The Modern Age

Ewan McGregor: Why so blond and shiney?; Claire Danes: Why so skinny?; Natalie: Why the drop waste?; Lisa Marie Presley: Why Halloween?; Nicole Kidman: One beautiful tower of emerald green.; Charlize Theron: Why so much hair in your face? But glad to see bronzilla is gone; Renee Zellweger: Why the pucker-face and 1950’s attire?

NME.com dishes on the new Coldplay and Yeah Yeah Yeahs albums.
Also, read about why The Futureheads love Kate Bush and her “Hounds of Love.”

This one’s for you, Brooklyn Vegan: Some lovely “Go Vegan Or Die!” t-shirts from HERBIVORE. May we suggest another slogan for y’all: “Kill a Meat Eater, Save a Cow” or “Bite a Carnivore, See How He Likes It.”

Now are our eyes betraying us, or is Interpol’s indie-goth Carlos D. on the cover of URB? That’s right, the same magazine that recently put Kanye West, the Beastie Boys, and The Roots on covers of their magazines have now put the most hip-hoppingest of DJs on the front page (who just took the ones [...]

More on the Kaiser Chiefs performance at the Tribeca Grand (January 15, 2005) later.
For those curious, the setlist was exactly the same as the gig they did in LA:
Na Na Na Na Naa/ Everyday I Love You Less and Less/ Hard Times Send Me/ I Predict a Riot/ Modern Way/ Oh My God/ Saturday Night/ [...]

The Killers strike a pose for the February 2005 “Next Big Thing” issue of Spin. Brandon looks like a cross between Morrissey and Pee Wee Herman. We miss his longer hair.
In more Killer news, they will be appearing on SNL this weekend (with Topher Grace as host) and TRL on Tuesday, January 18th.
If you notice, [...]

If Franz Ferdinand are the current Big Thing and Bloc Party are the Next Big Thing, then the Kaiser Chiefs are the Next Next Big Thing, and they’re hitting New York this Saturday at the Tribeca Grand downstairs at 10pm. You can get in free with an invite from Flavorpill.

What’s a drag queen doing on the cover of Allure? Oh wait–that’s just Ashlee Simpson looking hideous. You would think that her plentiful experience with being filmed and photographed would have clued her into the fact that she looks horrible in head-on shots…or shots where she’s not covering up half her face. Ugh! Big thumbs [...]

Ok, so it’s no “Throw the Jew Down the Well,” but the Ali G. character Borat is at it again–this time mangling the Star Spangled Banner during a rodeo and almost producing a riot.
Also, where can we pick up a copy of the new Vice? (NOT the Design issue.) The usual spot we pick it [...]

We realize some of you may have been wondering what the hell we’ve been doing since we haven’t been updating the site. Well this weekend we made a renegade trip to Washington, D.C. in which we spent more time traveling than we did actually being awake in D.C. We saw Bethesda, Georgetown, and College Park [...]