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I be liking chess
Cuz chess is crazy, right there, that’s the ultimate
It’s like a great hobby right there, playing chess
The board, the pieces, the squares, the movement
You know, war, capturing, thinking, strategy
Planning, music, it’s hip-hop, and sports
It’s life, it’s reality

Those are the last lines in GZA’s “Queen’s Gambit,” a chess-inspired track written by one of […]

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How’s that for a headline?
Florence and the Machine are a good old-fashioned British ass-kickin’ band. Here’s the video for their song “Kiss with a Fist”:

According to her BBC bio, she “makes the kind of music Lily or Kate would make if they’d grown up locked in a cage full of snakes in the basement […]

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You know the old joke: “What do you get when you cross Vincent Price, Michael Jackson, 1,500 Filipino inmates and a transvestite?”
I think I missed the boat on this one, and some of you have probably already seen this. But sweet mercy it’s fantastic. If you ever go to jail in the Philippines, […]

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There’s something just beautiful about this. And something creepy…
ASIMO can run, speak, climb stairs, serve coffee, navigate through crowds of people, link up to computer networks, deliver weather reports and recognize faces, speech and environments. He works as a receptionist at Honda’s offices in Saitama, Japan.
In case you’re interested, ASIMO is taking some […]

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In case you’re not familiar with the original We Are the World, it’s a song written for charity by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and sung by an all-star cast including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Bette Midler, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner and, oddly, […]

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Unlike Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” experiment, which allowed downloaders to pay what they wanted, NIN’s site doesn’t have so much as a tipjar option for it’s new record: The Slip. All you need is a valid e-mail address and you can download the album for free. No catch, apparently.
From NIN.com:

as a thank you to […]

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I came across this video quite a while ago, after falling head over heels for the brilliant piano piece called “Every Day” that accompanies it. The music is by Brooklyn-based Carly Comando, whose Myspace page lists over 380,000 plays for this song despite the fact that she doesn’t seem to have released a CD […]

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