Jonas Brothers

Beliebers on One Direction: "They're Nothing"

This morning on Today music's biggest deal One Direction played for its diehard fans, many of whom had camped out since Friday of last week to insure they'd get a spot in the crowd. Across the river last night, music's other biggest deal Justin Bieber played Barclays. Reporter Brett Koshkin lives ac ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: October 31–November 6

Q&A: Food Network's Alex Guarnaschelli Talks Celebrities and Honeybees, Part 2

Yesterday, we spoke with Food Network's Alex Guarnaschelli about how to tackle cooking pumpkin and other seasonal specialties. Today, we're focusing on how she deals with celebrities in her restaurants, her favorite restaurants in the city, and her recent venture with Haagen Dazs. [See More Intervi ... More >>

Yoko Ono And Sean Lennon Rewrite "The Times They Are a-Changin'" To Protest Fracking; Rock And Roll Officially Dead

Rock and roll, 62-ish, died Friday at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan after a courageous battle with poor taste. At the time of its death, rock and roll was surrounded by friends, family, and comedian Jimmy Fallon, as Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon -- the former wife and son (respectively) of Beatle Jo ... More >>

Live: Demi Lovato Keeps It Real At The Hammerstein Ballroom

Demi Lovato Hammerstein Ballroom Saturday, September 17 Better than: The majority of the Disney lineup. Demi Lovato might have packed the Hammerstein Ballroom with cameraphone-waving teen and tween girls on Saturday night, but her stage seemed ready for Madison Square Garden. During her hour-long ... More >>

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

Big Time Rush

Seventy On Seventy: The 70 Best Bob Dylan Songs, A To Z (Part Two Of Two)

​ (Part One is here.) So here we are on the once-unthinkable occasion of Dylan turning 70. When Dylan was starting out, old white men--I mean older than Pete and Woody--were mostly on the wrong side of the Civil Rights movement. Older black men, if they were survivors like Howlin' Wolf or S ... More >>

Arcade Fire Sell Nearly Half A Million Records in 2010, Will Perform at the Grammys

​"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>

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 >>

Six Ways Live Nation Could Become More Fan Friendly

​On Saturday, the Times ran an overview of the woes facing this summer's tours, which have seen sales overall suffer despite sellouts for the likes of Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber. Even the Eagles--once an act that could be guaranteed to print money from boomers--have suffered during the dog da ... More >>

Rooney

Drake Will Never Play Outdoors For Free in This Town Again: Central Park Show Next Week Cancelled

Here we go again. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​To say that Drake's June 15th free, outdoor show at the South Street Seaport was cancelled would be an understatement--more like dissolved into a lawless riot. The cops eventually broke that show and the twenty-plus thousand people who came to see it ... More >>

Wonder Girls

Q&A: Yo Gabba Gabba! Creators Christian Jacobs and Scott Shultz Explain Why Indie Rock Is Good For Children

Ben Clark/NickelodeonBottom row: Christian Jacobs, DJ Lance Rock, and Scott Shultz. Top row: Brobee, Muno, Plex.​The characters of the Nickelodeon preschool children's show, Yo Gabba Gabba!, recently barbecued with riff-rockers Them Crooked Vultures: picture a gap-toothed cyclops (Muno), a pin ... More >>

Hey, Barack Obama Made a Notorious B.I.G. Joke at the White House Correspondents Dinner

Word is, the president's routine from this weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner--which killed, by the way--was put together in consultation with writers from the Daily Show. But anyone who knows anything about Barack Obama's musical tastes knows that he probably didn't need any help using B ... More >>

Just How Inane Was This Weekend in Washington D.C.? Unbelievably So!

Political Powerhouses Jessica Simpson and Jimmy Fallon​No one with any sense of perspective believes that Real America -- most of the nation, fly-over country, everywhere but the coastal cities, whatever you want to call it -- gives a quarter of a shit about the White House Correspondents Dinner. ... More >>

Jordin Sparks

Today's Teen Idols are Too Bland!

via Wikipedia​What is this, the 1950s all over again? The Jonas Brothers are about as cutting edge as three hedgehogs. Justin Bieber looks freshly born, except for the weird comb-forward.

Michael Jackson and Hip-Hop

Guess which one of those things didn't die this year

Timbaland

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 15: Hinder, "Born To Be Wild"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Get your motor runnin'...head out on the fast track to synergyville.

Mercury Lounge Booker Jay Belin Picks His Best Place To Find Cobras and To Shotgun Beers

This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow arbitrary awards like Best Rapper Twitter Feed and Best Radio DJ. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. Jay a/k/a DJ Good Times is the one on the right. Jay Belin is th ... More >>

Will You Be Jacko or Madoff For Halloween?

​Halloween approacheth and I'm finally ready to leave the house again to enjoy it after suffering last year's scary array of Sarah Palins. So what will the most prevalent costumes be this time? I'm guessing that, since it was the year of dead celebrities, the streets will turn into a veritabl ... More >>

The Top 10 Records Sold at Bleecker Street Records in the West Village

In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that sold in the last week at a store near you. http://www.flickr.co ... More >>

Tonight! Chuck Mangione, William Elliott Whitmore, Bastille Day Punk

div#main{overflow:visible;} MIchael's editor would like to know if this clip makes any more sense in context. He doubts it. The Jonas Brothers have siphoned any trace of youthful rock 'n' roll energy out to the Izod Center tonight, leaving us city-dwellers a matured palette: Chuck Mangione, Ameri ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen Joins the Gaslight Anthem for "The '59 Sound" at Glastonbury

Concertgoers at Saturday's Glastonbury Festival got an epic New Jersey surprise when the Gaslight Anthem's Brian Fallon announced, three songs into a nine song set, "I think I can hear the sound of my hometown." Cue fellow Jersey boy Bruce Springsteen, who joined the band for a ridiculously convin ... More >>

Farewell, Virgin Megastore

photo via Jeff Baum Yesterday was the final day of business for Union Square's Virgin Megastore, where random in-stores and greatest hits albums you didn't even know existed provided a convenient meeting place for friends on the way to the movies, or Irving Plaza. The Times quotes a former employee ... More >>

Jonas Brothers

What Goes Up Must Have Hilary Duff Going Down

Asher Roth Sticks the Roots with Their First Ever Lousy Fallon Performance

Shades of the Stevie Wonder/Jonas Brothers Grammys debacle here--C'MON STEVIE! SHOW 'EM WHAT YOU GOT STEVIE!, etc. Back when Fallon's show started, we fretted about the eventual reality of the Roots--live rap royalty if there ever was such a thing--being forced to play hypemen for the Soulja Boys ... More >>

Rightbloggers Culture-War For John Galt, Against Jon Stewart and Meghan McCain

In Sunday's New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that culture warriors -- that is, those "intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years" -- are being "laid off" in the Obama era, because people are too concerned with the genuine crisis of the economy to ... More >>

Week in Review: Stop Trying to Establish Visual Rapport with A Blind Man, and Stop Yelling at Him, Too

photo of Bodega zaniness by Rebecca Smeyne In the week the Jonas Brothers attempted to bring light to the blind, we watched the Grammys set race relations back 20 years. Chris Brown and Rihanna missed the ceremony, but you already knew that, didn't you? We talked to actor Elliott Gould, TV host a ... More >>

Grammys Fawn over Coldplay and Plant/Krauss, Set Race Relations Back 20 Years

Good for you. As any self-respecting Grammy live blog will have told you by now, the highlight of last night's occasionally lively fiasco was undoubtedly the "Rap Pack" black-and-white "Swagga Like Us" blowout, ostensibly starring Jay-Z/Kanye/Wayne/T.I. but dominated by a stupendously pregnant M ... More >>

Grammy Vid: Seriously, That Jonas Brothers/Stevie Wonder Thing Was Hilarious

Hahahahaha. Contrary to my earlier skepticism regarding YouTubes of last night's bewildering festivities, it appears either the Grammy folks are allowing 'em, or at least very very slow in taking them down. So you haven't seen sheer ladybug pregnant M.I.A. yet, please do. But the Jonas Bros./Stev ... More >>

Lil Wayne on Letterman: Reasons I'm Looking Forward to the Grammy Awards

Obama's 2009 Kennedy Center Honors: A Modest Proposal

The ridiculous 2008 Kennedy Center Honors -- featuring bizarre tributes to Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, among others -- were recently televised, which gave us an idea for the next Administration. President Obama's walking into a seriously screwed-up economy and two wars. Since things are goin ... More >>

Rainn Wilson Goes Metal in The Rocker

Late Edition: Apple Knockers, Men's Rights, Mad Cops, Soap

OUT COME THE WOLVES

Rancid, still kicking

The Jonas Brothers's Worn Out A Little Bit Longer

Let the Hit Factory help you out, boys

TEEN BEATS

Better than Hanson? Oh, yes.

10 Questions for Katy Perry, Who Is Definitely Not, Like, Strung Out and Doing Centerfolds

Grading the iTunes Hits: Metro Station, Pussycat Dolls, Miley Cyrus

Al Green Samples Some New Producers

Idol Gives Back 2: A Running Diary

Things I Learned Watching Hannah Montana 3D

iVoice: Hannah Montana in 3D, the IM Chat

The American Music Awards: A Running Diary

Good Clean Fun

Teen punks the Jonas Bros. stay home from the prom