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It seems like the White Rabbits are everywhere these days. Thanks to the noteworthy Milk Famous, which dropped last month, the band is having their moment in the zeitgeist with their brand of eclectic futurist pop. In the video for "Temporary," they bounce around a kaleidoscopic warehouse, zipping between melodies and camera angles as singer Stephen Patterson's desperate voice anchors a wiry guitar line that trembles back and forth with a sense of unease. Lots of video about to come your way.

Teenage dread pays rich dividends, but it takes a certain kind of chutzpah to publicly whine about your life under the auspices of serious melodrama. Exploring angst by way of atonality, Cloud Nothings have emerged from the critical scrum as one of this year's indie rock bands of choice with their new album, Attack on Nothing. In this video clip for "Stay Useless," one of Attack's brattier tracks, the band depicts an animated school trip through the depths of weird. Check it out after the click, via MTV.

Here's one for heavy concepts: In Rian Johnson's Looper, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a type of assassin -- naturally called a looper -- whose job it is to kill people sent to him from the future. As in, criminal mobs from 2072 time travel the person they want gone back to 2042, where JGL pumps them full of lead. Everything's going fine until he's tasked with a killing out of the ordinary: His future self, played by a grizzly Bruce Willis. In the moment where he hesitates for the kill, Willis escapes and hijinks ensue, because nothing's worse in a sci-fi film than someone from the future meddling in the past. 

If the confusing racial undertones of those pulled Burger King commercials featuring Mary J. Blige threw you off, you're not alone. Burger King was swift to go back to the drawing board in an attempt to save face, removing the commercial from the internet (though some copies survived, as you can see). Fortunately, Chicago's Second City unearthed a handful of other concepts that Burger King didn't use, which they've fortunately reproduced in a very amusing sketch. Watch it after the click, before it gets all types of viral on your Twitter and Facebooks.

There are things you expect when you see Megadeth and Motorhead in concert. Being covered in the sweat of strangers, maybe; tinnitus, definitely. But a baby? That's no good for anyone involved. When the bands rolled through Chicago's Aragon Ballroom back in February, a woman supposedly got pregnant during a chance encounter with a strange in the restroom. Now, she's posted an ad on Craigslist asking for the new daddy to come forward. Considering the Aragon's palatial bathrooms, it's a more than believable story, and a hell of a meet-cute if there ever was one. Check out the full ad after the click, as reproduced by Fuse.

From their melodies to their flannel, Yuck are one big '90s throwback. It's a bit easy to say that, but songs like "Chew" don't do anything to dispute the feeling that we've been here before, and will continue to be here for a while. On their new single, the band ditches the airy riffage of their first album for stone heavy squalor fresh out of the Dinosaur Jr. textbook, right down to the rumbling guitar solo that closes out the track (serious shades of "Kracked," y'all). J. Mascis would be proud. Listen to it after the click, via Pitchfork.

There is a chain in the official poster for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, his first new movie since 2009's Inglourious Basterds. There may also be the guy named Django, the ex-slave on a revenge mission against his former master, though it isn't quite clear from the silhouettes which one he'd be. The man on the right with the period appropriate hat? The dual pistol-wielding guy on the left? Many questions to be answered! 

Scarlett Johansson is still making music, it seems, this time with trip hoppers Massive Attack. For the soundtrack to Everardo Valerio Gout's Days of Grace, ScarJo teamed up with MassAtt's Robert "3D" Del Naja to cover "Summertime," that old George Gershwin standard. Very out of left field! Produced by 3D and DFA's Tim Goldsworthy, it's all kinds of hazy, ethereal, atmospheric, woozy, trippy, and all of those adjectives you know and love. Listen to it after the click, via Pitchfork.

Anderson Cooper plays many roles: The authority figure calmly delivering the daily news, the daytime talk show host instructing us on how to properly coordinate an Easter meal, and, as we've seen before, a complete giggle-saurus who can't stop himself from breaking kayfabe in the studio. On yesterday's CNN telecast, Cooper lost control of his laugh reflex yet again, this time while discussing a Polish-American tradition called "Dyngus Day" which involves something called a "pussy-willow branch." As you'll see when you skip to the 1:25 mark of the clip (hat tip to Vulture), he simply can't deal with how ridiculous it sounds.

Here's a great way to get the youngs to pay attention: Compare some boring old thing to the new hotness. Michael Boyd, the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, might have been going out on a limb when he said Jay-Z and Will.i.am are modern day Shakespeares, but it makes for a hell of a think piece. "The closest to Shakespeare in contemporary times are rappers," Boyd told the Daily Mirror. "[They use] that extraordinary quick fire, highly-organised, very witty metrical rhyming language which is brilliant in terms of consciously addressing the whole of society."