Craig Robinson makes some absolutely beautiful baseball related infographics at Flip Flop Flyball.  He put that skill to work over the past weekend to create this elegant map of the words in Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)”. Every dot represents one word of the song.  The colors, of course, are [...]

This is a classic classic found at Joe Biden Fan Club.  You can also add a circle for things that you are going to kick root down.

Sometimes these “sponsored” infographics can be annoying, but this one provides a view interesting tidbits illuminating how today’s cellphones has transformed the festival experience.  What it wants to communicate is that these festivals are peak experiences that we want to share, prolong, and relive and this technology affords us this for better or for worse.  [...]

Yes, music sales have plummeted and with the rise of the iTunes store and streaming options, it takes noble efforts like Record Store Day, and its many unique releases, to inspire folks to get out of the house and actually purchase some music — an act that was a near ritual for music lovers just [...]

Here’s a screen cap from their home page on 4/20/12, the day after we lost the great Levon Helm.  Check out the headlines along the column to the right of the main photo.  Brilliant!    

Wikipedia has added this timeline for one of the all time great acts.

Thanks to high profile protests by facebook and wikipedia, the great SOPA debate ignited passions towards Congress like few other issues.  Maybe the public’s true thoughts of online piracy were a motivator, but it didn’t hurt that movers and shakers behind the Internet spawned Congress to go back to the drawing board. What emerged is [...]

We love our Wilco around here, and as if we needed another reason, they’ve presented instructions for their Pay-What-You-Wish Silent Auction Random Lottery Ticketing Thing in convenient chart form. Fun, for a good cause, and presented with eye-catching graphics (the random drawing better be drawn out of a Wilco baseball cap) — that’s the Wilco [...]

This line drawing by David Szabados, originally published at legendarytones.com, shows how EVH achieved the signature brown sound in the studio.  Now that you have the setup, all you need is the technique. 1. MXR e.q. set up as midboost (* only occasionally used depending on the guitar) 2. Marshall plexi Super Lead, unmodified, although [...]

This one’s for all of you who sent all those angry emails, tweets and texts about the lack of Lady Gaga coverage around here. A handy chart (via TotallyLooksLike.com) comparing nine of Lady’s most iconic looks to such doppelgangers as an alien from Independence Day, Gary Oldman’s Dracula, Wilson The Volleyball, Leela from Futurama and [...]