Doesn’t every break-up seem like a scene straight out of a movie? Even though you know it’s coming, you’re shocked and hurt when it actually happens. Then you tell your girlfriends. Then you sulk around the house eating ice cream and watching Titanic and The Notebook over and over again. Then, cue the depressing love songs.

Nope!

Not this time. We’re bending the break-up rules a bit and setting you up with a playlist of the 10 best empowering break-up songs!

Check out the whole break-up playlist on YouTube right here! Then let us know in the comments what we’re missing!

So tomorrow is not Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday. It’s actually Wednesday. Wednesday, April 20th, that is. Also known as every stoner/pizza delivery guy’s favorite day.

While we at CollegeCandy don’t condone illegal drug use, we know that many people (like Miley Cyrus and Michael Phelps) do, so in honor of their favorite day, we thought we’d put together a little 4/20 playlist. You know, the perfect soundtrack for a day of Hot Pockets, YouTube marathons and…uh…more Hot Pockets.

[Sidenote: who knew there were so many songs about weed and getting messed up? Mind. totally. blown.]

Anyways, whether you plan on celebrating tomorrow or not, this playlist is, like, totally sick, dude.

Click here to rock out with your bong out.

A few weeks back we had you enter to win a pair of shoes from Havaianas’ new shoe line by telling us your favorite summer jam. And as we looked through that long list of summer songs to find our winner, we could almost smell the SPF 30 and icy cold sangria. Yeah, we’re officially jonesing for some summer.

But until it’s actually warm enough to slather on the sunscreen and dip our toes in the (kiddie) pool, we”ll just have to find our summer lovin’ in another way. And we’ve got just the plan: CollegeCandy’s Sounds Like Summer playlist, curated by YOU!

So sit back, pour yourself a margarita, crank the heat, and rock out with your tan lines out.

The last month before finals. Woof.

For me, this time of year is all about flashcards and all-nighters celebrating with friends I know I won’t be seeing for months over summer vacation. It’s about taking it all in before it’s back to mom and dad’s chores and nagging. But, above all, it’s the time of year we need good music to dance and drink to, to try and help us forget about all the things (bluebook exams and papers) that lie ahead in the weeks to come.

These past couple months were big ones in the music world. Yet again, it was a popular time for huge artists to come out with new albums. Recently we’ve seen and heard new stuff from artists like Adele, Lupe Fiasco, Chris Brown, and Britney Spears. You can consider this playlist a sample of some of the hottest songs and remixes from their newly released albums you likely haven’t heard before. It’s a taste of a little of each with, as always, some older and some less mainstream type stuff thrown in there as well. Read More »

[There are over 100 million sites on the Internet. 100 million! You might think you know about all the important ones (CollegeCandy, Gmail, Google, Facebook…), but there are thousands of other sweet sites out there (like College Daybreak, RescueTime and Bake It In a Cake) and more showing up every day! We get it – it’s not easy or fun sifting through the crap and porn to find those gems, so we’re gonna bring the gems to you. Just sit back, kick up those feet and allow us to introduce you to the diamonds in the internet rough.]

When you work out, listening to music is an absolute necessity for keeping your concentration and motivating you. I usually make playlists on my iPod to listen to while I’m running or working out at the gym, but I find myself getting sick of hearing the same songs over and over again, and creating new playlists can get pretty time-consuming.

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Throwing the perfect house party can be a lot of work and a lot more stress than most people are willing to admit.  How much alcohol should you buy?  Who should you invite?  Is it worth it to make Jello Shots? Will the masking tape on the cupboards really keep people out?

While we can’t predict if your invitees will go gaga over a hand-carved ice luge, we can give you the answers to throwing an absolutely awesome house party.

1. Invest in a variety of alcohol…and lots of it

Nothing says lame party like the house that runs out of alcohol before midnight.  People at parties have this great habit of making a drink, holding onto it for five minutes, and then forgetting about their cup and pouring another drink.  Therefore, buy more.  It is absolutely okay to get cheap vodka and cheap rum if that means that more people can drink it.  You and your friends will have the leftover alcohol to use for the rest of the year.  If you need a guide, there are 17 shots in a fifth and 40 shots in handle.

2. Don’t forget the beer!

Even if you aren’t a beer drinker, a party without a keg means no flip cup, no beer pong, and a larger chance that someone will throw up in your house, since hard alcohol drinks will get people drunk faster than beer.  Set up the keg in the corner somewhere, and make sure you have lots of cups.

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Spring is in the air and though you may not exactly be able to tell from the weather quite yet, don’t you just feel it coming?

My mind is starting to wander off and not care about school as much…or at all. I seem to be dressing in more brightly colored clothes and all I’m waiting for is the time of year people start setting up beer pong tables on their front lawns. Oh, the glory of spring day drinking.

I think there are just one too many excuses to celebrate this month – from Spring Break to St. Patty’s Day and even Mardi Gras (even though I will not exactly be there to enjoy it…). Let me tell you, March is really gonna test my stamina. Read More »

[Sarabeth here, back with some more jams to add to your iTunes library! Every Wednesday, I'm bringing you music suggestions - could be something new, old, hugely popular or fairly unknown -  to awesome-ify your  collection.]

When the Grammy nominations were released for this year, I was thrilled to see that Mumford and Sons were up for best new artist and best rock song for “Little Lion Man.” (Fingers crossed they’ll beat the Biebs!) I heard that song last year on the radio and I instantly loved it so much I ran (yes, ran) home to download their album, Sigh No More. And let me tell you, and every track is better than the last. So more than any other, this is one album I just had to share with you all.

About the Band: Mumford and Sons are a folk rock band from London consisting of Marcus Mumford, Ben Lovett, “Country” Wilson Marshall, and Ted Dwane. Sigh No More is their debut album, and they have been featured on multiple shows like Grey’s Anatomy, the short-lived Lone Star, and the UK Skins. Read More »

So here we are; a brand new year. What’s more appropriate than to get it started on the right note with some fresh new music?

I’m really excited to share this month’s playlist with you all. It’s probably my favorite playlist yet. (Check out my other goodies here.) With some inspiration from the feeling of a bold, fresh new start in the air that accompanies every New Year and the help from a couple of awesome music blogs, I tried to throw in some more obscure songs this time to change things up a bit from 2010.

In this playlist you’ll hear artists you may have never heard before, unique remixes of songs you may have loved a few years ago (like Lil Wayne’s “Fireman”) and songs by hugely popular artists like Usher, Chris Brown, Keri Hilson and Rihanna you just might not know of yet. It’s one big mix! Read More »

2010 was a great year for rocking out with your c*ck out music, there’s no doubt about that. We got to experience Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream and listen to Eminem recover from a drug addiction. We were introduced to Bruno Mars, got drunk to with Ke$ha and even learned to enjoy some country music courtesy of Sugarland.

But I’m not gonna lie, radio stations/Pandora/every bar on earth have been so focused on (over)playing all the new stuff that we seemed to have forgotten about the old stuff. And that sh*t was GOOD.

It was the year that brought us Lady Gaga, Shots,  The Climb, and If You Seek Amy! And how can anyone forget about I Gotta Feeling? Did anything even exist before that song came out?

So as another year comes to a close, I thought it would be fun to look back at what we were hearing every 164 times a day back in 2009. (No seriously – I think I listened to ‘Party in the USA’ over 100 times a day at one point…).

Grab your hover craft; we’re going to party like it’s 2009.