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Five Other Failed Rap/Country Experiments

The hubbub this week regarding Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's controversial duet "Accidental Racist" has, among other things, given a sign that the world might still not be ready yet for a full blown country and hip-hop crossover. While rap has been above an attempted crossover, no matter how poorly c ... More >>

Gov. Christie, You Don't Look "Startlingly" Healthy, But the Donut Gag Was Great

Ah! The old whip-the-doughnut-out-of-your-suit-jacket-pocket maneuver. Shrewd move Mr. Governor. Play the fat joke on yourself before the comedian can play it on you. In a brilliant preemptive strike, N.J Gov. Chris Christie addressed the 500-pound elephant in the room--his weight--by whipping o ... More >>

A$AP Rocky Lights Up The City

Harlem's crack-slinging bad boy cleans up, puts New York rap back on the map

Three Other Reasons Why Sales Of Old Records Are Outpacing Sales Of New Ones

This week the news came out that sales of catalog albums outpaced those of new records during the first six months of 2012. Current (less than 18 months old) albums sold 73.9 million copies between January 2 and June 1, down from 82.8 million in the first six months of 2011; catalog albums sold 76.6 ... More >>

El-P And Killer Mike Talk Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Anger As A Positive Force, And The Unlucky Fate Of Their Favorite HBO Shows

A few drinks into my conversation with Mike and El-P about their new collaboration R.A.P. Music (Williams Street), the tone shifted, as it tends to under the influence of multiple makeshift White Russians. EL-P's drink-ordering became relentlessly efficient. Things became a little more candid. The c ... More >>

Live from New York... It's Mitt Romney?

This has to happen. In what could be one of the most interesting Saturday Night Live episodes in recent memory, it has been reported that Lorne Michaels, the producer of the legendary sketch comedy show, has offered the Romney tent a chance for their candidate to show off his comedic flare ... More >>

Giants Fans Like Bill Murray Are Classier Than Patriots Fans

It goes without saying that New York baseball fans are classier than those of New England -- we see evidence of that every time the Yankees and Red Sox play, whether in New York or Boston. As the Super Bowl approaches, it should be just as obvious that New York football fans are classier than their ... More >>

David Letterman Threatened By Jihadists

Middle East Media Research Institute​Are jihadists becoming a bit out of touch? Their latest target is David Letterman, of all people, because he made a joke about the deaths of Osama bin Laden and OBL's successor Ilyas Kashmiri. On the al-Qaeda forum Shumoukh al-Islam, someone by the name of ... More >>

Alvin Moore Becomes Second Idiot to Overestimate David Letterman's Power

​For the second time this week, someone looking for attention chose to vandalize the Ed Sullivan Theater, home of the Late Show With David Letterman. Alvin Moore, the latest aggressor, was drunk and mad because he sent Letterman "several demo tapes," NBC NY reports, but had not heard back. Pol ... More >>

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

​About a year ago, I was putting a book about Bob Dylan to bed. Since I was looking at year's lead time, my plan was for Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (Yale) to be released on Dylan's 70th birthday, for obvious reasons. I learned early on at my grandfather's funeral the biblical significa ... More >>

tUnE-yArDs, Metronomy, Deer Tick To Headline RiverRocks Concerts At Pier 54

​2011 marks the 13th summer that free shows will be presented at Pier 54 (located at the intersection of West Street and 13th Street) by the Hudson River Park's RiverRocks Series; this season's concerts will be headlined by tUnE-yArDs (July 14), Metronomy (July 28), and Deer Tick (August 11). ... More >>

Q&A: Darlene Love On Her Wig Collection, Her Pentecostal Past, And Phil Spector

by Andrew Hamlin Alan Hamlin​After singing lead on so many Phil Spector -produced standards--"He's A Rebel," "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),""He's Sure The Boy I Love"--Darlene Love was recognized for her stellar pipes last month, when she was granted a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Says She Won't Be on David Letterman, Has No Idea How This Happened

LiLo in 2007, via Jeffrey R. Staab/CBS/TV Guide​Yesterday it was reported by various sources, including the New York Times, that Lindsay Lohan -- fresh out of rehab, in the midst of new legal troubles -- would be appearing on David Letterman on Thursday to read the night's Top 10 list. CBS the ... More >>

Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday, Debated

Growing pain or total disaster? One fan and one non-fan hash it out.

Best Of NYC: Worrying About Nicki Minaj

Poppin' it so crazy kooky

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Park Avenue's trashy pool scene

Is M.I.A.'s 2010 Cursed?

M.I.A.'s Saturday performance at HARD NYC did not go well. Like, kind of spectacularly not well. Her headlining set at the festival was the evening's low point, by all accounts; her sound, in particular, was a catastrophe, and this was before the heavens opened up and sent most of the crowd sprint ... More >>

Eminem And Jay-Z Make It On A Rooftop After All, At David Letterman's Behest

So the "secret" Eminem/Jay-Z show on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater, initially thought to be a casualty of the dreaded Drake Riot Aftermath, actually happened last night, a mini-performance to air on Late Show with David Letterman Friday to promote both the duo's upcoming concerts and Em's ne ... More >>

It's Courtney Love's Big Week--and Frenemy Billy Corgan Is Having Fun Trying to Ruin It

Nate "Igor" SmithCourtney Love at the Perez Hilton SXSW party 2010 It's a big week for Courtney Love. Tomorrow is the major-label release of her five-years-in-the-making Nobody's Daughter. There're two Hole headlining shows at this week at Terminal 5, one late-night rendevous at Union Square Best B ... More >>

Free Energy Played Letterman Last Night

Free Energy's James Murphy-produced Stuck on Nothing, which finally got a digital release last week, will almost certainly make it to some tall spot on our year end list; that said, caterwauling singer Paul Sprangers live, sans Murphy, is still the best argument for the studio genius of the LCD fr ... More >>

Haha: Impose Picks The "Best New Music of 2009"

On Monday, our home slices over at Impose unveiled their year-end 50 favorite acts of 2009. It's a uniquely varied list of familiar blog-sprayed faces (Animal Collective, Fever Ray, Black Lips, Dan Deacon, Black Dice), mixtape rappers (Gucci Mane, Freddie Gibbs, Drake), relative unknowns (Nisennen ... More >>

Drummer Jerry Fuchs Falls Down Brooklyn Elevator Shaft, Dies

​Details emerge about the drummer who fell down an elevator shaft in Brooklyn on Sunday and died. Jerry Fuchs had worked with LCD Soundsystem, !!!, Turing Machine, Maserati, and many other bands, and appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman supporting John Legend and MSTRKRFT. "This week ... More >>

Interview: Heartless Bastards on Erika Wennerstrom's Huge Voice, Male Groupies, and Hookers in Flip-Flops

Erika Wennerstrom: "I want to sound like Nico and Lou Reed." photo by Cambria HarkeyDave Colvin, Erika Wennerstrom, Jesse Ebaugh Heartless Bastards are having an incredible year: a spot on The Late Show with David Letterman, great reviews for their latest record The Mountain, and an appearance on ... More >>

The Office, World's Fattest Cat Implicated in David Letterman Staffer Sex Scandal

​A lawyer for Robert Joe Halderman, the guy arrested for blackmailing David Letterman over his affairs with staffers, told Good Morning America yesterday that his client is innocent -- or, rather, "did not have the intent required by the statute" on which he was charged. Sources claim Halderma ... More >>

Madonna Has First Slice Ever on Letterman

Madonna made her eighth appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman last night. The Material Girl claimed she'd never had a New York slice before. Is that even possible? Didn't she live here back in the late '70s/early '80s? Did New York not have slices then? Letterman rectified the situation ... More >>

In Praise of Marc Ribot...

...style-morphing guitarist icon extraordinaire

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Bowery Ballroom Blitz

Karen O et al finally deliver a record worthy of their image

Tom cries 'Uncle'! Daschle's exit an embarrassing end to Obama's embarrassing decision to pick him

Obama tells a surprisingly blunt Katie Couric, "I messed up." Tom Daschle's quick exit from the health-care Cabinet job is just proof that he was a poor choice for the job. If the guy can't get it together enough to wipe his nose clean after rubbing it against the rear of society schmuckettes li ... More >>

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