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This monkey/synth test and/or commercial hardly seems fair. First of all, half those little guys ain t even monkeys. A lemur? Oh my god, no. Second of all, everyone know that monkeys learn on such a steep learning curve, it s going to take them 1,000 years to craft out some decent tunes, let along those next level beats we crave. I infer it ll take at least that long since a synthesizer is basically a typewriter that makes beeps and boops, right? Of course, that then begs the question, who is the Shakespeare of synth? Kraftwerk, maybe? It s definitely not these monkeys! (Buzzfeed)

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2009 brings mucho music news! Rapper Asher Roth and band take down a possible terrorist aboard an LA bound flight. Tequila and tampons will fund Courtney Love's upcoming album. Michaels Jackson suspects death and rewrites his will to return Beatles songs to Paul McCartney. Florian Schneider leaves Kraftwerk. Phil Schiller fills in for Steve Jobs at MacWorld Conference announcing new garage band features and DRM free songs. Hackers post on Britney's Twitter account. DJ Minty Fresh Beats brings you Jay Z and Radiohead in the free download, Jaydiohead. The world loses a Stooge. Legendary guitarist Ron Asheton dies at 60. The Daily Fix is the first music blog on TV airing on Current TV. The 2-minute daily music news show delivers cutting edge music news and insightful opinion in compelling short doses, utilizing MP3's and user-generated video from all over the web. Hosted by Douglas Caballero, the show airs daily at 9:31am, 1:31pm, 5:31pm, 8:31pm, 12:31am, 4:31am Eastern Time and can be found online at current.com/dailyfix.

2009 Coldplay-Off Update Day two is over and it was a close one. In the Bands Coldplay Ripped Off division, (4) Radiohead squeaked by (13) Kraftwerk 8-6. Radiohead will move onto the next round, but Kraftwerk still gets our respect for bringing together two of the most unmelodic things: Germans and early 80 s computers, and still making beautiful music. In the Bands that Ripped Off Coldplay, (4) Mitch Benn topped (13) Embrace 6-3, even though Douglas tried to vote for Embrace 20 times. People, we have clearly stated, if you want to vote more than once, you have to use more than one screen name. Today s games feature (2) U2 vs (15) Joe Satriani and (2) Mat Kearney vs (15) Parlotones.

Bands that Coldplay Ripped Off: (4) Radiohead vs. (13) Kraftwerk Oh my God! (long hand for emphasis) It s Radiohead vs. Kraftwerk. What a game! It s like watching your buddy fist fight his dad or his step dad who raised him from a young age. Sure Radiohead seems like the easy favorite, considering Coldplay is essentially Radiohead for Dummies but don t forget that Chris Martin and company lifted the riff from Kraftwerk s Computer Love for their song Talk. The videos are below, watch them both, and then vote in the comment section. The band with the most votes will move on to the next round.

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.