At this point, who hasn't covered the Phil Spector co-written classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"? Mariah Carey sang it on her 1994 Merry Christmas album, U2 on the 1987 Christmas compilation A Very Special Christmas. Original singer Darlene Love performs the tune every year on "The Late Show with David Letterman;" even Smash Mouth has their own, no doubt terrible, version.But my favorite version is from 2004's Maybe This Christmas Tree--check out the awesome cover by Shag up in the corn
The star of tonight's American Idol eighth (I know, only eight?) season premiere of American Idol is surely Katrina Darrell, already known the world over as "Bikini Girl." That clever nickname is derived from the fact that she wore a bikini to the audition, which seems to be the only reason she made it through despite a subpar version of Mariah Carey's "Vision of Love."Anyway, even though the auditions shown were shot in Phoenix, she's actually from Chino Hills (according to no less a source tha
Michael Jackson: still dead. If he wasn't, there wouldn't be that
public memorial tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the Staples Center, and we
wouldn't be here talking about it.
In fact, we're going to be able to do more than just talk about it. Our
guy Gabriel San Roman (check his story on new Nekromantix drummer Lux,
from last week's Weekly, here)
actually snagged one of the ever-elusive tickets to the service, and is
going to provide some coverage for us right here on this very blog. Should be quite t
In the show, tentatively titled "Single Serving", Lady Rushdie will play a woman who works "in the culinary world". It looks like she'll be leaving as host of Top Chef when the current series ends, although this has yet to be confirmed.This isn't her first acting job. Oh no. Her previous "credentials" (and I use the term veeeery lightly) include "starring" (ditto) alongside Mariah Carey in 2001's Glitter. Nuff said.
My never-ending quest to have fun in the middle of the week led me to karaoke at Alex's Bar last night. The room wasn't packed, but there were plenty of people for a Tuesday around midnight. After watching a few decent singers romp through tunes such as "Rapper's Delight," "Seven Nation Army" and "This is How We Do It," I took mental notes as to what not to do when you're rocking the karaoke mic.
September 11, 2001 was a lot of things, but it was also a Tuesday, meaning that it was the day new CDs were out in stores (the iTunes Store was still a year and a half away from existence--how did we survive back then?). And not just any records, but quite a few fairly significant ones. Here are six.​Bob Dylan, "Love and Theft"Dylan's 31st studio album, but the second of three late-career masterpieces released in the late '90s and early '00s (sandwiched between 1997's Time Out of Mind and 2006
