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Shopping Playlist: Tunes For Black Friday
If you're choosing to enter the retail craziness that is Black Friday, let me equip you with some tunes to make your shopping excursion a little less painful.
I've got some pump-up songs to get you ready to attack the mall (and keep up your stamina when parking and long lines are getting the better of you), plus an array of tracks that remind you, yes, "women be shoppin'." To get your Black Friday groove on, just read more
Fitness Magazine's Top 100 Workout Songs
Tired of listening to the same old Britney Spears and Madonna songs while you work out? Fitness magazine interviewed top personal trainers to find out what songs pump them up while working out, and they came up with a list of the top 100 workout songs. To hear a little taste, read more
Spooky Tunes: Halloween Party Playlist
Need to get into the Halloween spirit? Wake up your ears with some creepy-themed tunes — from the classic (Michael Jackson's "Thriller") to the more current (Dead Man's Bones "My Body's a Zombie For You").
Whether you're throwing a costume party (get some inspiration from Yum) or want something to listen to while you wait for trick or treaters, give my macabre mixtape a listen!
Weekend Tunes: A Treasure Island Music Festival Playlist
For the third year in a row, I'm off to the Treasure Island Music Festival! Now that I'm a seasoned veteran, I can't wait to settle in for two days and listen to some tunes. The other day I highlighted Thao With the Get Down Stay Down, but there lots of other acts I'm psyched about.
Friday Tunes: Buzz's Best of Jay-Z Playlist
It's Hova's homecoming: his Blueprint 3 is available everywhere today (it was hustled out Tuesday, but lagged on some outlets), and tonight you can watch Jay-Z's benefit concert at Madison Square Garden, streamed on Fuse at 9 p.m. EDT live from NYC.
It's also the eighth anniversary of the first Blueprint album, and dude is headlining the VMAs!
Favorite Workout Songs
Music motivates movement, and if you need some ideas for what tunes to turn up for your next workout, here are some suggestions from fellow FitSugar readers.
To hear the playlist, click play after you read more
P.L.O.W. — Better Version of Me
Life is complicated and bad habits, once tamed, can reappear under moments of stress. None of us are perfect. We all fall off the health wagon occasionally, but we must dust ourselves off and hop back on.
Friday Tunes: An Outside Lands Playlist
Come fog or sunshine (probably fog), the Outside Lands Festival is invading San Francisco's Golden Gate Park this weekend, and I'll be hitting up the three-day fest.
I barely made it out alive last year, but I'm hoping that since it's the festival's second year, everything will come together a little more harmoniously (pun intended). With a lineup running the gamut from Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and Jason Mraz (whom you decidedly love) to M.I.A.
In Memoriam: "Chapel of Love" Songwriter Ellie Greenwich
Songwriter/singer/producer Ellie Greenwich's songs (many of which were also produced by Phil Spector) are iconic in and of themselves (I can't even recall the first time I heard "Do Wah Diddy" or "Chapel of Love" — they've just always been there), but because they've been placed in so many movies and TV shows, I've come to fondly associate them with some of my favorite scenes.
I can't hear "Be My Baby" without conjuring up the image of that slow-motion black-and-white introduction to Dirty Dancing. Just hearing that percussive intro makes me smile, as I remember one of my most beloved movies.
Fit Tip: Use Music to Motivate You Pre-Workout
Many of you said that you listen to music to while working out. It's a great way to keep your energy levels high and can help you push harder than you would without tunes. It's not the working out that's tough for most of us, though; it's getting the motivation to work out in the first place.
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