T.I. is doing SOMETHING to keep himself at the top of the charts. For the third straight week in a row, he has held the top two spots in the Billboard Top 10. Kanye’s “Heartless” fell off the list, only to be replaced by his old single, “Love Lockdown”, which hasn’t been in the top ten for a while. My question is: Why is Jason Mraz still on the charts with a song he released in 2005? Here are your top ten songs for the week:

1. T.I. ft. Rihanna - Live Your Life | Preview and Buy
2. T.I. - Whatever You Like  | Preview and Buy
3. Beyonce - If I Were a Boy | Preview and Buy
4. Katy Perry - Hot N Cold | Preview and Buy
5. Pink - So What | Preview and Buy
6. Kevin Rudolf ft. Lil Wayne - Let it Rock | Preview and Buy
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Check out the new video for “Bust a Move” the Don Rimini Remix off of Rimini’s new album RMXXOLOGY. Take the a new hit French producer Don Rimini and mix it with the hip hop classic “Bust A Move” and turns it into an electro-house dancefloor smash for the 21st Century.

Check out his new video below…

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Art Rock Band …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead has just finished recording their sixth full length album after holing themselves up in the studio with Producer Chris Cody (TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). The album will be out February 2009 on Richter Scale/Justice Records. Check out a video exclusive on SPIN Magazine here.

Photo by davidjcubberly

A man in Dublin, Georgia has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for aggravated assault.  The man, Rico Todriguez Wright, shot his victim, Chad Blue, twice in September 2006 as Blue tried to flee Wright after Wright tried to rob him.

What does this have to do with music?  Wright wrote (I feel like the next word should be written) a rap song about the shooting in 2007.  The lyric of the song “Hitting Licks for a Living,” contains the brilliant line, “Chad Blue knows how I shoot.” Not only did Wright perform the song, but he also made a CD of it to provide perfect evidence for his trial.

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MySpace has snagged streams of two hot new albums due out next week. The albums are Electric Arguments from The Fireman (which is Paul McCartney and Youth) and the infamous Chinese Democracy from Guns N’ Roses.

Electric Arguments is due out on November 25 via ATO Records and can be streamed here. Don’t let the name The Fireman fool you. This project is very much a Paul McCartney record that just happens to include some lush, electronic sounds and some sonic influence from Youth.

Chinese Democracy is due out on November 23 exclusively at Best Buy stores and can be streamed here. If you can listen to it without wincing, you are a very strong or very tolerant human being. Seriously, it’s a difficult listen.

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BeatCrave brings you artist, The Sweet Hurt, as part of our Know Your LA Bands series. The Sweet Hurt is Wendy Wang, a multi-instrumentalist with intimate lush vocals to accompany her many talents. She first began writing and recording her own music in high school and now, Wang has become an essential asset to many local bands in LA.

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Nothing like going out there and making it happen! The new music video by The Bad Eliots, entails them playing their song “Cat’s Meow” on the subway train, with boxes on their heads that have pictures of their faces on it. Nice! And the song is pretty awesome as well. You may remember it from the Snapple Antioxidant Water’s popular “Bubble Wrap” commercial that was on air in early 2008. Yeah that’s right, they do more than just Snapple.

Check out the video below…

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Kings of Leon have announced a short run of US dates in January that will culminate with the band’s highly anticipated show at Madison Square Garden in New York. The tour will kick off in Louisville, KY at the Palace Theatre on January 20.

Kings of Leon will wrap up their current US tour with We Are Scientists tonight in their hometown of Nashville, TN. The band will only have about a week off before they hop across the pond for a European tour that will run right up to Christmas.

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One of the best bands around that you have probably never heard of, The Films, have just released a new Christmas music video. It’s for the original track “It’s Christmas (What’s the Difference)” which may be the grooviest new song of the holiday season.

The band doesn’t appear in the video, but thanks to stop motion, a Christmas tree rocks out to the song. Check out the video after the break.

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