Tim Jonze half-slags off a slew of bands who rip off Joy Division by way of Joy Division imitators in a piece entitled “Songs ripping off songs ripping off Joy Division.” Ha. The watered-down effect is inevitable with iconic bands, but it grows more amusing as the degrees separate further. Editors is to Joy Division […]

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Billy Corgan’s delusional behavior reached new levels of cry-baby over-reactionary absurdity this week when he swore off albums in favor of "radio-friendly" singles. He’s not eschewing albums for any forward-thinking, technological reason. No, it’s just a defensive, knee-jerk reaction to the fact that nobody listened to his band’s latest crap record. Obviously, his first mistake […]

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For the cover of his forthcoming record, Years of Refusal, a fairly masculine-looking Morrissey is rocking a Fred Perry, sleeves rolled, and carelessly unbuttoned to reveal Magnum P.I.’s chest hair. Awesome. Not sure what’s up with the crazy metallic disease on his arm, much less the baby.  But if the music is anywhere near as […]

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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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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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According to various sources, The New Yorker is standing behind its story that Prince has besmirched the gay lifestyle with some bible-thumping judgement high atop his purple throne. Prince’s minions are denying any of this, of course, with typically half-assed "out of context" excuses. No one wants to be publicly blackballed as a bigot, but […]

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