When Beck released Midnite Vultures in 1999, he “wanted it to sound like Captain Beefheart produced by Puff Daddy — that was my grand concept,” according to an interview he...
Read MoreTen years ago this month, “Star Search” went off the air for good. The pioneering TV talent competition, which had its heyday during its Ed McMahon years from 1983 to...
Read MoreFresh off his star turn playing “Locked Out Of Heaven” on Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl half-time show, Keyboard Cat is now the star of another major televised event, the Academy...
Read MoreA longer version of this article first appeared on Yahoo Music. IFC’s sleeper-hit sketch comedy show Portlandia, helmed by punk musician-turned SNL cast member-turned-Seth Meyers bandleader Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney/Wild...
Read MoreA longer version of this article first appeared on Yahoo Music. When Miley Cyrus kissed Katy Perry (and liked it) at her Staples Center show this past Saturday, the Interweb...
Read MoreRandy Jackson may no longer be a judge on “American Idol,” but the Dawg is still in the house this season, albeit in a mentoring role. With the show now...
Read MoreThere were exactly three reasons to watch the Super Bowl this weekend: Bruno Mars’s explosive-as-a-grenade halftime show, Joe Namath’s seemingly Macklemore-inspired coat, and Radio Shack’s totally rad, ’80s-inspired commercial. (Please note,...
Read MoreToday, Philip Seymour Hoffman died. It feels weird just to type that. He was truly one of the finest actors of our time, or of any time, and his death...
Read MoreMove over, Andrew WK. You may have spoken at a My Little Pony convention, bizarrely, but there’s a new super-duper brony in Ponyville: Weird Al Yankovic, whose friendship truly is...
Read MoreIf Mötley Crüe is a band with nine lives, then they cashed in on number eight a long, long time ago — and somehow kept on going. Since forming 33...
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