An UPROXX Investigation: Are There More ‘SNL’ Musical Monologues Now More...
It’s one of the most common criticisms of SNL these days, right up there “IT’S NOT AS FUNNY AS IT USED TO BE”: there are too many monologues where the host sings. It doesn’t matter if they’re an...
View ArticleHear An Unreleased Nas Freestyle From The ‘Illmatic’ Era
Yo, what the f*ck is this bullsh*t on the radio, son? Because it’s not a freestyle Nas did on The Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show back in 1993, a few short months before Illmatic put us in a New...
View ArticleThe Year’s Best Rock Album So Far Gets The Old School Music Video It Deserves
Don’t let the name fool you: there’s nothing anonymous about the Men. Yesterday, the impossible-to-Google band released their stellar third album, Tomorrow’s Hits, and if you enjoy listening to the...
View ArticleThe YouTube Comments For Jeff Dunham’s ‘Achmed Saves America’ Speak The Truth
This race is over: as sure as True Detective is going to sweep the Miniseries categories at the Emmys, Jeff Dunham’s Achmed Saves America will take home ALL the Oscars next year. It doesn’t matter...
View ArticleMeet The Most Unlikely Porn Star On The Planet, A 54-Year-Old Economist
Hope you’re ready for some hot economic action. Timothy Taylor is an economist (oh yeah) and managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (uh-huh) who has found a very specific kind of...
View ArticleKaty Perry’s Surprise Second Career Is Really Hot
While touring in Australia, human scoop of cotton candy ice cream Katy Perry dropped by morning news show Sunrise to show off her skills as a meteorologist, presumably inspiring thousands of “the only...
View ArticleIs Donald Glover Returning To ‘Community’?
The Internet has taught me to trust nothing and no one, especially if hoverboards are involved (or really anything having to do with Back to the Future). But ESPECIALLY if it’s some jag toying with my...
View ArticleWho Said It: Tom Waits Or Rust Cohle?
Getty Image Both are mysterious outsiders who seem to exist not of any time or place on this planet. Both are fascinated with existential dread. Both have superb facial hair. Tom Waits and Rust Cohle...
View ArticleHear Big Boi’s Song Inspired By ‘Game Of Thrones,’‘Mother Of Dragons’
CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND It’s no “Hodor (Hodor Remix),” but “Mother of Dragons” will have to do. Big Boi has shared his contribution to HBO’s Game of Thrones-inspired mixtape Catch the Throne, and in case...
View ArticleAnna Kendrick’s Oscars Weekend Was Full Of Aubrey Plaza, Burgers, And Corsets
Getty Image With all due respect to Jennifer Lawrence and Pizza Delievery Guy, the person who attended this year’s Oscars ceremony that I’d most want to split a milkshake with is Anna Kendrick. In...
View ArticleThis New Extremely Illegal App Feature Could Change The Way You Watch TV
Oh boy, TVShow Time sounds great! French startup TVShow Time just added a major new feature for its social platform for TV show enthusiasts. Not only can you keep track of your progress in your...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Hipster Bands You’ve Never Heard Of
Getty Image It’s Spike Lee’s nightmare: the Hipster Music Index. The fine folks at Priceonomics, with their twirly mustaches and acoustic guitars covered with stickers of synths, applied their “data...
View ArticleA Tattoo Artist In Brooklyn Inked His Own Dog
INSTAGRAM “One of the many reasons my dog is cooler than yours,” said the Brooklyn (strike one) tattoo artist (strike two) on Instagram (andddddd you’re out), bragging about his pet showing some new...
View ArticleWhat’s On Tonight: ‘Suits,’‘Sirens,’ And ‘Scandal’
Community (NBC, 8 p.m.) — I don’t know what’s going on here, but I like it. Parks and Recreation (NBC, 8:30 p.m.) — Leslie’s efforts to take down the wall separating Eagleton and Pawnee yield...
View ArticleThe Show With The Best Music On TV Is Getting The Soundtrack It Deserves
I wish I could un-lose my virginity, so that I could lose it again to the Bob’s Burgers soundtrack, and not a Dave Matthews Band song with as many sick solos as minutes I lasted (zero) (it was 20...
View ArticleA 70-Year-Old Italian Man ‘Accidentally’ Hired His Son’s Girlfriend As An Escort
Getty Image Did you hear the one about the elderly Italian man who accidentally hired his 40-year-old son’s South American girlfriend as an escort? When she arrived at the door, he complained, “I asked...
View ArticleAll Men (And Women) Must Listen To HBO’s ‘Catch The Throne’ Mixtape
It’s crass, product-driven marketing…at its finest! The Catch the Throne mixtape is HBO’s blatant attempt to reach the “urban and Latin American” markets, all in the name of getting more eyeballs on...
View ArticleThe Secret Duke Porn Star Went On CNN To Proclaim Her Love For What She’s Doing
The CNN article about Belle Knox, Duke’s most famous porn star, begins as such: Waiting tables at your neighborhood Applebee’s. Logging a few barrista shifts at the campus coffee shop. Even spending...
View ArticleDanny McBride Tells Us Who Kenny Powers Wants For #TrueDetectiveSeason2
Danny McBride was in Austin, Texas this week, not for SXSW (though I imagine there are at least seven indie-pop bands named after Kenny Powers quotes), but to attend the Texas Film Awards, where he,...
View ArticleHere’s The One App You’ll Need To Make It Through SXSW: ‘Avoid Humans’
Getty Image I moved to Austin, Texas, three months ago because I figured, hey, good tacos and cheap beer, what’s not to like? Well, that’s before I got stuck in an hour of traffic, as opposed to the...
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