This weekend’s season finale of Saturday Night Live goes out with a bang (in the head) with Kanye West performing and Ben Affleck hosting. Today, NBC posted the awkward teaser trailer featuring Kanye West, Ben Affleck, and Fred Armisen. Fred Armisen poses as “that awkward guy” with Kanye West and Ben Affleck providing mostly deadpan commentary. Kanye West also sported [...]

King Kong is getting the musical treatment and has quite an interesting score. Among arrangements from producer Marius de Vries, the score also features music from Justice, Massive Attack, and The Avalanches (!!). This would be the first new material from The Avalanches (who may have an album out before the Apocalypse), since their 2000 album Since I Left You. [...]

GREAT ODIN’S RAVEN!  It looks like Kanye West will be showing off his acting chops in the highly anticipated Anchorman: The Legend Continues, set to come out in December. Details are stingy, but West was spotted in Atlanta while the cast and crew were filming a big fight scene.  Could it be battle of the news teams part two?  Will [...]

The Spin Doctors will always be an electric funk/blues jam band who pen incredibly catchy pop/rock tunes to me. Whoever has followed their career from the beginning, or who has seen them perform live, will share the same opinion. Others, however, may only remember them from their 90s pop radio hits Two Princes and Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong off [...]

The Lonely Island are returning to rule the world of comedy hip hop with their third studio album, The Wack Album.  With new songs from The Lonely Island come new videos from The Lonely Island, so when we saw the fifteen second TV spot, we were STOKED. The TV spot didn’t tell us much or preview any new material, but [...]

We’ve got fests on fests on fests, and Bumbershoot is yet another to come forth with an incredible lineup for 2013.  The Seattle music & arts festival has a lengthy list of impressive acts that any festival lover would be thrilled to see, covering genres from indie, to EDM, to rock, to hip-hop. One of the biggest selling points (and [...]

To some, twerking is an art form. To others, twerking is an attention-grabbing technique.  Unfortunately, to 33 unlucky San Diego Scripps High School students, twerking to them will be forever known as the booty-poppin’ dance that got them suspended. The group was suspended after a video was posted on YouTube, and word got out that it was filmed during the [...]

Rapper Kitty, previously known as Kitty Pryde, has weighed in on the incident that occurred this past Friday night when a female fan performed oral sex on Kitty’s tourmate, Danny Brown, during his set without his consent. While Kitty is often cheeky and easy-going in both her songs and personality, she took the time to write a lengthy, intelligent article [...]

The always controverisal leader of Odd Future, Tyler, The Creator finds himself in the middle of another controversy. This time around, it seems that Pepsi Co pulled Tyler, The Creator’s Mountain Dew ads, because they been deemed “racist” by the general public. Author and scholar, Dr. Boyce D. Watkins went as far as even calling the commercial “arguably the most [...]

In response to the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death, many Britons celebrated by tweeting “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” – a reference to the scene in the Wizard of Oz movie when the munchkins found out the wicked witch was dead. A Facebook group then launched a campaign to take the song to the top of the UK music [...]