
Photo and autograph courtesy of the G Archives. Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Happy birthday to Ms. Lauryn Hill. Over the years, I foolishly believed a lot of rumours about her that I heard on the internet and I judged her harshly without ever doing research to see if they were indeed true. Turns out, the infamous "Lauryn Hill is racist" rumour is not true. Is she a creative genius who, like so many creative geniuses is totally misunderstood by the public at [...]

Music Emissions would like to wish both Trent Reznor and Josh Homme a very Happy Birthday today, May 17th! Reznor spent his birthday rehearsing for the live return of Nine Inch Nails, who will make their official comeback as a touring band on July 26th at Japan's Fuji Rock Festival. Oh, and he also formally reintroduced Robin Finck as NIN's bassist, replacing former Jane's Addiction member Eric Avery (who announced his departure just the other day). [...]
The former lead vocalist of Creedence Clearwater Revival has a intimate show scheduled this this month! John Fogerty will be taking the stage at El Rey Theatre on Tuesday, May 28 in support of his new album Wrote A Song...

Photo by G. Lena Dunham and Geoffrey Dicker Actress/Producer/Writer/Direct or/Executive Producer Lena Dunham is celebrating her solar return on May 13 and we wish her a happy birthday. I met the multi-talented Lena recently and she was very nice. My encounter with her inspired me to start watching her show "Girls," and I am really enjoying it. It lives up to all the hype and is definitely pushing the envelope forward in the same way "Sex and the City" did. The world needs more of that! More [...]

Photo by G. Hunter Parrish and Geoffrey Dicker Happy birthday to actor/singer Hunter Parrish who was born on May 13. Hunter played Silas Botwin in one of my favorite shows "Weeds," and it was fun watching his character grow up in the deliciously twisted series. Also born today: Stephen Colbert, Robert Pattinson, Stevie Wonder, Bea Arthur and Lena Dunham. Birthday greetings to all! [...]
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If you're a fan of noisy, slightly left-of-centre indie-punk bands, Her Parents are an exciting prospect. Featuring members of Dananananaykroyd, Stairs To Korea and Internet Forever, the brash four-piece are on the verge of releasing their second album. Due out on 13th May, 'Happy Birthday' was recorded in a single session with no instrumental overdubs, and you can hear it in its entirety below, streaming exclusively on DIY a week pre-release. "Happy Birthday' is our second album," bassist Sean Clothier tells us, "but the first we managed to sneak some Icelandic lyrics and backing [...]

Photo by G. Sharon Jones Happy birthday to singer Sharon Jones! If you've never seen her in concert, you are missing out. She is an amazing performer who will make you leave the venue feeling like you've just had a religious musical experience. Happy birthday Sharon! Love you! Also born today, Keith Haring, actor Will Arnett, Lance Bass of N'Sync and another amazing singer, Oleta Adams. Cheers! [...]

Photo by G. Little Boots Happy birthday to singer Victoria Hesketh who is better known as Little Boots. Her debut album is great and she's releasing "Nocturnes" later this month. She'll be playing New York this week, so make sure you go see her! Happy birthday Little Boots! See you later this week! [...]

Happy Birthday to the homie Rockie Fresh , who is 22 years young today. Rockie's had a helluve a year and to celebrate, he drops some new music for us. MMG jefe Ricky Rozay jumps on this Lunice produced track as well. "Panera Bread" is off of Rockie's latest mixtape,"The Birthday Tape" that drops next week. Panera Bread is pretty awesome, and if you don't believe us ask this girl . Listen to "Panera Bread" below. As an added bonus check out some photos of Rockie [...]
HAPPY birthday to us! This month marks 12 months since Sound Advice was resurrected and one of the best things about being up and runnign again, apart from being sent free CDs of course, is the fact I've been able to offer some fantastic free downloads for you lucky readers. So what better way to mark 12 months than to offer a second compilation album to download. The 12 track Many Faces of Sound Advice album is 100 per cent free, 100 per cent legal, and 100 per cent no strings attached - click here to get [...]

We would like to wish a heartfelt happy birthday to the smoothest man that ever lived: Marvin Gaye. We're hoping this Spotify collection of our fifteen favorite Marvin songs will soundtrack your evening just nicely. Let us know which classics we missed in the comments below. In the meantime, stream our choices after the jump.

Photo by G. Method Man and Geoffrey Dicker Happy birthday to rapper turned actor Method Man. Here are a few fun facts about Method Man: His real name is Clifford Smith; he's the only MC to appear on Notorious BIG's album "Ready To Die"; he's appeared in over 20 films and TV shows and finally, he shares his April 1 birthday with Susan Boyle, Lon Chaney and Debbie Reynolds. Happy birthday to all! [...]

Photo by G. Norah Jones and Geoffrey Dicker Happy birthday to singer Norah Jones who was born on March 30. Also celebrating their solar return today are Eric Clapton, Celine Dion, Piers Morgan, Tracy Chapman, Warren Beatty, MC Hammer, Robbie Coltrane, Paul Reiser and Peter Marshall. Hope they all have a great day! [...]
It's almost time to celebrate Morrissey's birthday and what better way than with local favorite, Sweet And Tender Hooligans? Taking place at the Fonda Theatre on Wednesday, May 22, The Smiths / Morrissey cover band Sweet And Tender Hooligans team...
Irreverent punks Her Parents released a video for their fun track Why Don't You Just Fuck Off ! From the album Happy Birthday , released on the 13th of May 2013 on Alcopop! You can download this track free HERE!

Photo by G. Emeli Sande March 10 is a great day to be born. Celebrating birthdays today are singer Emeli Sande, gay porn legend Michael Lucas, action star Chuck Norris, sometimes on camera pussy flasher Sharon Stone, music producer Rick Rubin, singer Neneh Cherry, actor Jon Hamm and Prince Edward. Happy birthday everyone! [...]

Photo by G. James Van Der Beek and Geoffrey Dicker Happy birthday to actor James Van Der Beek who celebrates his solar return on March 8. I met the "Dawson's Creek" actor late last in 2012 and he was a super cool guy despite being mobbed by hordes of screaming girls. Hope he has a great day. It's also actor Freddie Prinze Jr.'s birthday as well as actor Aidan Quinn. Happiness all around! [...]

Photo by G. Chris Martin of Coldplay Happy birthday to Chris Martin of Coldplay who celebrates his day of birth today (as does fellow rock god Lou Reed). Thanks Chris for showing me how to take it with my hand! xx Share/Save

Photo by G. Janice Dickinson and Geoffrey Dicker Happy birthday to supermodel and sometimes hot mess Janice Dickinson. I met Janice a week ago on a cold New York night. Several hours after this photo was taken, she attended a fashion show and on the way out, allegedly walked off with $20,000 of jewels. Don't ask me what happened, because I am not one to gossip. I am just one to ask people to take photos with me on freezing nights. Thanks girlfriend! [...]
A little over a month ago, MTIB started working on a 'Best Ever' list called Project 220. Why is it called Project 220 ? Using a 30,000 song sample, we determined the proportion of songs that each letter of the alphabet is... Man, I'm not entirely sure how to explain it. Basically, each letter is allotted a number of spots on our list based on our sample. 4.5% of that sample had the letter 'A' as the first item in the song title, subsequently 'A' was allotted 9 spots on our list. Get it? No? Oh well. [...]