Loading ...While 2009 was a great year for music, it proved to the be the latest sign that album cover art is in a serious state of decline. This year produced some real doozies, as you’ll see. This ranking of 2009’s Top 15 Worst Album Covers is essentially infallible, because it’s based on science: we ran all these covers by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles K. Kao and Fields Medal winner Andrei Okounkov, who both agreed that everything on this list f’g blows. Can you guess whose album cover landed at #1? We’ll give you a hint: it’s not Chris Brown’s. More »
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PHOTOS: The Worst Album Cover Art of 2009
12:57 PM on Fri Dec 25 2009 by Erika Brooks Adickman
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Jimmy Fallon Gets Upstaged By The Muppets
10:09 AM on Fri Dec 25 2009 by Becky Bain
How to put a new spin on a Christmas classic? Here's how: you recruit the greatest (felt) performers of all time to sing it. Queen revivalists The Muppets just joined Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for a snowflake-sprinkled rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" just in time to spread a little cheer. We're still waiting for Jason Segel's effort to return the Muppets to the big screen, but this will get us at least through the holidays. Could it be It's just a matter of time til The Muppet Show is back on the air and Miss Piggy is releasing her own pop album? Fingers crossed! Vid of Kermit, Fozzie, Animal, Jimmy, and a partridge... well, you know... after the jump.
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The Veronicas Wish You A Merry Christmas With A New Song
9:41 AM on Fri Dec 25 2009 by Becky Bain
The Veronicas are sharing the joy of the season (and showing their marketing savvy) by posting new music on the wide open, news-free day that is Christmas. Aussie twins Lisa and Jess Origliasso, who also turn 25 today, share the beautifully melodic acoustic track "Could've Been" from their upcoming third studio album. What, you were hoping for sugar plums?
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Jamie Foxx Heads ‘Straight To The Dance Floor’ In New Club Hit
6:17 PM on Thu Dec 24 2009 by Idolator Staff
If you're looking for someone to quiet the deafening buzz of anticipation for Jamie Foxx's new album, Body, well, you're in the wrong place. Hot on the heels of "Winner," his horn-blaring collaboration with Justin Timberlake, comes a monstrous club banger, "Straight To The Dance Floor," featuring Lil Wayne. Hear one of 2010's most hypnotic hooks right now.
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Fox Prepares To Continue ‘American Idol’ Without Simon Cowell
12:00 PM on Thu Dec 24 2009 by Idolator Staff
We're about to find out whether Simon Cowell's ego is justified. The Fox TV network is close to extending its deal with 19 Entertainment and Fremantle Media to keep American Idol on the air through 2014 — with or without the snide British judge who helped start it all. Thumbs up or thumbs down?
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Amerie ‘More Than Love’ Video Debuts
10:51 AM on Thu Dec 24 2009 by Idolator Staff
R&B singer Amerie already handed us a gift in the form of her slick fourth album, In Love & War, an ambitious collection of old-school jams. And now — just in time for Christmas and its attendant depression/loneliness/frantic calls to therapists — she hands us a little bundle of trust issues in the new video for "More Than Love." Check below, but just know that we charge $200 an hour.
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PHOTOS: Lady Gaga’s Little Monsters Get Famous In L.A.
10:25 AM on Thu Dec 24 2009 by Erika Brooks Adickman
Perhaps the only thing in the pop scene that’s more awesome to behold than Lady Gaga’s live show is deep impact she continues to make on her fans. At the Grammy nominee’s Los Angeles tour stop at the L.A. Live Nokia Theatre, we pulled aside a few of her “little monsters,” fans who are so devoted to the Haus of Gaga that they turned out for the show clad in their freakiest and most fabulous outfits — would you expect any less? Check out our gallery of some of Stefani Germanotta’s biggest and most brilliantly dressed fans, and find out why Gaga isn’t just a pop star – she’s a way of life. (Photo Credit: Mark Oshiro) More »
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Brittany Murphy’s Music To Finally Be Released?
11:31 AM on Wed Dec 23 2009 by Becky Bain
Although authorities have said that actress and budding musician Brittany Murphy died of natural causes, many questions remain: what exactly led to a 32-year old to suffer cardiac arrest? Why did her husband attempt to stop her autopsy? This is surely going to be grist for the tabloid mill well into 2010, but we might get one more chance to see Murphy's talents at work—some of her recorded tracks from her unfinished debut album may finally be released.
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Beyonce’s ‘Black Culture’ Leaks
11:24 AM on Wed Dec 23 2009 by Robbie Daw
Is Beyonce feeling nostalgic? First she picks "Fever," the sultry tune popularized by Peggy Lee in 1958, as the theme for her first-ever fragrance. Now we hear a previously unreleased party jam, "Black Culture," built on a sample of a very prominent 30-year-old hit.
So far there's no real indication of the song's vintage, but it samples Michael Jackson's 1979 classic "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough," and contains such seemingly hastily-cobbled-together lyrics as "let's hook up, when we start we won't stop, baby don't stop, c'mon give me some of that stuff."
Sure, "Black Culture" likely wouldn't have sent any more Grammy nominations Beyonce's way, but it's still a fun listen. Give it a spin below. More »
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Calvin Harris Keeps On Truckin’ In His ‘You Used To Hold Me’ Video
10:10 AM on Wed Dec 23 2009 by Robbie Daw
Calvin Harris has a new music video for his moody dance jam "You Used To Hold Me." And just how do we know? Because this morning he tweeted, "I've got a new video for You Used To Hold Me."
Like many of Calvin's video clips, this one involves a pack of model-perfect girls wearing skimpy clothes gyrating across the screen. Except this one has a monster truck in it.
"You Used To Hold Me" is the 25-year-old Scottish DJ/singer's fourth single from sophomore album Ready For The Weekend. Hop below to watch the car-crunching vid! More »
Like many of Calvin's video clips, this one involves a pack of model-perfect girls wearing skimpy clothes gyrating across the screen. Except this one has a monster truck in it.
"You Used To Hold Me" is the 25-year-old Scottish DJ/singer's fourth single from sophomore album Ready For The Weekend. Hop below to watch the car-crunching vid! More »
