I’ll admit that I’m pretty much unaware of Dancing With The Stars beyond the fact that it pulls in boatloads of viewers, although this clip–in which Jennie Garth and Derek Hough do, indeed, engage in a rigorous tango to the strains of “The Take Over, The Break’s Over”–is making me think that it’s… More »
If you missed the American Music Awards performance by Disney Channel stars-in-waiting the Jonas Brothers, not only did you miss the one moment of the show where the audience seemed excited to be watching–thanks to a truckload of hormonal preteens being shuttled in for the duration of the… More »
When Of Montreal’s ad for T-Mobile came on during last night’s American Music Awards, my initial reaction was along the lines of, “What music-blogger hell did this crawl out of?” And it still stands. I mean, reunion-show jokes? Band meetings that are conducted in fancy-ass hotel rooms while Kevin Barnes and Co. are in full stage makeup? I’m going to hazard a guess that most of the Daughtry fans watching the show didn’t realize that Of Montreal is, you know, an actual working band with records out, especially with the feather-flying celebration at the ad’s end.
Last night on Late Show With David Letterman, Slash stopped by to plug his new book and clear the air with Axl Rose, although maybe doing so by talking about how Axl kicked his grandma off her perch on the couch so he could crash out until mid-afternoon–and how Axl responded to being rebuked for… More »
While cleaning out his archives, Gawker’s Jim Lehnhoff unearthed some video that he shot of the Arcade Fire all the way back on April 11, 2004, at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. (They were third on the bill, playing behind the Unicorns and freakin’ Chromeo, and in front of The Ponys.) More »
I caught this ad for Britney Spears’ Blackout yesterday on TRL, where it’s presumably airing because “Gimme More”‘s off-the-chart status has resulted in only a seven-second clip of its chorus being played on the show, as opposed to a thirty-second clip that includes a verse. The ad is not only notable for the way it recuts the “Gimme More” video into something even more incoherent, but because buried within its 30 seconds are a bunch of statements that could be seen as coded messages from Britney’s label, Jive, to the album’s intended audience:
One thing we keep hearing over and over, even among the rock critics, is that no one recognizes any of the bands playing CMJ this year. So we decided to send Alex Goldberg out with a list of fake band names to see if anyone would cop to knowing about a band we had made up a few hours before. More »
This morning, Steven Tyler and throat surgeon Dr. Steven Zeitels appeared on Today to promote their Sunday-night appearance on the National Geographic Channel’s Incredible Human Machine; if you ever wanted to know just what happens to the insides of the Aerosmith frontman’s throat when he hits… More »
You’ve heard a lot about what our correspondents thought of CMJ, but what about the everyday people? Where did they go, who did they see, what did they really enjoy? (If they enjoyed anything at all?) More »
To prepare for the Cleveland Indians’ playoff opener against the (sigh) Yankees this evening, the Cleveland Plain Dealer‘s Chuck Yarborough has put together a compendium of the players’ at-bat music picks, complete with YouTube/MySpace links and “funny” commentary on each song. (In response to Jhonny Peralta’s selection of Daddy Yankee’s “Impacto,” Yarborough writes: “Domo Arigato Mr. Impacto.” Don’t you just love when big media gets bloggy?)
