Live at the Astoria plays out as a greatest-hits collection, with a solid sampling from the group’s back catalogue. The recording is fairly crisp, with hardly any crowd interference (which you’ll either like or dislike depending on what you’re looking for in a live album). …
Spirits in the Material World: A Reggae Tribute to The Police
Shanachie (2/19/08)
Reggae (Dub / Ska)
Tribute albums can go either way. On one end of the spectrum, you have releases like The Electro Industrial Tribute to Korn and the countless Cleopatra Records tribute albums, including ’80s Metal Tribute to Van Halen (a fustercluck featuring different [...]
After having been honored with the key to the city of Bridgeport, Conn., last week for his charity work, 50 Cent quickly canceled out his act of goodwill when he attacked actor Frank John Hughes during the filming of an upcoming movie.
According to a witness who was on-hand during the filming of the drama Righteous [...]
In an effort to keep whatever minuscule heat he had conjured up recently at the MTV Video Music Awards, when he got into a scuffle with fellow Pamela Anderson ex, Tommy Lee, singer/rapper Kid Rock recently made some rather bellicose comments directed at rappers Kanye West amd 50 Cent.
While he’ll likely sell a [...]
Puddle of Mudd lead singer Wesley Scantlin has been banned from Graceland after a ridiculous stunt during a recent tour of the estate. The band was touring Elvis Presley’s legendary home in Memphis this past Monday, and Scantlin, being something of douche, stripped down to his boxer shorts and jumped into the pool, much [...]
In another instance that confirms that The Ad Hoc Award-Demanding Waste of Skin thinks way too highly of himself—and will go to obscene lengths to make sure that nobody ever forgets it—he recently challenged other celebrity purveyors of women’s perfume to a fragrance “smell-off”.
According to the rapper/producer/shameless self-promoter, who spoke with reporters this [...]
Perhaps wanting to get his heat back after getting spanked by Kanye West this past week in the duo’s record-selling feud, rapper 50 Cent has decided to show the world that he’s still number one when it comes to spending ridiculously exorbitant amounts of money on things that should otherwise cost very little. He’s [...]
As the Ad Hoc Award-Demanding Waste of Skin has moved his annual White Party from his home in the Caribbean island of St. Tropez to his mansion in Long Island this year, it appears as if he’s continuing with his long streak of arrogant shenanigans, this time targeting Billy Joel’s 26-year-old wife (and former host [...]
Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine is doing some quick damage control after allegedly telling Russian magazine Exile that knockout tennis star Maria Sharapova (whom he met in 2005, at her 18th birthday party) is terrible in the sack. While the magazine still stands by the interview that it conducted with Levine last month, Levine [...]
Amid the bevy of ongoing legal woes for pop star Michael Jackson, including a $113,000 lawsuit filed this past week by his former attorneys, one that seems to especially stand out is a suit filed (also this past week) by a Bahraini sheikh who is claiming that Jacko breached a contract that the two had, [...]