The 20 Best Songs in Videogames

By Nathan Spicer at 6:35 PM on January 14, 2011

The first commercial videogame involved navigating a rocket ship; it was created by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in 1971. Music has been around for um… a lot longer than that. But the two have been intertwined from the nearly the beginning of gaming, as far back as Atari 2600, which allowed gamers to play alongside background “music,” which was really a series of simple loops. ...  read more

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"Nuthin' But A Glee Thang" - Glee Cast Members Spoof Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg

By Wyndham Wyeth at 4:44 PM on January 12, 2011

The Fox show Glee is often criticized for pushing the envelope for network TV (both on screen and off). But there are some things that even Glee can’t do on television. That’s what the Internet is for....  read more

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Rumors Confirmed: Jay-Z Will Appear On First Single Off Dr. Dre's New Album

By Lindsey Lee at 10:15 AM on April 8, 2010

We reported that Dr. Dre's first album of the millennium would drop in 2008. And here we are two years later, still waiting...  read more

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N.W.A. biopic, Straight Outta Compton, on the way

By Matt Goodlett at 1:05 PM on March 31, 2009

Do you remember a young, bright-eyed Ice Cube with a pout on his lips—years away from starring in cheesy family comedies—rapping the words, "Fuck the police?" Doesn't a part of you kind of want that Ice Cube back? It seems we may get to revisit nostalgic memories of the pioneers of gangsta rap, N.W.A., in a new biopic Straight Outta Compton....  read more

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Eight Songs to Soundtrack this Morning's Michael Phelps Interview on NBC's Today

By Steve LaBate at 3:25 AM on March 13, 2009

At 7 a.m. this morning, NBC's Today will run Matt Lauer's exclusive interview with twentysomething Olympic swimmer and multiple gold medalist Michael Phelps, during which Phelps will hilariously pretend to apologize for smoking a bong at a party (or at least for being stoned enough to get photographed smoking a bong at a party). But while he's being all penitent and fielding the hard questions from Lauer about his "bad mistake" so he can re-score that Wheaties contract, this is the music that'll likely be playing in Phelps' head—and on my home stereo system, as I provide my own personal soundtrack to...  read more

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Dr. Dre says Detox will come out this year (no, seriously)

By Adam Daniels at 12:16 PM on July 28, 2008

Dr. Dre has not had an album this millennium.Since Dre's Chronic follow-up 2001 (which, against the rules of logic, actually came out in 1999), the world's population has risen by approximately 80 million people, and assumedly at least half of these people have released a mixtape with a Lil Wayne feature by now....  read more

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