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Ah, the band cameo. It can make or break a film – ok, not really, but it certainly adds some necessary spice to something that was probably pretty boring anyway. The Don Draper-deprecating folks over at Vulture have put together a list of “10 Awesomely Random Bands Cameos in Movies,” but be warned: there are some serious omissions we intend to correct.

Artist: Oingo Boingo
Movie: Back to School, 1986
Scene: Rodney Dangerfield goes back to school. As rich men are wont to do, he supersizes his dorm and throws a huge party. Oingo Boingo plays at the party, making them in this very specific way the Snoop Dogg of their day.

Artist: Ween
Movie: It

Yeezus may be miles away from Kanye’s College Dropout days, but it’s still Kanye – you know he’s using a boatload of samples. Babylon Cartel’s Gianni Lee and Mike Blud put together. It’s no new feat – they did the same thing for Kendrick Lamar’s good kid, M.A.D.D. City. Via Pitchfork:

Yeezus: The Samples:
01 Intro (Prod By Gianni Lee)
02 Holy Name of Mary Choral Family: “He’ll Give Us What We Really Need (“On Sight”)
03 Marilyn Manson: “The Beautiful People” (“Black Skinhead”)
04 Capleton: “Forward Inna Dem Clothes” (“I Am A God”)
05 Omega, Omega: “Gyöngyhajú lány” (“New Slaves”)
06 Rahul Dev Burman, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey: “Are Zindagi Hai Khel” (“I Am A God”)
07 Kenny Lattimore: “Lately” (“I’m In It”)
08 Nina Simone: “Strange Fruit” (“Blood On The Leaves”)
09 TNGHT: “R U Ready” (“Blood On The Leaves”)
10 Snoop Dogg: “Down 4 My N’s: “(“Blood On The Leaves”)
11 Lords Of The Underground: “Chief Rocka” (“Guilt Trip”)
12 Pusha T ft Popcann Travis Scott: “Blocka” (“Guilt Trip”)
13 Beenie Man: ...

(Via Attack Magazine)

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Yes, it’s weird. Yes, it stars Scott Disick (a faux-celebrity that you hopefully don’t know). But… It is an American Psycho parody and it’s kind of amazing. Replace all of the Huey Lewis and the News references with Yeezus and you’ve got one of the more brilliant moments of Kanye’s album campaign. Via Billboard:

During the film, Disick explains his feelings on the new album (echoing the original’s rant about Huey Lewis and the News) to a vaguely uninterested Cheban, decrying the “insecurities of the mainstream music press” and calling “New Slaves” a “masterpiece” and “a song so catchy, most people won’t even remember the lyrics.”

Though the uploader may have gotten the specific date wrong, the Ramones performing at CBGB will always be timeless (unless they did it now with new members in the John Varvatos store). This classic clip shows them at their purest form, playing for their hometown crowd. They tear though “Beat on the Brat,” “Rockaway Beach,” and our personal favorite for no specific reason, “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue.” Check it out, via Open Culture:

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Gasp! Is Lady Gaga not as original as she claims to be? French performance artist Orlan believes so. She thinks there’s a suspicious similarity between one of her sculptures and a the opening scene of Gaga’s “Born This Way” video. She’s currently seeking 7.5% of the profits from the video and album – a cool, $31.7 million – and also wants to halt sales of the album. Yeah, ok. Via The Huffington Post:

The Post reports that the lawsuit accuses Gaga of using the same “plexiglass support, same square shape when it comes to the haircut, same facial implants, same decapitated heads,” as Orlan’s 1996 sculpture “Femme Avec Tête,” or “Woman With Head”

Those “facial implants” are a sticking point between Gaga and Orlan. The French artist did them first and, in a sense, better — where Gaga’s notorious horns were cosmetic, Orlan actually had cheekbone implants surgically inserted onto her temples as part of a series of surgical “interventions” she staged in the early nineties as performance art. When “Gaga first stepped out with what the press was calling 'bizarre flesh-coloured facial horns,’” writes French blogger de Camille, there was little “shock or surprise” in France. “Many people in my Parisian circle immediately were reminded of” Orlan. ...

Check out the video for “A Tattered Line Of String” – the new song off of the Give Up Deluxe 10th anniversary Edition. Get primed with a few notes from the press release.

The arresting and dreamlike clip finds one of two previously unreleased songs from the Give Up Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (Sub Pop) transformed by Parisian video team AB/CD/CD (Lily Allen, Factory Floor) into a surreal tale of longing and laundry.

Looking at her previous work, music has always been central to the way Coppola conveys emotion and frames a scene. Sofia Coppola’s newest film The Bling Ring is a close examination of our celebrity-fixated culture, centering around a bunch of brats that steal from the rich and famous needs an equally pseudo-glamorous soundtrack. Carrie Battan of Pitchfork sat down with Coppola and her longtime music supervisor Brian Reitzell to discuss how they chose the music for her latest film.

Pitchfork:You wanted to pick stuff that teens would be into, but the soundtrack is hip in a way that