Katy Perry , whom I’m still waiting to hear back from about our cappuccino date, is hitting back at reports that she trashed her ex Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes at a recent tour stop in Los Angeles. This wasn’t said by her: Girls, if you have ever dated a boy - specifically the lead ...

There are two reasons that I'm glad I kept putting off my treatise on the very unfortunate Bob Dylan vs. will.i.am smackdown in honor of Pepsi: First, MTV News' James Montgomery pretty much summed up my thoughts on the overall "the present is kinda crappy, let's just OD on sugar" feel of the ad; and...

Lil Wayne doesn't hate Rochester; he just wants to give the people upstate the best show possible, according to his manager. “It would have been too difficult to travel with the entire band, then turn around and head to Calgary the next day. We didn’t want the Rochester fans to get any less of a...

In this day and age, celebrities who blog are cherished for their versatility and the way that they remind us how miserable our lives are in comparison, even on the internet! There’s Kanye West who only blogs about big breasted women and architecture, John Mayer who has to remind you that you ...

One of the year's most pleasurable pop confections came courtesy of a British soul singer who reeled in Americans by appealing to their innate narcissism. I speak, of course, of Estelle's lighter-than-air, Kanye-assisted ode to Yankees "American Boy," which first took hold of ears over here in Febru...

The rise of the artist blog as official mouthpiece in 2008 may have been in part because record labels can't afford to hire decent PR staff anymore, but hey, you take the good with the bad. And there was a lot of good to come out of artists hitting up Tumblr, MySpace, et al; these blogs were really ...

Gym Class Heroes' video for "Guilty As Charged" is a nice little bit of "Sabotage"-meets-Karate Kid pastiche, and it sure is fun to see Estelle kick some ass (physically this time instead of vocally) at the clip's end. Mostly, though, I'm posting the video as a reminder of the fact that this track i...

What am I excited about right now?The Quilt, Gym Class Heroes out Sept. 9th, 2008. Seriously this may be the best GCH record ever. Try looking up Cookie Jar on Youtube as well, fucking brilliant. September ninth, why you so far away? It's a good thing I get to see Gym Class August 14th at Warped Tou...

It's arty, instead of cartoony like this guy's "Weird Al" Yankovic tattoo. It's subtle, unlike the full-back Adam Duritz tattoo. But still, there's something a little unsettling about the new tattoo sported by Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy, which depicts Hall & Oates on each hand. "I guess ...

Normally this isn’t really my thing, but I can’t help but really like The Cookie Jar by Gym Class Heroes ft. The Dream. It’s pretty damn catchy. fueled by ramen, gym class heroes, music, the cookie jar, the dream...