7/30/2009
Jose Gonzalez rose to prominence on a good cover song, which overshadowed much of his debut record. On his eagerly anticipated follow-up album, "In Our Nature," Gonzalez's original material shines through without interruption, though not necessarily for the best.Gonzalez's first album was most...
7/30/2009
Men's websites ban Megan Fox for a day.
Apparently it is possible to get too much of a good thing, even when that thing is the unbelievably beautiful Megan Fox.Several men's websites have declared a temporary ban on the "Transformers" actress, claiming that she has been overexposed.Asylum, an AOL blog geared towards men, has dubbed...
7/30/2009
Popular Australian band Men At Work are accused of plagiarizing their signature song.
A one-hit-wonder band from the 1980s is about to have their one-hit stripped away from them.Men At Work, an Australian band who made it big with their hit song Down Under, are being accused of plagiarizing the song's main melody. The BBC reports that Larrikin Music is suing Sony BMG and EMI for...
7/30/2009
Joe Jackson confirms that Michael had a fourth child.
The secrets of Michael Jackson's life just keep pouring out. Most recently, it was revealed that the King of Pop had a fourth child named Omer Bhatti, a 25-year-old aspiring rapper from Norway. Joe Jackson, the patriarch of the Jackson clan, confirmed the rumors in an interview with NewsOne. "Yes,...
7/29/2009
South Carolina man arrested after having sex with a horse for the second time.
If you thought United States politicians had deviant sex lives, wait until you read about Rodell Vereen. Vereen, a 50-year-old man from South Carolina, was recently arrested for having sex with a horse. To make matters even stranger, he was already on probation for having sex with the same horse...
7/15/2009
Either/Or is the stopover record between Elliott Smith's earlier Lo-Fi acoustic sound and the overly lush arrangements that began on "XO" and dominated the rest of his brief recording career. It is a very well produced album that still feels like it was recorded in Smith's basement."Either/Or"...
7/15/2009
Sigur Ros is the kind of band your roommate in college probably loved with great fanfare but you had trouble understanding why. They compose 9-minute epic songs with long buildups in the middle and usually sing in a language they made up called Hopelandic. They even created an album full of songs...
7/15/2009
This is the record you always hoped your friend in high school would make. These are the tunes you'd trek to late night shows in inconvenient locations just to hear. And after the show, you'd tell your friend he was a talented songwriter and good things would come one day, though of course you had...
7/14/2009
U2 may be the most well known band today still releasing new albums regularly. But once upon a time they were also one of the most talented and adventurous bands. No longer.
7/12/2009
Fleet Foxes sound a lot like Grizzly Bear if they ever got lost in the forest and started composing songs around a campfire. This Seattle outfit crafts songs with lush vocal harmonies that resemble the work of bands like America from back in the '60s and '70s. Their serene nature-centered lyrics...
