Shabbat? Hey, Guys - It's A Rap!
Source: YouTube
This music video about Shabbat - the Jewish Sabbath - was made by students at Highland Park High School, Chicago, U.S. and won the 13th annual Chicagoland high school video festival.
Watch Tanned Tin Documentary On-Line
Source: Dailymotion - videos
Documentary about the Tanned Tin festival features performance & interview footage from bands Spain, Mia Doi Todd, David Thomas Broughton, Xiu Xiu, Laura Gibson, The Floorbirds, Refree, The Sea and Cake, Grouper, Arborea, Dolorean, For Against, Boy Omega, and Za.
Blue Scholars 'Coffee and Snow' video
Source: raindrophustla
[MILDLY NWS AUDIO] Geo & Sabz with a non-album snow day joint! It looks real good, I'm thinking it's gotta be by Zia Mohajerjasbi. Gotta be.
Soulja Boy Cartoon?
Source: eurweb.com
According to the Hollywood Reporter, "Soulja Boy Tell 'Em: The Animated Series" will be introduced in the first music video that follows this week's release of Soulja Boy's second album, "iSouljaBoyTellEm."
Novel: I Am ft. Ben Folds, Talib Kweli & Spree Wilson
Source: prefixmag.com
Ben Folds is listed as being featured on "I Am" by Novel, but you'd be forgiven for not realizing that: his vocals are made Chipmunk-high, but he did the piano for the song. Talib Kweli and Spree Wilson do guest verses on the track, and Talib runs off with the show.
Michael Jackson: Thriller Is Broadway Bound - Black Voices Blogs
Source: BlackVoices.com
'Thriller – Live,' billed as "a spectacular, high-octane show specially created to celebrate the career of the world's greatest entertainer and undisputed King of Pop," features Jackson hits such as 'I Want You Back,' 'I'll Be There,' 'Show You The Way To Go,' 'Can You Feel It, …
MTV smacks YouTube, posts almost every music video ever
Source: Ars Technica
Do you sometimes find yourself wishing that there was a place you could go to just watch music videos? Back in the 80s, MTV served that purpose. These days, MTV and its sibling MTV2 are hardly channels anyone would watch in order to get a music video fix.
Final Outlaw - Hip Hop 4ever
Source: OnSMASH
Video For Final Outlaw "Hip Hop 4ever" Directed By Janelle Ryan. Final Outlaw sent me an email @ Newsvine - I watched the video and thought it was pretty good lo-fi stuff.
Common Market's "Trouble Is" Video
Source: East of LA
I love Common Market - they continue to be a testament for why I like hiphop. Their next album, Tobacco Road, is about the Kentucky farmers MC RA Scion grew up around, and this lead video is bananas...although the minute after the song is kinda eh.
Ben Folds' use of Parody and Satire deserves the titles of "elegant" and "extremely awesome." In my opinion, Ben Folds is one of the most intelligent and talented rock musicians alive today.
Obama music video: Will.I.Am says Yes.We.Can
Source: Scholars and Rogues
I don't know what kind of musical talent lies in the McCain and Romney camps, but right now Obama is whomping the bejeezus out of Hillary's girl Celine...
Scotch Mist: a film with Radiohead in it.
Source: goldenfiddle.com
If you dig Radiohead, then you'll probably enjoy this 52 minute film put together for New Year's Eve 2007, by the band, and aired by Current TV. Features all songs on Radiohead's album In Rainbows. Hosted on Goldenfiddle.com.
First "Iraq and Roll Band" Releases Arabic Single
Source: Gateway Pundit
Excerpt- ''Nearly a decade after forming what is probably Iraq's first rock band, the five-member UTN1 (Unknown to no-one) have launched their first Arabic single and are determined to conquer the world. ''