The folks over at Popwatch received an interesting phone call from Zach Braff promoting a contest of sorts for would-be filmmakers. He put out a call to action for people to submit their visions for a music video he's directing for his friend Jay Clifford's song "Know When to Walk Away." Braff wants people to "film themselves lip-syncing the track" though it sounds like he's prepared to be wowed Read more

On the rare occasions that I actually notice a Nickelback song playing — you know, like, "what is that mediocre rumbling sound? Oh, it's Nickelback" — I'm struck by how utterly indistinguishable one hit is from the next. (Who, exactly, are the fans fueling these hits? I have no idea, but that's a perplexing matter for another day.) Anyway, there's a good reason I can't tell Nickelback's songs Read more

Just when I think I understand what unites the music-listening masses, I come across something like this 2006 analysis of music sales, released Thursday by Nielsen SoundScan. I'm not saying that everything on this list is puzzling — I fully expect appearances from Justin Timberlake and Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" — but it raises many unanswerable questions. Like, how did I miss this whole High Read more