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12 (More) Big Deal Albums We're Hella Excited For

Hey: Albums! In case people still care about these things, here's a batch of potentially interesting releases arriving in the calendar year.

Pretty Songs That I Hate Myself For Loving

Normally, I don't appreciate anything too musically pretty. Even if it's a formula love ballad, I like a little bittersweet quality sprinkled in there--or preferably something just plain bitter. But there are some lovely standards that I can't help adoring because it's just so much easier to surre ... More >>

Hit Machines: The Ten Best Singles Runs From Post-Confessions R&B Albums

In his recent review of R&B singer Miguel's fantastic Art Dealer Chic series of EPs, The A.V. Club's Evan Rytlewski explained the singer's rise in popularity by floating the idea that his 2010 album All I Want Is You contained "arguably the most engaging singles run of any R&B album since Usher's Co ... More >>

Mariah Carey (10) Battles With Public Enemy (7) In SOTC's Search For The Ultimate New York Musician

​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

Live: Mariah Carey's Grand, Real-Talk-Filled Return To The Stage At Gotham Hall

Mariah Carey w/Diddy Gotham Hall Thursday, March 1 Better than: A promotional tote filled with branded swag. Initally, some words about Diddy's performance were going to open this review, but when Mariah Carey hit the stage after him, his portion of the show was all but forgotten. Still, for the ... More >>

I'm Playing Susan Lucci In Awards Show Spoof!

Well, I'm Italian! (And she's half.) It's part of You Like Me!, a wacky revue in which an assortment of wonderfully offbeat performers re-enact classic acceptance speeches in all their weepy glory.

'Mr. Saturday Night' w/ Mark E

20 Albums From 1991 That Can Still Be Thought-Pieced To Death Before The Year Ends

20. Tom Petty, Into The Great Wide Open 19. Skid Row, Slave To The Grind 18. Teenage Fanclub, Bandwagonesque 17. Prince & The New Power Generation, Diamonds & Pearls

100 & Single: Considering The Album-Chart Class Of 9/11, 10 Years Later

​A king of hip-hop, retaking the penthouse of the album chart with his latest blockbuster. A middle-of-the-road rock band, reviving a turn-of-the-'90s "alternative" sound that's now squarely mainstream. A sexagenarian legend who debuted in the '60s and who still captures Boomers' hearts and ... More >>

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Pregnant-Belly Painting Has Gone Mainstream

via @MariahCareyMimi's "attempt @ festiveness."​It's cute when kids get their faces painted. It's scary when Tom Cruise does. It's just plain weird when pregnant women get their bellies painted, but that's a trend, according to the New York Daily News.

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 >>

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 >>

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Already Visited by Child Protective Services

​It's been a big week...for child protective services? First there was Botox mom, and now this: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, new parents of twins Moroccan and Monroe (I know), have already had a little moment with CPS. Cannon told Piers Morgan of all people that he was approached in the hospital ... More >>

Mariah Carey: Totally One Of Those People Who Takes Meanings From Songs' Titles (And Nothing Else)

Songbird and butterfly enthusiast Mariah Carey gave birth to twins over the weekend, and according to reports, the first song she played for the kids was her monster 2005 hit "We Belong Together." OK, it's a much-better-than-fine ballad, and one that certainly is worth a spin at many a pop-song-bere ... More >>

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Proud Parents of Twins

​Mariah Carey gave birth today at 12:07 p.m. to twin babies, a boy and a girl. To top it off, today is also Carey and Nick Cannon's fourth wedding anniversary! And they listened to "We Belong Together" after the twins were born, according to Carey's rep. I'm verklempt. No word yet on what the twin ... More >>

Richard Branson Is Planning to Create Island Full of Lemurs

​Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire and chairman of the Virgin group, is planning one of the most extravagant displays of socially conscious wealth we've ever seen. The New York Post says that he wants to fill one of his privately owned islands with endangered lemurs in order to build ... More >>

Rich Juzwiak, Ripped Off By A TV Show, Again

"I'm laughing, really I am," insists our friend/colleague Rich Juzwiak, guru of dance music/horror movies/America's Next Top Model, upon announcing that yet another prominent TV show (The Insider) has lifted, seemingly without credit, yet another of his quick-cut web-video delights (Mariah Carey pra ... More >>

'Christmas at Rockefeller Center'

On Mariah Carey's Agreeably Bizarre Yuletide Sequel Merry Christmas II You

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 >>

Alright, Let's Deal With This Star-Studded Haiti-Benefit "Everybody Hurts" Debacle

Here we have the gala Simon Cowell-produced R.E.M. cover, starring Susan Boyle, Mariah Carey, Michael Buble, Leona Lewis, Rod Stewart, and a gaggle of not-as-famous people. Not a good look. I don't have any problems until James Blunt shows up, and no major problems until Jon Bon Jovi starts howli ... More >>

Booze News: Mariah Carey Busts Out her Own Bubbly; LeNell Smothers Makes her Own Bitters

​ It's quite public knowledge that Mariah Carey enjoys a tipple or two. Now, the singer and recently acclaimed actress (for her role in Precious) is launching a Champagne brand. Carey tweeted recently that she is releasing her own rose bubbly called Angel Champagne. [NY Daily News] Cognac sal ... More >>

Bad Girls Gone Worse: Rihanna, Mariah Carey, and Lady Gaga

While they seethe and snarl, Taylor Swift emasculates with a smile

A First-Hand Report of New Year's Eve at M2

​That's a large-scale club in New York where Mariah Carey was the night's big wow-apalooza to usher in the teens (meaning the decade) with. Says the attendee, "M2 was at thrice capacity with bridge & tunnel douchebags.

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Good Afternoon, Vintage Photo Of Will Smith Playing RBI Baseball

​Titled "World's Most '90s Pic," here we have the Fresh Prince playing the best baseball video game of all time, with some Mariah Carey jams lurking nearby. Also: nice pants. [Thanks to SFJ.]

This Week's Voice: Paramore, Mountain Goats, Mariah Carey, Jemina Pearl

Ryan Russell"WE SOLD OUT WEMBLEY ARENA IN ONE DAY!!! WHAAATTT?!?!!" In this week's Village Voice, Ryan Dombal watches Paramore, led by emo femme fatale Hayley Williams, bust up the Lonely Tears Boys Club. Zach Baron thumbs through chapter and verse trying to understand the Mountain Goats' The Life ... More >>

Is Precious The Movie of the Year?

The Film Society of Lincoln Center/LionsgateSize matters: Gabourey Sidibe​CLICK HERE to read my new column and find out about Precious, the acclaimed new film about a fat Harlem girl who gets knocked up by her own father--twice! You'll learn how Mariah Carey, of all people, replaced Helen Mir ... More >>

Mariah Carey Gets Cheesy, and Thank Goodness

The goofification of Mimi

Is Precious, With Mo'Nique, The Movie of the Year?

Plus sizing up other leading ladies, nightlife crime, and Tony hopefuls.

Come On, The-Dream: Was "Obsessed" Really the Best Eminem Diss Song You Could Write for Mariah?

As you may recall, Eminem kicked off his press tour for Relapse by claiming that he had urinated on Mariah Carey, back when they were dating. She also makes a cameo or two on the actual album, in amongst the Kim Kardashian and Sarah Palin references. Her pint-sized husband, Nick Cannon, eventually ... More >>

The Campiest Movie Lines Evah!

Thanks to all my years spent watching hilarious works of cinema camp--some of them even intentionally funny--I've compiled my favorite lines, the kind that can only be uttered by over-the-hill divas in too much hair and makeup. My all-time faves: "So they drummed you out of Hollywood and you come ... More >>

The-Dream's Logic

How his pop megahits are like iPhones, or maybe like swinging belts

Film of Popular YA Novel Push to Premiere at Sundance

Back when we were tutoring kids in Brooklyn, the gritty urban novel Push by Harlem teacher and poet Sapphire was in a surprising number of bookbags. We learned that the book about an abused teenager was considered a good way to introduce city youths to literature, and a sufficiently popular reading ... More >>

Mariah Carey Defies Physics

Sense About Science is a British group that tries to clear up popular misconceptions about the way the world works with releases such as "Can perfume make your unborn baby infertile?" Now the group is attacking a new and dangerous source of scientific misinformation: Mariah Carey. Her album E=MC ... More >>

iVoice: Paramore Hosts MTV Hits!

Mariah Carey and Barbara Walters' Bizarre Love Revelations

American Idol Week Eight: Dealing With Mariah

Mariah Carey's Failed Adjustment

High and Dry

The Long, Arduous Search for the Non-Low Rise Jean

The Grammy Awards: A Preview

Mariah Carey Beats 50 Cent on Billboard Year-End List?

Mariah's Panties for Sale

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