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Right…so I already shared my thoughts on The xx and my obsession with their music, but what happens when you mash them up with GG’s Taylor Momsen (thanks, Buzzworthy!) and Rihanna’s hook on Eminem’s “Love The Way You Lie” …?

Well, thanks to ohnotheydidn’t, you can listen to it here.

There’s honestly not a lot to say. Check out the new Eminem video featuring Rihanna, Dominic Monaghan, and Megan Fox.

I’ve been joking on Twitter / FB for the last few weeks about how I’m literally addicted to The XX, and I’m totally not lying. My last.fm says so. It also says that I’ve listened to too much Ke$ha this year, too.

Check out the Pitchfork review if you haven’t already.

Also, OMG. [props to Eliot]

I’m not going to say much. Just watch, if you haven’t seen this already.

Also, this is the reason why mashups that are smartly done get to stick around – because someone’s created something “new” and they don’t go all flashing ownership or trying to make a zillion dollars on it.

Around twelve years ago, I remember purchasing two copies of Eminem’s commercially successful “The Slim Shady LP,” and promptly placing one on permanent position in my car’s CD changer, and the second in the one at home. They stayed present and accounted for in both for some time, and there have only been a few albums that’ve received similar treatment in my music-listening life. A few come to mind, including N.W.A.’s “Straight Outta Compton,” Public Enemy’s “It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back,” Pearl Jam’s seminal “Ten,” and STP’s “Purple.”

So as I listen to Em’s latest record, “Recovery” from 34,000 feet en route to Seattle from Phoenix tonight, I can’t say that it’ll get the same play, but I can definitely say that it’d get the “I’m not rushing to this track or that one” play. Now I’ve never really gotten into the concept album or some that get too into the “story” flow, but think this is one of the more well put-together records as far as track order goes. Additionally, the one-at-a-time way we all buy music these days has been all but decimating to the “there’s three songs that are good hidden somewhere on here” albums, and this isn’t one of them. Hell, Reuters is even suggesting that the industry needs something like Em’s “Recovery,” badly.

From the moment that you reach the “Don’t Hurt Me” sample on track nine, “No Love,” you realize the man is not messing around. Leave Weezy until nine songs in? Takes Balls. Sure, we’ve all heard “Not Afraid,” which wins the prize for smart marketing move as the first single, but there’s a hell of a lot to hear beyond it.

Eminem has always brought it when it comes to lyrical prowess. He’ll, even non-fans could probably tell you that. What I’m digging on is his ability to go from asking where Kanye is to get some weak MCs off stage into a moment of self realization in a song like “Space Bound.”

Talk trash about Auto-tune one minute and have it on another song? On it. Tell people your last album is trash? On it. Guest appearance from Pink? On it. Beats for the Jeeps? Yep. Everlast-sounding guitars mixed with solid beats? Oh yeah.

Ken Kaniff from Connecticut? Nope. Cage disses? Nope. Voicemails from Paul Rosenberg? Nope. Updated murders of Kim? Nope.

Know why?

He doesn’t need them anymore.

I’m a fan of Ke$ha’s “Tik Tok” song, but I never expected to see it show up like this on “The Simpsons.”

Also, love Hulu’s option to edit the slate that is shown after embedding on of their videos.

Here’s the links of the day for Tuesday, April 27, 2010.

• My former colleague and all around great guy John Ratcliffe-Lee shares some thoughts on attitude and hard work with regard to the “millenial” generation, in response to some fairly public comments by some PR, digital and media heavy hitters.
• For those of you reading this who aren’t into the tech world, you might not have heard about what’s gone down since tech blog Gizmodo secured what appears to be an upcoming iPhone device. Lots more at Wired’s Threat Level.
• E. W. Scripps has sold the rights to “Peanuts” to Iconix.
• See, Roger Federer continues to make it clear that he’s not invincible. I say this makes men’s tennis so much less boring.
• Soundgarden played a “secret” show here in Seattle a week ago. Check out my story at MTV.com, and here are the photos I snagged on the DL while inside the show.
• Wait, seriously? A PR person “pitched” a blogger offering a “pre-written guest post,” unsolicited, without even knowing that the blog or blogger would even care about what sounds like an op-ed? Found this via @brittneyg on Twitter.

Here’s today’s links you need to click.

• Via Len Kendall, I give you “Galactic Empire State of Mind,” from College Humor, of course.
• The rumors are true. Ricky Martin is gay. I don’t know how this stayed quiet for so long. /sarcasm. But like Andrew Hampp says, An entire generation of Justin Bieber fans asks, “Ricky who?”
• For all of you “24″ fans, you’ll appreciate BuddyTV’s list of Jack Bauer’s Top 5 Human Rights Violations.
• Check out this great piece from “Nightline” on MTV and the changes the network has made / is making to get to where it is today. (yes, I’m biased)
• Wanna advertise during the series finale of ABC’s “Lost” later this spring? It’ll cost you $900,000. [via wired]
• Over at Technologizer, Harry McCracken gives a look back at (gasp!) Microsoft Bob, launched fifteen years ago this week.
• Aaaaand, last but not least, play Jason. You know you want to. [via Jenn]

If you haven’t seen this spoof of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video yet, you should probably waste a few minutes on it.

Just about two weeks ago, I was among the crowd of Seattleites (and those from beyond our city) who saw 311 play at The Moore, and if I were to drill down my comments about the show to one statement, it’d be that getting to see a band that legitimately had fun on stage and wasn’t looking like they were going through the motions was awesome – and unfortunately atypical.

Aside from the fact that I was able to walk up like an hour or so before the opening act hit the stage, it was a pretty solid crowd of fans that genuinely were into the band. I’d never caught them live before, but as a fan with all of their CDs and that can rattle off lyrics to some of the more random tracks, it was cool to be surrounded by a ton of people that (mostly) felt the same way. I’d always heard that they were an energetic crew on stage, and that definitely came through.

Frontman Nick Hexum definitely brought his “A” game, and seeing sometimes-frontman, always hyped-up fellow singer SA Martinez in action was a pretty good treat. But unlike a lot of other groups you might see, the whole band really kicks it up a notch, and I was amazed at one portion of their show, which I was informed was a staple – and have included a clip someone else in attendance shared. It’s a merge of “Applied Science” and a drum solo – probably not one that you’ve really seen before from other groups, even ones with tremendous drummers. Check it out:

Now I’m not here to post full-on reviews of concerts or anything, but I will say that I was more than taken aback by these comments from a fellow Seattleite who probably wasn’t too much of a fan of the band to begin with, and definitely didn’t dig the performance…at least the part she took in with her eyes.

I hate to say that it’s been nice being able to just pop into a few shows here and there in Seattle that I wouldn’t have gotten into day-of back in NYC or Northern NJ, but it definitely has – and getting to do it in a city with some pretty smart music fans makes it doubly so.