Subject: Will.I.Am

• CD Review: wil.i.am -- Songs About Girls

  October 29, 2007

• Saturday: YouTube Live

  Last Night: YouTube LiveHerbst Pavilion, Fort MasonNovember 22, 2008Review by Tamara PalmerSee a full YouTube Live slideshow by Sam Heller here.Better than: Going to the dentist.Watch: The show (but don't say I didn't warn you).Remembering life without YouTube isn't easy; it has permeated our online fabric and become such a part of the stitching that it is like it has always been here. I spend a good chunk of my life watching music videos, mash-ups and ordinary people becoming Internet celebriti

  November 23, 2008

• Obama and Hip-hop: Better than "Beef"?

  EKAphotography copyright 2007. all rights reservedOur shoulder-brushin', fist-bumpin' POTUS in Oakland, 2007 For a long time, hip hop debates have tended toward the tawdry and tabloidesque--i.e., Is Kanye Gay?; Is Alicia Keys creepin' with Swizz Beats?; Joe Budden vs. Saigon, T.I. vs. Mysonne, Charli Baltimore vs. Lil' Kim, Lil Kim vs. Faith Evans, 50 Cent vs Everybody; Is LL Cool J Gay?; Stop Snitching: pro or con?; Are Video Vixens Hip-Hop's 5th Element?; Is Busta Rhymes Gay?, etc. While we'

  February 3, 2009

• Stealth Bloggers

  Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  July 2, 2008

• Sergio Mendes

  June 25, 2008

• Usher

  June 4, 2008

• Nas

  January 10, 2007

• Hear This

  February 16, 2000