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Song Du Jour #11, Beck West

Are you team Beck or team Kanye? If it ever really mattered at all, it doesn't now: Arcade Fire's Win Butler, a.k.a. Dj Windows 98 on Soundcloud, uploaded a mashup of the former's "Loser" and the latter's "Jesus Walks". The result is rather interesting, even though he was far from being the first to come up with the idea.

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This Happened — September 7: Desmond Tutu Named Archbishop

On this day in 1986, Desmond Tutu was named Archbishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa.

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