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NYFW: Move Over K-Pop, Here Comes K-Fashion at Concept Korea

Despite debuting right off the heels of the K-Pop phenomenon "Gangnam Style," Fashion Week's Concept Korea 2013 collective held its own on Thursday night with five new buzzworthy designers...and thankfully, they didn't play Psy's freaking song over the speakers. As the show was running late and the ... More >>

The Five Biggest Male Crotches In Music

A lot of music acts sell millions of units, but if they don't have one very special one betwen their legs, they're socially worthless. According to the book The Official Book of Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N' Roll Lists by Judy McGuire, here are five of the very biggest c***s in r**k. 1) Nick Cave Bigge ... More >>

Rita Ora

Movie Stars Playing Movie Stars: A Marvy Montage

No one plays a legendary movie star like another movie star--I mean, they really know how it's done, or at least they're willing to trot out their best mannerisms and try. Here are some of the most memorable examples (some because they're brilliant, others because they're glittery trash) of filmla ... More >>

Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon

VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Best Cover Versions in Musical History

​I'm not interested in the paint-by-numbers ones designed to make a quick buck. Here are the six cover tunes that I feel brought the most originality and fresh energy to standard tunes, making it more than worth the effort to do the remaking. (6) "It's My Life" by No Doubt. (2003.) Gwen Ste ... More >>

Woman Stabbed in the Head With a Pencil on the 3 Train

​Updated: Woman on the train blogs about witnessing the incident, after the jump. Update 2: The pencil was a pen, and the stabber (the Post calls him "deranged stoner Cordero Coroberto, 35") had been attempting to light no innocent tobaccey cigarette but "a blunt"! (That's marijuana cigarette ... More >>

American Idol Season 10: Pia Toscano Has A Reason To Weep

Michael Becker/FOX​ Judging by the slavering praise the judges heaped on every last candidate on Wednesday night's American Idol, it was hard to even guess at who would go home this week. Still, losing Pia Toscano is a pretty big surprise. She's one of the few people on the show who actually ... More >>

A Musical Guide to Japan Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Featuring Thrill Jockey and Rebecca Black

​"I've been inspired by Japan for many years and have a true love, appreciation and respect for the Japanese people and their culture," said early American-adopter and purveyor of Japan's Harajuku girl style, Gwen Stefani. "The disaster in Japan is beyond heartbreaking and I want to do anythin ... More >>

Fashion Week: Herchcovitch Trails in the Wind, the Blonds Stage a Chinese Extravaganza, Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. Goes Six Ways 'Til Sunday

style.comL.A.M.B.​If there were a venn diagram of the final three shows we saw for Fashion Week, the central overlap would simply read "these are clothes" - because beyond the very basic scale of function, these designers had absolutely nothing in common in terms of aesthetic, quality, or succ ... More >>

Toots & the Maytals

Fashion Week: Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. is Rock Steady, Isaac Mizrahi is Park Avenue Perfect

Jamie MacDonald​Yesterday in the Lincoln Center plaza, I watched a man dressed as some sort of spelunking Little Lord Fauntleroy pose for a wall of photographers, glowering for all the world like his own personal Lost Generation, before storming out of range and berating his friend for sewing ... More >>

Gwen Stefani "All Tied Up" at L.A.M.B. Fashion Week Show

Stacey Anderson Gwen Stefani L.A.M.B. fashion show Milk Studios Thursday, February 11 Somewhere in here is a trenchant quip about Gwen Stefani getting "all tied up," but it is out of deep, California sisterhood that I will not sink to it.

Week in Review: Fist Fight in the Parking Lot

In the week a chipped tooth kept Lil Wayne out of jail and a secretive, proprietary Billboard chart made a success out of his new, abysmal Rebirth, we pulled our Paul Wall grills out of the closet, just in case. You never know when your hood pass might get pulled, you know? Care for a Sightings p ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 2 through 8

Live: No Doubt and Paramore Stay Young at Jones Beach

No Doubt/Paramore Jones Beach Theater Saturday, June 27 "I always thought I'd be a mom" is not the most obvious applause line at a rock concert. But when Gwen Stefani cooed just that in the middle of the conflicted 2000 power ballad "Simple Kind of Life," the thousands of girls-- teens with teens ... More >>

R. Kelly, Meet The-Dream: On Kells' New "#1 Fan"

Always loved that moment when pop music snake bites its own tail, and Gwen Stefani rips off Fergie-ripping-off-Gwen Stefani, or Jay-Z bites Rick Ross-biting-Jay-Z, or whatever--the moment when some foundational artist gets lapped by their own legacy and suddenly has to play catch-up. So one nascen ... More >>

JUST A GIRL (AND HER BOYS)

The magic's in the wakeup

Gavin Rossdale

Fall Out Boy, No Doubt Headline Bamboozle 2009

Pink: Not Dead, Again

Funhouse is the most energetic divorce record probably ever

The Veronicas' Hook Me Up

Superhuman tween songbirds are waylaid by technology

BURN, BABY, BURN

Time to burn that rink to the ground

Ewan Pearson's Piece Work

Not-minimal remixes provide not-overwhelming joy

The American Idol Finale: A Running Diary

Lady Sov Melts Down at Studio B?

Goofy, Ambitious Ska Duets Benefit From Your Inattention

Shop Till You Flop

Welcome back to Gwen's dollhouse, as garish and luscious as ever

Yellow Fever

They got it bad, and that ain't good.

Gwen Stefani is Crazy

Nelly Furtado: Mutating Like Avian Flu

English as a Second Language

From 'Memoirs of a Geisha' to Gwen Stefani's Harujuku Girls, Asians get lost in translation

A Running Diary of the Billboard Music Awards

Notes on Girl Power

The Selling of Softcore Feminism

Horoscope

Hide-and-Seek

Aping Gwen Stefani’s style—or what to smuggle in your big, fall pants

Pulling the White Strings

Light-skinned acts ride hip-hop’s changing tide with dark-skinned Svengalis

Mark Your Calendar

We narrowed your choices down to the very best of the season so you're not overwhelmed

Biggest Midget in the Game

Teenage grime MC teases with her youth but has to puke

Diwali goes Diddley as dancehall diva signals Di DJ

Chloë Sevigny Can Wear It . . . Can You?

Rockin' the one-piece for spring

The '80s Girl Inside Reveals More Doubts Than Boundaries

VMT&A's

Who and what went down at the MTV Video Awards

Blooming and Wilting

A new Bloomingdale's takes up residence in Canal Jean's former digs

Ska, Jam, Rock, and Reggae Stars Try to Drop Pressure

Plane Speaking

Pan Am Bags and Food Survival Kits

The Artists Formerly Known as Each Other (Almost)