God Forbid

Day one of the 2009 Coldplay-Off is in the history books, and it was a big one. In the Bands that Codplay Ripped Off Division, (1) the Beatles crushed (16) Coldplay 33-2. Yes, two people voted for Coldplay, but we re not overlooking the fact that they might have just misspelled the Beatles by eight letters. In the Bands that Ripped Off Coldplay Division, (1) Blue Merle blanked (16) Leeland 16-0. However, Blue Merle was almost disqualified when part way through the game, their youtube video suddenly forbid embedding. Thank God for Imeem, or the Blue Merle would have been DQ d, and would never have received free press from us again. Two big match-ups today: In the Bands that Coldplay Ripped Off Division, (4) Radiohead takes on (13) Kraftwerk and in the Bands that Ripped Off Coldplay Division we have (4) Mitch Benn vs (13) Embrace.

Us New Yorkers are all too familiar with that moment of panic when a Mariachi Band enters your subway car and god forbid, you have to pause your Marc Maron podcast for two minutes while they blare live Mexican-restaurant background music in front of wincing stroller children with just the rare but tantalizing prospect of the subway jerking and one of them stumbling as a potential reward. The following video completely redeems all of that wasted time and then some. Here, to calm your nerves for the next couple days, is an amazingly serene video of a Mariachi Band playing for a beluga whale at a Connecticut aquarium. Prepare to get calmy: (thanks, Megan!)