Whose Song Is Sexier? “Dear Vulture, I never thought this would happen to me … “
song of the summer
June 5, 2009
Song of the Summer: Bullish on Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks,” the clear choice for easing down a cookout playlist as night falls.
Brokencyde: Good Rap Rock or Bad Rap Rock? What’s a fan of Linkin Park and Hollywood Undead to make of “Booty Call”?
Andy Milonakis As Zombie Dance-Hall Singer: Too Far? You can’t help but wonder if the pairing is utterly random or not.
Scarlett Johansson Lives to Sing Again, With Pete Yorn It’s a rare kind of interplay. And a rare kind of song.
Modest Mouse Still Mighty Strange Two new songs feature a nineties-style alien, Druish princesses, and guilty cocker spaniels.
song of the summer
May 15, 2009
Another Clash-Rivaling Classic for Rancid “Last One to Die”: pleasure-centered, endlessly listenable.
Rihanna Makes the Comeback of a Lifetime “Silly Boy”: There won’t be a more fascinating song this year.
last night’s gig
May 8, 2009
song of the summer
May 8, 2009
Song of the Summer: Let the Games Begin! With this list we begin our pursuit of this magical and, most likely, frankly sexual few minutes of recorded sound.
Fischerspooner’s Casey Spooner on Creating Entertainment and His Sweet Neon Hat Spooner talks to us about a skeptical Susan Sontag examining his journals, how he’d welcome death, and that hat.
Green Day’s Infinite Regression The musical strengths of six new songs collapse under the weight of Billie Joe’s ardent rebellious nonsense.
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Apr. 30, 2009
Asher Roth Brings Yet More Whiteness Into Our Day White paint poured over video vixens, to be exact.
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Apr. 23, 2009
Matisyahu and Dizzee Rascal Walk Into a Discotheque… Listening to these marginal rappers collaborating with these marginal dance groups, we’ve found our head moving in a slow, rhythmic back-and-forth motion.
announcements
Apr. 23, 2009
The Vulture Reading Room: Check In Anytime You Like, But You Can Never Leave Adam Sternbergh and Kate Christensen weigh in on European bodily fluid adventure ‘Wetlands.’
announcements
Apr. 22, 2009
Welcome to Wetlands and the Vulture Reading Room ’New York’ book critic Sam Anderson has convened a roundtable of literary luminaries to discuss ‘Wetlands,’ a novel that brims over with sex talk and bodily fluids.
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Apr. 16, 2009
Dave Matthews Band Muscles Up But is “Funny the Way It Is” another “Crash Into Me”?
last night’s gig
Apr. 15, 2009
Neko Case, a Wild and Crazy Gal Last night it almost seemed like Case was angling for a shock-jock gig.
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Apr. 10, 2009
Silversun Pickups — in Color! In 2007, the Silversun Pickups looked a little like one-hit (“Lazy Eye”) wonders, but as ‘Swoon,’ out April 14, approaches, they’re seeming more and more like critical faves
Keith Urban, the New Katy Perry ’Kiss a Girl’ is a traditionally gendered but welcome corrective to Katy Perry’s entirely salacious and poorly observed ‘I Kissed a Girl.’
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Mar. 31, 2009
The Killers Do Bright Eyes, Birthing the Most Remarkable Song This Year You gotta give Brandon Flowers credit, like you would for someone who just burped the alphabet.
Mar. 27, 2009
Blitzkrieg Bop Synthesizers, dreamy effects, disco beats! What the heck happened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs?
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Mar. 26, 2009
Lily Allen Cleans Up Nicely for Video About Her Sexual Problems It must be bad enough dating the bratty Brit princess without her releasing a song about how you can’t make her have an orgasm.
Big Love Season Finale: Happy Ending, Ominous BeginningBill’s triumph is the show’s triumph: His wild ambitions were like this season’s wild ambitions, and somehow, both came unexpectedly to fruition.
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Mar. 20, 2009
Ten Out of Ten : Rapper Covers Pearl Jam This is something like a cross between “Chocolate Rain” and … we have no idea.
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Mar. 19, 2009
Asher Roth Disgusts, Impresses in Equal Measure Your new favorite white rapper is simply your favorite white rapper.
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Mar. 17, 2009
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Mar. 11, 2009
Hollywood Undead, Our New Favorite Rap-Rockers These six young, fun-loving nihilists constitute the vanguard of the deathless genre.
thanks for that
Mar. 11, 2009
A Charmingly Low-rent Yeah Yeah Yeahs Lipstick and eyeliner probably had their own lines on this video’s budget.
Big Love : Off the ReservationVirtually everyone reverts to savage modes, reconnecting with their fundamental, tribal beings.
who’d have thunk
Mar. 6, 2009
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Makes Laughingstock of Even Jimmy Fallon There are no words to describe what a terrible embarrassment these young folks have made of themselves, their families, and white people in general.
Death Cab for Cutie Makes the Most Emo Video in History This clip has to be the most disturbing animation outside of Hentai.
Shocker: Suge Knight Supports Chris Brown Incidentally, Suge also pleaded guilty to beating his girlfriend last month.
good people
Feb. 27, 2009
Rihanna, Back on the Scene And it’s very good to hear from her.
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Feb. 25, 2009
Big Love : Dear Penthouse Forum …The National Lampoon’s ‘Vacation’ installment of ‘Big Love.’
Cam’ron Has a Case of the Mondays “You know we’re not hiring murderers, right?”
ferrell animal
Feb. 6, 2009
‘Stingray’: We Evaluate Will Ferrell’s Nicknaming in You’re Welcome America We list twenty names Ferrell handed down. But is there a Turd Blossom in the bunch?
Big Love : So Darn Blankety BlankNicki’s finally the center of the show.
john updike
Jan. 27, 2009
Updike: Unpublished Thoughts on the Great Depression and Barack Obama Insights, gleaned from personal experience, on the upside of the Great Depression and the importance of Barack Obama’s election.
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