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The National’s new video for ‘Sea of Love’ stars a child playing air guitar

The National continue showing their funny side.

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Ariel Castro considered killing himself, giving money to victims

More disturbing details from the Cleveland kidnapping story.

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Roundup of all the vaguely racist Charles Ramsey coverage

It took about 5 minutes for Ramsey to be labeled “the greatest thing since Antoine Dodson.”

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Dennis Rodman asks a favor of BFF Kim Jong Un: Free the American prisoner

Rodman looks to turn his “basketball diplomacy” into actual diplomacy.

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CBGB bathroom meticulously recreated at the Met

Complete with graffiti and cigarette butts. As for bodily fluids, who knows.

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Progressive groups hit back at Facebook with boycott over political ads

Some people are pretty pissed about Zuckerberg’s anti-environmental ads.

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#OpUSA: Massive coordinated cyberattack hits U.S.

#OpUSA targets bank and government websites—10,000 credit cards have been leaked.

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Stream Vampire Weekend’s new album ‘Modern Vampires of the City’ in full

Take a listen to the band’s follow-up to “Contra.”

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YouTube to start charging

Would you pay to watch YouTube vids?

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The National played one song for six hours straight this weekend

The National proved they have a sense of humor as part of an art project at New York’s PS1.

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Here’s the new song Lauryn Hill had to release to keep herself out of jail

Lauryn has until today to pay off her tax bill or go to jail. She released this single to iTunes to help foot the bill.

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Is Justin Bieber finally becoming a real rock star?

Justin Bieber may be turning the crazy up just enough to get interesting.

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Man robs bank to pay for Disney cruise

It’s a small world, after all.

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Pro-Tsarnaev posters now popping up in Chechnya

“In the name of the Almighty do not remain indifferent,” one poster reads.

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This folk rock, academic tribute to Lil B is totally #based

Watch and learn all about the ontology of Lil B.

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UN calls for a moratorium on killer robots

Welcome to the future.

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YouTube’s next child star declares Cheetos ‘gooder than a bitch’

This foul-mouthed tike is probably not what Eric Schmidt had in mind when he said “the future is now” for YouTube.