Right now you could be watching the Who tearing through "Can't Explain" in July 1970. Or U2 rocking "I Will Follow" in 1981. Or even the Ramones blitzkrieging through "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" in 1978 (which is pretty topical, RIP Joey Ramone). These performances are all online! They are free!

Wolfgang's Vault, the web's repository of incredible live recordings built on promoter Bill Graham's personal archives, has just opened its Video Vault with 4,000 restored concert videos from the past half-century. The site plans to add 6,000 more clips, many of which appear to be from complete shows. This is fantastic, but it was no cheap (or easy) task. The site's president and CEO Bill Sagan told USA Today, "We would open a canister of film and it would literally be turned to vinegar. There were canisters with bugs in them." Ick. So far the company has invested four years and $7 million into the project.

While the Vault has an emphasis on classic rock and soul recordings, younger bands

Chalk up another acting job for South Jamaica, Queens' greatest thespian, 50 Cent. The sometime-rapper has been cast in the supernatural horror film Odd Thomas, based on a popular Dean Koontz novel that sounds a lot like The Sixth Sense. 50 will play the role of Shamus Cocobolo, a blind DJ who helps Odd Thomas (actor Anton Yelchin) uncover a satanic plot. That last time we encountered a blind DJ in cinema, it was in Vanishing Point, and that film is fantastic so this is a good start. According to the Los Angeles Times, Willem Dafoe is also in Odd Thomas, presumably in a villainous role because he's Willem Dafoe.

Let's take a look at 50's filmography this past year: There's his football cancer movie Things Fall Apart, his heist flick Setup with Ryan Phillippe and Bruce Willis, his portrayal of a police officer in Freelancers with Robert De Niro (somehow this is Fiddy's second film with De Niro, following Righteous Kill), and finally yet another movie with Bruce Willis, this one an

And you thought the GOP knew nothing about hip-hop: Just days after the whole Common fiasco, a Republican named Christine Radogno, the Senate Minority Leader at the Illinois Statehouse, used her turn at the podium to recite some Wu-Tang Clan lyrics. As the story goes, with Illinois facing a $15 billion budget deficit, Wu's Raekwon, who was in Springfield for a concert the night before, had some thoughts on where some of the money should go. Apparently, Radogno agreed with the Chef, the Huffington Post reports.

"The most precious thing in the world is the financial security and well being of your family," Radogno said, reading Raekwon's letter. "You want to send your little ones to the best school and in the end you want to know you left them with peace of mind. Nowadays, we all know that cash rules everything around us. C.R.E.A.M. Get the money. Dolla dolla bill, y'all." The lyric wasn't delivered quite as confidently as Method Man did it back in '93 -- or Gwyneth Paltrow's "Gangsta

Beyoncé has urged girls to ditch no-good men in song and hired an all-female backing band, but in case everyone wasn't fully aware of her stance on girl power, she made a video explaining her extremely nuanced position. She is really into girl power! Which is good, since the video for Major Lazer's "Pon de Floor" -- the song on which her 4 single "Run the World (Girls)" is built -- features women being violently degraded by men performing the aggressively sexual Caribbean dance-floor move called daggering. (For our full explanation on why daggering is vile and Beyoncé should probably be aware of its association with "Pon de Floor," click here.)

No women sit back and take the hits in "Run the World (Girls)," however. Beyoncé appropriates just about every visual cue in history meant to connote power: She rides a horse, wears a Cleopatra-esque headpiece, commandeers an army of rebel women in the desert, grips the leashes of two drooling hyenas, flips the bird, blows up a car, and dances