When you think of Dale Earnhardt, you think of Talladega. You think of championships. You think of his nickname, "The Intimidator." But you don't think of him as a country music superstar. You should, and that's because he sings on a long lost 1983 album, along with other NASCAR drivers. It. Is. Amazing.

To be a Marquis is to be a member of the noble class of frogs. That being said, while you may not have to be a Marquis to drive today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Marquis, you will need to determine if its price reflects nobility, or perhaps no-bullshitry.

TRAFFIC JAMS: Misy Elliot - The Rain [Supa Dupa Fly]

We love it when marching bands go geeky. The best part is listening to the announcer talk about the Mayan calendar and doomsday, in what is by far the most complicated marching band narrative ever told.

As I've mentioned here before, cars are incredible mobile colonies of amazing parts that can be repurposed for any number of uses. One of those uses can be annoying people in an entire neighborhood at once, which I suspect will be the main result from this week's project: the car horn organ.

Volkswagen's television ads have long been known for their very effective use of music. Their 1999 ad for the Cabrio, "Milky Way", famously used Nick Drake's moody song Pink Moon, and gave the late singer/songwriter one of the largest bumps in popularity his career had seen. It's clear that VW's ad agency DDB, places…

The resilient, rough chuckles-enduring people of Detroit put up with dog poop air, crime-ring moms, crime-ring stray dogs, fake Koch evictions, and 1,001 other ills. But they refuse to sit through a Nickelback half-time show during this Thanksgiving's Lions-Packers game. Uninspired Canadian crap rock is where they draw …

Click to viewThe Tron trailer, perfection. The music video for the lead single off of Daft Punk's Tron soundtrack? Perfection, with a dash of digital techno funk. And jousting lightcycles, and Olivia Wilde, and 'k gotta go watch it again bye.

Robotic French duo Daft Punk will be spinning the deadly discs of Tron: Legacy's digital soundtrack. They'll also be making a cameo in Disney's sequel to the original Tron. Get a sneak peek at both, right now.

Since I still get emails from boombox freaks who want to buy the Junkyard Boogaloo Boombox (sorry, can't part with it), three years after the original post went up, I've decided to drag the post from Murilee's Writing Wrecking Yard.