Have no fear, everyone.

Famed singer and worldwide talent Khia, singer of the beloved Billboard chart topper “My Neck My Back (Lick My Pussy and My Crack)”, will be keeping Amy Winehouse’s music alive even after her tragic-but-sadly-sorta-to-be-expected death.

Thank you, Khia, for using your talents to keep Amy’s crooning carols around forever.

Also, “I’m so gald I got to meet you in are generation.”  There’s also that.

(Source: onafuturetipteenjesus)

(The song above is a new song by rapper/who-knows-what-at-this-point Drake called “Marvin’s Room”)

An open letter to Drizzy aka Drake aka boy we all knew and loved and then was a paraplegic on Degrassi

Dear Drake,

You are not James Blake.  (This wasn’t supposed to rhyme, but it does… dammit)

Also, is this supposed to sound really silly when you talking about ‘doing whatever’ to ‘that name that you use to describe your race’?  (it begins at 0:51 and then doesn’t stop)  
‘Cuz it sounds real silly.

Carry on,
the Curators of the Artifacts of Modernity Online Museum and Future Gift Shop

P.S. Can someone please tell us what genre of music we’re supposed to categorize this as?

The road to the Holy Day continues, as we inch one day closer and closer to the religious reveal of ‘Born This Way’.  To encourage us to hold steed to our path towards Godga, the Lord Almighty herself gives her followers the gift of muse with a new single release titled “The Edge of Glory”, or at least the album art for it.  (Single drops later today)

If you’re unsure of whether this will really lead you down Godga’s religious path, make note that “The Edge of Glory” rearranged spells out The Elegy of God.

All hail.  Ra ra ro ma ma.

It’s great to see the Twitter universe abuzz over how crazy it is that some band no one has heard of called The Suburbs (aka the name of the Arcade Fire album which won) took home the Grammy for Album of the Year at last night’s award ceremony.  The Grammy Awards, which graciously gave up its normal admiration for Flo Rida and Country Cross-overs by actually honoring a fairly monumental indie band such as Arcade Fire, clearly is out of whack.

BOOOOOOOO!!!

Next year, may we return to some normalcy by the Grammys venerating the likes of Ke-dollar-sign-ha and the Boom Boom Pow’s.

(Source: christmasonthemoon)

You know what’s funny?  I don’t think anyone except maybe Kanye himself had this comparison on their minds whatsoever.

And next time you diss Mozart like this, he’s gonna call his lawyer.

We the Curators apologize (but not really) for the fact that we still haven’t given a full listen to Kanye’s new critically-exalted album My Dark Twisted Fantasy, mostly out of fear that it will just be the best thing that anyone’s ever made and then we’ll have no idea how to imagine creativity in the future and won’t know how to go on with the rest of our lives like Pitchfork suggests will happen.

Actually we just don’t really care for endorsing rampant douchebaggery (we’d rather curate a museum about it instead) and thus haven’t made the time (yet) for Kanye.
We’ll let you know if/when we give the album and listen and our lives are changed forever and nothing is ever the same again. 

(Source: onafuturetipteenjesus)

We Curators, along with yourselves, are constantly bombarded by many a meme.

Whether it be viral youtube sensation, FFFFFFUUUUU 2x2 cartoon, or just good ol’ Hipster Kitty, we’ve seen a lot of memes that just come and go.

But some memes are special, and hold an important place in our hearts, like Chocolate Rain, Terri Schiavo, or Jesus.

And so on this day, the Twentieth of October, Two Thousand Ten, the Artifacts of Modernity Online Museum of Cultural Musings and Whatnots is proud to welcome a meme that many of us have loved for quite some time now into the official MEME HALL OF FAME…

Congratulations, Musically Oblivious 8th Grader!  You have made it to the Big Leagues!

Musically Oblivious 8th Grader continues to inspire us and simultaneously make us chuckle.

She makes us really think about the cultural implications of what is “indie” and what is “mainstream” through her uncanny ignorance of the “alternative” genres of today.

Her face is one we’ve seen so many times before… grinding with friends at Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, yelling out the lyrics of the chorus of that Flo Rida song all the kids are listening to, unaware that a big big world of acoustic guitars and harpsichords and Belle and Sebastians exists just beyond her bubble.

Her spirit moves us.  Her smile confuses us.  Her hair is so typical.

So here’s to you, Musically Oblivious 8th Grader.  For all that you’ve done for us so far, and all that you will continue to do as you begin to learn about bizarre unearthly things such as the xx and Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, we salute you, and welcome you to the MEME HALL OF FAME.

God bless.

,

Diplo is the star of Blackberry’s latest TV/internet commercial.

To quote Hipster Runoff, “Mainstream = ALT.”

But seriously, is this the pinnacle of the mainstreamification of ‘alternative’ music genres?  Is electronic/dance an ‘alternative’ genre?  Are genres over?  Is society finally ready to put the concept of genres to sleep in our post-postmodern attempt to rid ourselves of labels?

We find this commercial and it’s now-marketable star a very important contribution into our canon of artifacts that will one day serve as a description/depiction of what was 2010.

In Case You Missed It of the Day/In case you need more ammo to add to your argument that auto-tuning is the worst thing that’s ever happened to music: Auto-Tune the wolves.

The human voice < pitch-corrected animal howls.

(via thedailywhat)

Introducing to you today a new band that just might be iconic/ironic/erotic enough to sweep the world off its feet…  

Background info: They are from Finland.  They are heavy metal band.  They are specifically a heavy metal band for children.  And they only appear in public as dinosaurs.

Watch out GaGa…    Their name is HEVISAURUS.

This in all honesty seems easily marketable in the 2010’s.

Get ready to rockkkkkk. 

Enjoy one of their hit songs below:

(thank you so much juliasegal)