U2 to Headline Glastonbury 2010
Festivals don’t get bigger than Glastonbury. And bands don’t get bigger than U2. How the two haven’t paired up before now, in retrospect, seems kinda crazy. But it’s finally happened: The Irish juggernauts will headline next year’s Glastonbury Festival, its 40th anniversary, which will go down June 25-27, 2010.... read more
RiffTrax and "Weird Al" Yankovic Mock Rudolph on the Big Screen
Unless you’re one of the six people who thought Jingle All the Way was a good movie, chances are, when you see hokey Christmas flicks, you crack jokes to yourself or the similarly-sarcastic folks around you. Well, this Christmas, you’ll be in good company. On Dec. 16, the wise-cracking RiffTrax crew will take on “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and an assortment of other already-hilarious Christmas shorts and commercials. Best of all, they’ll broadcast the whole thing live to 480 theaters across the country.... read more
Twilight: New Moon Breaks Midnight and Opening-Weekend Records
Twlight: New Moon became the number one midnight theatrical showing of all time. On top of the midnight records, it earned staggering box-office numbers this weekend, taking over the number three spot for the biggest opening weekend of all time.... read more
Avett Brothers Release Jody Hill-Directed Music Video, Announce Spring Tour
With their new video for “Slight Figure of Speech,” the Avett Brothers have tapped into one of America’s best late night activities. Infomercials! The song itself is tucked into several minutes of Andy Daly (Semi-Pro, Reno 911) playing a clueless home-shopping host before he introduces his next product: a real, live band!... read more
Michael Moorcock Set to Write Dr. Who Novel
Influential fantasy novelist Michael Moorcock told the world via his online forum that he will pen the next Dr. Who novel, which will continue the book series that began in the mid-1960s.... read more
Björk Contributes Song to Children's Film
Details of Björk’s latest project may strike as oddly familiar, with a children’s tale serving as inspiration. But instead of Wild Things, the Icelandic songstress will be singing with hippo-like trolls and donkey-like tails in mind, as she lends songs to the theatrical production of Moomins and the Comet Chase.... read more
HBO, The Wire Producers to Adapt Rolling Stone Writer's Appetite for Self-Destruction
Producers of The Wire will soon focus on the downfalls and digital downloads characterizing today’s music industry.... read more
Best of What's Next: Carrie Preston: Blood, Sweat and Twang
Hometown: Macon, Ga. Film/Show: That Evening Sun, True Blood For Fans Of: Amy Adams, William Gay, vampires Hollywood is littered with young starlets who come out of nowhere, land a big role and suddenly get their images splayed across gossip pages and men’s magazines. But Carrie Preston’s ascent has been slow and steady. The 42-year-old has made the most of every role—first bit parts in films like Transamerica and The Stepford Wives, then guest spots on TV shows like Arrested Development and Sex and the City and, more recently, as Arlene Fowler on HBO’s vampire drama True Blood.... read more
Meet the New Simpsons Character, Ricardo Bombo
If you’ve been following The Simpsons’ create-a-character contest that ensued last month, you’ll be interested to know the wait is finally over. The show has selected a winner whose cartoon creation will be featured in the series’ 20th Anniversary episode.... read more
Judd Apatow Hints at Pineapple Express Sequel
The man who brought M.I.A. to the masses with the awesome trailer usage of “Paper Planes” is now considering a sequel to his stoner bromance flick.... read more
Tori Amos: Midwinter Graces
Famously idiosyncratic songwriter continues mid-career slump with album of holiday songs Given that holiday-themed releases are just a step above albums of pop standards on the continuum slumping toward creative irrelevancy, Midwinter Graces presents a career crossroads for Tori Amos. Having long wandered between pagan and Christian themes, here Amos attempts to combine the familiar spirit of well-known Christmas carols with Winter Solstice mysticism but eventually sinks into the same sentimentality and overproduction that often mars her more conventional projects. Struggling to stick to the script, her rendition of “Star of Wonder” starts off shrouded in a haze of pattering... read more
Listen Up: Mending A Heart With What Broke It (Or, I Love The Everybodyfields, Vol. 392)
It's been six months since the split... read more
Best of What's Next: Shelley Short
Shelley Short grew up in Oregon, in an home that always stayed warm... read more
The Oprah Winfrey Show to End in Sept. 2011
Daytime television authority Oprah Winfrey announced today that her talk show will end after 25 years of running, marking Sept. 9, 2011 the final episode date.... read more
Roland Emmerich Unveils Independence Day Sequels
There’s just something about the idea of the world being ripped to pieces that gets the box-office bees buzzing, no matter how exhausted the story arcs may be. Roland Emmerich doesn’t give cinema anything new with his latest disaster flick, 2012, and he plans to keep that trend alive as he looks to make a couple more sequels to his 1996 blockbuster, Independence Day.... read more
What Will James Franco's General Hospital Experiment, Which Begins Today, Mean for His Career?
James Franco’s stint on General Hospital begins today. The marketing fanfare has been pretty epic, but the show’s core audience is not likely to expand despite the A-list presence, a fact that has led to the inevitable barbs “Well, at least no one will see him trying to ruin his career.”... read more
Pixies Play Fallon, Fans Pick Second Song on Twitter
Aside from his penchant for starring in bad Queen Latifah movies, Jimmy Fallon’s usually got the public’s interest in mind. A man of the people, if you will. With his affable persona and regular-dude smile, he emits a charming you-went-to-high-school-with-me vibe. Further proving this, when indie-rock icons the Pixies stop by his show on Nov. 24, viewers have the chance to vote on which song the band will play in addition to the classic “Debaser.”... read more
New Dead Weather Album Coming in 2010
Jack White supergroup the Dead Weather is already planning a 2010 sophomore record release, even though their debut, Horehound, has been out for less than a year.... read more
Jason Bitner (Ed.): Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves
Reminiscing the mix tape Blame it on Twitter, reality television, or the daily sprouting of self-chronicling blogs, but it’s undeniable that we’re living in a voyeuristic culture. Catching glimpses into other’s slice-of-life moments is what we crave; a need that Cassette From My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves strives to fill.... read more
30 Rock Review: "Sun Tea" (episode 4.6)
The most tiresome thing about this season of 30 Rock has been the entire Dealbreakers plotline. There’s a lot of other gripes people have had, some well-founded, some not so much, but for my money the Dealbreakers thing has generally slowed things down and turned a somewhat funny joke into a running gag that lost its steam some time ago. It’s sadly a bit like what SNL will do by taking whatever success it accidentally stumbles upon and reusing it again and again until even hearing about it makes you cringe. Dealbreakers had become like that for me, and the... read more
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