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The Hope For Haiti Telethon Music Highlights: Song! Dance! Donation! Beyonce!

So! The Hope For Haiti Telethon was last night, and if you're like everyone else, it was Friday night, and you were out, you selfish fuck. Or all TEAM COCO. Either way, music happened. Timberlake! Beyonce! Swift! Hova! Gospel Choirs! More »

01/23/10

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9 Year-Old Noah Cyrus Performing Ke$ha is Disturbing on Seven Different Levels

I must've missed the Benjamin Spock chapter on it, because I don't remember there being anything in the book on child-rearing like this. Then again, I don't have kids, and I've don't read parenting books. So I could be wrong... More »

01/16/10

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Rockonomics: The California-Prep Style Rebranding of Vampire Weekend

A found-everywhere band of the last two years, Brooklyn-bred Vampire Weekend's back with a new album, and new press lines to go with it: they've transitioned from their "prep-chic" Ivy League linage image into ostensibly different "California"-style brand identification. More »

01/09/10

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The Lady Gaga Endorsement: Polaroid, Monster Cables, and _______ ?

Will Lady Gaga supersede athletes as the new go-to endorsement deal? The Gags is gonna be the "Creative Director" of Polaroid, who revitalized the brand by dying and getting awesome investment capital. She's also got her own Dr. Dre headphones. More »

01/09/10

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Ten Ideas for Bono and his New York Times Op-Ed on Ten World-Changing Ideas

Click here to read Ten Ideas for Bono and his <em>New York Times</em> Op-Ed on Ten World-Changing Ideas

"Another fucking Bono op-ed," a tipster astutely notes! The U2 frontman has Ten Ideas to Change the World, and they're in the Times' Op-Ed section "in the spirit of rock star excess." So how 'bout ten ideas to change Bono? More »

01/02/10

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Diddy's Secret Marriage and Van Morrison's Unborn Baby: The Real Rumors of Rock Stars

The internet causes all kinds of ruckus for rock stars. It can make people who aren't dead die! Or as is Diddy's case, married. Or, as is Van Morrison's case, born. More »

01/02/10

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Soundgarden Reunion Takes First Good Pop Culture News of the Decade/Year/Whatever Honors

Also, makes us all feel very old. Related: Spoonman will save us all! A blogger notes that Chris Cornell tweeted last night: Soundgarden—the band the he left to go and form Audioslave (BLEH)—are getting back together. More »

01/01/10

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John Mayer Earns Blogger Stripes Defending James Cameron from TMZ's Smear Campaign

Battle Studies, indeed! TMZ recently ran video of someone harassing James Cameron to sign an Avatar poster, the highlight of which: Cameron calling his "fan" a "fucking asshole." Typical TMZ. But Cameron's surprising public advocate nailed the story. More »

12/26/09

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Rage Against the Machine Bests Simon Cowell's Pop Music Robots In Sony Pissing Contest

"Guerilla Radio," indeed. Remember angry 90s WTO-protest mascots Rage Against the Machine? Well, they and their fans decided to take on British holiday radio playlists dominated The Pop Music-Industrial-Complex Machine. And they won, pissing off Simon Cowell in the process. More »

12/20/09

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This Is How Your Major Label Pop Records Are Made: By Stealing

So, there's this band, Owl City, and they have songs, and teenagers like them. The song is basically a complete ripoff of the Postal Service, a great act. Given the chance to speak? More music dumbquotes to the Times, GO: More »

11/22/09

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Important Questions: Is Jay-Z's 'Empire State of Mind' the New 'New York, New York'?

There's an entire Sunday Styles item on Jay-Z's nu-New York anthem, which has now been performed at the VMAs, the World Series, City Hall, your son's bris, and everywhere else. Should Hova step off, or should Sinatra step over? More »

11/07/09

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Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly: Jay-Z's Biggest Fans

Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly didn't get tickets to last night's big Jay-Z show. So they decided to sit around and talk about how upset they were that they couldn't go. Thankfully, Beck didn't cry, but he did get huffy! More »

09/12/09

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Public Service Announcement: Jay-Z, Oprah, Hanging Around Marcy Projects

I'm not a huge Oprah fan, but there's something about Jay-Z and Oprah walking around the Marcy Projects right now, chatting about whatever, that's really quite wonderful. In other news, thanks, Oprah, for stealing my dream profile assignment. H8Uagain. [RapRadar]

08/09/09

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The Best of Racial Profiling, Pop Culture Edition

The arrest of Harvard's star African-American studies professor Henry Louis Gates has reignited national conversation about things like racial profiling! The important part of the conversation, however? What the best of pop culture has to say about it, naturally. More »

07/26/09

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Madonna's Michael Jackson Tribute at O2 Arena

Michael Jackson was supposed to perform a series of concerts at 02 arena; speculation has been that the preparation may or may not have been what killed him. Madonna performed there last night, and threw down for Jackson in tribute. More »

07/05/09

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Bret Easton Ellis Thinks The Hills Is "A Modern Masterpiece"

Click here to read Bret Easton Ellis Thinks <i>The Hills</i> Is "A Modern Masterpiece"

So: Bret Easton Ellis is on the cover of expensive Amsterdam-based magazine Fantastic Man, drinking a Diet Coke. In it, he calls the soul-sucking experience that is The Hills "the greatest show that I have ever seen in my life." More »

06/28/09

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