Episode 38: PopCast takes on the Oscar nominations. Plus, Springsteen, Death Pool, Jesus music and Garth Brooks stinks....

As good as Obama's speech was at the Lincoln Memorial Concert for him this afternoon, for once it was perhaps not the most inspiring part of the event. Here are some contenders - .Pete Seeger, 89, leading a performance of "This Land is Your Land," belted out by his grandson Tao (powerful voice, soun...

It's still a little strange to see top 10 lists now, but if it's not too early for the onslaught of Christmas music to invade every public space I seem to go to, I suppose it's OK to start trying to wrap 2008 in a cute bow. Which brings us to what's apparently British music mag list day, with the on...

I just sat through the debut of Eyes By Design on HSN. I spent 30 minutes listening to some woman with a grating British accent and the usual hyper-perky TV shopping network hostess, who subjected me to pitches that the eye shadow palettes were created "scientifically" (a red flag word) to enhance o...

There's hardly a month that goes by without a attempt at improving the way that music sounds. The problem is, nearly all these brilliant moves come from artists and producers. Do consumers really take fidelity into consideration when making the few music-purchasing decisions? Some of you might be ol...

What the? What happened here? Is this what all those plastic surgery rumors resulted in? She looks carved out of brie. Nice guns, though. Here's Madonna, her lesbian daughter Justin Timberlake and a clearly unamused Iggy Pop at the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame ceremony that was held last night. Madonna ...

An important element of any campaign is the music they play on the campaign trail. It is Presidential Campaigning 101 -The Soundtrack.  The tone of the music is important.....it needs to be upbeat, catchy, relevant, and double bonus points for patriotism.  The music steadily builds into th...

I am hard pressed to call anything that happens in the Entertainment media "news," but Rolling Stone is reporting that singer John Cougar Mellencamp has told John McCain to stop using his music during McCain's campaign rallies. At some recent John McCain campaign rallies, John Mellencamp’s “Our ...

Community-minded heartland liberals who also happen to be rock musicians have had to deal with Republican candidates misappropriating their songs since the great Reagan/Springsteen "misunderstanding" of 1984, but John Mellencamp has reached his limit. He's "quietly" had his "people" approach Republi...