Tagged: unpleasantries

So The Runaways movie opens today, with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning prancing about trashing hotel rooms and leering and whatnot; our friends over at LA Weekly have a long, excellent featu... Continue reading ""It's Such A Greek Tragedy": LA Weekly Tracks The Sad Decline Of Runaways Drummer Sandy West" >

Here is a link to five-year-old music blog Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, which you will notice doesn't work, because Blogspot apparently wiped it out, much to PTST mastermind Patrick Duffy's public dism... Continue reading "NYC Music Site Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Apparently Obliterated By Blogspot" >

Here we have somewhat disquieting footage of the Monotonix dudes being profanely heckled as they very earnestly request medical assistance for lead singer Ami Shalev, who straight up broke his ... Continue reading "The Dude From Monotonix Broke His Leg Mid-Show Last Night In Florida" >

Courtesy of Sean Fennessey. First R. Kelly goes to #4 in the country, and now this. America we are better than what you see in the picture above. [@fennrock] ... Continue reading "Here Is A Photo of Some Empty Best Buy Racks Where Chris Brown's Graffiti Has Apparently Sold Out" >

One might assume the various news accounts circulating about the Sunday morning bus crash that landed both Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and his wife in the hospital were drawn from a terse, polite... Continue reading "The Harrowing Story of Weezer's New York State Bus Crash, Tour Cancellation" >

Yes, according to BBC News. The victim in question seems to have been Ekaterina Ivanova, who is all of...20 years old? And a cocktail waitress, apparently. Ronnie Wood is 62, and newly divorced (h... Continue reading "Did Rolling Stones Guitarist Ronnie Wood Just Get Arrested For Assaulting His Girlfriend?" >

The wretched irony of it being Elevator Safety Week in New York right now--a fact nobody bothered to tell the city's own building inspectors, apparently--gets just a little bit worse today with th... Continue reading "The Animated, Rapping Elevator Safety Campaign That Never Should Have Been" >

And so there is this, the revelation that after perpetrating a massive hoax at the cost of untold man hours, public resources, and our collective media dignity, the Heene still has so much more of... Continue reading "The Balloon Boy TV Theme Songs, or What Not To Do Right Now" >

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Though the Daily News freelancer Walter Dawkins surely bares some blame for the piece the paper ran in the late days of August about the revenge of rapper Roxanne Shante against her record label--... Continue reading "Roxanne Shante Apologizes, Sort Of" >

Ugh ugh ugh. I promise to stop posting about this when something more interesting or less increasingly depressing comes along. Would settle for just the latter. ... Continue reading "And Now, A Far Less Frivolous Collection Of Twitter Reponses to Kanye West's Latest Adventure" >

Well, it took 'em a minute, but the NYDN seems to be bowing before the Slate story that debunked much of their Roxanne Shante article. A correction ran in the paper today, and they've amended the ... Continue reading "The NYDN Admits the Error: The Roxanne Shante Story "Contained Several Statements That Were, Or May Be, False."" >

We do not get paid enough to give the play by play of Larry King's interview with Chris Brown (his first since assaulting Rihanna earlier this year), which is alternately halting and stuttering ... Continue reading "Jeez, Chris Brown, Do Better" >

Ug. Slate seems to have debunked the story the NYDN ran a few weeks ago about Roxanne Shante, which claimed that "a forgotten clause in her first record deal" had allowed her to stick Warner Broth... Continue reading "Was That Roxanne Shante Education Story in the Daily News Completely False?" >

So there you have it. As of 2:30, APW Sunday has been delayed for at least a few hours: Twitter chatter, which I encourage you to monitor before making the trek yourself, suggests a several-hou... Continue reading "All Points West Sunday: The Show Will Go On" >

Gathering of the Vibes Festival, the 14-year-old lark of a four-day concert in Bridgeport, Connecticut, concluded its 2009 edition on Sunday in a deluge of rain, Grace Potter, CSN, and Buddy Gu... Continue reading "It's All Fun and Games Until Somebody Dies at the Gathering of the Vibes Fest" >

Alarming news: Per the video update above, Adam Yauch has been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his parotid (salivary) gland and will start treatment, including radiation, immediately, which wil... Continue reading "Beastie Boys Cancel Shows/Push Back Album: Adam Yauch Diagnosed With (Treatable) Parotid Gland Tumor" >

US Weekly with the coup. The music's pretty portentous, sure, but this was still way funnier in the abstract. Yikes. ... Continue reading "Here, Then, Is the Footage of Michael Jackson's Hair Catching on Fire in 1984" >

Further evidence that the classic-album tour trend has gone off the rails: the official word that Aerosmith will be performing Toys in the Attic in its entirety at Jones Beach next week and Madison Sq... Continue reading "This Classic-Album-Tour Trend Is Nifty and All, But Does the World Really Need Aerosmith to Do Toys in the Attic?" >

Having spent more time than I'd generally care to admit following the bubbleheaded, utopian antics of Hugh Hefner's then-girlfriends on drama-free E! juggernaut The Girls Next Door ("It's Wednesday... Continue reading "Let Us (Briefly) Address the Appalling Theme Song to Girls Next Door Spinoff Kendra" >

Fresh off an evidently triumphant three-night stand at Bowery Ballroom by these L.A. punk deities comes the sobering news that they're mortal: X's PR has released a statement from singer/poet/warrio... Continue reading "X's Exene Cervenka Diagnosed With Multiple Sclerosis" >