Like Peter Cushing prying open a creaky wooden coffin in a dank cavern and smashing a wooden stake through Christopher Lee's rotting, 700-year-old chest, pop's gallant hero Lady GaGa continues to erase any need for Ye Olde Vampyre Madonna. This time the feat comes in the U.K., where Lady GaGa is at ...

Obviously, we need to talk about the new song that takes over the top of Billboard's Hot 100, and the mind-blowing record it sets. But before we do that, let's talk about Hilary Swank. I find Swank's movie career totally incomprehensible: She either wins Oscars, or she tanks. Not even Meryl Streep h...

Did you ever think you'd see the day when Pete Burns would have a writing credit on a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100? Unless you've been living under a tarp covering a dead hooker in a dumpster (speaking of Pete Burns...), you'll know by now that Flo Rida's latest jam "Right Round" uses the melo...

Celebrity rags are always ragging on famous ladies who get an (alleged) nip and/or a tuck. Well, now we’re giving it to a few of the men. We’ll start with Thierry Mugler, who has done gone lost his mind. The former all-star designer, pictured with Jean-Paul Gaultier in 1993, decided to t...

Robbie Daw presents a weekly pop music update here on Towleroad! Robbie runs his own site called Chart Rigger. Many of you -- yes, that means you, buster --are probably reading this while at work. But while some of us are counting the minutes as the day wears on, as Cyndi Lauper points out in a Q&A ...

I took this pic in Italy last month, thinking it was very "springtime." That's right -- look the F out, Western art world! Jeez, y'all are suckers for schmaltz! Earlier this week I did a somewhat personal, nostalgic "Throwback" post ("These Are Days You'll Remember"), and between the e-mails and com...

Former Dead or Alive singer Pete Burns has split with his partner Michael Simpson 10 months after entering into a civil partnership, and he's bitter, very bitter. Burns slams gay relationships and civil partnerships to The Daily Mail, lamenting that heterosexual marriages are more genuine and longin...

"I just wish it was 1987 again, and Pete was still signed to a major and making great pop records. All this reality TV shit has killed a part of him. He was one of pop's greatest mysteries at one time, now he's on the internet getting rimmed... *inserts sad face*" [Popjustice]...

Uh oh! The Pete Burns sex tape is turning out to be no laughing matter! The U.K. reality TV whore has posted on his website that he was concerned for his health because he had been in a monogamous relationship with his ex-boyfriend, they practiced "unsafe" sex and he's found out the bf cheated on hi...

Vigil held for Father Mychal Judge on eve of Pope's Ground Zero visit: "He had a heart as big as New York. There was room for everybody. We wish that our church had room for everybody, and that was one of our prayers tonight, that our church would be welcoming, especially those who feel excluded, es...