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Stay Hungry Dee Snider is going to appear on the restaurant-makeover show Kitchen Nightmares tonight. Expect the "We're Not Gonna Take It" jokes to fly even faster than Gordon Ramsay's f-bombs! [Reality TV Magazine]

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A moment of sincerity: VH1 Classic is showing AFTERMATH: The Station Fire Five Years Later this Sunday night. The show combines documentary footage about the fire and its victims with footage from the Phoenix Rising benefit concert featuring Gretchen Wilson, Winger, Tesla, Twisted Sister, and my personal favorite: Stryper's Michael Sweet performing with Boston. It's worth checking out, and donating to the survivors' fund. One request to VH1, though: Next time you're doing this sort of thing, could you not dump this sort of programming on your digital cable outlet while you're airing a Flavor of Love marathon on the main channel? Update: the show has been added to VH1, between episodes of Rock of Love. [VH1 Classic]

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"I Want Barack" Gives World A Will.I.Am-Free Obama Tribute


Twisted Sister guitarist Jay French released his Obama-endorsing remake of "I Wanna Rock"—which, as you might expect, is called "I Want Barack"—just now, and it sounds like, um, a political Twisted Sister song: It's got an anthemic chorus that'll no doubt stir up any crowd it's played to and some clunky lyrics. But then again, who listened to Twisted Sister for the poetic aspects? After the jump, an ad hoc version of a TS Obama tribute supplied by a mysterious YouTube user who had a copy of Twisted Sister: The Video Years, Windows Media Player, and a few minutes of free time on his hands. That should satisfy those of you who can't hear the opening of "I Wanna Rock" without thinking about the plight of defenseless textbooks. More »

12:45 PM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by Feh Am Legend: @Chris N.: Wow, that feels weirdly portentious. more »

Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" is now being used to shill for the birth control pill Yaz in a TV commercial that could have really used a cameo from Mark Metcalf. (Am I the only person who thinks that he could have actually embodied PMS by sneering "you're worthless and weak," and then been summarily decked by women after they'd taken their dosage? Or is that a little too high-concept?) [Yaz-US]

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Rock Veterans Still Hungry For A Piece Of The Licensing Pie

Today's New York Times looks at the phenomenon of older bands like Twisted Sister and Wang Chung heading back in the studio to re-record their biggest hits—and get a bigger piece of the music-licensing rewards in the process: More »

10:25 AM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By mjohnston
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