August 16, 2010 – 10:32 am
In case you have somehow missed it over the last couple months, I won’t be updating this website anymore. We’re moving on to bolder, more ridiculous pastures, where media frivolity and things that are just plain awesome reside. Get into it: MADE-FUN.COM We’ve already been starry-eyed and salivating over pop culture for a couple months, [...]
Day whatever: still have an affinity for clever parody trailers. These two approach the use of trailers in two different ways, but both succeed. Check out the preview for ‘Gaga in Wonderland’. Tim Burton’s movie was decent enough, but it would have been ever more satisfying with a few touches from the Haus of Gaga. [...]
February 16, 2010 – 1:34 pm
Over a year after I did my first interview/profile piece for an artist, I’m branching out into that territory again. Blogs like Stereogum, Tiny Mix Tapes, and Pitchfork are all buzzing about Eluvium’s upcoming album, Similes. Due out on February 23rd, the album is the first official release from Matthew Cooper in a few years, [...]
February 9, 2010 – 1:21 am
HBO’s new series, How To Make It In America, officially premieres Sunday, February 14 at 10pm, but the network has already made the first episode available online. Executive produced by Mark Wahlberg, the show takes place in New York and sort of feels like what Entourage might have been before Vincent Chase became a movie [...]
February 4, 2010 – 8:16 pm
I’ve been a little all over the place lately. It feels like I haven’t updated this in forever, when, in reality, it’s been a couple weeks. Like so many people in the music world, I did catch the Grammy Awards. Most of the best moments happened in the first hour or so, but it was [...]
January 25, 2010 – 7:57 pm
There are unlikely matches, and then there’s “Let Them Hoes Fight.” Leaked online recently, the song is supposed to be the first single on Trina’s upcoming album, Amazin’, and features Lady Gaga. It’s definitely not a match-up I could have ever guessed at, but online buzz says that Gaga participated on the song right before [...]
January 15, 2010 – 5:29 pm
I like Donald Glover. My introduction to him came through videos produced by Derrick Comedy, and then I was glad to see him pop up on NBC’s Community and hear that he’s gotten to write for 30 Rock. Yet, when my friend linked me to a mixtape by some guy called Childish Gambino, I looked [...]
January 9, 2010 – 12:38 am
Canceling shows is always a last resort for bands. Most avoid it until the last possible minute, caught in the worst circumstances, but even rock bands get sick. One of the most inconvenient, but surprisingly popular, reasons for canceling is due to vocal damage. Last April, Nate of the Cold War Kids came down with [...]
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Tagged Amanda Palmer, Brett Manning, Cold War Kids, current music presents: embedded, current tv, embedded, Mariah Carey, The Used, vocal damage, vocal nodules, Whitney Houston
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January 8, 2010 – 12:02 am
Michael Cera’s strategy seems to be this: play the same character, but in increasingly oddball situations. As the focus of the movie Youth in Revolt, Michael Cera plays an awkward, sixteen-year-old virgin prone to witty inner monologue and conversation. He’s focused on finding young love, getting laid for the first time, and going to the [...]
January 6, 2010 – 7:58 pm
Kanye West likes to keep his band on their toes. Audiences don’t usually expect popular artists to direct their touring bands. It might have something to do with all of us getting used to assuming every pop concert is high-priced lip-syncing—there just aren’t many ways you can alter pre-recorded material. And with hip-hops acts in [...]
