Giorgio Moroder Has Moved On From Daft Punk To HAIM
Two of the year’s music MVPs are working together. No, not Alison Gold and the “What Does the Fox Say?” dudes. It’s Giorgio Moroder and HAIM. The former has been around for decades, but was introduced...
View ArticleJay Z’s Best And Worst Albums, According To Jay Z
A few months ago, around the time Yeezus was all, “More like Magna Carta Holy FAIL, I ranked all of Kanye and Jay Z’s albums, from worst to best. At the bottom, among Hova’s releases: The Blueprint 3....
View ArticleYou’ll Feel Like You’re High After Watching David Bowie’s ‘I’d Rather Be...
David Bowie might rather be high, but the rest of us? NO THANKS. Watching the music video for “I’d Rather Be High” while actually high would be a traumatizing experience, especially the part where the...
View ArticleWant To Feel Like A Virgin Again? Then This Fake Hymen Is For You.
It was the summer of 1993. You and Johnny had been going out for seven months. It was a long enough time. You were ready. So, one night, after catching a screening of The Beverly Hillbillies, you and...
View Article8 Disney Songs From Your Childhood That Are Secretly Punk Rock
Walt Disney’s Frozen Head turned 102 today. He passed away in 1966, the same year rock moved from Pat Boone to Pet Sounds. A year later, The Velvet Underground & Nico would come out, and, along...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Searched-For Shows In 2013 Include 7 Shows You Probably Don’t Watch
On one hand, Bing released their most searched-for TV shows of the year. The Big Bang Theory is at the top, for The Big Bang Theory will one day envelop us all (/types “when will big bang theory kill...
View ArticleH. Jon Benjamin Voices The Worst Cartoon Characters Ever
Sterling Archer is confidence, Bob Belcher is softly sad, and Coach McGuirk is rudely incompetent, but really, they’re all H. Jon Benjamin, who admits in a new video for Official Comedy that all his...
View ArticleJack White Played A Coen Brothers-Approved Reimagining Of ‘We’re Going To Be...
To accompany the release of Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen Brothers’ sure-to-be excellent film about the 1960s folk scene in New York, Showtime will air a special called Another Day, Another Time next...
View ArticleHere’s The Last Song The Walkmen Might Ever Play Together
Pour one out for the Walkmen, and pour seven into your mouth. The only band that truly understood what it’s like to get sad-drunk while wearing a suit recently announced their “extreme hiatus,” which...
View ArticleHere Are Some Non-Craptacular ‘Simpsons’ Shirts You Should Buy (For Yourself)
A few months ago, Threadless ran a contest where Simpsons fans could submit t-shirt designs. The only restrictions: no pink and no iron-on Mad Magazine logos. The last time I saw one of those was back...
View ArticleWhat’s On Tonight: NBC’s ‘The Sound Of Music’ Cost As Much As ‘Blackwater’
The Sound of Music Live! (NBC, 8 p.m.) — This garbage cost A LOT. Almost ten million dollars, actually, which is why NBC is expecting to lose money. That’s about as much as it cost to film...
View ArticleDaft Punk Has An ‘Instant Crush’ On Julian Casablancas In Their New Video
I like looking at Julian Casablancas. No, not in THAT way (well, maybe a little in THAT way). I like looking at him because Jules is permanently stuck in 2001-via-1968, from the way he dresses to the...
View ArticleKendrick Lamar’s Beats By Dre Commercial Is Dr. Dre’s Greatest Contribution...
Dr. Dre made more in 2013 than the Spin Doctors, Doctor & the Medics, Dr. John, and Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show have earned their entire careers. (This is a lot more impressive when you...
View ArticleNoel Gallagher On Arcade Fire: They Need To ‘Pry Themselves Out Of Their Own...
Having punched every man, woman, and baby in the U.K., Noel Gallagher, who knows a thing or two about shoving one’s head up one’s ass so far that the stink becomes all you know, has moved onto dissing...
View ArticleNBC To Cancel ‘Parks And Recreation,’ Air Live Musicals Every Thursday...
Or so NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt wishes, as last night’s The Sound of Music Live! with Vampire Bill pulled in absurd, best-ratings-for-NBC-since-the-series-finale-of-ER numbers. Facing...
View ArticleHere Are All 50 U.S. States Presented In Delightful LEGO Form
Do you like LEGOs? Of course you do. Everyone likes LEGOs. Unless you’re an employee of BIG MEGA BLOCK, you monster. For the rest of us, though, it’s been a good week: first, there was the LEGO...
View ArticleRashida Jones: 2013 Is The ‘Year Of The Very Visible Vagina’
Ann Perkins is moving away from Pawnee, but the actress who plays her, Rashida Jones, isn’t moving past tsk-tsking Miley Cyrus’s vagina. Hey, speaking of terrible ledes, Jones led Glamour down a...
View ArticleToday Is Every Pervert’s Favorite Holiday: Work In The Nude Day
As a stay-at-home blogger, every day can be/is Work in the Nude Day, as the cable man tragically found out that one time. Yes, there’s nothing like making fun of Guy Fieri while your guy’s flapping in...
View ArticleChildish Gambino Hates Smiling, Loves Teddy Bears In The ’3005′ Music Video
Childish Gambino can do whatever he wants, but does he have to look so glum while doing it? Once Donald Glover puts on his Gambino pants, which are exactly like his normal pants but without cookie...
View ArticleMichael Jackson’s ‘Man In The Mirror’ Without All Those Pesky Instruments Is...
If you love Michael Jackson but hate instruments, have we got a video for you: it’s the isolated vocals track version of the majestic “Man in the Mirror,” the King of Pop’s 1988 mega-hit single about...
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