Sorry, Dad: Rhys Millen Beats His Father’s World-Record Time at Pikes Peak

Posted on September 1, 2012

This year’s Pikes Peak hill climb may have gotten off to a slow start, thanks to a wildfire-induced rescheduling, but it monster beat by dre
swas destined to be full of fast considering 2012 is the first year the entire course has been paved. The uphill run was especially fast for Rhys Millen, who managed to wrangle his specially preparedmonster beat by dr dre
Hyundai Genesis coupe up the mountain in a blistering 9 minutes, 46.164 seconds—well below the magic 10-minute mark—setting a new world record for the Time Attack 2WD class.

Recall that just last year, the ten-minute barrierdre beat studios
was shattered for the first timedr dre beats studios
by Nobuhiro “Monster” Tajima in a beats by dr dre studios
more powerful Unlimited-class Suzuki SX4. If there were any doubts as to whether the Pikes Peak course would be faster now that it’s entirely paved, consider that Rhys’s record-setting run—in a less powerful car—beat Monster’s wicked time by a few seconds.

Monster iSports USA Review- Your New Workout Buddy?

Posted on September 1, 2012

Monster iSports USA Review- Your New Workout Buddy?
Although some of you may not believe it; I am somewhat of a gym rat. I frequent the gym a few times throughout the week and it’s always great to have products that enhance your workout. Basic gym essentials include towels, gloves and of course headphones. I’ve gone through many headphones in my gym career. Face it; they’re not all built to last through rigorous workouts.

When buying inexpensive headphones I’d risk good sound quality. But that was the best option since I didn’t expect them to last. Many headphones have tried to aid this problem; but I’ve yet to see any that can. There a few things that you need with your running/workout headphones. You want headphones that can drown out at least some of the noise; gets you in the zone. Durable design is a plus as they’re always being thrown into your gym bag. I don’t know how some athletes go to the gym or run with their Beats by Dre headphones. It’s obviously uncomfortable. It’s so evident that they’re not made to work out with. Constantly adjusting the headband and the nuisance of the sweat on the ear pads. Ew.

Design

The Monster iSports are looking to be the answer to the problem. The headphones are not only sweat-proof; they claim to be completely immersible. You can imagine how excited I was to try them when I found that out. They also claim to have a perfect fit; where they won’t fall out of your ears; no dr dre monster beat
matter how hard you’re working out. It’s so frustrating when you’re in the middle of a good run, or in the zone and the one of the earpieces falls out. You lose your focus.

The Monster iSports USA come in red, white and blue. They are mostly plastic. The ear buds and sports clip have a rubber coating. The 3.5 mm jack is L-shaped and gold-plated. The cable is less likely to tangle up since it’s flat. That will hopefully save me a few minutes. I always manage to tangle up my headphones. The important innovation in these headphones is the “OmniTip” swivel nozzle. Monster claims this is what will keep the headphones firmly placed in your ear. Along with the various size sports clips and ear tips, you can work out to max levels with optimum sound. The OmniTip swivel nozzle adjusts to three positions, suiting the placement of the headphones in your ear canal and ear tips. Who would have thought the placement of the tip can determine how well you hear the music (quality). Using the iSport fit guide you’re likely to find the near perfect fit.

Experience

After messing around with themonster beat by dre
provided ear clips and tips, I found my perfect fit. The sports clips didn’t bother my ears at all. I thought they would be piercingmonster beat by dr dre
and uncomfortable. Glad to be wrong about that. Off I went to the gym ready to put them through a tough workout. What I found pleasantly monster beat by dre
surprising about these headphones is the bass on them. beat by dre monster
I did no expect that much sound quality from headphones that can be dunked in water. The bass was not all distorted. It was great to drown out the gym’s crappy music. Definitely helped me focus on my workout. They only fell out of my ears once (the right ear); and that was at nearly the end of my workout. They put up quite the fight!

Monster’s Inspiration Headphones Hands-On

Posted on September 1, 2012

At one point when you thought of Monster you automatically thought of Beats By Dre. A brand you couldnt help but see and still see to this day. Whether your fan of them or not. Earlier this year Beats and Monster decided to go their separate ways and Monster has decided to focus back on headphones and recreate their audiophile headphones with their own branding.

At 1st glance you’d think they were just another version of Beats because of its bass blurring sounds, but these actually had a better sound to them from testing them out briefly. These seem to balance more with any type of music you listen to and give a better overall sounding experience. Some features like the Beats By Dre model is the active and passive versions of the headset.

A couple of interestingmonster beat dr dre
things I noticed about Inspirations is the options it allows you to have with the device. It comes with three different hd beats by dr dre
audio cables such as straight audio mini-to-mini, Universal ControlTalk™ and ControlTalk for Apple devices, making them ideal for use with virtually any devices. Also you’re able to change the headbands to your dr dre solo hd
leisure and the Inspirations will come out in three colors.
The changing of the headbandshd beats by dr dre
reminds of the Sol Republic brand which is head by Kevin Lee (the son of Monster creator).

Monster’s “Inspirations” should be hitting retailers shortly and hopefully we should have a full on review on here also.

Why I Would Never Wear Beats by Dre Headphones

Posted on September 1, 2012

So this morning I ran into my cousin on the train to work. When I pulled out my headphones, she asked if they were Beats by Dre. I balked at the thought. I personally would never be caught wearing a pair of those headphones. Not because of the quality (they happened to be a good pair of headphones), or because of the price (they are kind of expensive sheesh), but because of the principle.Â

I won’t rock a pair of those headphoneshd beats by dr dre
for two very good reasons (well at least to me). The first reason is the same reason you won’t catch me ever with an iPod Touch as my music player. The simple fact is I hate having anythingmonster beat dr dre
that everyone and their momma has. When I take my daily commute, I don’t want to look to my left and right and see everyone else using the same exact thing I am. I like to be unique or somewhat exclusive. The iPod had the “cool” factor when everyone didn’t have one and people would look at you and maybe ask what is that. Now everyone has one, so people just assume if you are listening to music that you must be using an iPod. So that means I can’t use it, I need to be different.

This is how I feel about the Beats by Dre headphones. When I travel I can spot like 20-30 people anywhere I go with them. When I travel I want people to see my headphones and wonder “what are those?”. I don’t want people to look and see the Beats logo and just know because the 6 people dr dre solo hd
next to me has the same logo over their ears as well.

Now the second reason you wouldn’t catch me rocking them is because the makers of these headphones is Monster. This is the same company who price gouges people on their HDMI cables. Charging people $100 for a cable they can get for $5 bucks because they don’t know any better is just wrong to me. Until this practice ends, I refuse to buy anything by Monster or related to them. It is the principle of it. I refuse to bring any profit to them, while they continue to lie to people making them believe they are getting more by having “gold plated” HDMI cables. So until this ends, no Beats by Dre headphones for me.

This is why I wouldn’t wear Beats by hd beats by dr dre
Dre headphones. Would you? What do you think?

Lady Gaga Hits Back at Madonna During Born This Way Ball

Posted on September 1, 2012

After the Material Girl’s monster beat by dr dre
many digs and jabs, Lady Gaga is finally fighting back against Madonna.

While on stage in Helsinki, Finland, Mother Monster flashed her bare behind in front of the cheering crowd at her Born Thismonster beat by dr dre
Way Ball concert on Aug. 28. While doing so, according to The Mirror, Gaga exclaimed, “I don’t give a f**k what people say. We don’t give a f**k. We know the truth.”

How was the singer making a dig at the Queen of Pop?

The move was apparentlydre beat studios
mocking Madonna, who gave her fans a cheeky glimpse at her rear in a lacy thong during a June performance. And, dre beat studios
perhaps not so coincidentally, Madge’s MDNA album features a track called “I Don’t Give A —.”

Gaga also took a stab at Madonna by covering her 1989 iconic hit, “Like a Prayer,” after the Material Girl has repeatedly belted outbeat by dre monster
Gaga’s “Born This Way” on her worldwide tour.

Lady Gaga – review

Lady Gaga – review

Posted on September 1, 2012

Lady Gaga – review
It’s show-and-tell time with the Finnish division of Gaga’s “Little Monsters”. Anyone who throws a particularly original gift on stage – last night at the same venue there was a giant used tampon – gets to meet her after the gig. She bends down to receive a Barbie doll, bites its head off and tears a pink plastic thigh from a hip socket: “Come on, you little slut!” Twenty fans are selected each evening from within Gaga’s latest innovation, a walled enclosure at the front of the stage known as the “monster pit”. It’s reserved for the kids who spent the night outside in sleeping bags; the ones who fail to get in hover beyond the fortifications like lepers outside a medieval castle. There’s one of those too – 50ft high with flashing neon lights, a sort of Disney-meets-Rick Wakeman affair. It takes seven hours to construct every day.

The Born This Way Ball, which started its European leg in mid-August after trawling Asia and Australia, is a kind of allegorical, mock-medieval mystery play that turns into a story about an alien (Gaga) persecuted by a giant hologram (also Gaga) whose name is Mother G.O.A.T. The plot is playfully designed to fold in on itself if you analyse it: straight after Bad Romance Gaga declares that when she’s extracted enough art, music and love from us all, she’ll come back and invade planet Earth “as… your pop singer!”

The most amazing thing this woman could do right now would be to play her piano in jeans and a T-shirt. Until she does, her baroque fantasies continue to roll out with wit and an incredible lightness of touch. Costume changes (there are 18, from a repeat of the “meat dress” to the alien carapace she wears for Government Hooker) are much quicker than on the Monster Ball tour. A giant vagina appears for Born This Way and is quickly dragged, deflating, back into the castle. Even the show’s sexy heavy-metal aesthetic is mainly a chance for her to turn herself into a motorbike, arms for forks, and glide around the stage face-first with a female dancer on her back.

You really appreciate how stupid this ongoing “Gaga versus Madonna debate” is too. She performs Americano, a steaming, Latino melody, wearing a machine-gun bra and being caressed by half a dozen near-naked dancers. Gaga is not “copying” Madonna – she has virtually eaten the woman and is throwing up a wonderful, projectile, multicoloured arc of the stuff night after night, for all to see.

Much of the two-hour show whirls by with the same pure physical energy Oklahoma! or South Pacific must have had 60 years ago. There are very few close-ups of her face for the first half – which will annoy millions of people – but you see something bigger in the sharp elbows and thrusting determination of the tiny figure on stage. Dissolving herself into the chorus of dancers for Telephone and Bad Kids, Gaga is upholding her promise of hard work in exchange for adoration. She’s always talked like some weird public servant – “I promise to sing and dance my ass off for you all night long” – and at times is frankly exhausted tonight, breathing raggedly into her mic.

Not that you worry for her, really. Can popstars even have breakdowns in a post-Gaga age? Britney was shocking to watch because her face said everything was fine when you knew that it wasn’t; Amy was shocking because her face showed that everything was wrong. But Gaga is a robust, cartoon embodiment of all human emotion, good and bad. She’s at her warmest tonight singing a new song about suicide; Princess Die runs through various fantasies – “I’ll do it in the swimming pool so everybody sees” – before concluding that no death’s as stylish monster beat by dre
as that of “another dead blonde” whose rich boyfriend proposed “with the paparazzi all swarming around”. You wonder how it’ll go down at Twickenham on Saturday. And whether a depressemonster beat by dr dre
d teen at her feet would dre beat studios
fully grasp the song’s intended irony.

A Little Monster driftsdr dre beats studios
across the car park – she’s about 18 and she’s lost her friends and her ride home. Did she enjoy the show? “The meat dress was difficult for me,” she says thoughtfully, “because I could actually smell it. Look, the point with Lady Gaga is she can be everything you love most in the world, and the next minute she can be everything you hate. At that moment beat by dre monster
I hated her.” She sounds almost irritated. Then again, she’s been awake since 6 o’clock on Monday morning, and it’s now 2am on Wednesday.

Posted on September 1, 2012

Lady Gaga – review
It’s show-and-tell time with the Finnish division of Gaga’s “Little Monsters”. Anyone who throws a particularly original gift on stage – last night at the same venue there was a giant used tampon – gets to meet her after the gig. She bends down to receive a Barbie doll, bites its head off and tears a pink plastic thigh from a hip socket: “Come on, you little slut!” Twenty fans are selected each evening from within Gaga’s latest innovation, a walled enclosure at the front of the stage known as the “monster pit”. It’s reserved for the kids who spent the night outside in sleeping bags; the ones who fail to get in hover beyond the fortifications like lepers outside a medieval castle. There’s one of those too – 50ft high with flashing neon lights, a sort of Disney-meets-Rick Wakeman affair. It takes seven hours to construct every day.

The Born This Way Ball, which started its European leg in mid-August after trawling Asia and Australia, is a kind of allegorical, mock-medieval mystery play that turns into a story about an alien (Gaga) persecuted by a giant hologram (also Gaga) whose name is Mother G.O.A.T. The plot is playfully designed to fold in on itself if you analyse it: straight after Bad Romance Gaga declares that when she’s extracted enough art, music and love from us all, she’ll come back and invade planet Earth “as… your pop singer!”

The most amazing thing this woman could do right now would be to play her piano in jeans and a T-shirt. Until she does, her baroque fantasies continue to roll out with wit and an incredible lightness of touch. Costume changes (there are 18, from a repeat of the “meat dress” to the alien carapace she wears for Government Hooker) are much quicker than on the Monster Ball tour. A giant vagina appears for Born This Way and is quickly dragged, deflating, back into the castle. Even the show’s sexy heavy-metal aesthetic is mainly a chance for her to turn herself into a motorbike, arms for forks, and glide around the stage face-first with a female dancer on her back.

You really appreciate how stupid this ongoing “Gaga versus Madonna debate” is too. She performs Americano, a steaming, Latino melody, wearing a machine-gun bra and being caressed by half a dozen near-naked dancers. Gaga is not “copying” Madonna – she has virtually eaten the woman and is throwing up a wonderful, projectile, multicoloured arc of the stuff night after night, for all to see.

Much of the two-hour show whirls by with the same pure physical energy Oklahoma! or South Pacific must have had 60 years ago. There are very few close-ups of her face for the first half – which will annoy millions of people – but you see something bigger in the sharp elbows and thrusting determination of the tiny figure on stage. Dissolving herself into the chorus of dancers for Telephone and Bad Kids, Gaga is upholding her promise of hard work in exchange for adoration. She’s always talked like some weird public servant – “I promise to sing and dance my ass off for you all night long” – and at times is frankly exhausted tonight, breathing raggedly into her mic.

Not that you worry for her, really. Can popstars even have breakdowns in a post-Gaga age? Britney was shocking to watch because her face said everything was fine when you knew that it wasn’t; Amy was shocking because her face showed that everything was wrong. But Gaga is a robust, cartoon embodiment of all human emotion, good and bad. She’s at her warmest tonight singing a new song about suicide; Princess Die runs through various fantasies – “I’ll do it in the swimming pool so everybody sees” – before concluding that no death’s as stylish monster beat by dre
as that of “another dead blonde” whose rich boyfriend proposed “with the paparazzi all swarming around”. You wonder how it’ll go down at Twickenham on Saturday. And whether a depressemonster beat by dr dre
d teen at her feet would dre beat studios
fully grasp the song’s intended irony.

A Little Monster driftsdr dre beats studios
across the car park – she’s about 18 and she’s lost her friends and her ride home. Did she enjoy the show? “The meat dress was difficult for me,” she says thoughtfully, “because I could actually smell it. Look, the point with Lady Gaga is she can be everything you love most in the world, and the next minute she can be everything you hate. At that moment beat by dre monster
I hated her.” She sounds almost irritated. Then again, she’s been awake since 6 o’clock on Monday morning, and it’s now 2am on Wednesday.

Lady Gaga rants on stage at Madonna

Posted on September 1, 2012

London: After Madonna mademonster beat by dr dre
repeated digs at Lady Gaga saying she stole her music, the ‘Born This Way’ singer reportedly dre beat studios
retaliated against the Queen of Pop at a recent concert. At the Finnish capital Helsinki’s Hartwall Areena, Gaga fireddr dre beats studios
a f-word rant at Madonna, who’s openly accused her rival of copying her song ‘Express Yourself’, reported Mirror online.
Gaga imitated the 53-year-old Material Girl’s earlier onstage antics by flashing her derriere in fishnet stockings and a thong and yelling: “I don’t give a (damn) what people say. We don’t give a (damn). We know beat by dre monster
the truth.” Madonna has beenbeats by dr dre studios
singing Gaga’s song ‘Born This Way’ during her MDNA tour in an effort to make some kind of ironic joke.
Gaga, 26, returned the favour by bringing on stage her own Black Jesus character, like that of Madonna’s video for 1989 hit ‘Like A Prayer’, and performed a cover of the track.

Lady Gaga ‘Vogue’ Cover Photo Retouched? Magazine Takes Flak After Allegations Of Photoshop Surface (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Posted on September 1, 2012

Lady Gaga ‘Vogue’ Covermonster beat by dre
Photo Retouched? Magazine Takes Flak After Allegations Of Photoshop Surface (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Lady Gaga appears on the cover monster beat by dr dre
of Vogue’s September issue — arguably the most important and noteworthy issue of the year — but it is not her flamboyant dress or crazy hair that has people talking.

The fashion magazine is taking heat over allegations that Gaga’s photo has been retouched.

The Gaga who appears in the sneak-peek video from the September photo shoot, released by Vogue earlier this month, looks mighty different than the Gaga who appears on Vogue’s cover.

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Screen grabs taken from the behind-the-scenes shoot might not have been the most flattering, but many could not deny the dissimilarities, and media outlets soon began pointing out the differences.

Buzzfeed was among the first tdre beat studios
o raise questions about the Vogue cover’s extreme Photoshopping.

“The ‘before’ picture is from a behind-the-scenes montage of the shoot released by Vogue and this cover’s photographers, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott,” BuzzFeed’s Amy Odell wrote. “Sometimes I wonder why people bother with the original photography anymore when the end result is basically just a photo illustration.”

On the cover, Gaga looks like a perfect statuette, clothed in a dazzling purple Marc Jacobs gown with her hair a wild mane of platinum. But in the behind-the-scenes shoot, something seemed off.

“The dress is bulky and unflattering, like she’s been draped in granny’s cranberry satin curtains from the 1982 parlor renovation,” Yahoo! Shine’s Sarah B. Weir wrote. “Her hair (a wig, in fact) is not so much a halo, but instead what would happen if an angel stuck her finger in a light socket. And her strong-featured face is not slim and placid but full and expressive.”

E! News’ Leslie Gornstein said she didn’t know what Vogue was thinking.

“That is some serious, serious retouching,” she writes. “From our vantage point, it looks like nearly every aspect of the shoot was heavily altered, from the Lady’s hair to the shade of her dress to her very shape.” Adding, “As any monster will tell you, Gaga is already pure pop perfection, so we’re not sure what Vogue was thinking.”

Gaga, for one, was thrilled with the results.

AHHH! The Vogue Express droppeddr dre beats studios
off the SEPTEMBER ISSUE yesterday morning. IM A COVER GIRL, and ITS FAB! Can’t wait to show u tonight!

— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) August 8, 2012
In the accompanying interview, Gaga describes to Vogue how, even though she is on the cover of the most famous fashion magazine in the world, she is still just a regular 26-year-old.

“I’m just having a really good timebeat by dre monster
performing, making music, flying around the world to see so-and-so. . . .,” she said, hinting at Taylor Kinney. “Look, I’m 26, and I want to make records and party and screw around and wear fake Chanel and do what every other 26-year-old girl wants to do. I don’t want to settle down and live in a beats by dr dre studios
house yet or anything. I just want to keep riding this rainbow.”