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Category Archives: music
Hot 100 Update: OMG INDEED
It is Thursday, which means it is time for Billboard to update us on the music taste of the masses. Some highlights: - Usher somehow achieves his ninth Hot 100 number one with “OMG”, one of the lazier pop records of 2010. This confirms my earlier suspicion that will.i.am is indeed in cahoots with Satan [...]
Miley Has the Bird Flu(?)
Or so it would seem from her video for “Can’t Be Tamed.” In said video, Miley/Avis Cyrus is quite literally a bird in a giant cage. Complete with a nest and everything! The somewhat racy video is a dramatic departure for the Disney starlet, but perhaps the pole dancing routine at last year’s Teen Choice [...]
Today in Pop Princess-dom
Christina Aguilera has been hitting the media circuit battling backlash for her especially skankified “Not Myself Tonight” video. She tells Access Hollywood, “I never claimed to be a cookie-cutter soccer mom. That’s all good for some people. Not for me.” I think we all gathered this from the church group sex scene. Her defense is [...]
Kid Rock Crawls Out of the Woodwork
According to Billboard, musical luminary Kid Rock will be attacking the airwaves once more in the near future. Today he was confirmed to host the CMT Music Awards on June 9th. This is an odd bit of news, but much of his material has, in fact, been generic enough to cross over to country radio. [...]
Secret Sex Pistols Script Revealed
Once upon a time, during the height of the Sex Pistols fame, manager Malcolm McLaren (RIP) contracted skin-flick director Russ Meyer to make the first Sex Pistols movie, provisionally titled Anarchy in the UK, but eventually called Who Killed Bambi? Famous screenwriter Roger Ebert (of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and Beneath the Valley [...]
Prince “Adam Ant!” Charming Returns!
The often-great UK music website The Quietus has managed to score an amazing exclusive interview with our lost hero, Adam Ant. Most importantly, he’s working on a new album (his first for 15 years), the wonderfully-titled Adam Ant Is The Blueblack Hussar In Marrying The Gunner’s Daughter. Even more importantly than that, in the interview [...]
Ginger Dead Man: Redhead reacts to MIA
M.I.A. has always made crazy music videos, from the tacky Bollywoodisms of “Jimmy” to the seizure-inducing color crazed “Boyz,” her clips ain’t the type you’ll see on MTV anytime soon. But her hyper violent promo for new track “Born Free,” helmed by Romain Gavras (son of iconoclastic director Costa-Gavras) just might be the most batshit [...]
Guru, 1966-2010
Groundbreaking MC Guru has died of cancer at age 43. Best remembered for his duo Gang Starr with DJ Premier, and his pioneering album Jazzmatazz, which, along with A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory and Digable Planets’ Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), started off the whole 90s jazz-rap craze. Sad [...]
Type O Negative’s Pete Steele – R.I.P.
Pete Steele, frontman for veteran Brooklyn, New York metal band Type O Negative, has died of heart failure at the age of 48. FUSE VJ Juliya confirmed the news on her Twitter feed. Steele was a brilliantly talented rock and roll original, a muscular wall of a man with a fragile, tender heart (both figuratively [...]
Supergrass: 1993-2010
It turns out that Supergrass have broken up, citing the old “17-year itch.” While a lot of people—especially in this country—have probably not thought about the band in the past 10 years or so, they were one of the great UK rock bands of the 90s, back when they were just teenagers who made it [...]
Erykah Badu gets Naked, Fined
So Erykah Badu‘s Matt and Kim-inspired, naked stripping video for “Window Seat”? Turns out it has serious, serious consequences: She’s been charged with disorderly conduct and may face a fine of up to $500. But (surprise!) it turns out that everyone is being pretty cynical about this, clearly disastrous, situation. Can’t a girl get naked [...]
Watch: Titus Andronicus – “A More Perfect Union”
Let’s get this out of the way first: The Monitor, the second album from Jersey boys Titus Andronicus, is one of the best albums of the year. Yes, it’s March, but it’s hard to believe that there’s going to be enough great records to knock it from the list. If you haven’t heard it, it’s [...]
The Libertines to Reform!
While you were worrying about Miley Cyrus quitting music forever and busy registering an appropriate amount of shock at Ricky Martin’s coming out party, there was breaking news “across the pond,” a phrase which doesn’t refer to a pond at all. That’s right, it’s the news you’ve been waiting for since 2004: The Libertines are [...]
All Hail LiLiPUT!
This week, Kill Rock Stars has done the world a service with the release of a cd/dvd package of live recordings, a documentary, and TV clips of late 70s-early 80s all-female Swiss group LiLiPUT. One of the great legends of post-punk, LiLiPUT (originally Kleenex, but that was copyrighted, of course) was called the “Swiss Slits,” [...]
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