The rise of Baauer's "Harlem Shake" began innocently (albeit annoyingly) enough, but the consequences of a gazillion plebes going totally ham to that trap-rave track…
First! Well, this is a far better week for chart-watchers than the dreary downward spiral that preceded it. After nearly three months of elbow grease and…
All right, Baauer's "Harlem Shake" is getting out of hand now. After gentrifying trap-rave, topping the Billboard's Hot 100 chart, getting a 17-year-old arrested, fueling…
The "Harlem Shake" viral video phenomenon almost had its first martyr in a 17-year-old high school senior from Queens. Forest Hills student Arnis Mehmetaj was arrested…
Buoyed by a recent dance-video craze built around a 35-second snippet of the song, Baauer's "Harlem Shake" entered Billboard's Hot 100 chart in the No.
First! SPIN hopes you're happy, America. You wanted "prissy shambling" and "polite hoedowns" all wrapped up in a "bland but biblically titled" package and boy, did…
Baauer's "Harlem Shake," that squeaky, wubby trap-dance instrumental that has, over the past few weeks, gone full-on viral thanks to endless videos of people dancing…
Azealia Banks might've just reached for her Poland Spring bottle. Like supposed Republican savior Marco Rubio, who blew his State of the Union response less…