Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Skeletons Big Band... Hilarious. From the Grooms blog: "One Hundred Things to Try and Sound Like besides Animal Collective's Last Three Albums 1. Their first 5 albums. 2. If Charles Mingus were in the Beatles pre-Revolver. ....... more info

411 Mania — The Boss, the best lyricist alive and the best British band not named The Beatles are featured in this week's column. What else do you need to know? Click the link! more info

411 Mania — For a commercial, but still... more info

Idolator — The NBA playoffs have an ad featuring Andre 3000 doing The Beatles, and the Super Bowl had T-Pain shilling Bud Light, but the World Cup has one-upped every other sports event’s commercials in just one blow. Snoop Dogg, Ciara, Oasis’s Noel Gallagh... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — Released on Monday, June 14 2010"It's hardly Paul leaving The Beatles," Noel Gallagher quipped in 1999 when Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs left Oasis. Similarly, after Noel himself ended the group for good with a few eloquent words last summer, even he woul... more info

Idolator — Andre 3000 climbed out of the rock he was hiding under for the past few years to record a song for a Nike ad featuring a Kobe Bryant highlight reel to be aired during the NBA playoffs. Even more interesting, instead of providing one of his own song... more info

Perez Hilton — And he makes one of the lamest Beatles songs that much cooler! Andre 3000 mixed a new rendition of The Beatles classic All Together Now for a new Nike/NBA ad! Watch and listen to Kobe Bryant fly and Andre lay it down! (above) Thoughts? more info

Guardian Music — Last week we wanted minimal lyrics, this week it's as florid, or even as floral, as you likeThere was a brief moment on the 10 words or fewer thread in which I imagined we might go a whole week without a single, solitary Bob Dylan nom. I feared that ... more info

Pitchfork — The NBA Finals start tonight, and if you're anything like this writer, you're hoping with all the fire of your soul that Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers do not bring home their second straight championship. Still, it's easy to enjoy Nike's new c... more info

ContactMusic — SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY serenaded America's First Lady MICHELLE OBAMA with an apt BEATLES favourite on Wednesday (02Jun10) as he was honoured at the White House.President... more info