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"New York Post" Copyeditor Throws Out An Usher-Related Panty Line

Sometimes a headline is so transfixing that it haunts your speech patterns, becomes something that you want to slip into conversation or just show to your friends with a "WTF??" appended. Today, that honor belongs to the New York Post, which headlined a review of Usher's Monday night show in New York City with the all-caps screamer USHER UPS THE PANTY. That headline has been playing around in my head for the past hour (I wish I was kidding). Is it genius? Is it awful? Does it fall somewhere in between? Come with me as I debate myself over whether or not this headline is a stroke of genius or a sign that someone on the Post's copy desk needs to maybe get an updated edition of Get Thee To A Punnery. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Nov 5 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by Al Shipley: And I thought it was just the Times that couldn't stop talking about panties: [antidisingenuous.blogspot.com] more »

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Things That Happen When Page Six Writes About Music

Ryan Adams is turned into an "emo rocker." Note to the gossipmongerers over there: Having a blog does not make a musician "emo," even if said blog has ridiculous tendencies. It just greases the wheels for the inevitable book deal a little better than your average lyric sheet. [Page Six]

9:30 AM on Fri Jul 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Rock Hack Tries To Get In On The "Gaming Google" Act Some sort of award should be handed out to the opening sentence of Dan Aquilante's Zootopia review: "IN the concert shocker of the year, the teen star of the popular "Hannah Montana" TV series—Miley Cyrus—was totally naked under her clothes when she headlined Z100's annual Zootopia concert Saturday at the Meadowlands." Oh, Dan, Dan. It's a nice effort, but everyone knows that "topless Miley Cyrus" is the real phrase that pays in the "maximizing your SEO" department. [NYP]

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This Summer In Concerts: Lists, Lights, And Lots Of Robert Plant And Alison Krauss

Apparently this past weekend was "National Run Your Listicle-ish Summer Concert Preview" for many of this nation's finer newspapers, as my RSS feed was stuffed with "top five" and "top 10" lists of tours and festivals from newspapers around the country. While they're distinct in their regional biases (the Seattle Times rundown is festival-heavy; the USA Today one sticks with nation-storming stalwarts) the writers share one thing in common: they really really like Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Or at least want to sort of feel like they're at a Led Zeppelin show. Highlights of five summer show previews after the jump. More »

11:45 AM on Mon May 12 2008
By Maura Johnston
637 views, 6 comments

Latest by Clevertrousers: Can I just say that Chicago puts on some of the best free shows in the county? As a New Yorker this vexes me greatly. Big up to Mike Orlove! more »

"New York Post" Presents The Classiest (And Ass-iest) Music-Related Gift Guide Of 2007

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Ronnie Still Haunted By Phil Spector's Spectre

If the New York Post's always-reliable photo-shopping team is to be believed, Ronnie Spector can't even perform in public without being harassed by the all-watching, all-knowing, perfectly spherical head of her ex-husband, who wants her to get back in the car right now, chop-chop. More »

8:46 AM on Wed Mar 7 2007
By Brian Raftery
1,273 views, 4 comments

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Blind Item: We Mayer May Not Know Who The "Post" Is Talking About

From yesterday's New York Post: More »
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When It Comes To Bad Taste, We Don't Know Why The "Post" Goes To Extremes

From America's Egregiously Erroneous Newspaper(TM) comes this classy little mention: More »
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At Least The Post Spelled 'CBGB' Right

First the New York Times confuses Clash members Mick Jones and Joe Strummer—and the New York Post, in its rush to engage in some Times-mocking, runs a picture of Foreigner's Mick Jones. Now, the Post can't tell the difference between Blondie lead singer Debbie Harry and Patti Smith. Perhaps we should take up a collection to buy every NYC newspaper's photo desk a copy of Please Kill Me. (Also, if anyone has a copy of that Mick/Mick mix-up, please send us a scan—we'd like to blow it up and hang it on our flophouse's wall.) More »

11:20 AM on Mon Oct 16 2006
By mjohnston
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Foxy Brown, Lil' Kim: When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong

For much of the mid-to-late '90s, rappers Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown were mercilessly pitted against each other by the media, their rap talents demeaned by such side-by-side comparisons as "Which one's got the best rhyming skills?" or "Which one's hotter?" (The answer to both questions: Kelis). But considering that neither of them have been exactly been burning up the charts as of late, it was surprising to find both women making front-page news of the Post this weekend. Saturday's edition found Brown being accused of stealing two belts from a Greenwich Village boutique, and Sunday's paper noted Kim's impending plagiarism battle with "hip-hopping mad" reggae singer Tanya Stephens. More »

10:34 AM on Mon Aug 28 2006
By Brian Raftery
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