Ryan Seacrest

Sacha Cohen's The Dictator Character Endorses Mitt Romney

At a press conference at the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday, General Aladeen--aka Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator--unsurprisingly backed Mitt Romney for Prez. Explained the General: "He'd make a great dictator. He's incredibly wealthy but pays no taxes. And it's not much of a leap from firing people ... More >>

Live-Blogging The 2012 Grammys: Tributes, Tribulations, Skrillex, And The Return Of Adele

via Cats Who Look Like SkrillexWill this cat win Best New Artist?​Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 54th Annual Grammys, coming to you live from a couch in Astoria. There are quite a few questions lurking around tonight's ceremony. Will Adele sweep the three major categories in wh ... More >>

The Times Square Ball Drop Works, You're Off the Hook [Video]

The above video, from the AP, shows yesterday's successful test of the Times Square ball drop. Now that you've watched that, you don't have to watch it on TV tonight. You're welcome.

My Resolutions For The New Year

This year, they're pretty easy to figure: *To watch more TV. It'll be good for conversing at parties, where I usually go as blank as a runway model upon any mention of Tough Love or Breaking Bad. *To stop hating on people because they exhibit the same exact flaws I have. Instead of saying "Sh ... More >>

Rob Delaney Tells the Voice Why He's Suing Kim Kardashian

Earlier, from Rob Delaney's Tumblr.​As we noted a little while ago, comedian Rob Delaney is suing Kim Kardashian and some of her corporate overlords in the wake of her divorce from Kris Humphries after a measly 72 days of marriage. The co-defendants are Kardashian, Ryan Seacrest, E!, and Comca ... More >>

Jay-Z And Kanye West's Watch The Throne Inches Ever Closer To Existing

​Before the three-day weekend, quite a few people hinted that the Internet should maybe expect a surprise July 4 release of Watch The Throne, the Jay-Z/Kanye West collaborative album that's been the subject of much chatter for months now. That didn't exactly pan out, but the dawn of America's ... More >>

Skylar Grey: The Melodrama Of Glee, The Sadness Of Nu-Metal, The Blah Of OneRepublic

If you've tuned into a radio over the past year or so you've probably heard the handiwork of Skylar Grey, the singer-songwriter who's helped pen the bombastic, inescapable hip-pop ballads "Love The Way You Lie," "Coming Home," and "I Need A Doctor." In the early '00s she also did hook-girl duty on ... More >>

American Idol: It's Finally Over!

Michael Becker/FOX​A deeply frustrating season of American Idol is over now, having discovered exactly zero future stars, and last night we got the massive glitzathon finale, an annual event that reliably has little or nothing to do with the rest of the season. Scotty McCreery barely even look ... More >>

American Idol Goes Really, Really Country

Michael Becker/FOX​Oh boy, here we go. I can't possibly overemphasize how not excited I was to watch this Idol finale: Two perfectly decent singers who stick entirely within their genre--the exact same genre, even--and who both ran out of interesting tricks and wrinkles weeks ago. TMZ had a st ... More >>

American Idol: James Durbin's Not-Very-Good Voice Finally Leaves Us

Michael Becker/FOX​ Tonight, American Idol lost James Durbin. I was sorry to see him go, but only because his departure meant that we'll never get to see the live-TV Tourettic freakout that I was really excited about back when he first came into our lives. As it turns out, most people with Tou ... More >>

Hollywood Hotties With Visible Panty Line

Kevin Costner​In other words, peen photos. You know--where you can see their noodles through their clothes! Enjoy these now--thank me later.

Chef Boyardee Heiress Writes a Cookbook; Supperclub Holds Illegal Dinner on Subway

​As gas prices continue to rise, a number of farmers on small farms are trading in their tractors and returning to animal labor. [NY Times] Anna Boiardi, the granddaughter of Mario and great-niece of Hector and Paul Boiardi, immigrant brothers who founded Chef Boyardee in 1928, has written a ... 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 >>

American Idol Season 10, Elimination Recap: Casey Abrams Speaks In Tongues, Hulk Hogan Speaks With His Fists

Casey Abrams, in the jaws of a shark. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​A pretty goddamn dramatic results show! First off, a few dozen comments-section psychopaths must have lost their minds when Thia Megia turned up in the bottom three. But Thia didn't lose, which is good for me, since whipping ... More >>

Hilarious Rump Roast, I Mean Trump Roast

​Remember when comedy roasts consisted of hilarious old Jews making pesky fun of each other? Well, now, it's all kinds of people doing the same, but they all seem, I don't know...gay. They out celebrities, make fisting jokes, and refer to Ryan Seacrest's asshole. On last night's Donald Tru ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10, "Idols" Week: Ryan Adams Shout-Outs And Soaring Volcanoes

Please, Jacob Lusk, stick around as long as possible. CREDIT: Ray Mickshaw/FOX.​This was the first week we really got to see a lot of Interscope honcho Jimmy Iovine, whose role on American Idol is supposedly to mentor all the kids, but it's already clear he's only going to show up for five-min ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10, Final 13: Bodies Falling Everywhere

No time even to discuss that shirt. Credit: Frank Micelotta/FOX.​Two hours? Really, American Idol? You needed two hours for a results show? And you were still scrambling to finish it by the end? This show's results episodes are notoriously stretched-out marathons, where 30 seconds' worth of in ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10: Separating The Nobodies From The Assholes

Our sources tell us this girl is "molten hot." Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.​Last night's show ended with a cliffhanger: We didn't know, as it faded out, whether Jennifer Lopez would be able to continue judging, or whether the strain of eliminating good kids was just too much. As the show return ... More >>

American Idol, Season 10: How Long Until Ashley Sullivan Eats Ryan Seacrest's Face?

​My favorite annual piece of fake American Idol suspense-building went down on tonight's episode. After they all sing, the contestants get divided into different rooms, and then the judges visit each room to tell everyone whether they made the cut or not. And it's never even remotely suspensef ... More >>

American Idol Season 10: Steven Tyler's Sexy-Grandpa Thing Has Got To Stop

Guess which one of these people needs to stop kicking game to 16-year-olds. Credit: Michael Becker/FOX.​Woof. Oh boy. Here we go. Welcome to American Idol's post-overhaul end-times. This is what happens when the only interesting people on America's highest-rated TV show decide that they've ha ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #5: Artists for Haiti, "We Are The World 25 For Haiti"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​In 2010, when pop musicians are struggling to have half the visibility of the latest news-cycle-spawned entrant into Google Trends, it's hard not to see charity endeavors as ego extensions. Recall "Just Stand Up!," ... More >>

Black Swan Is "a Lezzie Wet Dream"!

Friars do Quentin Tarantino to a turn; Miami's pretty hot, too

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? American Idol Wobbles, R&B Thrives, And The '90s Rise Again

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! At least one song on this record is really good!​Gent ... More >>

Go Away, Celebrity!

​I don't wish any harm to celebrities--normally--but once in a while, I do pray they'd simply vanish into an early retirement, so we'd never have to deal with their bland, perky, tiresome antics (and surgery) ever again. Don't you ever want to magically screech at your TV or movie screen, "Go ... More >>

Cause for Celebration: MTV's The City Has Been Canceled

Via Racked.​Dear Universe, Thank you for the kind news that Racked reported just now: that this morning on American Idol spokescreature Ryan Seacrest's radio show, Whitney Port of The City confirmed that the show is basically over. In case you didn't know it, The City was a bad fake reality s ... More >>

One-Half of Local Article Writing Team Appears on NPR's "On the Media" to Talk NYC Gossip

​I think this is a classic story, like there is probably an episode of Glee or Vampire Diaries or Rubicon or whatever, where two people do some work together and when it really comes down to it, the work could've been better, but it is really long, so instead of actually reading it, everyone i ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Live-Blogging Idol Gives Back & Top 7 Results

Michael Becker / FOX Baby-Hugger Simon Cowell​ Two hours? Really? Because tonight's annual philanthropic extravaganza adds an extra hour onto the already too long results show (far too much to ask of any live-blogger, in my opinion), I'll be checking in intermittently throughout the night, ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Elvis Week: Was Ryan Seacrest Drunk?

"In the Ghetto"? Really? Photo by Frank Micelotta / FOX. ​There's a lot to talk about in this week's Idol, but first off, the one burning question: Was Ryan Seacrest maybe slightly drunk? I mean, the funny voices! The constant and inexplicable wassups! The willingness to display his weird and ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Top 10 Results

Diddy, please never let that white suit go. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX. ​Are the results shows always this bad? This padded out with product placements and movie tie-ins and Seacrest/Cowell banter that seems one barb away from a loogie to the face? Just kidding--I know they're always this b ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Live-Blogging the Top 12 Results

Michael Becker/ FOXTim Urban, not the worst this week.​ Even though we've been watching this show for three months, Idol apparently only began last night. The contestants got to sing on a bigger stage, and had to make something out of the Rolling Stones songbook instead of the total freedom to ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Yeasayer, Gil Scott-Heron, Sade, Hot Chip, Speak Onion, and More

Yeasayer' Chris Keating, looking sharp. Photo by Santiago Felipe.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla recounts the charms of Odd Blood, Yeasayer's latest fretless-bass campfire dance party, Stacey Anderson watches Obama's State of the Union with Gil Scott-Heron, Drew Hinshaw on the retu ... More >>

American Idol Season 9: Shania Twain Sexually Harasses Contestant, Barack Obama Doesn't Show for Chicago Auditions

Michael Becker / FOXBoob-Boxer Amy Lang​ Chicago may be Frank Sinatra's kind of town, but it's definitely not American Idol's. The third audition city of Season 9 produced a meager 13 golden tickets to Hollywood, numerous digs at fat people, and an epic editing fake-out that placed Obama's Ele ... More >>

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.

Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin Win!

They definitely beat RYAN SEACREST with HIS New Year's Eve coverage.KATHY was manically chatty as usual, serving Poppers jokes and telling ANDERSON her resolution was "To get you to say 'balls' more," as the silver fox giggled like a schoolboy.As if things weren't foofy enough, they'd cut to segment ... More >>

Teri Hatcher Has Swine Flu!

​That's the story TV Guide sent around to the media yesterday, claiming that Wisteria Lane had become Hysteria Lane since desperate housewife Teri Hatcher told coworkers she was diagnosed with the H1N1 virus. Was it from that time she supposedly kissed Ryan Seacrest in public? It's a moot poi ... More >>

Who's Cuter--Anderson Cooper or Ryan Seacrest?

​I hate to trivialize such esteemed personages by pitting them in a battle of adorableness, but let's face it, they're both pretty sweet looking and it's time to decide which of the two TV stars comes out on top, as it were. Do you prefer Anderson Cooper's upper crusty, silver fox-like gym bu ... More >>

Emmy Nominees Include The Family Guy, Ernest Borgnine; Jon & Kate Snubbed

Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane. For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>

About That Kanye American Idol Performance: Fact Checking Seacrest

I know, petty but, here's Ryan Seacrest on American Idol last night: "He's been dominating the charts since he came on the scene nine years ago. Here to perform his number one "Heartless" from his multi-platinum album, 808s & Heartbreak, it is: the one and only Kanye West!" Cue fearsome performanc ... More >>

Liveblogging the Academy Oscar Awards!

Pre-pre-show: Someone just described Kate Winslet's hair thus: "It may look very retro, but it's actually futuristic." Ryan Seacrest interviews Kate WInslet, who looks like she wants to bite off his face, or somebody's. "I'm extremely nervous," Winslet explains. Seacrest shows Winslet's upcoming Tim ... More >>

American Idol Season 8 Premiere: Ryan Seacrest Gets Lip-Raped by a Bitch, Tells Blind Guy He'll "See" Him Soon

Bikini Girl, Katrina Darrell Like the cockroaches after the apocalypse, American Idol is still here. And so, Idol fans and haters, the eighth season begins with some 16 hours of auditions from eight cities. Last night, we got two hours covering two days of auditions in Phoenix, Arizona--Archuleta- ... More >>

The American Idol Season Finale Running Diary: David Archuleta Totally Loses

Idol Gives Back 2: A Running Diary

American Idol Week Six: The Archuleta Problem

American Idol Week Four: The Beatles? Really?

American Idol Week One: Sucking So Far

Tom Petty's Super Bowl Halftime Show: Thoroughly OK

The American Idol Finale: A Running Diary

Idol Gives Back: A Running Diary

Sanjaya Malakar: America's Long National Nightmare Finally Ends

American Idol Will Destroy Your Soul