Michael Jackson Fan Art You Really Must Own

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Nesting Doll Set by artmatryoshka on etsy.

It's hard to believe Michael Jackson tragically left this earth four years ago. This year, why not honor Jackson by splurging on handmade art instead of getting emotional while watching This Is It with your cat? Here are our favorite etsy items:

Hide your MJ in this impressive Five-Piece Nesting Doll Set by artmatryoshka (above) because you're bad, you're bad... you know it.

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Five Pieces of Mumford and Sons Fan Art You Really Must Own

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Print by thedigitalarttree on etsy.

There must be something about those banjos that inspire Mumford & Sons fans to steal their words and sell them online. Just please stop us before we send this print of bitterly beautiful lyrics to our exes.

See Also: Six Pieces of Dave Grohl Fan Art You Really Must Own


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Top 10 Concert Films to See Before You Die

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For music fans, there's nothing better than seeing your favorite band or checking out an up-and-coming act in person. While the records serve as a tangible finished product that fans can jam on until eternity, the live show experience explains more about a band than their recorded work. With concert prices soaring to astronomical prices, it's understandable if people are staying home. That's why the concert movie/DVD/Blu Ray has become so vital for a band's popularity.

For people who can't afford to see a show, the concert movie serves as a way to take in the action without all the strange smells that inhabit the floor section of the arena. With the number of concert films rising, we decided to take a look to determine what are our favorites from over the years. While the list is clearly subjective, the one common link is that the music and the cinematography both rock.

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Cutthroat Boyz (Joey Fatts, Aston Matthews, Vince Staples) - The Roxy - January 16, 2013

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Cutthroat Boyz
The Roxy
January 16, 2013

Since the drop of his EP Chipper Jones Vol. 1 this past summer, Long Beach rapper Joey Fatts has been quickly spreading his strain of hybridized street-hop across the Internet and from his roots on our YG & TDE loving West Coast to the Action Bronson and ASAP obsessed East Coast. He's also a part of a local hip-hop crew known as the Cutthroat Boyz, which places him alongside Los Angeles spitter Vince Staples and Lakewood representative Aston Matthews as a trio of rising rappers who are as talented as they are diverse. They make good music to listen to at any time of the day, whether you're frustrated in traffic or at home with headphones, and they have an undeniable ability to mix and match trends and techniques from different corners of hip-hop, whether it's some sound from the back of a Cadillac trunk stationed in mid 90's Texas or humid, murky drug-rap pouring out of someone's Pandora.


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If You're Tweeting About the Music Scene in O.C. We Will Find You

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Jena Ardell

We wanted to make a post featuring a collection of insightful, meaningful anecdotes famous musicians had tweeted this past week, but no one was sharing anything worthwhile (trust us). So instead, we turned to you for entertainment, and searched to see if anyone was talking about the music scene in Orange County. Here's what we found...


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Is KDOC's Live New Year's Eve Shit Show Already the Best YouTube Clip of 2013?

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The best thing Jamie Kennedy's been a part of since Malibu's Most Wanted

Even though we're thankful that the whole Mayan apocalypse prediction turned out to be false, it's worth noting that not everyone escaped calamity in 2012. Judging by the viral footage from the local TV station's New Year's Eve live broadcast on Monday, it appears Channel 56 KDOC endured one of the most hilarious on-air train wrecks ever broadcasted. Rarely do we get to see a TV station try so hard at something and fail so epically. With hopelessly confused hosts Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone at the helm of the show, an endless barrage of technical difficulties, F-Bombs, pot-fueled performances and fights were probably enough to cause the FCC to implode by the time the clock struck midnight.


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Five Things We Learned From the Twitter Fuckery of Marquise Fivestar

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Marquise Fivestar

So for those who have been totally unplugged from civilization and/or Twitter, Cal State Fullerton became part of some classic 12-12-12 lore thanks to a group of jewelry thieves and a rapper looking for some self promotion. On Wednesday, three suspects in an armed robbery and shooting at pawnshop in Moreno Valley fled in a getaway vehicle and randomly landed at CSUF. With police and media attention swarming the campus, a bored, enterprising rapper named Marquise Fivestar (born Marquise Cormier) had a brilliant idea around around 6 p.m. to start a string of tweets that made it seem like he was one of the suspects involved in the crime.

Of course, he had supporters and a ton of critics who blew up his Twitter handle nonstop. What better timing for an anonymous rapper to start dropping links to his songs to recruit new fans? Hurling a mixture of promo links and vagina jokes at those who challenged his actions, Fivestar became as close to an overnight sensation as possible in endless rounds of 140 characters or less. 
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Famous Musicians Are Just Like Me and YOU! (We Have Proof)

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Jena Ardell
We always get a kick out of tabloid magazines disguising celebrities' mundane activities as accomplishments to prove they're just like average people. By loosely applying inductive reasoning to these senseless stories, we are able to feel good about ourselves. Example: When we see a photo of Cameron Diaz shopping for her own groceries, we perceive ourselves shopping for our own groceries; therefore, we assume Cameron Diaz's life is just as unglamorous as ours. (Which would explain why people enjoy viewing mindless slideshows about celebrities cleaning up after their dogs).

So we scoured Twitter and gathered recent tweets from famous musicians tweeting about normal life events to prove these celebs are just like me and you. You won't believe what unamazing things musicians do when they're not being rockstars:

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Following Kurupt and DJ Nik Bean From L.A. Video Shoot to Anaheim Gangsta Party

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Danielle Bacher

[Editor's note: Soon-to-be-award-winning gonzo music journalist Danielle Bacher prowls the late late night scene for West Coast Sound. For this installment, she hit the town with rapper Kurupt from Tha Dogg Pound and DJ Nik Bean, a West L.A.-based mixtape impresario who has worked with Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound, DJ Felli Fel and others.

7:56 PM, Tuesday, November 27: I can't stop coughing. I know I'm about to get sick. I arrive at Backside Records in Burbank, and hear music blasting from inside. This is going to be a rough one. 

8:00 PM: I walk toward the back of the store. There is a crowd of people posing for a camera. I'm not really sure who any of these people are, but they look somewhat important. DJ Nik Bean introduces me to the crew.

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Product Placement in Music Videos = Tacky

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Jena Ardell

We'll be honest: product placement in music videos used to not irritate us--we giggled when the Foo Fighters parodied a Mentos commercial in their "Big Me" video back in the 90s--but that was when music videos premiered on MTV--not Vevo--and artists weren't cashing in on aggressive product placement endorsement deals with corporations like BMW and Virgin Mobile. Today's music video resembles an extended commercial set to music.

We have to ignore the fact that our favorite artists are selling their music videos to corporate America in order to maintain their 12,000 sq. ft Hollywood Hills homes. Being bombarded by an array of products in a music video is the price we pay for musicians to continue to provide entertainment for us. But wait, we also have to watch an ad before the video even loads?! Cha-ching! As if being distracted by in-your-face branding wasn't bad enough.


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