If you’ve viewed any YouTube videos at all today, you may have noticed a large banner across the top announcing the YouTube Symphony project. The banner, placed in the same high-profile yet highly-ignorable area that usually houses the “Stay cool, we are performing site maintenance, everything will be 100% in a bit” message, represents a [...]

The second blocked, dubbed “Pirates, Punks and Playas,” serves up the most intriguing musical theme of the night – remixes and mash-ups. This three-hour run stands as the most wide-open, the one time a DJ could pull out anything with “remix” slapped across the cover and play it. During this non-nautical (I pray) [...]

So how does Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis) pull off his awesome shows? Well, there’s actually a little bit of tech behind that laptop setup he sports. Here’s how he does it.

1. Purchase CDs
You won’t find Gillis in a rare vinyl shop. All his mash-ups are popular tunes that you can find at your local CD [...]

Girl Talk hits up the Louis Room at Norris tonight (hope you got your ticket), and I hope you have some loose fitting, sweat absorbing clothes, because it’s going to be a crazy dance party. But, before you break out on the dance floor, it can’t hurt to learn about a few other mash-up [...]