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American Wins Hot-Dog Eating Contest NEW YORK — In a gut-busting showdown that combined drama, daring and indigestion, Joey Chestnut emerged Wednesday as the world's hot dog eating champion, knocking off six-time titlist Takeru Kobayashi in a rousing triumph. Chestnut, the great red, white and blue hope in the annual Fourth of July competition, broke his own world record by inhaling 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes _ a staggering one every 10.9 seconds before a screaming crowd in Coney Island. Read More

I'm hearing pretty good things about this movie. Here is the trailer if you want to check it out.

Billbard reports that "Pete Doherty pleaded guilty to a drug charge yesterday in London after arriving so late the judge had issued an arrest warrant. District Judge Davinder Lachhar warned Doherty that he had one last chance to avoid prison. He admitted possessing quantities of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine as well as to two driving offenses on May 5." Read More

Beatfactory has been busy rounding up the latest and greatest in hip-hop, and in honor of the 4th, Beatking offers up Hurricane Chris's A Bay Bay, Aly & AJs Potential Breakup Song, Ne-Yo's Do You, Rihanna's Shut Up And Drive, DJ UNKs Walk It Out and Timbaland's The Way I Are. You can watch them all right HERE. Happy 4th of July everyone.

In honor of the 40th Anniversary of The Summer of Love, Beatking salutes the year 1967, with some rare videos, including love performances of Buffalo Springfield, Scott McKenzie with the Mamas and Poppas, The Quicksilver Messenger Service, Canned Heat, It's A Beautiful Day and The Beatles. You can watch them all HERE. Happy July 4th everyone.

damn, i was just gonna post that...you beat the spammer to the punch!

Buffalo Springfield consisted of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Jim Messina, Bruce Palmer and Dewey Martin. The song was performed on The Smother's Brothers tv show...

Their guitarist, John Cipollina, is considered one of rock's greatest guitar players of all time - you can see a flash of his brilliance in Mona. Mona Dino's Song

The Twilight Sad - That Summer

The original refried boogie was over 40 minutes, but alas all I could find was a minute clip...it's worth every second. On the Road Again shows another side to the band, which was one of the best in its day.

Here's an interesting find. The Mamas and the Papas join Scott McKenzie in his performance of 'San Francisco', which was a huge hit at the height of hippie-dom.

You will recall that the following video caused a sensation during the early days of Youtube featuring the anonymous guitar player: Well, apparently 40 people took that video to heart and learned it note to note, and Impeto has strung them all together in this syncronized version:

Here's a link for the lucky UK Folks: TheWhiteHouse And here are some sample's of DJ Oliver Lang@MySpace

The FreeMasons - Nothing But A Heartache

Beatking would like to assist you in your holiday planning - check out our food and beverage plan - and here is some music to get you in the mood :) Have a safe one and drive safely. And to all our international friends, please take the day off and join us in the festivities.

Flash hailstorm in South London

I see what you mean - sort of a disco sound. I really liked the piano in the very beginning and think it would be nice if you extended that a bit; in fact I'd like to hear a whole track with just the piano and synth drums

The fine folks at AOL Music are streaming the new Smashing Pumpkin's album, Zeitgeist, and you can listen to it right HERE. The track list follows below:

Damn, I wanna go - here's another link to the club

Bloc Party - Two More Years