My appreciation for the Weezer catalog ends with Pinkerton. Everything since has been pretty consistently terrible, particularly the “Beverly Hills”-era, though I do have a soft spot for that “Hash Pipe” single off the Green record. But beyond that, bad news all around. So, Weezer songs in 2009 seem beyond crazy to me, not to […]

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Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen, the sixteen year-old actress who plays Jenny Humphrey on the teen soap, fronts a band called Pretty Reckless. Of course, she does. This is the third cast member to parlay tween fame into a burgeoning music career. Ed Westwick has his Pete Doherty homage and Leighton Meester has been testing the […]

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I was expecting this cover of Kim Carnes’ 1981 #1 hit “Bettie Davis’ Eyes” to be beyond awful, but Leighton Meester a/k/a Blair Waldorf of Gossip Girl can actually sing. And pretty damn well. With decent phrasing and everything. The music is sort of cheesy electro faddish, but Meester’s vocals save it. Apparently, she’s working […]

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If you’re one of the people who watches Gossip Girl religiously and was wondering what that song from the Season 2 Promos was, consensus seems to be Ca Plane Pour Moi by Plastic Bertrand. And yes, this does make 2 French songs in a row. WTF?! Random.

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