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Why hire an actual DJ when you can get a guy to stand behind a turntable and wiggle his arms?

Then the "guitarrist" feels so embarrassed that he locks himself in the bathroom after the show. His fans assume he's too conceited to come out and meet them and conclude that he's a douche canoe. NOBODY WINS AND EVERYTHING WAS TRAGIC.

German children covering a Rammstein song. Good lord, the youngest can keep a pretty steady beat.

Coldplay covered "Fight for Your Right to Party" at the Hollywood Bowl last week in honor of Adam Yauch's death. A nice sentiment, but what do we think of the aggressively Coldplay-stylized version, or the fact that the Beastie Boys publicly disowned the song and have long since stopped performing it live?

"Reanimated corpse" isn't entirely accurate. It's actually a hologram of the late, great West-coast rapper, which gave a surprise performance to finish off the first week of Coachella 2012. This proves that (a) industry executives can own your body as well as your soul, and (b) '90s nostalgia has gotten WAY out of hand.

Music festival SXSW is underway! Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band led a two and a half hour set, which closed with an assemblage members of Arcade Fire, The Low Anthem, and more to sing Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land."

WHY AREN'T YOU IN AUSTIN?

A backstage pass AND a stun gun, a potato sack, and a getaway van.

What we brought back from the trip is also an argument for why we need the budget for a better camera. So how was YOUR weekend?

Oh well, you can always dream.

Dave Grohl isn't the only rocking father out there...

You've always been sad about it, but now you can quantify your creys!