Thanks to reader memoryboy for sending us this link to Triple J radio, wherein Chairlift and DR rap star Victor Vazquez aka Kool A.D. cover Beyoncé's "Party." (This is also titularly poetic, since…   Read Story »

Last night, Jay-Z played a benefit for United Way of New York City and The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation at NYC's Carnegie Hall -- he plays again tonight -- and though most of the public was…   Read Story »

Our annual list of late night television's best performances has quickly become an annual exercise in big-upping Jimmy Fallon's music talent booker. Way to go, person responsible for pointing those…   Read Story »

In what's become something of an annual holiday tradition, Norwegian artist and Stereogum buddy Sondre Lerche has once again gifted us with a cover of one of his favorite songs of the year. In…   Read Story »

The Gummy Awards rollout continues today with Your Top 10 Music Videos Of 2011, and while there's not a lot of surprises here, it's a strong list capped by a beyond-worthy champion. There's a little…   Read Story »

Beyoncé's video for the new song "Dance For You" is made up to look like an old film noir, but all those genre touchpoints are really just distractions. The video, it turns out, is really just five…   Read Story »

A couple months ago, Beyoncé took to Fallon to perform a live version of song of the year/video of the year candidate "Countdown" with Fallon's houseband, the Roots. Though recorded in July, it…   Read Story »

There aren't too many certainties in life, but here's one: If you're a rich, famous, globetrotting superstar DJ and you piss out of your mouth in your music video, that video will end up at the top…   Read Story »

In some sort of historically massive downgrade, the video for "Party," the Prince-funk jam from Beyoncé's album 4, replaces the great Andre 3000 guest appearance of the album version with an…   Read Story »

The two highest-profile videos of the week were almost certainly Rihanna's "We Found Love" and Coldplay's "Paradise." I didn't put either video on this list. I didn't leave them out because they're…   Read Story »