Mac Miller Shows Growth In Sold-Out New York Concert

'Now we got all the extra stuff. It's a different kind of show,' MC says of Macadelic tour on 'RapFix Live.'
By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway


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If Mac Miller's Macadelic mixtape is all about growth, then his new and improved stage show is the visual representation of that.

It's hard to imagine that Mac's live show could have gotten that much better in the three short months between his Blue Slide Park run and his current Macadelic tour, but the 20-year-old Pittsburgh MC continues to master the stage, as he proved Wednesday night during his sold-out gig at New York City's Roseland Ballroom.

Visually, Mac's new trippy set design is a step up from the playground theme he used when he was on the road promoting BSP. "It's cool, man, it's a different type of thing. We were used to doing like the DJ, me and the hypeman and then that's it and the homeys," Mac said when he appeared on "RapFix Live" only hours before he took the stage. "Now we got all the extra stuff. We got like the cool visuals. It's a different kind of show."

For starters, there was a five-panel video screen that hovered above the stage displaying customized montages for each of the songs that Mac performed. There were colorful LCD lights, raised platforms and a gang of illuminated faux mushrooms on the stage. Miller didn't reveal all of the props all at once; instead, he pulled back the layers to his set design slowly as the hour-long show progressed.

It was just after 9:30 p.m. when DJ Clockwork jumped on the turntables playing "English Lane," the opening track to Mac's #1 debut album. Immediately afterward, the star rapper and his hypeman TreeJay stormed out onstage rapping along to "Blue Slide Park." Miller started out strong, throwing out his club-hopping anthem "Party on Fifth Ave." rather early before stopping to address the spirited crowd.

"New York City, what the f--- is good?" he shouted as the young concertgoers screamed ferociously for their rap hero. "My name is Mac Miller and I appreciate y'all coming out."

It was September 2010 when a then wet-behind-the-ears Mac performed his first show in NYC at the intimate SOB's, but on Wednesday night he returned a much different MC. Still, the Most Dope General didn't forget what got him here, so he ran through several songs from his 2010 K.I.D.S. mixtape, including "Don't Mind if I Do," "The Spins" and "Kool-Aid & Frozen Pizza." After he bounced around to the rambunctious "Knock Knock," the stage lights went low and the psychedelic mushroom props started to glow as the Mac emerged from the dark, spitting "Loud."

Since 2011 the energetic performer has rocked more than 200 shows, and while he made sure to roll out all of his fan favorites, he was clearly excited to put his new material on display. He slowed things down for the soul-searching "Thoughts From a Balcony," "Angels" and "F--- 'Em All" but picked things right up for his set-closing "Donald Trump." While rapping the words to his gold-selling single, Miller played to the crowd, encouraging a full-throated sing-along.

On the song's hook, Mac promises to "take over the world," yeah, one concert venue at a time.

What is your favorite Mac Miller live performance? Tell us in the comments!

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Google bringing extra bytes to Hawkeye State with $300 million data center

Google bringing extra bytes to Buckeye State with $300 million data center

You're a multinational search company that has just rolled out a new cloud storage offering. You've also just given your millions and millions of email users an extra 2.5GB of storage, free of charge. What do you do next? Build another data center. The big G has announced its intentions to raise a $300 million information barn in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Construction on a 1,000 acre plot will begin immediately and, for its efforts, the Search Sultan will be gifted with a handful of tax incentives totaling over $9 million. Google is no stranger to the mean streets (we're not sure if they're actually mean) of Council Bluffs, though, as the company already operates a $600 million data facility within that city's limits. For those of you keeping track at home, that's a $900 million stimulus for the Hawkeye State.

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Johny Hendricks pals around with NASCAR bad boy Tony Stewart (PHOTO)

Two weeks before making his Fox debut against Josh Koscheck, Johny Hendricks stopped by the track to check in with NASCAR's finest. Here he is showing a beard that awesome cannot be contained in a helmet while talking to Tony Stewart. Do you think Stewart, a well-known problem child on the racing circuit, gave Hendricks some trash-talking tips? Tell us what he said in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

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Chinese Web Search Giant Baidu Sees $677 Million In Q1 Revenue, Up 75% Year-Over-Year

baiduBaidu, China's leading web search company today issued its quarterly earnings report for the first three months of 2012. The company made $677 million in top-line revenue, up 75 percent from the revenue it posted in the first quarter of 2011. Baidu performed just as strongly at the bottom line as well, posting a net income of $299 million, up 75.9 percent year-over-year. In case you need some context for that: Google reported revenues of $10.65 billion and net income of $2.89 billion for the first quarter of 2012; Facebook's Q1 revenue was a bit over $1 billion.

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Motorola Droid RAZR/MAXX update rolling out now

Motorola Droid RAZR/MAXX

For you night owls with the Motorola Droid RAZR and RAZR MAXX, know this: A decent little update, which we first told you about a few days ago, is now available. No, it's not Ice Cream Sandwich (not yet, anyway). But here's what you can expect in software version 6.12.181:

Device Features:

  • Improved device stability.
  • Optimized device performance to extend battery life.
  • Added easy access to preloaded VZW bookmarks through quick key access.
  • Corrected loud call end and connect tones over Bluetooth.®
  • Enhanced device security preventing unauthorized access of telephony database by third parties.
  • Device is now updated with IPv6. - As new Internet addresses are introduced, you will be able to continue to browse and view web pages with this latest Internet enhancement.

Network Connectivity:

  • 4G coverage indicator accurately displays data connectivity.
  • Improved Wi-Fi hotspot connectivity when utilizing WPS security.

Email, Messaging & Data:

  • Improved text message delivery.

Applications & Widgets:

  • Improved Visual Voice Mail performance with data disabled and visual voicemail notification delivery.
  • Enhanced security in Verizon Apps.

MotoCast Updates:

  • Included a new MotoCast widget to enable easier access and discoverability of MotoCast services.
  • Modified the storage settings screen to make it easier to understand total storage versus available storage.
  • Implemented a number of MotoCast performance improvements.

That's quite the changelog, actually. To download the update, you can either wait for it to push, or go to Menu>Settings>About Phone>System updates to get your download on. And if you need a little extra help, hit the forums links below.

Source: Verizon; More: Droid RAZR forums; RAZR MAXX forums
Thanks. @Fusedgutz24, for the tip!

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The Eternal, Internal Mommy Wars - NYTimes.com

Motherlode Book Club
THE CONFLICT

Elisabeth Badinter?s ?The Conflict? argues that the modern natural-parenting movement undermines women.

Wherein, in motherhood, lies ?the conflict???

On and off this week, amid the usual flow of posts on the intersection of family and culture, policy and news, the Motherlode blog is going to focus on exactly that: our own ?conflicts,? as mothers, and the book of the same name: ?The Conflict? by the French philosopher and feminist Elisabeth Badinter.

I?ve asked women at different stages of their family and career lives to respond to ?The Conflict? by describing how reading it has affected their views or plans for work and motherhood ? women approaching motherhood, women for whom work is not a choice, women who?ve chosen to stay home, women who are returning to work and women watching the stability of their marriages falter. I proposed we start from here: no judgment. There?s value in staying home, and there?s value in working outside the home, but how do we, as individual women, decide for ourselves, and how does society push us in different directions?

Between the book?s covers, ?The Conflict? pits what Ms. Badinter sees as the insidious forces of natural mothering ? the breast-feeding, the cloth diapering, the constant attentive enrichment of the child ? against feminist good sense, which leaves room for mothers to work outside the home and allows fathers in as full and equal partners in the tasks of parenthood.

But after just over 10 years of motherhood, I find that to be a simplistic interpretation of a ?conflict? I?ve come to realize I shouldn?t even expect to resolve: the one between myself as a mother, and my previous incarnations; and between my expectations of myself as an adult and as a mother, and the reality that I?ve cobbled together, which falls far short of my own ideals.

We don?t, as a society, make it easy for parents of either sex to balance the financial demands of raising children with the physical and emotional demands of being there for them as they grow up. For women on one side of the income divide, the societal pressure is to get to work as soon as possible, and the only way to ?balance? a job and parenting in many fields is to quit when family needs become too intense and find a new job when the pressures have eased.

The ?conflict? we?re talking about here comes mostly on the other side, in families where one partner?s job (or some other income) is enough to provide the basics of food and shelter, and so what comes next is a matter of priorities. This is where choice comes in, and we can be pretty defensive of our choices ? which means that mothers at different stages of work and parenting life appear to judge one another, and harshly.

We may inflict those judgments on one another, but we?re really judging ourselves. Every accusation is a self-defense, and every defense a self-justification ? because no matter how we make our choices (or have life circumstances choose on our behalf) there is no perfect way to balance all of what we want when we want it. That is the biggest ?conflict? of them all. To hang every choice of home over work on the pressure to mother in a certain way seems to me to be missing the pressures that would remain even in the absence of the ?natural? parenting movement.

Return formula to prominence, subsidize and perfect child care, make the disposable diaper eco-friendly and even create one that changes itself, and we will still struggle with how often it?s appropriate to take Friday afternoon off to watch a soccer game. Not because we believe soccer will get our children into top colleges, or because all the other parents will be there, or because we have an inflated idea of how important our presence is to our child, but because we (even we feminists) like to be around our kids (and feel guilty when we?re not).

The desire to be as present as possible in a child?s daily life is ?natural? for parents of both sexes. It?s how we interpret and act on that desire, not the desire itself, that creates the ?conflict,? along with the circumstances of life ? illness, kindergarten, divorce, autism, middle school ? that change the pressures. Those issues often still affect women disproportionately, but there?s a whole lot more than breast-feeding at the root of that, and the real solutions are best found in societal and corporate structures that make it easier for men and women both to have more flexibility within work, and more off- and on-ramps in their careers. As for the impact of the minutiae of ?natural? parenting? There?s a whole lot of a family?s life to be lived after the last diaper ? cloth or not? has been changed.

Is your ?conflict? as much internal as external? Or is Ms. Badinter right that, as Molly Guiness put it in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, ?modern mothers have a serious problem on their hands, and it?s other mothers?? Speaking from a moment when my own personal and work lives have struck a good ? if probably temporary ? balance, and yet I still find myself working at midnight on Sunday night, and I?m often still conflicted, but I admit that my biggest problem is usually myself. You?


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