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August 15, 2011
Why Is Bill O'Reilly Not Calling Out Mike Huckabee's Gangster Glorification?
"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2011
100 & Single: Is It Okay For Katy Perry To Bum-Rush Her Way Into The History Books?
Chart fandom makes strange bedfellows. Six months ago, if you'd asked me what act I'd root for in a head-to-head chart battle between pop princess Katy Perry and electrodance goofballs LMFAO, I'd probably have picked Perry, whose song catalog includes at least one or two gems. Her current hit ... 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
The Video Music Awards' Nominations Play To The Internet (Again)
Last night MTV announced the nominees for this year's installment of their annual pseudo-event extravaganza, the 2011 Video Music Awards, and once again, the nominees for Video Of The Year have three pop picks ("Rolling In The Deep," "Firework," "Grenade"), one sop to the olds in the crowd wh ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2011
Madeon Gets Hands-On With 39 Pop Songs
Just when mashups seemed a horse corpse well flogged by the likes of Glee and Girl Talk, the prodigal son of Discovery-era Daft Punk and the very best of Dr. Luke's blockbuster pop comes along to breathe life into the genre. The 17-year-old wunderkind known as Madeon (he's based in Nantes, F ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2011
100 & Single: How Digital Changed The Charts, From Gwen To GoonRock
Spotify's top tracks (left) and albums on Friday, July 15.The headline-grabbing music story of the week isn't on the Billboard charts—it's the U.S. debut of Spotify. With the streaming-music service less than 48 hours old here, it's a bit too soon to analyze what songs are getting the m ... More >>
Blogs
July 14, 2011
It's A Great Year For Best Actress
The Emmy nominations came out today, but my mind is stuck on the Oscars and how there will be no shortage of leading actress contenders to pick from in 2011. Not only is Meryl Streep donning prosthetics and an accent again, this time as moxieish Margaret Thatcher, but we have the following o ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
What The Lineup For Clear Channel's iHeartRadio Music Festival Says About Radio Formats In 2011
Lady Gaga.Today the radio behemoth Clear Channel announced a festival celebrating the relaunch of its online service iHeartRadio, which currently allows listeners to tune into the chain's terrestrial-radio outlets from all over the country (as well as about 150 digital-only stations) and whic ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2011
Hollywood's 10 Highest Paid Actresses
According to forbes.com. (10) Meryl Streep $10 million per picture. What???? She should make that just for waking up. (9) Sandra Bullock $15 million. I bet she'd trade all that in for one normal man. (8) Cameron Diaz. $18 million. I guess there's something about Mary.
Blogs
July 1, 2011
100 & Single: Pitbull Turns The Hot 100 Back Into A Boys' Club (For Now)
If, like me, you've been putting together your annual summer playlist to pump at block parties and barbecues, you may have found yourself with a historically odd problem: a relative dearth of hits this year by dudes. After you've rounded up buzzy tracks by the Queens of Pop—from Adele t ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 29, 2011
The Color of Money
If, like me, you've been putting together your annual summer playlist to pump at block parties and barbecues, you may have found yourself with a historically odd problem: a relative dearth of hits this year by dudes. After you've rounded up buzzy tracks by the Queens of Pop—from Adele t ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 29, 2011
Kid Rock+Sheryl Crow
If, like me, you've been putting together your annual summer playlist to pump at block parties and barbecues, you may have found yourself with a historically odd problem: a relative dearth of hits this year by dudes. After you've rounded up buzzy tracks by the Queens of Pop—from Adele t ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
Who Will Be The Next Pop Star To Draw Inspiration From t.A.T.u.?
It probably shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise that the attention-seeking girl-kisser Katy Perry drew inspiration from the Russian pop duo t.A.T.u.; her recent creepy chart-topper "E.T." sounds as good as it does in large part because it's heavily inspired by the pair's still-dizzying 20 ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
Radio Hits One: The Elusive Superstar Duet (Or Three-Way)
In last week's breakdown of Lil Wayne's chart ubiquity, I noted that while Lady Gaga's Born This Way and its singles seemed to be everywhere, she hasn't staked out much additional Billboard territory with collaborations. Her only charting collab of late is "3-Way (The Golden Rule)," a little ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2011
What Cheryl Cole's X Factor Dismissal Means For British Pop In America
Deep at the heart of Cheryl Cole's abrupt dismissal from the American edition of X Factor earlier this week is a twisted take on My Fair Lady. Here we have a pop star who takes leave from her U.K. homeland--where she's a household name thanks to her tenure in the hit-making girlband Girls Al ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
100 & Single: Lady Gaga Gets Ready To Join The Million-Weeker Club
The phrase "the calm before the storm" appears in virtually every chart-related story this week. That's because the latest edition of the Billboard 200, which covers sales from the week ending May 22, is topped by Adele's 21. That album is No. 1 for the ninth and (presumably) final week befor ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2011
American Idol: It's Finally Over!
Michael Becker/FOXA deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2011
Will An Army Of Beyoncés Save "Run The World (Girls)" From Chart Oblivion?
Last night's Billboard Music Awards handed out popularity-contest trophies to the likes of Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry, all of whom were rewarded for the copious amounts of radio play and sales they racked up in recent months. But the evening's real winner was probably Beyoncé, who ... More >>
Blogs
May 18, 2011
The Most Cliched Current Expression! Make It Stop!
The only good thing about this particular cliche is that it's wiped away all the old ones, like: "My bad" "It's all good" "Narrative" "Journey" "Epic fail" "Love your hair, hope you win" And... "Winning!" But still, if I ever hear this one more time, I will rip my nipples off! ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
American Idol: James Durbin's Not-Very-Good Voice Finally Leaves Us
Michael Becker/FOX Tonight, American Idol lost James Durbin. I was sorry to see him go, but only because his departure meant that we'll never get to see the live-TV Tourettic freakout that I was really excited about back when he first came into our lives. As it turns out, most people with Tou ... More >>
Film
May 11, 2011
Summer Movie Guide 2011
Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Kate and Wills, Together at Last! The Royal Wedding Liveblog
Good morning! It's your royal wedding bloggers, Rosie Gray, Francesca Stabile, and Jen Doll, here in these wee hours munching pretend scones and mainlining coffee so we can tell you exactly what's happening on this glorious day of April 29, 2011, the much-anticipated day of nuptials between P ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Ozzy Osbourne Documentary Reissues, Repackages, But Doesn't Re-Evaluate The Prince Of Darkness
By Eric Hynes God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Directed by Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli Starring Ozzy Osburne, Sharon Osbourne, Sir Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee, Kelly Osbourne, Bill Ward The most overexposed of rock stars receives yet more attention thanks to this standard-issue biopic, which premi ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Annoyed Scientist Wants All You Narcissistic Pop Stars To Get Off His Lawn
Today's Times has a piece on a psychologist's theory about song lyrics of the current day being proof that we are all self-obsessed narcissists. The psychologist who came up with the theory, Nathan DeWall, was apparently inspired to embark on this quest by Weezer's "The Greatest Man Who Ever ... More >>
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April 23, 2011
Lindsay Lohan Sentenced to Jail; New York to Allow Conjugal Visits for Gay Inmates
Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 100 days in jail yesterday for violating her drunk driving probation. She was held in custody for five hours before being sprung out of jail on a $75,000 bail (no indication of any Dog the Bounty Hunter involvement). LiLo is free for now while her lawyer appeals the ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2011
Brad Pitt and Other Celebs Shilled for Food Before They Were Famous
George Clooney might be well-known as the face of Nespresso, and the image of Padma Lakshmi munching away at Burger King is forever ingrained in the minds of fourteen-year-old boys. Other celebrities have endorsed food products, too...only in roles before they hit stardom. The Daily Meal has a fun ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 20, 2011
LIVIN’ LA VIDA LOHAN
Lindsay’s mother better not sue!
Voice Choices
April 20, 2011
Snoop Dogg
Lindsay’s mother better not sue!
Blogs
April 7, 2011
American Idol Season 10: The Kids Honor People Who Are A Bazillion Years Old
Michael Becker/FOXC'mon, dude, you probably never even had detention. Gwen Stefani was on this week's American Idol because somebody paid somebody so she could hawk the clothing line that she apparently still has. But this wasn't Ska Week or New Wave Week or Neptunes Week, as awesome as eve ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2011
What Happens at Prince William's Bachelor Party Stays at Prince William's Bachelor Party
While the House of Windsor knows full well how to make a media splash (just look at the Royal Wedding website) they are being curiously reticent about the matter of Prince William's bachelor party. All we know is that the party involved 22 of William's "closest friends," that they went to a f ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
American Idol Season 10, Top 11: The Freaky Rictus Smile of Thia Megia
This person has no idea what Motown is. Photo courtesy Michael Becker/ FOX. Since last we spoke, Karen Rodriguez has gone back to MySpaceLand, Steven Tyler's wardrobe has grown impressively more absurd, and Jacob Lusk has bodied the fuck out of Heart's "Alone." I missed the last week of Ameri ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
Nate Dogg, R.I.P.: A Tribute And A Playlist
Hip-hop legend Nathaniel Hale, a/k/a Nate Dogg, has passed away at the age of 41. The cause of death is still being investigated; he suffered a pair of strokes in recent years, reportedly paralyzing the left side of his body and severely impairing his speaking ability. Hailing from Long Bea ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2011
Live: Tom Waits (And A Punk-Rock Neil Diamond) Dominate The Rock Hall Induction Ceremony
The 2011 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Monday, March 14 Better Than: Whatever was happening at Death by Audio tonight that Bruce Springsteen didn't show up to, for whatever reason. First off, let's tell you what you want to hear: Tom Waits stole the show ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
American Idol, Season 10, "Idols" Week: Ryan Adams Shout-Outs And Soaring Volcanoes
Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
American Idol, Season 10, Top 12 Women: The Glut Of Interchangeable Blonde Chicks
Julie Zorrilla has been downgraded from "molten hot" to "ridiculously fly." Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.Here's something Steven Tyler said on TV tonight: "After Monday and Tuesday, even the week says WTF!" This was after Pia Toscana's show-closing, triumphant, r&b-ified take on "I'll Stand by ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
Super Bowl Aftermath: What Was The Best Commercial?
There were so many celebs filling up the valued time between touchdowns at last night's Super Bowl that it almost made the long, laborious evening worthwhile for me. (I said almost.) Jazzing up all the high-powered commercials were starry names like Joan Rivers, Eminem, Adrien Brody, Timothy ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2011
Top 5 Worst Super Bowl Halftime Shows
Black Eyed Peas, about to be on this list.The Super Bowl is a wonderful day in the sports calendar, full of drama, excitement, and also some great commercials. However, the dark cloud that hangs over most Super Bowls is that of the halftime show. The history of these halftime shows is as dive ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2011
American Idol Season 10: Steven Tyler's Sexy-Grandpa Thing Has Got To Stop
Guess which one of these people needs to stop kicking game to 16-year-olds. Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.Woof. Oh boy. Here we go. Welcome to American Idol's post-overhaul end-times. This is what happens when the only interesting people on America's highest-rated TV show decide that they've ha ... More >>
Music
January 19, 2011
Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and the Great Gay-Pander-Off of 2010
Nicki, P!nk, Gaga, and those two other ones taste the rainbow
Columns
January 19, 2011
Oscars Dish: Who'll Get Royally Shafted?
In: Portman and Franco. Out: Moore and Wahlberg.
Blogs
January 13, 2011
Ryan Reynolds Is The Top Gay Male Fantasy Hookup!
If not Scarlett Johansson's anymore. This revelation has emerged from Out's sex survey, which found that Ryan's abs are what gays most want to caress during their fantasy leisure time. The runners-up are the following hotties:
Blogs
December 23, 2010
George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton: The Concert for Bangladesh
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 5, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 31 The Event wound up as a Love Feast By Don Heckman You could see it was going to be an Event almost immediately from the fact that the first 10 rows or so of Madison Square Garden had more than their usu ... More >>
Film
December 22, 2010
Year in Film: 10 to Watch Out for in 2011
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 5, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 31 The Event wound up as a Love Feast By Don Heckman You could see it was going to be an Event almost immediately from the fact that the first 10 rows or so of Madison Square Garden had more than their usu ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Death To Chris Brown
Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! America's preeminent lady-beater weeps. Photo via Word Up!& ... More >>
Blogs
December 17, 2010
The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"
F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Was Lindsay Lohan a Victim of the Great Gawker Hack/Twitter Spam Campaign of 2010?
Celebrities, getting hacked just like us! Unless Lindsay Lohan is tweeting out 50% discounts these days while in rehab at Betty Ford. But, it could be worse...like, acai berry worse. Lindsay -- use this widget to see if your Gawker password was hacked! The last legit-seeming Lindsay Lohan tw ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Live: Justin Bieber Provokes Squeals, Enrique Iglesias Asks a 16-Year-Old On A Date, And Katy Perry Rules All at Z100's Jingle Ball
Z100's Jingle Ball, featuring Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Paramore, Kim Kardashian, and More Madison Square Garden Friday, December 10 Better than: That GIF of sparks coming out of Katy Perry's chest from the "Firework" video. Yes, Katy Perry looked like a human nutcracker at this year's Z100 Jin ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2010
Remembering John Lennon, 30 Years On: The Voice's 1980 Eulogy
Today is the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's death. His senseless murder on December 8th, 1980 was hard to sort out at the time--"the anonymous eating the famous like a cannibal feasting on testicles," as Robert Christgau wrote in these pages--and not much easier to parse now. In memory of ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2010
Five Takeaways From The 2010 Grammy Nominations
Behold, the future of music.The Grammy Awards are a bit of a punchline in music nerd circles, a place where, say, MGMT battles Hall & Oates for a trophy that will inevitably be won, and then dropped on the ground, by the more telegenic and industry-saving Taylor Swift. The Grammy voters hate ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 1, 2010
'Z100's Jingle Ball 2010'
Behold, the future of music.The Grammy Awards are a bit of a punchline in music nerd circles, a place where, say, MGMT battles Hall & Oates for a trophy that will inevitably be won, and then dropped on the ground, by the more telegenic and industry-saving Taylor Swift. The Grammy voters hate ... More >>
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