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We Are The World 25 Debut

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Last Friday the “We Are The World” 25th Anniversary remake debuted. As Natalie pointed out in her post last week, this all-star collaboration is an interesting mix of publicity stunt and good intentions. However, the video is pretty cool to…

Oh My Grammys!

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Last night the 52nd Grammy Awards aired on CBS and here is a recap of Grammy highlights for those of you who missed the action.

The show opened with a fantastic performance by Lady Gaga of “Poker Face” (the winner…

This Is It Video Premiere

Monday, December 28th, 2009

The music video for Michael Jackson’s final song “This Is It,” directed by Spike Lee, just  premiered on his website 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks. Lee uses documentary footage he gathered rather than  using footage from the film of…

MJ flick just OK

Friday, October 30th, 2009

New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis called the posthumous Michael Jackson concert film This Is It, “a rushed and ragged monument to the man, his work and the commercial interests of those he left behind.”
Ouch. But does it…

Album Review: Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Check out this review of Julian Casablancas’ Phrazes for the Young via our buddies at A Future in Noise:

“Based on the press-hype around the album and the fact that Casablancas has been again looking like the picture of cool…

Listen to Michael Jackson’s “This is It”

Monday, October 12th, 2009

At midnight, Michael Jackson’s website released the posthumous song “This Is It”, which will be featured in the upcoming movie of the same name.

It’s a decent, slow jam of a track, imho–snappy with a motown feel abetted by the…

Michael Jackson Remembered at the Apollo Theater

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

It’s been a few days of intense Michael Jackson coverage all over the Internet, and it has been a bit of a sensory overload. But, I can’t help but share these moving pictures with you. Auditory Threshold was at the…

The King is Dead…

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Since none of our readers live in caves, you will have heard by now that Michael Jackson died of apparent cardiac arrest this afternoon.
Jackson was many things–some of them unusual, some of them awful–but he was, at his best,…

“The Beatles: Rock Band” and other redundancies

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Hey kids! Paul McCartney debuted footage from the upcoming release of the The Beatles: Rock Band videogame during a performance of “Got to get you into my life” at his Coachella set! Check it out.
Wait, wait. There’s a Beatles…

We are (still) the world, we are (still) the children…

Monday, January 19th, 2009

In every generation, in all times and places, you can be sure to find that solid core of celebrities and musicians up for donning one ear of a headset and swaying melodically in front of a studio mike while belting…