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Justin's Muxin' It Up Again

By Jim Shearer on 01/27/2009

Filed under: NEWS

Our good ol' friend Justin Ouellette (watch him in action on our Indie Music Panels) is back in business. (left: Muxtape will never die!) The on-again/off-again venture known as Muxtape has returned. His third-party music sharing site that digitally mimicked the joy of friends sharing mixtapes was shut down last year after a problem with the RIAA. After his run in with "the man," Ouellette decided to use his Muxtape platform to promote bands. The latest incarnation of the site is up and running now, with 12 of Ouellette's "favorites" being the first official test subjects: Of Montreal, Cexman,... MORE »

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My 10 Favorite Albums of 2008

By Jim Shearer on 12/29/2008

Filed under: '08 WAS GREAT!, LISTS

The following is not a list of the Top-10 Albums of the Year (c'mon, I'm one man, who am I to say if these are the best albums of 2008?), instead, this is simply a list of my Top-10 favorite albums of the year: 10. Girl Talk, Feed The Animals Yes, he's just a mash-up artist, and what can a mash-up artist do besides layer acapellas over well-known instrumentals? Well, if you're Girl Talk you take hundreds and hundreds of not just instrumentals, but bleeps, breaks, and beats and masterfully intertwine them with the naughtiest dirty south rap lyrics you... MORE »

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'08 WAS GREAT!: Mash-Ups w/ Mash-Up Videos

By Jim Shearer on 12/22/2008

Filed under: '08 WAS GREAT!

In 2008, Girl Talk released his brand new mash-up masterpiece Feed The Animals. Not only did we get a collection of mash-up songs this year, but a collection of mash-up videos as well. Nice! Girl Talk, "What It's All About" MORE »

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Girl Talk Exposed

By Jim Shearer on 12/10/2008

Filed under: NEWS

I do love me some girl talk, and I'm not just talking about the kind I overhear from the ladies' powder room. I'm also a fan of Girl Talk, the mash-up artist from my hometown of Pittsburgh who not only managed to release an album this year, Feed The Animals, with hundreds and hundreds of uncleared samples (and he wasn't sued once!), but also landed himself a Microsoft PC ad. His album (the one I was talking about in the previous paragraph) is also in contention for my Top 10 Albums of the year. All in all, Girl Talk... MORE »

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Who Here Is NOT a PC?

By Jim Shearer on 11/10/2008

Filed under: HODGEPODGE

This little pop quiz might help jump-start your brain on this Monday afternoon. Of the following people (clockwise from top: Girl Talk, Pharrell Williams, Erykah Badu), who is NOT a PC? MORE »

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Feed The Animals For Free!

By Jim Shearer on 07/07/2008

Filed under: FREE SONGS

I was just in the Shaler area last week for some Fourth of July festivities and Prof D (if you don't know him you're missing out) and I got to talking about Pittsburgh's favorite mash-up son, Girl Talk. If you don't have his new album yet, Feed The Animals, you have no excuses. He's giving it out for F-R-E-E right HERE. If you donate $10 to the cause, you'll eventually get the hard copy of the album (liner notes and all) when it comes out on September 23. If you wire Girl Talk $5, you can download a continuous... MORE »

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TALK: Donnie Iris

By Jim Shearer on 05/27/2008

Filed under: TALK

It's a well-known fact that people from Pittsburgh love telling people they're from Pittsburgh (I know, cause I've done it myself). Not only that, but when a Pittsburgh sports team reaches the championship game/series, as the Penguins have done recently by advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals, Pittsburghers will not only boast about their hometown sports team, but will simultaneously tell you why they put French fries on their sandwiches, why they liked their ham "chipped," and declare, without hesitation, that Donnie Iris is the greatest rock and roll performer that ever lived. (left: The Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of... MORE »

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Girl Talk? Pittsburgh? Taco Bell?

By Jim Shearer on 05/14/2008

I gotta thank Pitchfork Media for the tip-off on this story. Girl Talk (aka Greg Gillis), Pittsburgh's greatest rump-shaking export since Donnie Iris, recently played a hometown show at Mr. Small's and treated the crowd to some free Taco Bell that he had won in a contest. (left: It's a rarity to see Girl Talk NOT shirtless. During his live-set, that t-shirt comes off of him faster than you can say Greg Gillis.) As most of you know, I love Pittsburgh, I'm a big fan of Girl Talk's mash-ups, and I'm not gonna lie to you--Taco Bell is a... MORE »

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