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Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:31 AM PST


Van Halen: Bet And Backer Than Ever!
Like most of us, I'm sitting at home with a bag of ice perched atop my head, still trying to recover from the horrendous spectacle of Sunday's Super Bowl performance--in which popular star Madonna, ready to emerge with a brand new album, dared to dance and sing in front of the entire world in an [...]

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 11:39 PM PST


'The Voice' Episode 2 Recap: Cat's Got Their Tongues
After a ratings-bonanza Season 2 debut Sunday night after the Super Bowl, "The Voice" settled into its regular timeslot on Monday and kept trying to score. Of course, most of the focus as usual stayed on the judges, not on the contestants (my one real gripe about "The Voice"), as Cee Lo Green stole the [...]

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 03:17 PM PST


The Voice, The Day After: Season 2 Premiere Dish
Last night, "The Voice" Season 2 premiered after the Super Bowl, to huge ratings that totally dwarfed the Nielsen numbers for "American Idol"s Season 11 premiere last month. And so today, my "Day After" co-host Matt Whitfield and I have many burning questions. Will "The Voice" be able to sustain such stellar ratings, as it [...]

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 01:08 PM PST


Bruno Mars, Framed
We were hard at work on our next book, Five To Shoot, which is a basketball murder mystery, when we realized that, oh, no!  We hadn't written next week's Framed! Our writing schedule, as you can imagine, is quite intense! It was Sunday night and deadline was approaching.  Unsure of what to do, we called [...]

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST


Remembering Bob Marley
Happy birthday to Bob Marley. The iconic singer and activist was born on February 6, 1945, and would have turned 67 today. As is always the case on the anniversary of the late musician's birth, fans took to Search and Twitter to show their respect. "Happy Birthday Bob Marley" was one of the top Twitter [...]

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST


Madonna's Toga-Clad Tightrope Walker: Who Was That Guy?
All eyes may have been on Madonna at the start of her Super Bowl XLVI halftime show, but when the pop diva launched into her hit "Music," a relative unknown performer named Andy Lewis took center stage. PHOTOS: Stars at Super Bowl XLVI Balancing on a wire tightrope, Lewis -- who goes by the stage [...]

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 09:29 AM PST


Casey Abrams Shaves His Beard For Charity
"American Idol" fans will remember hirsute contestant Casey Abrams' Season 10 mini-makeover, mandated by an angry Jimmy Iovine after Casey nearly went home in 11th place. But that was nothing compared to the drastic shearing Casey has recently undergone, this time of his own free will. The shaggy jazzbo looks barely recognizable by the end [...]

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST


The Rock's Backpages Rewind: Paul McCartney's Trip Down Memory Lane
Fred Dellar, one of pop's finest scholars, traces the history of a beloved song from Sir Paul's new album——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages Paul McCartney's latest album, Kisses On The Bottom, is, to a great extent, based around a number of songs his father once loved: age-old standards from a pre-World War II age, [...]

Posted: 06 Feb 2012 06:30 AM PST


The Rock's Backpages Flashback: M.I.A. in Action
How much do we know about the feisty Anglo-Sri-Lankan who stole the headlines from Lady Madonna at yesterday's Super Bowl half-time show? Ken Scrudato talked to M.I.A. for Flaunt magazine as she started out six years ago——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages Nearly twenty years before 9/11/01 — before New Yorkers and other Americans decided [...]