Like anyone, I enjoy a lot of the pop music dispensed from Simon Cowell's empire, but it's just exciting to see this netroots campaign unseat the winner of Britain's American Idol-like X-Factor with a 15 year-old song about revolution.
For anyone who wants to buy one of this year's new-fangled Christmas recordings, here's a checklist of musical stocking stuffers ranging from traditional to subversive.
We're at album number four and Alicia Keys still mesmerizes. This project clicks better as a body of work than two of her three previous albums, and it avoids sounding like a smattering of singles across a CD.
Staying positive when doing teen celebrity psychic predictions is tricky, as many teen celebrities do not actually have an extremely great future ahead. Some do. Most don't.
Welcome to Snoopworld, where Chevys still are bouncin', would-be gangstas still kind of prowl the streets (albeit it's a new generation), explicit-isms flow like 40 oz. beer, and tempos best not harsh anyone's mellow.
Picture this. Your 14-year-old daughter, Mindy, excitedly tells you she's bringing a new friend home for dinner. "She's so pretty and talented, and go...
We are our children's most important role models. It's no use getting outraged when yet another celebrity falls from his pedestal.
We don't want our idols to change or grow up, and if they become sexual, forget about it. We demand the safety for our tweens to explore and feel comfortable in.
Here's a playlist for America's latest fun couple to be used at the very next party they crash together.
There are moments in this story that are so affecting that you have to stop reading until you can see the pages through your tears. Is this contrived? Is this manipulative? Maybe it is, but it is also the true heart of the story.
Mitchel Musso has fast-become one of teens' favorite celebrities. Co-star of the hit Disney Channel show, Hannah Montana, starring teen sensation, M...
What the publishing industry needs today is not just best-selling authors like Rowling or Brown, but also reading role models that will inspire children and their parents to pick up more books.
This year being the 25th anniversary of the release of the Talking Heads' concert classic Stop Making Sense, I spoke with Talking Heads Jerry Harrison and Chris Frantz on the cult favorite.
Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy festive holidays as much as the next person, but we eco-freaks can't help ourselves from sucking the fun out of things, particularly when it comes to harming children.
Hey, we love a good cat fight as much as the next guy. And if anyone should get into a hair pulling, face-clawing, blood-on-the-floor tussle, it might as well be Apple and Verizon.
Big stars are going public on Facebook and Twitter with complaints about other stars. Guys, that's a real no-no. That's why you have publicists and agents and managers and all those other handlers.
Power-pop group Metro Station played the Staples Center Tuesday night and pretty much set the tone for the act that followed... Miley somebody.
Songs by John Mayer: You're either (a) an overgrown frat-boy douche or (b) a horny teenage girl. Songs by Miley Cyrus: You're either (a) a preteen girl or (b) a middle-aged male sex offender.
What do artists Green Day, Sheryl Crow, Nirvana, Radiohead, Pat Benatar, John Mellencamp and Tom Petty have in common? They've all had albums or songs banned or censored by Wal-Mart.
Film critics rarely discuss how simply being in the right mood for a dumb college romp/action flick/sappy romance can make you enjoy a movie more than you otherwise might.
Michele Bachmann doesn't want to be "Palinized." Rod Blagojevich impersonates Elvis. Miley Cyrus impersonates Britney Spears. And John Edwards ... well, you knew it all along.
