Subject: MTV Video Music Awards

• Kaba Modern to Perform at the VMA Pre-Show

  Though UC Irvine-based hip-hop dance troupe only placed a disappointing third (when evvveryone knew they should have at least been second—c'mon America!) in the debut season of MTV's Best American Dance Crew, they're back for another competition: The chance to present at Sunday's Video Music Awards and $25,000 to their charity of choice. Viewers tuned in last Saturday as the top dance crews from both Season One and Two reconvened to dance to VMA-nominated videos—audiences then voted on th

  September 5, 2008

• Diary of a Mad County

  September 11, 2003

• Tickets for KIIS 102.7 FM Jingle Ball Going Fast

  As far as these things go, the lineup for this year's "KIIS 102.7 FM Jingle Ball," Dec. 6 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, is fairly impressive. And by "these things," of course I mean a concert where pre-fab, manufactured teeny bopper acts perform 15 minute sets in the name of promoting a radio station owned by a scary multinational corporation (in this instance, Clear Channel). But still. Solid. So it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that tickets, which just went on sale this past Saturday,

  November 10, 2008

• Trendzilla

  August 3, 2006

• Do Not Disturb the Sexy!

  September 26, 2002

• Fear the smoking police!

  September 20, 2001

• Lost Weekend

  November 2, 2000

• 18 Reasons Sammy Davis Jr. Beats Michael Jackson in Heavenly Greatest Entertainer Who Ever Lived Smackdown

  Barry Gordy eulogizes Michael Jackson.At Michael Jackson's moving memorial in the Staples Center Tuesday, Motown founder Berry Gordy eulogized that the title "King of Pop" was not big enough for Jacko, calling him "simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived."Somewhere in Heaven, Sammy Davis Jr. fumes.See, it's been universally accepted that Sammy was the greatest entertainer who ever lived. Now that both he and MJ are sharing the bill at the Great Rendezvous Ballroom in the Sky, it behooves

  July 8, 2009

• Incoming: The Big Pink, Le Loup at Detroit Bar

  Tom BeardThe Big Pink, lovin' life.​If you're not still reeling from the OMG TOTALLY SHOCKING AND CONTROVERSIAL MTV Video Music Awards (that Kanye West, will he ever learn?), you might be pleased to hear about some neato shows coming our way in the near future, featuring bands that may not be featured on nationally televised award shows but are pretty cool nonetheless.

  September 14, 2009

• Kanye West and Lady Gaga Set to Bring VMA Controversy to Anaheim

  Chris Victorio​Heard anything about Kanye West lately? The usually reserved rapper/producer/tireless self-promoter has uncharacteristically made a tiny amount of headlines these last couple of days, but you've probably missed them. (Seriously, though, it must be weird to be called a jackass by the president, off the record to not.)Well, now that he's gotten all of the "crushing happy moments in beloved teenage girls' lives" out of his system, he's about to start a new tour, one that's coming t

  September 15, 2009

• Kanye West Photoshop Craze in Full Effect

  ​Move over, lolcats. The hot new Photoshopped macro thing is all about Kanye West, playing off the infamous Taylor Swift Incident (TM) at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards. You can find dozens of such images--of wildly varying degrees of funniness--right here. It's weird how many of them have to do with Pokemon. The Mortal Kombat one up there is probably my favorite right now (not sure why, but Reptile is probably the funniest MK character to reference in that spot), though a couple more good on

  September 16, 2009

• Travis Barker: More Hip Hop than Hip Hop

  ​Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has had plenty of side gigs over the years. Box Car Racer and 44 both featured other Blink members, while a duo called TRV$DJAM included his friend Adam Goldstein. Known as DJ AM, Goldstein, of course, was with Barker in a Learjet crash that killed four people in September, 2008, and he died late last month in an apparent drug overdose.

  September 17, 2009

• 'Fame Kills' Killed; Kanye West and Lady Gaga Scrap Tour

  ​From the "well, you kind of had to see this coming" department: Kanye West and Lady Gaga have canceled their much-publicized, co-headlining "Fame Kills" tour, which was to stop at Anaheim's Honda Center on November 15. (Yes, surely a lot of people are going to be using "'Fame Kills' Killed." Who could resist?)

  October 1, 2009

• Kanye West/Lady Gaga Anaheim Show (And Tour) in Doubt?

  S. Affandi, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.​That previously announced Kanye West/Lady Gaga "Fame Kills" tour, scheduled to stop at the Honda Center in Anaheim on November 15? Yeah, now there's some amount of uncertainty to if that whole thing's actually happening.

  September 17, 2009

• Before It Gets Old: Kanye Interrupts Obama

  Sure, you're probably already way beyond sick of hearing about Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards (or possibly just sick from Lady Gaga's fake blood-stained performance, but we thought it was pretty rad). But this mash-up video by "freeyourpixels," briefly exploring the heretofore unknown connection between Kanye and Joe Wilson, is just so obvious--yet elegant in its simplicity and perfectly executed--it's no surprise it was up within a couple hours of the actual VMA incident. It's already

  September 14, 2009

• WTF File: Kanye West's short film "We Were Once A Fairy Tale" directed by Spike Jonze

  ​You gotta hand it to Kanye, he's never too self-conscious to take a risk. Over the weekend, his short film, We Were Once A Fairy Tale, directed by Spike Jonze (currently riding high on his Where The Wild Things Are success), finally unveiled itself to the masses following almost two month's worth of internet hype and speculation. The film, clocking in at a brisk 11 minutes, shows West in what most people would perceive to be his natural state of VMA-style jackassery as he stumbles around into

  October 19, 2009