Listen: Karen O – ‘If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough’ (Jackass 3D song)

Stupid is  fun alright, and  Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O cover of Roger Alan Wade’s “If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough” for the Jackass 3D soundtrack kinda nails the spirit. Sung with a country twang and southern accent, Karen’s version provides a nice first listen of the Jackass 3D soundtrack out digitally October 12, which also features tracks from the likes of Weezer, Twisted Sister, and N.A.S.A.’s Squeak E. Clean remix of…

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Sacha Baron Cohen to star as Freddie Mercury in upcoming biopic

One can see the resemblance, but is Cohen capable to fill Freddie Mercury's immense shoes? I'm skeptical.

“Hello it is me, Freddy Mercury… I joking, he die of AIDS,” said Cohen wearing a muscle vest as he made his apparearance at the MTV Europe awards which he presented. Ironically or not, Sacha Baron Cohen, a comedian most known for inventing timeless characters such as the flaming rapper Ali G, the gay…

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A glimpse at Daft Punk’s soundtrack for Tron: Legacy

What better artists to soundtrack the follow-up to Tron, one of cinema’s most daring futuristic movies, than the robot affectionate duo Daft Punk? The influential house group was commandeered to deliver both the score and soundtrack for Tron: Legacy’s very colorful and SciFi environment. A challenging task, indeed, but from the looks of it, the French duo not only stood up to the task, but they’ve actually out done themselves! Just check out the two…

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Inception’s musical score borrows Edith Piaf?

Someone with immense patience and attention to detail uploaded the above YouTube clip, in which Inception’s by now famous shattering brass intro is put face to face with a synchronized version of Edith Piaf’s “Je Ne Regrette Rien” in the same tempo. The similarities are remarkable and, frankly, a bit disturbingly odd. I’m not sure if Hans Zimmer, the famous compositor put in charge of SciFi blockbuster soundtrack, was in any way inspired by Edith’s…

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Gary Numan performs ‘Cars’ for new spectacular DieHard commercial

Above, you can check out the new DieHard commercial advertising their car batteries, which features Gary Numan playing his 1979 ‘Cars’ on an organ whose output consists of car horns. The result? Well you’ll just have to see for yourself. Adam Sadowsky, president of Synn Labs, writes in to explain how they created the “corgan”: We’re the same folks who built the Rube Goldberg Machine for OK Go’s music video for “This Too Shall Pass”….

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A movie about facebook – big fail. Trent Reznor scoring it – wait a minute?

Staring Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg - perfect seeing how both names end in 'berg'.

Everybody has a facebook profile, some actually spend 12+ hours on it every day (we all know at least someone in this situation), heck a few people have even become billionaires thanks to this … social phenomenon. Guess I shouldn’t be so shocked then that someone thought about making a movie about facebook, about the…

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Coldplay’s Chris Martin on the Simpsons

“The tambourine? I might as well play with dolls!” It seems last night’s television broadcast wasn’t entirely a musical fail fest *cough Grammys *cough. After American Dad had My Morning Jacket as guests for a feature episode, The Simpsons brought down Coldplay to the radioactive suburbs of Springfield, albeit for a short cameo. Check out the video bellow which features a short sequence of last night’s Simpsons episode where Coldplay get featured trying to play…

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Watch the trailer for Animal Collective’s new movie – ODDSAC

ODDSAC, a visual album by Animal Collective and director Danny Perez, is slated to premier tonight at the Sundance Film Festival, but while critics will have the chance to experience the full length of the acid trip, the rest of us will have to settle for the recently released 30 seconds trailer. As expected, it’s dark, eery and terribly confusing.

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Trailer for the new John Lennon biopic released

“Nowhere Boy” is the most recent movie in the wave of deceased artist biopics that have been produced in the past few years – this time it’s all about John Lennon. This isn’t  a movie that goes behind the curtains of his Beatles days, however. Instead, it’s a chronicle of childhood and troubled teenaged years that eventually shaped him into one of the world’s greatest songwriters to ever have lived. The movie sounds very interesting,…

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