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July 31, 2013 Brandon Soderberg

It is the summer of Pharrell Williams. The producer/crooner/rapper’s voice and new-age without the nuance outlook are currently coursing through two of the summer’s biggest hits: Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” and Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines.” It’s a strange moment for the 40 year old, who, with the legendary production duo the Neptunes, turned early 2000s […]

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July 18, 2013 Brandon Soderberg

Grown Ups 2, one of the least well-received movies of 2013, begins with Adam Sandler’s character Lenny waking up and getting pissed on by a CGI deer. Grown Ups 2, a movie hovering at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and 20% on Metacritic, builds up to a far too elaborate ’80s-themed costume party that gets the […]

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July 12, 2013 Brandon Soderberg

This week, a Swedish 16 year-old named Yung Lean, previously known by blog scourers for March’s half-viral video “Ginseng Strip 2002” – in which the bucket-hat-sporting white boy delivered rambling staccato half-raps about listening to R. Kelly and receiving oral sex from a Zooey Deschanel lookalike, over a gorgeous, sobbing beat – released the free […]

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