Tommy Lee

The 10 Douchiest Drummers of All Time

By Nate Jackson What would music be without a beat, a rhythm or a backbone? Though they qualify as the first instruments ever created, the drums are probably the last thing most music fans can live without. And while we worship plenty of drummers in modern music, there are some Gods of Thunder who ... 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 >>

15 Sexual Insights And Lovemaking Technique Tips From Mötley Crüe

Former Jarvis Cocker backup dancer and current Seattle Weekly Dategirl Judy McGuire's new book, The Official Book Of Sex, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll Lists, is rife with lists counting down debauched and out-there moments of —Ozzy Osbourne's health tips, pot-smoking hints from Willie Nelson, marri ... More >>

Gene Simmons Dubs Himself The Ultimate Judge Of Authenticity In Pop Music

Kiss bass player/reality-TV star/political gadfly Gene Simmons let his legendary tongue loose earlier this week during a press conference announcing his band's summer tour with Mötley Crüe. The two-headed bill, which will be at the PNC Bank Arts Center on September 21 and Jones Beach on September ... More >>

Live: Jack's Mannequin Make Themselves At Home At Irving Plaza

Jack's Mannequin w/Allen Stone, Jukebox The Ghost Irving Plaza Wednesday, February 8 Better than: The $7 Bud Lights on sale, marketed generically and dimensionally as "12oz beer." Cool story, Irving Plaza! People were packed into the helpless rectangle of Irving Plaza, walled off from the stage by ... More >>

Live: Deadmau5 Gets The Heads Bobbing At Roseland

Deadmau5 Roseland Ballroom Friday, October 7 Better than: Waiting for people to show up to an empty Turntable.fm room. It's a tricky thing, the dance concert. Do you treat it like a regular show and face the performer in a gesture of celebrity worship, or do you lose yourself in the music, figur ... More >>

Live: Mötley Crüe And Poison Bring The Thrills To Nassau Coliseum

​ Mötley Crüe w/Poison, New York Dolls Nassau Coliseum Wednesday, July 20 Better than: Attending an 18-year high school reunion with a cash bar, albeit one mitigated by the DJ having a music library nearly identical to yours back in the day. An extremely partial list of pop-cultural event ... More >>

Brian Wilson's Songs

A brief conversation with the reclusive musician and a changed path

Q&A With Nikki Sixx: "After You Hit People With The Two By Four, Then You Say, 'Life Is Beautiful.' "

​ Nikki Sixx's 2008 bestseller The Heroin Diaries compiled a year of journals from the most gruesome point of his addiction to the opiate. But the Mötley Crüe bassist's second book, This Is Gonna Hurt: Music, Photography, and Life Through the Distorted Lens Of Nikki Sixx, picks the story up ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne Documentary Reissues, Repackages, But Doesn't Re-Evaluate The Prince Of Darkness

By Eric Hynes ​God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Directed by Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli Starring Ozzy Osburne, Sharon Osbourne, Sir Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee, Kelly Osbourne, Bill Ward The most overexposed of rock stars receives yet more attention thanks to this standard-issue biopic, which premi ... 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 >>

Top Ten Songs Named "Fuck You" Or The Immediate Equivalent

​On Friday Cee-Lo debuted a delightful new song with the simplest, most uncouth title possible: "Fuck You." It immediately joined the upper echelons of a surprisingly crowded genre -- from 50 Cent to Pharoahe Monch, the Avengers to Pussy Galore, Lil Kim to Atmosphere, there are lots of songs n ... More >>

Gossip Folks: Horse-Killing Socialite Doesn't Get Facebook; Christina Hendricks, Best Looking Woman in America

​On this wonderful morning, take a minute to imagine what it would be like to be so foreign and so out of touch that you scrambled to hire a big-time publicist to fight rumors started about you on Facebook. Then, close your eyes for a second and think about what it would be like to look like Chris ... More >>

Project Runway: The True Measure of Tim Gunn's Advice

Jay and his winning design​Michael Kors, resident crepehanger of the Project Runway judge squad, is fond of saying that there are "no rules" in fashion anymore, usually as he is trying to impose improbable new style commands in his monthly Glamour column (wear short-shorts in the dead of winte ... More >>

The Ecstasy, the Agony: Live Blogging the MTV VMAs

In honor of 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, we've invited SOTC buddies and pop savants Sean Fennessey and Ryan Dombal to lend a certain wisdom and perspective to these sure-to-be completely dignified proceedings. Gentleman? John Shearer​ 9:00pm Sean: We're coming to you live from one or two or ... More >>

Lindsay's Back with Samantha!

​That's what Page Six says. And the pesky celebu-tarts seem so deeply entrenched again that they were just spotted doing their favorite loving thing together--fighting over who's drink that was on the table!

The Old Scumbags of Mötley Crüe Nearly Burn Down Madison Square Garden

photo by David AtlasVince Neil Mötley Crüe Madison Square Garden March 16 Two slabs of pure California white trash, their retarded friend on drums, and a snake-eyed, mercenary guitarist more than a decade older than his bandmates: Mötley Crüe were a bunch of scumbags back in the '80s. Their de ... More >>

Glen Pourciau's Invite Shacks Up In Raymond Carver Land

Domestic realism from the winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award

The VMAs: A Running Diary

Totally Use Your Illusion, Dude

Rap stars see how the other half lives

Greene Party: Sale Away in Soho

Live: The Failed Rock Star Supernova Experiment

Rock Star Supernova Made an Album

Rock Star: Supernova: Actually Pretty Good

Rock Star Supernova: Fish in a Barrel

VH-1's Rock Honors: A Running Diary

Heading South

Revolver evolves the Winter Music Conference; MisShapes invade Miami

2,000 Troops Dead—and No End in Sight

American casualties reach grim milestone in Iraq

Two Hours to Love

Tabloid stars learn a few new tricks, acknowledge women

Hardcore Curriculum

Film-theory students focus on porn and other fringe fare. But can they get a job?

Caught on Tape

Eminem's racist rant says little that hasn't been said by black rappers before him

NY Mirror

I'm With the Band

A Short Cultural History of Wedding Rings

How the Other Half Lives

America Gets in Touch With Its Interior Designer

The Best & Worst of Sex in 2002

Big Pimpin’ in the Red Sea

The Pompitouses of Love

NY Mirror

Poor Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford, in the front row of the screening for Eyes Wide Shut, looked appalled; the film's a long, torturous meditation on adultery!

Marooned!

So you can't survive without the Internet? Try living with nothing else.

Virgin Territory