Highly amusing, snark-fueled take-down of Britney’s MTV documentary Britney: For the Record, where the tag line "No topic was off limits…No question went unanswered" becomes obvious bullshit. Bottom line: Britney is still just as crazy/vapid/superficial/clueless as ever, just with stricter monitoring of her career by a swarm of handlers. So, the crazy is just barely […]

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I ‘m not sure what specific demographic this is aimed at, but I’m sure it will probably catch on with the expressive types, those who simply must have a slogan to represent how they feel in varying flavors of t-shirt. i/denti/tee offers a new line of shirts that come with your favorite lyrics printed on […]

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Digging the new Lily Allen album art. Pink dress, black veil. The clever twist on an old relationship cliche as a title is not quite as good as Stuck on the Naughty Step would have been, but it’ll work. Lyrically, Allen’s been working the fame-bashing angle as of late, which treads perilously close to self-mockery, […]

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And it’s not just the NME reporting. Billboard and Rolling Stone are in on the action now too. The band is set to play Hyde Park in London on July 3, 2009. Rumors of other big shows are just rumors at this point, but the activity is for real. I saw Blur in 2003 in […]

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Cursive is about 99% through with its follow-up to 2006’s Happy Hollow, posting this update on its website Monday: "We are all done mixing and have been for a bit but have been working on tweaks and sequence and other fun stuff that no one will ever notice or care about." The band has posted […]

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Of all the ridiculous things to be afflicted with as a boy growing up, King of Leon singer Caleb Followill suffered from anorexia. Come on. Man, few things get less sympathy than a dude "suffering" from anorexia. Perhaps, that’s sexist. But rarely are men under the same amount of body-image scrutiny that women are, particularly […]

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The douchebag who directed Napolean Dynomite still tries to maintain his story that he had no idea that Elvis Costello came up with his movie’s title over two decades ago for his album Blood & Chocolate. Costello is rightfully annoyed: "The guy just denies completely that I made the name up. But I invented it." […]

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