Tig Notaro’s Live, 2012’s best comedy album of the year, will be available in a hard copy deluxe album on July 16. Although it was previously released in a digital-only version, this will be Live's first physical printing. The album—which is also available as a picture ...

Now that there’s a set June 18 release date for Yeezus, Kanye West’s not-at-all arrogantly titled follow-up to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, more details of the contents of the album have trickled out. In addition to the singles West has played on Saturday Night Live or projected ...

 It isn’t particularly surprising that on last night’s episode of her MTV show,  Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life, the world’s premier Gross-American pop star drank her own urine. While this is most likely not the most disgusting thing she’s ever done (or, quite possibly, not ...

Hardcore rap provocateur Timothy Blair, a.k.a. Tim Dog (most famous for his NWA diss track “Fuck Compton” and work with Ultramagnetic MCs) reportedly died back in February from complications related to diabetes. But a growing stream of evidence has begun to suggest that, actually, Tim Dog faked his ...

Fan fiction has long thrived online where writers don’t need to worry about pesky things like intellectual property rights. A new deal from Amazon could change all that. Kindle Worlds will be the first commercial publishing platform that allows fan fiction authors to earn royalties from their work. Kindle ...

Who could have foreseen in 2006 when heiress, reality “star,” “actress,” and “human being” Paris Hilton paid a whole bunch of people to produce her debut album, Paris, that the world would have to wait seven whole years for her to pay Afrojack to produce her second one? And yet ...

Hannibal Buress hasn’t exactly been struggling. He's written for a year on Saturday Night Live, then spent time writing and making occasional cameo appearances on 30 Rock before his second album/special, Animal Furnace, last year. And for those who haven’t seen his supporting role on The ...

Hot on the heels of the announcement that The Clash will be releasing the Sound System box set in September, and the late Joe Strummer having a small plaza named after him in Granada, filmmaker Nick Hall is attempting to enact some cosmic justice by finding out what happened to ...

Nominations were announced Wednesday morning for the third annual Critic’s Choice Television Awards. Proving there is nothing television critics love more than nerds and Ryan Murphy, The Big Bang Theory and American Horror Story: Asylum tied for most nominated program with six noms each. HBO and FX lead the ...

Trevor Bolder, a musician best known for his work with David Bowie and Uriah Heep, has died at the age of 62, after a bout with pancreatic cancer. The product of a musical family—his father was a trumpet player—Bolder teamed up with guitarist Mick Ronson for his first ...

In a development that’s being trumpeted in newspapers, broadsides, and other forms of media no longer preferred by the viewership of CBS, preliminary reports have the Tiffany Network unseating Fox from the ratings throne it has occupied for eight years. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, CBS will take the ...

Proving that even the guy who directed Antichrist has limits to what he's willing to subject moviegoers to, one of the producers of Lars Von Trier's upcoming, two-part Nymphomaniac told The Hollywood Reporter yesterday that Shia LaBeouf will not, as previously reported, be giving his manhood an onscreen ...

Ricky Gervais’ new series Derek will make its Netflix debut September 12. The series, which Gervais writes, directs, executive produces, and stars in, follows a mentally challenged man living in a nursing home. As previously reported, Derek aired in the UK to initial controversy but later garnered generally favorable reviews ...

Today in “water is wet” news: Brian May hates The Voice. The Queen guitarist says the show—he’s talking about the U.K. version, but his feelings would probably carry over to the U.S. version as well—“is absolutely the dullest, dumbest, most depressing programme on TV,” and ...

Ang Lee has officially backed out of directing the upcoming Tyrant pilot for FX. The political drama created by Homeland’s Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff and Six Feet Under’s Craig Wright centers around an American family in the Middle East and would have been Lee's first project ...