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Bret Michaels

  • Film

    April 11, 2012

    Bobcat Goldthwait's Voice Has Changed

    Working outside the Hollywood bubble, the stand-up vet is making comedies in his own register. God Bless!

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Radio Hits One: Reality TV Propels Aging Stars Back Into The Top 40

    ​ When I heard that Jennifer Lopez was leveraging her new position as an American Idol judge to launch her new single, premiering the video for "On The Floor" on one episode and performing the song on another, I rolled my eyes at what I thought was her hubris. It'd been less than two years sin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    Live: Rihanna Can't Stop Touching Herself

    ​ Rihanna w/J. Cole Izod Center Thursday, July 21 Better than: Being outside in weather that makes you feel like you're perpetually trapped in the car with hot air blowing on you while you wait "just a few minutes while the engine gets going" for the AC to kick in. A friend of mine recently ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Live: Mötley Crüe And Poison Bring The Thrills To Nassau Coliseum

    ​ Mötley Crüe w/Poison, New York Dolls Nassau Coliseum Wednesday, July 20 Better than: Attending an 18-year high school reunion with a cash bar, albeit one mitigated by the DJ having a music library nearly identical to yours back in the day. An extremely partial list of pop-cultural event ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Kidz Bop Sings Monster Ballads: Because You're Never Too Young To Find Out Who Sebastian Bach Is

    And so will your kids. ​Out today: Kidz Bop Sings Monster Ballads, in which the child-themed cover-record series takes on the soppiest hits of the era when Headbangers' Ball and Dial MTV looked a lot alike. And hey, there are a lot of quality songs from that time period that kids should at lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Week In Review: All I Want For Christmas Is Train

    We suggest you play this song around your family tomorrow. Get it here.​That's it for us, internet, we're back on Monday. But before we leave, let's run it back. The worst song of 2010? Well, it wasn't the cast of Glee's "Loser." And it wasn't Bret Michaels's repulsive cover of "What I Got." W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2010

    The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #1: Train, "Hey, Soul Sister"

    F2K10 has been a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Relieve the journey here. The future of rock music, right here.​Here are some important things to know about Train's "Hey, Soul Sister."

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #2: Bret Michaels, "What I Got"

    F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Look how the cat drags on...

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #16: Lil Wayne, "Paradice"

    F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Lil Wayne's rock album was as "eagerly anticipated" as tax season, a divorce court hearing, or the icy embrace of death itself. Watching the gifted rhymer aimlessly dick around with a guitar was like watching Picass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Download: Spectre Folk, "Burning Bridge"

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Spectre Folk is the long-percolating solo guise of Magik Markers drummer Pete Nolan, a black sea of noise guitar, psych-jams, no-fi experiments, and other interplanetary gunk released on a never-end ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Fantasia Barrino Flirts With Death

    ​As the gossip rages on about which washed-up celebrity will be the next judge on American Idol, the real news about the show is that one-time winner Fantasia Barrino just recovered from a messy suicide attempt.

  • Voice Choices

    June 29, 2010

    Lynyrd Skynyrd+Bret Michaels

    ​As the gossip rages on about which washed-up celebrity will be the next judge on American Idol, the real news about the show is that one-time winner Fantasia Barrino just recovered from a messy suicide attempt.

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    American Idol Season 9, Finale Results

    Vince Bucci/FOX Alice Cooper and the Idols​ 8:01pm. It's a sad night, and not because we're saying goodbye to another season of Idol, not because we're saying goodbye to Simon Cowell, but because they managed to drag this out to a two-hour production of group sings and product placements. 8: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2010

    Lion Cub-Naming Contest Almost Certain to Result in Parental Naming Regret

    ​Remember that New York Times article on parental naming regrets that addressed totally neurotic stereotypical Times readers good parents who felt so much guilt over naming their little girl "Presley" when she just didn't look like a "Presley" that they endured lengthy legal proceedings to get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    The Most Star-Studded Tony Awards Evah!

    Red Hook gets tragic: Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber in "A View From the Bridge." Photo by Joan Marcus​That's what'll happen if this year's batch of giant movie-and-TV-stars-turned-theater-actors gets nominated! (Or even if they're just asked to present--or usher.) This will probably b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2010

    Gossip Folks: Who's Easier, Kim Kardashian or Ashley Dupre?

    ​Two of our nation's prized women -- professional celebrity Kim Kardashian and professional sex partner-cum-professional celebrity Ashley Dupre -- occupy a very similar position in our collective psyche. Not that they're merely sex objects, but they are mostly sex objects. So when a Playboy photog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2010

    Gossip Folks: Tony Soprano, Dad of the Year; Bret Michaels, Still Alive and More!

    Earlier this week, I was having a drink with a fellow content producer after work and the internet came up (imagine that). We got into talking about the daily arc of a "blog" and the different types of posts that make up the web we read: news aggregation and write-arounds, original reported pieces, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Take My Column...Please!

    ​CLICK HERE for the new column, which spans a cavalcade of celebrities, all outdoing themselves to get my attention so they can get your attention. There's:

  • Columns

    November 3, 2009

    Kerry Washington: No Slouch in Mamet's Race

    Plus dancing stars, live mullets, and midlife lesbians.

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    BMI Sues Ludlow Venue Pianos

    via LarimdaME's photostreamThe cramped, randomly-booked LES venue Pianos was apparently served with papers earlier this week indicating that BMI and a "collection of labels and artists" were suing the club for playing, without license, the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" and, of course, "Final Countdown," ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 17, 2009

    Talk Show Host Thrown Out of Gay Bar!

    Poisonous chatter, but the ending will leave you in Stritches.

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend

    Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Billy Elliot Takes 10 Tonys

    The Tony Awards producers did not take our suggestions, but the show still moved at a relatively brisk pace and had some nice moments, such as the acceptance of the Best Actor in a Musical Award by the three nice young men who alternate the lead in Billy Elliot; they were physically poised as you ... More >>

  • Film

    May 6, 2009

    Have to Deal With Rest of Powder Blue to See Jessica Biel's Tits

    The Tony Awards producers did not take our suggestions, but the show still moved at a relatively brisk pace and had some nice moments, such as the acceptance of the Best Actor in a Musical Award by the three nice young men who alternate the lead in Billy Elliot; they were physically poised as you ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2009

    Interview: Morning Joe's Willie Geist--"The Oracle of MSNBC"--Speaks Again

    "The NFL is this close to being the Taliban." A few weeks ago, Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist was kind enough to answer a few questions for us. Impressed by his sagacity--or at least his insights into Family Ties and José Canseco--we decided to ask him a few more. So below, more of Willie's vi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2008

    Indie Cribz Episode 2, Part 1: Parts & Labor's BJ Warshaw

    "The NFL is this close to being the Taliban." A few weeks ago, Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist was kind enough to answer a few questions for us. Impressed by his sagacity--or at least his insights into Family Ties and José Canseco--we decided to ask him a few more. So below, more of Willie's vi ... More >>

  • Music

    October 23, 2007

    ZnöWhite's ZnöWhite, Blind Illusion's The Sane Asylum

    Thrash-metal also-rans run free a couple decades later

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2007

    VH1's Rock Honors: A Running Diary

    Thrash-metal also-rans run free a couple decades later

  • News

    December 2, 2003

    Secrets and Thighs

    A history of celebrity sex tapes, real and fake, from Joan Crawford to Paris Hilton

  • NYC Life

    May 29, 2001

    Rock: One-Offs

    Disappearing Acts

  • Music

    July 25, 2000

    Knight in White Spaghetti

    Disappearing Acts

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