Category: News (Page 64 of 136)

Van Halen: The new Partridge Family, with 100% more drugs

November 3, 2006 / David Medsker

TMZ says that Eddie Van Halen has found a replacement for bassist Michael Anthony: his 15-year-old son, Wolfgang “Wolfie” Van Halen.

Two interesting bits about this piece of news. For starters, how do you think Wolfie’s mother, former Mrs. Eddie Van Halen Valerie Bertinelli, feels about her high school-age son going on the road with a man who looks like this, father or not? Yumpin’ yiminy.

Second of all, when the hell did Michael Anthony leave Van Halen? Maybe I took that day off, I don’t know, but it didn’t pop up on my radar at all.

Anyway, Van Halen is now Deadie, Alex and Wolfgang. Maybe they can get Marty from “Rock Star: INXS” to sing lead. He has kind of a DLR thing going.

News, Rock

Diddy’s dream is everyone else’s nightmare

November 3, 2006 / Will Harris

In the midst of the flurry of press he’s doing for his new album, , our man Diddy reveals that one of his dreams is to be the first black James Bond.

After this apropos-of-nothing revelation, Diddy quickly added, “I love the Bond they have now. He’s a great actor and I think they made a great choice.” This should in no way be linked to the fact that Daniel Craig – the new Bond in question – was also at the MTV Europe Music Awards, where Diddy made his comments.

Artists, News, Rap

Even people who believe in Santa Claus…

November 3, 2006 / Will Harris

…aren’t naive enough to believe that we’ll ever hear the new album Michael Jackson’s reportedly working on.

“I am always writing a potpourri of music,” Jackson recently told Access Hollywood, while in the midst of discussing his upcoming appearance at the World Music Awards in London. “I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

“And then,” Jackson did not go on to add, “I will not actually release this music, much as I have continued to not actually release my Hurricane Katrina benefit single, ‘I Have This Dream,’ which I originally announced in September of 2005 but has yet to appear.”

Artists, News, Pop

Jesus would be doing the same thing

November 3, 2006 / Captain Capm

Ah, that Madonna. NBC networks have been in negotiations to film and broadcast her current tour, but have put in a request that Madge not perform “Live To Tell” while hanging from a cross. Of course, she’s not backing down. Quoth M:

“It is no different than a person wearing a cross. My performance is neither anti-Christian, sacrilegious or blasphemous…It is my plea to the audience to encourage mankind to help one another…I believe in my heart that if Jesus were alive today he would be doing the same thing.”

I’m not sure that he’d be going around performing on a cross, but hey, what do I know? Call me kooky.

Artists, News

Diddy meets resistance from YouTube users

November 3, 2006 / Captain Capm

Diddy, you’re not welcome at YouTube. Go away, already. The users have spoken their minds in regards to your recent partnering with Burger King to “buy” a channel on the site with videos of their own. Ah yes, Diddy infiltrated YouTube recently after helping to whore out some BK (but we all know BK is whoring out Diddy) in a “partnership” designed to help him kick it on YouTube. Unfortunately for him, YouTube is a bit more accustomed to reality, where no one is hooked up to I.V.s filled with Cristal and someone’s bling-bling can more often consist of a Ring Pop instead of serious ice. So the anti-Diddy folks have started making a slew of anti-Diddy videos to welcome P. Puffy into the realms of cool videos. Get used to it, Diddy-O. Reality’s a bitch.

Two of the groovy response videos out there: