Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.
Total Pop Mayhem (The NYE Mixtape)
Cuban expression artist “El Sexto” Danilo Maldonado’s beautiful tribute to the late human rights activist Laura Pollán. #Libertad #Cuba
Here Come the Year-End Mashups!
It really is the most wonderful time of the year: Christmas season in full-swing, and an onslaught of awesome mashups are released into the wild. This month the music industry is looking back and rounding up the year’s best, but gone are the days where we looked solely to VH1, MTV, TRL, Billboard magazine, and your local Clear Channel monopoly to reminisce about the artists who ruled the charts. In the emerging social music experience developing online through YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and apps like Spotify and Turntable.fm, the most exciting byproduct has been the explosion of the mashup genre.
Take a look at Mashup-Germany’s latest - an incredible mashup featuring 29 of this year’s hottest songs - just released. Many others will follow suit this month. But if you’re looking for the best, look no further than reigning mad scientist DJ Earworm. His annual “United State of Pop” usually drops right around Christmas and crushes his peers, putting everyone’s seemingly remarkable attempts to shame.
USPOP is not simply a mashup. Anyone with a good ear for music can pick up on the recurring chord progressions common in many pop songs. With some skill, ingenuity and a good muse, many will create beautiful symphonies out of multiple club beats and synthesizers. What makes Earworm’s annual monstrosity so unique is that he really creates an entirely new song: impressively fluid lyrics and instrumentation that connect the year’s songs with a common theme for the grand purpose of pure pop mayhem (see video after the jump):
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Sailors & Sweethearts (The Winter Remix)
Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Chart Predictions
Check out my picks for the Top 25 Songs of 2011 based on the Hot 100 over at Billboard. I looked at how much time these songs spent in the top 10 during the year, and mixed in a little bit of my personal preferences too; we’ll see how close I got when the year-end charts drop in a few weeks! The Billboard Top 25 is also the cocktail used in the “United State of Pop” mash-up that DJ Earworm releases around Christmas every year. Looks like he’ll have his work cut out for him again:
Photo via Idolator
- 25. The Time (Dirty Bit) - Black Eyed Peas
- 24. How To Love - Lil’ Wayne
- 23. F***in Perfect - P!nk
- 22. The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars
- 21. We R Who We R - Ke$ha
- 20. What’s My Name - Rihanna feat. Drake
- 19. Tonight I’m Lovin’ You - Enrique Iglesias
- 18. The Edge of Glory - Lady Gaga
- 17. Last Friday Night - Katy Perry
- 16. Someone Like You - Adele
- 15. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
- 14. Just Can’t Get Enough - Black Eyed Peas
- 13. Super Bass - Nicki Minaj
- 12. Till The World Ends - Britney Spears
- 11. S&M - Rihanna
- 10. F*** You - Cee Lo
- 09. Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera
- 08. On The Floor - J.Lo feat. Pitbull
- 07. Give Me Everything - Pitbull
- 06. Grenade - Bruno Mars
- 05. ET - Katy Perry feat. Kanye
- 04. Firework - Katy Perry
- 03. Born This Way - Lady Gaga
- 02. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO
- 01. Rolling In The Deep - Adele
Wishing The Legend of Zelda a happy 25th anniversary on the eve of the release of Skyward Sword - which is giving me all sorts of goosebumps with glowing best-in-series reviews.. Thank you for shaping my imagination as a kid, stimulating my brain with endless puzzles and quests, inspiring me with your epic soundtrack, and cultivating my inner nerd.
We are stardust, we are golden, and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.
![Please come out and support the fundraiser my friends and I are hosting in New York City this November! We’re raising money for the Food Bank of NYC and the event will feature DJ Afro from the Grammy-winning Los Amigos Invisibles, and DJ Turmix! Visit our website and see all the details below.
childrensjoyfund:
Children’s Joy Fund is Back(Pack) in Action! Join us November 16, 2011, 7:00pm at the Chelsea Room!
Children’s Joy Fund is proud to renew our commitment to improving the lives of children in our home state by hosting our second annual fundraiser. This year we are supporting the Food Bank for NYC’s Open Market BackPack Program and Liberty Cafe, a soup kitchen in East New York that feeds nearly 400 people a day. Performing at our latin-flavored club night will be DJ Turmix, and DJ Afro of the Latin Grammy-Award-winning band, Los Amigos Invisibles!
The NY Times reports that 1,006,390 New York children live in FOOD INSECURE HOUSEHOLDS[VIEW STATS] -More stats in the posts below-
In New York City, one of the richest cities in the world, food poverty is around every corner. Throughout the five boroughs, approximately 1.3 million people — mainly women, children, seniors, the working poor and people with disabilities — rely on soup kitchens and food pantries. Approximately 3 million New Yorkers experience difficulty affording food for themselves and their families, an increase of 60 percent since 2003 (foodbankNYC)
For our 2011 project, we have set our sights on supplying a year’s worth of healthy and nutritious food to children in New York City. The growing rate of hunger among children throughout the boroughs is alarming. With a struggling economy and limited options for families, kids across New York need our help right now to fight hunger and malnutrition.
Purchase your ticket for the Children’s Joy Fund Benefit at Chelsea Room on November 16th or donate above!](http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/dannylamas/11275990925/1/tumblr_lsee9fUlsl1r11rum)
Please come out and support the fundraiser my friends and I are hosting in New York City this November! We’re raising money for the Food Bank of NYC and the event will feature DJ Afro from the Grammy-winning Los Amigos Invisibles, and DJ Turmix! Visit our website and see all the details below.
Children’s Joy Fund is Back(Pack) in Action! Join us November 16, 2011, 7:00pm at the Chelsea Room!
Children’s Joy Fund is proud to renew our commitment to improving the lives of children in our home state by hosting our second annual fundraiser. This year we are supporting the Food Bank for NYC’s Open Market BackPack Program and Liberty Cafe, a soup kitchen in East New York that feeds nearly 400 people a day. Performing at our latin-flavored club night will be DJ Turmix, and DJ Afro of the Latin Grammy-Award-winning band, Los Amigos Invisibles!
The NY Times reports that 1,006,390 New York children live in FOOD INSECURE HOUSEHOLDS
[VIEW STATS] -More stats in the posts below-In New York City, one of the richest cities in the world, food poverty is around every corner. Throughout the five boroughs, approximately 1.3 million people — mainly women, children, seniors, the working poor and people with disabilities — rely on soup kitchens and food pantries. Approximately 3 million New Yorkers experience difficulty affording food for themselves and their families, an increase of 60 percent since 2003 (foodbankNYC)
For our 2011 project, we have set our sights on supplying a year’s worth of healthy and nutritious food to children in New York City. The growing rate of hunger among children throughout the boroughs is alarming. With a struggling economy and limited options for families, kids across New York need our help right now to fight hunger and malnutrition.
Purchase your ticket for the Children’s Joy Fund Benefit at Chelsea Room on November 16th or donate above!
Source: childrensjoyfund
