On Meet The Press this morning, a collection of talking heads were arguing about the economy and specifically about what the government should be doing (or not doing) to help. As I’ve said before in this space, I don’t know enough about economics to make a rational judgement on any of th...

In a move that absolutely everyone has always wanted, work has begun on a sequel to the AFI Top 100 movie (I think) Dee Snider's Strangeland. It's titled Strangeland: Disciple . Snider, who you may remember as the Bartender in 2005's Deepwater, is casting right now, and he's returning in his role as...

Former manager and label executive Gary Kurfirst has died while holidaying in the Bahamas. Kurfirst started out promoting gigs in Manhattan, and in 1969 created the New York Rock Festival, inadvertently providing one of the inspirations for Woodstock. He also ran his own record labels and publishing...

Music biz veteran Gary Kurfirst passed away on Tuesday while vacationing in the Bahamas. While the name might not ring an immediate bell, Kurfirst was a jack-of-all-trades, starting up the New York Rock Festival when he was 20 (headliners: Janis Joplin, Hendrix, the Who, and the Doors). He signed Sh...

…the telly. I’m mighty sick of telly programmes that are advertised as being a celebration of a certain person or act that ends up being 1% of the individuals in question and 99% talking bloody heads wittering about how they once met them or how much they loved them. There was two in par...

This may be a trick of local perspective. Word of Monotonix's all-cylinders live show has been growing ever-louder over the last 24 months, so perhaps you were lucky to experience this stinky explosion of literal garbage and trashy garage before 2008. For me it wasn't until this year that these Tel ...

. THEY STILL THINK OBAMA NEEDS THEIR ADVICE WRONG THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CAMPAIGN, "EXPERTS" START SECOND-GUESSING THE NEW ADMINISTRATION IMMEDIATELY It Must Be Great To Have A Job You Can't Get Fired From For Screwing Up Every Single Time Is the Pundit Academy a part of Clown College? Are they wearin...

Between 1974 and 1991, if you were listening to music you would have at one point or another heard a song by the talented band, “Talking Heads”. The song “Burning Down the House” is from their 5th album, Speaking in Tongues, which was released in 1983. Talking Heads - Burning...

Between 1974 and 1991, if you were listening to music you would have at one point or another heard a song by the talented band, “Talking Heads”. The song “Burning Down the House” is from their 5th album, Speaking in Tongues, which was released in 1983. Talking Heads - Burning...

Fox News has been hammered with a good deal of bad publicity this week, all stemming from David Carr's takedown of the network's PR operation in Monday's New York Times. One downside to FNC's aggressive attitude toward the press is that their own stars get relatively less attention than other cable ...