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 published: 2009-02-15Remembering Estelle Bennett Of The Ronettes Having reached the end of her journey this past Wednesday February 11th, let us take a moment to thank Estelle Bennett for taking part in a group that significantly influenced modern pop-music and fashion. At the age of 67, she's gone all too soon, but her legacy will surely live on.   published: 2009-02-14Rant: Stop Defending Chris Brown Following Chris Brown's assault on Rihanna, the immediate question on the media's mind was, "How is he going to bounce back?" Rumors began flying to justify that this was somehow Rihanna's fault, with people going as far as saying, "She had it coming to her." Are you fucking kidding me?  published: 2009-02-12The Setty Smooth Challenge: Are You Smooth Enough? Here’s the deal: Setty Smooth is, as far as I have seen, the smoothest hip-hop artist, and probably the smoothest man, in the entire world. I don’t mean pretentious, Hollywood smooth -- I mean subliminally, superhumanly smooth. Like Casanova, or Timberlake  published: 2009-02-0851st Grammy Award Winners Lacking the credibility, pomp and circumstance of the Oscar’s or even the Emmy’s, the Grammy Awards are the most meaningful in a long list of meaningless music award shows. The winners are rarely the best or even most culturally relevant, but there’s something to be said for the absolute chaos  published: 2009-02-07Pearl Jam Hits Up The Studio Pearl Jam is a lot like AC/DC. They’re revered by some, enjoyed by most, and vehemently disliked by others. At this point in their career, they’ve put out enough material in roughly the same basic format (heavy guitar/ inaudible, cryptic lyrics) that you probably know already whether you’ll purchase this compact disc  published: 2009-02-02CD Review: The BPA's I Think We're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat The liner notes of I Think We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat may attempt to sell the listener a cheap mythology of “a loose-limbed jamming unit” that recorded from the 1970s to the mid-nineties, but there’s no ignoring what this really is—Norman Cook’s own version of Timbaland’s Shock Value  published: 2009-02-01Super Bowl Half Time: Bruce Springsteen Always Rocks, Never Ages Just as we calmed down about will.i.am’s Pepsi-supported destruction of Bob Dylan’s legacy, Bruce Springsteen stormed into our living rooms to shout about dropping chicken fingers and guacamole. All was forgiven when he launched into “10th Avenue Freeze Out”, much to the delight of the audience  published: 2009-01-27Super Bowl: How Will Bruce Do? We’re less than a week away from the Super Bowl. Can you feel the excitement, the enthusiasm, the wind howling from millions of Terrible Towels menacingly flying in unison? I’m a Bears fan; so, no, no I cannot. But I’ll still watch. It is, after all, the foremost television event of the year. Hilarious commercials, Bruce Springsteen, and Kurt Warner’s aging body  published: 2009-01-26Every Song is About Heroin You won’t convince me that the only heroin songs out there are the obvious ones. It’s almost guaranteed that somewhere, some good-guy songwriter is kicking back, having pulled off such a well-disguised smack anthem that no one even noticed it. My mission is to uncover some of these sneaky writers (music blog)  published: 2009-01-26Jazz Hands For Michael Jackson There's some wretched stuff going down on this little planet we call Earth, and I can't help but feel like we're all running around like a bunch of crazed Princess Leias. "Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope," we utter in unison. But the identity of our metaphoric Obi Wan isn't necessarily clear. Is it Barack Obama? Is it ourselves?  published: 2009-01-23Lady GaGa Bewitches America Lady GaGa is unstoppable right now, and it's unclear what this means for the state of the world. "Just Dance" is the number one song in the country yet again, and while we sleep peacefully knowing that it'll soon be dethroned, the dastardly pop sorceress has another hit brewing in her cauldron  published: 2009-01-22New Britney Single Not A Hit With Parents In a world where it's okay to talk about "supermanning hoes", when did a little wordplay hurt anyone? If a cheeto-loving mother of two wants to sing a gender-normative anthem about her sex appeal, who is going to stop her? The answer: your mom
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