White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was forced to acknowledge the We The People petition calling for Justin' Bieber's deportation. According to Mediaite, Carney was asked about the petition by NBC's Peter Alexander. Read More »
Remember how Lady Gaga told us that ARTPOP was going to be a full-scale cross-platform media experience? Well, apparently Mother Monster intends to come through with the rest of her promise, informing her army of Little Monsters that more ARTPOP is in the works. Read More »
The GLAAD Media Awards, a ceremony celebrating artists and media that depict gay and lesbian people in a fair light, have announced their nominees. Among the nominees are Vampire Weekend, Lady Gaga and Elton John, as well as TV shows like Glee, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Modern Family. Read More »
St. Vincent's "Digital Witness" has been the best song of this young year. The social media-averse, Byrne-ian track debuted month, and now it has a conformity-filled dystopian clip to match the themes of the St. Vincent cut. Read More »
As with literally anything that has ever or will ever happen, The Simpsons did it first. While these revelations usually come from eagle-eyed super fans of the show, the proof of The Simpsons predicting this Sunday's contest actually came from the cartoon's official Twitter account. Read More »
While many people are impressed when they learn of Grammy winner Lorde's age, a small subset of people become skeptical. This has led to a group of mostly kidding "truthers" on the hunt for the (allegedly) 17-year-old pop star's birth certificate. Read More »
This post is obviously going to be full of spoilers. Consider yourself warned. Ryan Murphy wrapped the thord season of American Horror Story: Coven (aka the season where he effectively squandered all his hard-earned goodwill) by revealing the the HBIC Supreme was... Read More »
Canadians who radically disprove commonly held assumptions about Canadians have to stick together, apparently. Somehow still mayor of Toronto Rob Ford defended (former) Canadian Justin Bieber in an appearance on the Washington, DC radio program The Sports Junkies. Read More »
I've heard the old ones talk of this "fun." They referred to the sport played at the center of the the NBA as "a game" and spoke of players with (and I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing this right)...personality? Those were the pre-Davidian years, though -as the prophecy has foretold- the 30-year-rule of Commissioner David Stern has come to an end. Happy days may soon return! Read More »
Alfonso Cuaron's equilibrium-shattering space film Gravity was loved by critics and audiences alike (myself included). The Sandra Bullock-led film is sitting at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and is up for a Best Picture Oscar. One person was genuinely displeased with the movie: the Internet's favorite curmudgeon, Louis CK. Read More »
The amount of truly influential artists we've lost in the last several months is staggering. On the rock end, Lou Reed passed away at the end of last year. Now, the man who is more responsible than any other for the folk explosion of the '50s and '60s (and the genre's continued importance), Pete Seeger has died at the age of 94. Read More »
Consider yourselves one-upped, Grammys. Rather than the garish publicity stunt of having a bunch of folks get married during a downright terrible song, Disney Channel has decided to address the idea of same-sex couples by treating them like the totally normal part of life that they are. Read More »
If this goes well, college freshman might have another poster to put on their walls. There is an off-Broadway musical coming that is based around the music of reggae legend Bob Marley. Read More »