David Bowie's Spider, Will.i.Am's Football Career
Plus: Lady Gaga's Dookie, Mastodon's movie score, and more Web Weirdness of the week!
By Spin Staff 09.10.09 10:17 AM
Here's some of the strangest music news to hit the Internet this week:
Will.I.Am tries out for the Miami Dolphins, soon realizes that "rocking them beats" isn't adequate preparation for dodging 300-pound linemen. [Dipdive]
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Watch: Taylor Swift Raps with T-Pain!?!
The country star spoofs her "hip-hop persona" in a video clip with the rap phenom!
By Melissa Goldstein 06.17.09 10:40 AM
Do you ever feel like all of the action happens at the awards shows you don't watch?
For those who missed Tuesday night's airing of the CMT Music Awards, Taylor Swift joined forces with T-Pain for a spoof rap video titled "Thug Story."
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Rock Stars Benefit from Obama Stimulus Plan!
SPIN's Ellen Carpenter suggests how the President might spend some of that $787 billion -- and help out rock'n'roll.
By Ellen Carpenter 02.24.09 4:45 PM
Given all the new beneficiaries of President Obama's economic stimulus package -- first-time home-buyers, small business owners, unemployed bloggers -- the American rock music industry seems to have been cruelly overlooked. For just a fraction of that $787 billion, many singers and rappers at risk could be pulled from the brink of ruin.
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Death Cab Wage War Against Auto-Tune
Click here to find out about the band's Grammy protest against digitally manipulated vocals.
By Melissa Goldstein 02.10.09 8:46 AM
Maybe we're not giving them enough credit (who knows what crazy gun show is happening underneath those fancy suits), but frankly, we're skeptical about the odds of geek chic-tastic Death Cab for Cutie triumphing in a face-off against today's Auto-Tune devotees.
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Strokes Singer, T-Pain, Norah Jones on 'SNL' Album
Click here to see who else is on funny-guy Andy Samberg's Lonely Islands debut!
By Larry Fitzmaurice 12.09.08 11:35 AM
Hey, viral video fanatics: Enjoy recent Saturday Night Live digital shorts "Dick In A Box", "Lazy Sunday," and, uh,
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