Just one more reason why we love French filmmaker Michel Gondry: not only is he constantly challenging the preconceptions of who he is as a filmmaker by moving from documentary to mainstream tentpole back to micro-budgeted indie film, he's also frank with his opinions on his on work. Maybe it's a lost in translation thing, but the Gallic director just doesn't seem to beat around the bush.  Playlist contributor Simon Abrams sat down with Gondry in Cannes to discuss his latest effort, the social/community dramedy, "The We & The I." During their lengthy conversation, Gondry also candidly ...

So if you didn't know I'm currently residing in NYC for the summer interning at Billboard!  I started on yesterday and so far it's been fantastic.  I'm the Social Media Intern for the summer and am looking forward to sharing my journey with ya'll every now and then.  Who knows maybe I'll even start another blog about my summer, but I don't want to make promises I can't keep so we'll leave that one up in the air.

There’s nothing somber about today. I actually had a pretty fantastic day but today the music is going in a heavy bluesy direction because if I don’t tell you guys about R.L. Burnside I might go crazy. I could have featured The Black Keys (they’ll get the spotlight eventually) or some other modern blues-influenced band but I want to feature an artist whose music will instantly take you onto the dusty Southern roads you might only have seen in the movies and whose music is as soulful as it gets.  Robert Lee Burnside is no longer ...

Its days like today that I just have to sit back and cherish not only my position as a music blogger, but also the social internet age we live in/on [...]

Hip Hop is a substance that has been abused for years by pushers and users alike. The effects have been intense to say the least. Many have tried to walk away from the social drug but they find... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The perks of being a 28-year old billionaire apparently include getting Green Day 's Billie Joe Armstrong to play your wedding. Armstrong performed what TMZ called a " touching love song" which Armstrong wrote for his own longtime wife, Adrienne. Zuckerberg and longtime girlfriend Dr. Priscilla Chan got married over the weekend at Zuckerberg's home in Palo Alto, CA. The couple had been dating for nine years and the wedding came after Zuck had sort of a big Friday . > You can check out the audio here . If that isn't exciting enough for you, here is Jesse Eisenberg delivering some ...

Why does Google not care that Facebook is winning the social media war? Because Google is bigger than social media, search engines are here to stay, and a few other reasons.

Billionaire and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg happily married his college sweetheart Priscilla Chan this past Saturday in a surprise ceremony. There has yet to be word on what Zuckerberg, a man worth approximately $19.1 billion dollars, and Priscilla's prenuptial agreement entails. PHOTOS: Mark Zuckerberg Marries Pricilla Chan In Surprise Ceremony With the details of Zuckerberg's prenuptial agreement pending, we advise that Zuckerberg take the very wise advice of Kanye West regarding prenuptial agreements: "It's something that you need to have, cus' when she leaves your ass, she gon' leave with half."  Zuckerberg better have made sure ...

Radical Something is a trio of musicians who just love making good tunes and making sure there are positive vibes all around. They create music that fuses everything from pop, hip hop, reggae, and more into a package that will most likely leave you feeling in a damn good mood. The talent is evident in Loggy , Josh Cocktail , and Big Red -- just watch any of their videos of them playing live in random spots like rooftops. These guys are music and love making connections with their audience, and it's those reasons (besides the catchy tunes) that have developed them ...

“I think it’s the beginning of the end of the valley as we know it. Silicon Valley historically would invest in science, and technology, and, you know, actual silicon. If you were a good VC you could make $100 million. Now there’s a new pattern created by two big ideas. First, for the first time ever, you have computer devices, mobile and tablet especially, in the hands of billions of people. Second is that we are moving all the social needs that we used to do face-to-face, and we’re doing them on a computer. And this trend ...

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Eight Academy Award nominations after your first two feature films ain’t too shabby. For an encore? Crickets. Last year we asked: where in the world is writer/director Todd Field? The actor turned filmmaker has had several projects gestating for several years, but he hasn't made a feature since 2006’s well-received "Little Children," which added three Oscar nominations to his total. Good news has arrived. One of these long-in-development projects, "The Creed of Violence," is moving forward. Cross Creek Pictures and producer Michael DeLuca ("The Social Network," "Moneyball") have come on board to produce and finance the ...

Bono's investment group Elevation Partners stands to make more than $15 billion in the initial public offering of Facebook stock Nasdaq reports Elevation Partners bought 23 percent of the social network company for $90 million in 2009 Facebook is expected to raise $16 billion in its IPO which would be the...

Aw. Awwww. It seems that the international marketing team behind "The Amazing Spider-Man" know the way to our hearts. We've had a whole host of trailers for the superhero reboot (including a four-minute spot only a few days ago), which hits in July, and while there's some promise in them, none have quite convinced us yet that we won't be bored by sitting through another origin story, only a decade after Sam Raimi first took a spin at the material. That being said, we've like the in-context footage that we've seen, principally because of the ...

The incomparable fame of Nine Inch Nails. Golden Globe and Grammy wins for co-scoring with Atticus Ross David Fincher’s The Social Network. Trent Reznor might be forty-seven years old today, thereby three years away from his fifties (and making all of us longtime Nine Inch Nails fans feel incredibly old), but the musical genius has [...]