Peel the internet curtains back at Gothamist HQ, and you'll find more than a few odd traditions and obsessions lurking—some of us have Sour Power Straw addictions, some of us hoard whiskey-in-a-can, ...

Saturday would have been Frank Sinatra's 100th birthday. To help celebrate the King of Swing's lasting influence, the Postmodern Jukebox, a musical collective known for taking modern hits and remixing ...

O say you can see, will you do something important for me? Not just for me, actually, but for the future of America. “The Star-Spangled Banner,” our so-called National Anthem, is BOR-ING. Yo, Francis ...

A recent White House petition has asked President Obama to change the National Anthem to R.Kelly’s classic song “Ignition (Remix).” The 10-year-old hit single was released in January of 2003, and ...

There are very few things sexier than R. Kelly's performance of 'Ignition (Remix).' Jimmy Fallon performing it with the Barbershop Quartet definitely isn't one of them, but it is funnier. Fallon ...

If you thought Jimmy Fallon was going to leave any of his popular Late Night bits behind when he took over The Tonight Show, you were sorely mistaken. If anything, he’s taking his best gags to another ...

Sometimes it takes another set of ears to unearth a song's full potential. By Elias Leight One of the fascinating things about pop music is that there’s more to songwriting than just writing the song.

R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" turned 10 recently, and a group of intrepid fans have found quite the way to celebrate the occasion: Change the national anthem of the United States to the timeless party ...

Last night, on his second evening as the new host of the Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon presented another throwback: this time, to the early ’00s. Fallon, along with his barbershop quartet The Ragtime ...

It’s going to be like this all week, isn’t it, Jimmy Fallon pulling out the stops with skits and cameos designed for maximum internet virality? Last night, among other things, he dusted off his ‘ole ...