Earlier this week a rumor started going around that Joanna Newsom was set to appear on The Simpsons. According to Malibu Magazine, Newsom's credentials included, "... a future scheduled stop with her…   Read Story »

Kanye West -- playing Kenny West -- returned to The Cleveland Show (i.e., your favorite show) Sunday night, where he debuted a new song called "Be-Cleve in Yourself." It was dedicated to Cleveland,…   Read Story »

Because the show's writers would surely not try to win us back with a Ke$ha "Tik Tok" lip dub as the opening credits last night. Surely that was a mistake, and we can go back to ignoring each other,…   Read Story »

True, the Grammys perpetrating their special brand of outmoded misery upon people dumb enough to watch (like me!), but there were also intentionally funny moments in televised music last night. For…   Read Story »

Last night The Simpsons celebrated 20 years with an interesting documentary In 3-D! On Ice! directed by Morgan Spurlock, featuring a bit too much Morgan Spurlock and one of Moby's seven (seven!) Mr.…   Read Story »

Superhero Chris Martin lends his voice to a Season 21 episode involving Homer winning the lottery and hiring Coldplay to give a private performance to he and Bart. "When Bart goes to the bathroom,…   Read Story »

Fresh premises don't come easy for a show 19 years into its existence, but hats off to last night's The Simpsons, mining nostalgia for the decade after the show was created. It was That '90s Show:…   Read Story »

The sample happy Illegal Art roster recently made a four-song sampler available for the price of free online, featuring the likes of patron saint Girl Talk, Realistic, and Steinski. Good stuff and…   Read Story »

Anecdotal evidence and box office stats indicate that there are two or three of you that have yet to see The Simpsons Movie, but this is the no child left behind era, and we don't want the…   Read Story »

Anybody heard anything about that new film that came out this past weekend? You know, the one with the jaundiced, four-fingered wisecrackers? Samp-something. The Stimfields? We remember digging it…   Read Story »