author Concert [Live Video]
The forthcoming is here, folks. You don’t modify hit to leave your desk today to savor a flooded Rihanna concert. And who do we hit to impart for this wonderful weekday gift? You guessed it: the Russians, who materialize to be hosting this recording on a Slavonic edition of YouTube titled — move for it! — RuTube.

Passion Pit, “Little Secrets” [Jack Beats Remix]
Jack Beats takes a scalpel to suffering Pit’s denote card, motion it into the category of ADD-dance sort that inspires full-body dance-floor freak-outs.

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They were the large duo to impact Nihon since Godzilla and Mothra, and today comes word bass giants Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck are feat to sway unitedly again in 2010. The unify declared today they’ll verify the initiate at London’s O2 Arena on Feb 13th, 2010 at a render concert that promises to be epic. As Rolling Stone reported early this year, Beck and Clapton mutual the calculate unitedly for the prototypal instance in their careers at a unify of concerts in Nihon in February. The duo had previously performed unitedly during festivity shows, but hadn’t actually mutual the bill. And today that they’re agitated geographically fireman to the States, rumors that they’ll alter the render exhibit to the U.S. in 2010 are ramping up.

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“I’ve ever thoughtful Jeff Beck to be digit of the best bass players around. He’s a friend, a enthusiastic guy, and a genuinely precocious musician. We had much a recreation instance in Nihon that it seemed uncolored to endeavor unitedly again,” Clapton said in a evidence today. Added Beck, “Eric and I played unitedly in Nihon early this assemblage and had a blast. Since then we hit been in lawful occurrence and talked most doing a kindred exhibit for our fans. Looking nervy to the exhibit in 2010.”

Both Clapton and Beck module action a ordered of their possess penalization before connection onstage for a ordered together, and a advise promulgation promises their render ordered module be individual than the ones performed at the Nihon shows. Beck is exclusive a superior sort of artists inducted into the Rock uranologist twice — for his unaccompanied occupation and his impact with the Yardbirds — patch Clapton is the unaccompanied performer who appears threesome nowadays in the Rock Hall: as a member of both Cream and the Yardbirds and as a unaccompanied artist. While both Clapton and Beck were both members of the Yardbirds, the digit never performed unitedly in the band: It was Beck that replaced Clapton when he mitt the group.

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