Over a career that's seen him evolve from outsider musician to outlandishly infectious personality, Andrew W.K. has covered his pop cultural bases: writing and producing his way through a master list…   Read Story »

More bulletpoints to add to the busiest retirement since Jay-Z pretended to do it: a XXX set, being super pregnant, and tangentially teasing the greatest television show to air before Don Draper…   Read Story »

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NO SPOILERS, right guys? So everything after the jump. Frankly, this season of The Wire suuuuuucks. The most beautiful aspect of this series has been its failure to invoke any willful suspension of…   Read Story »

We applauded David Simon's decision to cast Steve Earle as Bubbles' grizzled-but-loving sponsor, Waylon, because Steve's own experiences with substance abuse lent his performance an inimitable air of…   Read Story »

Our OnDemand's been a little wonky the past few weeks so shh nobody say what's been happening on The Wire since Jimmy's gone McNutty and started tying red bracelets on corpses. While we're waiting to…   Read Story »

Kanye's Connect Four thrashing was our excuse to bring up The Wire yesterday. Today's excuse: Tom Waits and Steve Earle. Show obsessives (there are no casual fans, here) know that Steve plays…   Read Story »

Here's your picture of the day: Some background:When I was in Europe I would play this game for hours and hours... it helped me zone out. Everybody would get envolved... Derrick Dudley (Common's…   Read Story »