And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with the 16 artists who qualified and had him assign seeds--Lil Wayne you expect to go deep into a showdown like this, but Lucinda Williams? Some fantastic match-ups resul
To read past installments of ¿Que Pasa, M.I.A?, click here. Trying to make a New Year's resolution stick is like trying to get all your friends to call you by a self-appointed nickname. (Dudes, bro, from now on call me Shatterstar. ) This year, I'm gonna buckle down and really stick to my resolution. Of course, I say that every time. I've kept a few resolutions, but not until years later. In 1999 I swore on my collection of San Lazaro candles that I'd quit Coke (the soda); that resolutio
By Douglas Sonders, via www.myspace.com/3doorsdownWhether music snobs like it or not, the Mississippi-birthed, meat-and-potatoes rock act 3 Doors Down has survived -- and thrived -- for over a decade and a half now. Even those who can't identify by name the staples of the "active rock radio" format can hum along with the band's first breakout hit, "Kryptonite," from its 2000 debut album, The Better Life. Formed in 1994 in the wake of grunge's mainstream breakthrough/implosion, the band mi
Yes, as a matter of fact, it does. That's according to a fun web site created by Virgil Griffith, a 25-year-old CalTech grad student. He created the site (which has since gone down from too much traffic) to compare the kinds of music Facebook users list as their favorite with the average SAT scores of the schools they attend.
The average SAT score for schools where students listen to Beethoven, for example, is 1371. And at the other end of the music/intelligence spectrum, Miami re
