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These Album Covers > Death Grips' Dick Pic

Jesus Frankenchrist, here we go again! Sacramento cacopho-rap outfit Death Grips--whose music roughly approximates the sensation of ramming your head through a plaster wall while on bath salts and blue meth, then flailing around for 45 minutes (but with bassbeats!)--put a big hairy boner on the cove ... More >>

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The Dual Citizenship of Jon Wurster

From Superchunk to WFMU, his forays into both music and comedy inspire us all

This Week in the Voice: Geisha for a Month

​This week in the Voice, Victoria Bekiempis writes of her month-long experience as a geisha in Midtown. Infiltrating this world of sake and karaoke, she discovers more about the men who visit the club than the persona she becomes. "It takes about three weeks for the customers to warm up to you ... More >>

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Bonnaroo 2011 Announces Lineup, Starring Eminem, Arcade Fire, Lil Wayne, The Black Keys, And Buffalo Springfield

Star-studded lineup videos: now a thing. Yes, the Tennessee mega-festival, now in its tenth (!) year, has announced its initial lineup, the usual melange of rappers, rockers, and jam-band monoliths, this year headlined by Eminem and Arcade Fire, only one of whom won the Album of the Year Grammy 48 ... More >>

What Will Keith Olbermann Tweet at 8 P.M.?

​Keith Olbermann, recently departed host of MSNBC's Countdown, is coming back to the 8 p.m. slot just three days after he signed off. Despite talk in this morning's New York Times of a gag order, in which Olbermann can not speak about his departure, he has promised a dispatch tonight on his ne ... More >>

Todd Barry to Host First Annual Village Voice Web Awards

via @ToddBarry​We're super-psyched to announce that funnyman Todd Barry, who's appeared on Bored to Death, Flight of the Conchords, Letterman, Conan, Jimmy Kimmel, and a multitude of other impressive small and large screen vehicles (he was Wayne in The Wrestler!) is taking time from his busy s ... More >>

Conan's Show Is Like All The Others

​As the linked article states, it took months for Conan O'Brien to launch his new talk show on TBS, and then it turned out to be just like everyone else's, format-wise. Monologue, house band, actors, skits, musical guest. That's been the talk show template since the beginning of time, and Co ... More >>

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Conan O'Brien is Now on Tumblr

​Looks like the rumored Conan O'Brien Tumblr is now live. The "old media" has now "done been" officially "shown up." He writes of his new show: "As you can see, we still have a bit of work to do...." While we're at it, we might as well air out a Tumblr rumor we've heard from, like, four differ ... More >>

Fringe (Festival) Benefits

A play or two from outer space, but some hit closer to home

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A Very Long Conversation with Comedian Reggie Watts About Williamsburg, Touring with Conan, and Brian Eno Birthday Parties That Is Totally Worth the Read

Any attempt to describe what Reggie Watts does onstage will inevitably fail to convey the dizzying heights of absurdity the man regularly achieves, but here it goes. First, the Seattle-via-Montana transplant constructs backing tracks via carefully controlled beat-boxing and judicious use of loopin ... More >>

Week in Review: He Did? I Love It!

Happy birthday, clowns. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week James Murphy finally squashed his beef with our own Michael Musto, we watched as another journalist-on-artist feud--M.I.A. vs. Lynn Hirschberg, who else?--heated up, adding an album cover, a response to a response to a response to a r ... More >>

Live: Conan O'Brien (And Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, John Krasinski, Paul Rudd, Bill Hader, And Vampire Weekend) Salutes Chuck Norris At Radio City Music Hall

​"I look like the Brawny Paper Towel Guy before his bone-marrow transplant." Pics by Santiago Felipe.​Conan O'Brien And Friends Radio City Music Hall Tuesday, June 1 "The Masturbating Bear was onstage!" marvels a satisfied customer, strolling down Sixth Avenue immediately after Conan O' ... More >>

Jay Electronica's Show In Red Hook Last Night Featured A Bonkers Pharoahe Monch Freestyle And Some Rather Unkind Words For The Police

So Jay Electronica dropped by Red Hook Park last night for a show that seemed just a bit more... intense than Conan O'Brien's fete uptown. Per friend-of-SOTC Carter Maness:

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Off from NBC, but always in our hearts

Why Tonight's SNL With Betty White and Jay-Z Will Be a Success No Matter What

​If you read the internet at all this week, you might be inclined to think there's a cross-generational, interracial sex tape about. As it turns out, all of the buzz is just based on an episode of Saturday Night Live, airing tonight, with host Betty White and musical guest Jay-Z. The show will ... More >>

Annoying Orange Seeks to Irritate a Wider Audience via Television

Dane Boedigheimer, creator of the Annoying Orange online video series, already makes ad revenue probably in the thousands of dollars a month and, according to the Wall Street Journal, has an agent seeking a deal for a TV show starring his irritating fruit character. Using the superimposed human mo ... More >>

Conan O'Brien Is All Good. But Carrot Top Kinda Needs You

Yes, we can!​By now we're sure you've heard that redhead of the moment and man of the people Conan O'Brien has found himself a new employer, and a new eight-figure salary, compliments of TBS. Come November, he'll be back on the small screen. Which just goes to show that you can surmount just ... More >>

Obligatory Weekend Awkward Collabo Video Roundup: Conan O'Brien and Friends Say Farewell to the Tonight Show with "Freebird"; Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Bono Do Damage During the 'Hope For Haiti' Telethon

It took braver men than us to sit through the entirety of the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon--our taste for artist self-martyrdom/self-aggrandizement is minimal, and since we have no desire to talk to George Clooney or Stevie Wonder personally on the telephone by way of giving money to a desperatel ... More >>

Did Conan Do The Right Thing?

via Tonight Show​By now the smoke has cleared on Conan O'Brien's decision to turn down that later slot, and the screams of despair from his staff, who'd transplanted their entire lives in hopes of a long-term career, have been downscaled to muffled sobs and knotted foreheads. So did he do the ... More >>

Jay Leno Takes Over Tonight Show: TMZ

TMZ stakes it, and the world reverberates: Jay Leno is moving to 11:35 on weeknights on NBC. That makes Leno, by the ancient rules of television, the host of the Tonight Show, which has heretofore been Conan O'Brien's job. As O'Brien has refused to change his time slot, barring a coup of angry Cocoh ... More >>

Ted Leo Is On Team Conan

​After the letter from the man himself, and his increasingly unhinged but awesomely vindictive late night monologues, let us recommend this Conan O'Brien co-sign from Ted Leo, who has reason to be grateful to the guy--O'Brien's old show hosted Leo's Pharmacists not once but twice, to date the ... More >>

Conan O'Brien Won't Move; Change of Career Imminent?

In an alternately funny and maudlin statement, Conan O'Brien announces he will not accept the pushed-back time slot into which NBC wants to shove him to accommodate the new 11 p.m. Jay Leno show. "I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next," says O'Brien, but desp ... More >>

Peyser Calls for Letterman's Head on Grounds of Something or Other

While other Post writers ply a more wonkish trade -- former Clinton-care killer Betsy McCaughey, for example, offers a detailed analysis of Obama's "'Kill Granny' Bill" in today's issue -- Andrea Peyser mans the soapbox and calls for David Letterman to be fired for having affairs with women on his ... More >>

Ramsay on Conan: "I'm Not Your Bitch!"

Gordon Ramsay made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien last night. The two traded friendly digs, made baked Alaska, and had a minor food fight. Highlights included Conan freaking out a la Joseph Tinnelly from Hell's Kitchen and screaming: "Don't touch me! I'm not your bitch!"

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All Points West Sunday: (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To See Coldplay)

I wore straight-up hiking boots to this motherfucker, clunky and impenetrable, and sloshed invincibly across acres of gushy, foul-smelling New Jersey mud like a hovercraft, like a Range Rover, like God moving across the face of the waters. The mud is what we'll all remember about APW, first broug ... More >>

William Shatner Interprets Sarah Palin Resignation Speech

The latest Hollywood attack on the Divine Sarah comes from the Conan O'Brien Show, where the treasonous Irishman unleashed liberal media's secret weapon, William Shatner, to read a section of her resignation speech as jazz poetry, which their apparatchiks have disseminated on YouTube. Palin's den ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Islands, They Might Be Giants

Islands--Islands have released the bubbly new track "No You Don't," from their upcoming third album Vapours, the one frontman Nick Thorburn once famously left on the C Train. The song features him switching between a falsetto and more conversational style, with lyrics like "Don't buy dope from the m ... More >>

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Takes Bonnaroo

Though it doesn't reach the lofty heights of Triumph at the Star Wars Screening or Triumph at the Tonys, the mere fact that Conan O'Brien's attack dog deigned to take on Bonnaroo suggests a certain apex of mainstream acceptance/derision. A dog puppet humping a turntable is actually an excellent wa ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

The Albany Coup, Week 2: It started with a shock twist as Hiram Monserrate rejoined the Democrats, putting the state senate in a 31-31 deadlock. The Dems optimistically declared new leader John Sampson the president pro tem. (Just to be on the safe side they sued, but were rejected.) The Republica ... More >>

Who's Your Favorite Late-Night Host?

John J. Kruzel Who winds you down the most amusingly as your day saunters off into a world of monologues, sketches, and celebrities hawking sequels? Here are your choices from the major networks:

Andrea Peyser Spreads War on Late-Night to Conan O'Brien; Jimmy Kimmel Seeks Non-Aggression Pact

The rightblogger War on Letterman, lovingly detailed here earlier, has opened a second front -- against Conan O'Brien. And they're bringing in the big guns -- that is, the New York Post's first-string scold, Andrea Peyser. "JOHNNY CARSON is rolling over in his grave," she begins. "Even the late L ... More >>

News Roundup: Trent Reznor, Eminem, M.I.A., Pearl Jam

--Trent Reznor spoke out against former protege Marilyn Manson, saying, "He is a malicious guy and will step on anybody's face to succeed and cross any line of decency. Seeing him now, drugs and alcohol now rule his life and he's become a dopey clown." The Nine Inch Nails mastermind doesn't hold bac ... More >>

Did I Happen to Mention I Saw Rock of Ages?

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