Watch Greg Laswell's Apartment Get Un-Destroyed In Video For "Take Everything"

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• Watch Greg Laswell's Apartment Get Un-Destroyed In Video For "Take Everything"
• The Daily Noise: Prince Declares The Internet Over, Meanwhile You're Reading This On The Internet
• Big Boasts, Iconic Rhymes, Unforgettable Intros: July 6
• Joey the Intern and the Summer Hiatus
• Dave Grohl Joins Pearl Jam Onstage In Belgium
• Prince Doesn't Like The Internet

Watch Greg Laswell's Apartment Get Un-Destroyed In Video For "Take Everything" Posted: 06 Jul 2010 03:15 PM PDT Who has time to watch music videos all day? Well, besides us here at Fuse. We know you're busy so The Worm brings you the most visually stimulating videos you might have missed otherwise. Don't thank us, just watch! Today we're watching "Take Everything" from Greg Laswell. Click through to watch, then get some behind the screens info about the video from Greg Laswell and the video's director. Now that you've seen the video, read more from Greg Laswell and the director: Greg Laswell: "It sounded like a good idea when it was presented to me; destroy a set of an apartment, break lamps, pictures, vases, tear the feathers out of the couch cushions, and have a bunch of people essentially "take everything" from me, and then, reverse the entire video. What I didn't give a lot of thought to was that it was going to require me to learn to sing the entire song backwards. To this day, I think I might know the reversed version better. I spelled out each line phonetically using a solo track of the vocal, reversed. It took me about a day and a half to record the song, and almost four days to memorize it backwards. We also had to do it in one take because there was no putting the set back together again once it was destroyed. I knew going in that I needed to know it really well amidst all the chaos surrounding me. Otto (the video's director) was amazing to work with. From coming up with the idea to orchestrating all the moving parts into the final product takes a lot of talent. The only one on set that I didn't envy that day was him." Director, Otto Arsenault: "From there I had to work out as much action that would look interesting in reverse. My challenge was keeping the ideas within the low budget that was allotted for the video. We did not have the luxury of re-setting at all. Since we weren't going to cut I had to keep the action and the frame interesting. I decided that we had to move the camera in an out of the stage and that lighting cues were a must. I wanted to create the feeling of different scenes within the one shot. "We built the set with two walls having hinges on the bottom, so they could fall safely, and started to walk though the action. We had one day to shoot and no room for errors. On our first walk through at 7AM it took 43 minutes to talk through what everyone was going to do. From there we rehearsed it like a play. Each time getting faster and faster until everyone felt confident about what they were doing. We had run it a couple of times without all of the destruction and it was looking amazing. Greg was nailing it." Like what you're hearing? Buy the album now! Buy Me! VERY IMPORTANT LINKS Greg Laswell Official Site Greg Laswell on MySpace WATCH MORE VIDEOS - RIDE THE WORM! Jackson Harris Bob Schneider Drive By Truckers Killswitch Engage

The Daily Noise: Prince Declares The Internet Over, Meanwhile You're Reading This On The Internet Posted: 06 Jul 2010 02:49 PM PDT (Photo: Kevin Winter) In Today's Noise, Prince can still get people talking. In a recent interview Prince was quoted as saying the internet is "over." Ironically, news of Prince's 'declaration' spread rapidly thanks to, you guessed it, the web. Also, The Black Eyed Peas set their sights high for upcoming tour documentary, and Kelly Rowland talks new single, "Commander". Click on through to watch. Tune in to Fuse everyday at 4P/3C for new editions of The Daily Noise. Or log on and watch it here whenever you want. More Noise lives here. Want the Noise to come to you? Text NOISE to 38736 to get daily SMS alerts the very moment the Noise goes live. It's the fuuuuuturrrrrre! As always, get more great music at Billboard.com.

Big Boasts, Iconic Rhymes, Unforgettable Intros: July 6 Posted: 06 Jul 2010 10:30 AM PDT Hip Hop House Party month's 31 day long countdown of hip hop's top Biggest Boasts, Iconic Rhymes, and Unforgettable Intros continues! Yesterday, Big Boi's cool lines in OutKast's "ATLiens" took the Number 27 Biggest Boast, Slick Rick's "Mona Lisa" scored the Number 27 Iconic Rhyme, and Lil Kim grabbed the Number 27 Unforgettable Intro for her work on Junior M.A.F.I.A.'s "I Need You Tonight." But that was yesterday; today's a new day. Click below for today's countdown revelations! What's the Number 26 Biggest Boast? Click here to find out. What's the Number 26 Iconic Rhyme? Click here. What's the Number 26 Unforgettable Intro? Click here. And for all things hip hop, head to our Hip Hop House Party page, which will be our hip hop HQ all July long.

Joey the Intern and the Summer Hiatus Posted: 06 Jul 2010 09:28 AM PDT Sorry I haven't been in touch lately, I know you were probably worried sick about me! But in TV, disappearing for weeks on end with no explanation doesn't necessarily mean you've been abducted by Tralfamadorians or become lost in your eccentric but lovable uncle Leonard's elaborate backyard hedge maze - it might just mean that your show is on hiatus. You see, "hiatus" is more than just a way to greet an assembly of American Time Use Survey workers. It's also a period in which a show's staff takes a bit of time off. While our producers and hosts likely spent most of their break trying out space tourism, eating those ice cream sundaes with gold flakes in them, and hunting the ultimate game, man, that stuff can be hard to swing on an intern's salary. But constraint breeds creativity, so let me share with you some of the free but fun New York City activities I discovered: GO WINDOW SHOPPING Everyone knows New York is the window shopping capital of the world, so I took some time to check out some of my local stores and bask in the luxuries I can only hope to afford one day, like brand-name cereals, multi-ply toilet paper, and autographed pictures of Tony Bennett made out to laundromats. TAKE IN A BALL GAME Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to admit that the South Bronx is home to one of baseball's all-time elite clubs: some local youths I watched through a hole in a schoolyard fence. I'm no talent scout, but those kids could really play! ATTEND A TV TAPING Manhattan is home to some of our most beloved talk shows, and to Jimmy Fallon's talk show as well, and tickets are all free! I wasn't lucky enough to come by any though, so I jumped up and down behind a local news reporter talking about the beverage tax instead. SEE A FREE CONCERT The city puts on tons of these, often by pretty big name artists, and most of them do not also come with free rioting. Unfortunately, the Drake show at the South Street Sea Port did, which meant he couldn't perform. So I did the next best thing: found a car that was blasting his record and chased it for several blocks. So you see, even with no budget at all, I managed to have the best hiatus ever, and I hope these tips will come in handy for your next hiatus too! - Joey Don't miss Kelis on this Friday's episode of the Fuse Top 20 Countdown.

Dave Grohl Joins Pearl Jam Onstage In Belgium Posted: 06 Jul 2010 08:54 AM PDT Cover songs in the encore? Special guests? Freakin' fireworks exploding in the sky while one of the world's great bands unleashes fury below? That's what festival shows are all about. Pearl Jam, and Dave Grohl and Alain Johannes of Them Crooked Vultures know this. Watch the jams get kicked out after the jump. The superjam went down at Belgium's long-running Werchter Festival on the 4th of July (via Consequence of Sound). The cover? The MC5's thoroughly American "Kick Out The Jams," a song Pearl Jam has periodically covered over the past few years. The Werchter performance features a head-banging, hair-swing Grohl bashing the heck out of a tambourine while Johannes adds licks on a Tele. Approximately halfway through, the fireworks begin. Pearl Jam, and their fans, may have had the most kick-ass 4th Of July of all, and they weren't even IN the US. That's the power of rock n' roll. -- Conrad Doucette

Prince Doesn't Like The Internet Posted: 06 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT Hope you've wrapped up everything you were doing on the internet: Prince has declared it 'over.' He's Prince, so there's a chance he's right. The comments came in an interview with UK tabloid The Mirror (via the NME). Prince granted the rare interview in anticipation of 20Ten, which will be released free, and exclusively, with a small list of European publications: The Mirror in the UK, a Belgian newspaper, and the German edition of Rolling Stone. The album will be free with purchase of the paper or mag: 50p or so for a new Prince album. Not bad. So what if you're a Prince fan, but don't plan on being the UK or Europe soon -- what can you do? For now, not much. Plans are underway to secure a more conventional release in the US, but any release will be purely physical; there will be no more digital release. The reason is simple: Prince hates the internet. So he said in the Mirror interview: "The internet's completely over. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it. "The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. "They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you." Prince is no hypocrite: you can't find his music on iTunes, or YouTube for that matter. He currently has no official website. But the Purple One certainly seems chipper, and healthy, in the Mirror profile. And 20Ten is reportedly a barnburner in the tradition of his 80s work. It might be a difficult album for fans to track down, but it should be worth the effort. -- Conrad Doucette

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