Video: The Muppet Show - Elton John

Tomorrow would be Jim Henson's 75th birthday. We baked him this. And then we watched this, and we fucking cried like little crybabies who left their teddy bears at the supermarket and then ha... Continue reading "Happy Birthday Jim Henson! Our Favorite Musical Muppet Moments" >

The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival opening night announcement has been the buzz of the city for the past few weeks , with lots of questions circling about how New Yorkers can get a seat at the free outdoor screening of Cameron Crowe's documentary, The Union . Set to premiere at 8:15 pm on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, The Union chronicles the making of the 2010 album of the same name, a collaboration between pop icon Elton John and legendary rock 'n' roll keyboardist Leon Russell. Crowe is, of [...]

We're just mere days away from the start of the first Phish festival since Coventry - Festival 8. Among the possible remaining albums Phish may cover is Elton John's sprawling and slightly underrated double-LP Goodbye Yellow Brick Road . While we're not quite sure Trey or Page could hit some of the high notes on this one, it may make for a fun night - check out the album's title track from this performance on The Muppet Show... Elton John - Goodbye Yellow [...]

The artwork for rap artist Ghostface's forthcoming album, The Wizard of Poetry , takes as its inspiration L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fable, The Wizard of Oz , in which a young American girl, displaced from her rural home, must travel to the Emerald City to obtain assistance from a kind-hearted wizard. The girl acquires a small band of companions, whom she helps to overcome various personal failings while traveling to the city. However, at journey's end, Dorothy comes to understand the [...]

Paul Simon sings, "Been a Long Long Day." He looks so young there (in that polo, he looks like he could be in Vampire Weekend). And this song is beautiful. Elton John, "Yellow Brick Road." This is my favorite Elton song, and one of my favorite songs overall. —eh