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Music: Create a more eclectic Last.fm playlist:

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Feel like mixing up your Last.fm song list? Try Anthony Liekens’s handy script that takes your top twenty artists and matches them with similar musical styles, creating a more diverse playlist.

It takes a few seconds to generate the playlist, but the results are well worth it; plus, it’s a great way to discover new music that you might not have discovered otherwise. He’s got a few other cool Last.fm scripts here as well: you can compare your profile with other users, generate a musical tag cloud, or grab recommended artists.— Wendy Boswell

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Redoing the Beatles:

“Sgt. Pepper’s 2.0 . fourty years later, BBC 2 is preparing a recording session (with the original recording instrumentation and Geoff Emerick) to be aired on 2 June. Oasis, The Killers, Razorlight, James Morrison, The Fratellis, Travis and the Kaiser Chiefs are the artists currently announced.
Not the first time someone covers the Beatles (there’s even a mashup, previously covered on Mefi).

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New M.I.A. track:

“Here’s a new Timbaland track, ‘Come Around,’ with mellow vocals by M.I.A. (via BuzzSugar). Listen:

(edited out because it fucked up my site, click the “New M.I.A. track” link above to listen)

The track samples a recent Bollywood megahit, but shifts it off beat.

Related post: Idiocy funds terrorism (updated)

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The 20 Worst Lyrics In History:

“Some of these are just terrible. Includes the classic breasts/mountains Shakira combo.”

There’ll Be Swingin’, Swayin’, (Cardboard) Records Playin’:

“The Internet Museum Of Flexi/Cardboard/Oddity Records. ‘Once bound by cereal boxes, held in the pages of a magazine, wrapped up in envelopes sent through our postal system or given away casually with some product, these bits of paper and plastic yearned to be set free to fulfill their destiny as playable records.’ Also, The Flexi Manufacturing Process.“