Elton John

Madonna's Phony Bologna Feuding: The Material Girl's Five Best Beefs of 2012

We're not entirely sure why, but it seems that all of popular culture is rebelling against Madonna. Talk show hosts, contemporary pop stars, and LARPers have all had something nasty to say about The Queen of Pop over the past few months. In fact, the snark has been so intense, we wouldn't be surpr ... More >>

Elton John at BankAtlantic Center March 9

We're not entirely sure why, but it seems that all of popular culture is rebelling against Madonna. Talk show hosts, contemporary pop stars, and LARPers have all had something nasty to say about The Queen of Pop over the past few months. In fact, the snark has been so intense, we wouldn't be surpr ... More >>

Adele's Middle-Finger Fiasco and the Top Five Pop Star "F#%& You" Flip Offs

​Big ups to British siren Adele for keeping it seriously real at last night's Brit Awards. The "Rolling In The Deep" singer was in the process of accepting the award for Album of the Year when, seconds into her speech, actor and Brit presenter James Corden interrupted her to introduce a live perf ... More >>

Super Bowl Food Ads: Cookies For Breakfast, Coke, and The Soup Nazi

Coca-ColaThe Coke bears are back in time for the big game.​Can Super Bowl Sunday be the only day of the year in which we actually look forward to commercials? Each year, advertisers fall all over themselves trying to top each other for ratings, consumer approval and a coveted Clio award.  Adv ... More >>

Silver Ball, Silver Screen

Coca-ColaThe Coke bears are back in time for the big game.​Can Super Bowl Sunday be the only day of the year in which we actually look forward to commercials? Each year, advertisers fall all over themselves trying to top each other for ratings, consumer approval and a coveted Clio award.  Adv ... More >>

Elton John Announces South Florida Show at BankAtlantic Center on March 9

​There was a time when Elton John dressed (and acted) like the teenage lovechild of Liberace and Vegas-era Elvis on a helium bender. Bedazzled in silver jumpsuits with his face behind massive sunglasses and his feet stuffed into patent-leather platform moon boots, the fabulously balding Captain ... More >>

Top Ten Rock and Pop Stars Who Hate Digital Music Downloading

Ever since the dawn of digitization, the internet-surfing public has had every bit of media at its fingertips. And once Napster took the music world by storm, there has been a constantly raging debate about how to restructure the industry around digital music downloads. Some artists have simply acc ... More >>

Six Greatest Weirdo Pop Queens of All Time

Last.fmRolling Stone created a Queen of Pop Index, ranking the top 16 female pop recording artists of the last two years by examining, according to them, "album and digital song sales, Hot 100 rankings, radio airplay, YouTube views, social media, concert grosses, industry awards, and ... More >>

Tiny Pop Star Terra Jole is Mini-Gaga and Mini-Britney! And Wait, She's Mini-Katy Too!

Karl Giant​At four feet, two inches tall, Terra Jole is definitely one of the tinier pop stars in the game. Though she makes her living impersonating big names like Gaga, Britney, and now Katy Perry, she's a true talent, performing all of these pop goddesses' songs live onstage. When Jole's not ... More >>

Elton John and Rick Scott Spar Over AIDS Drug Assistance Program

Elton John in an ad for a MAC lipstick that benefits AIDS charities. ​Singer Elton John is just the latest in a long line of critics who have a bone to pick with Florida governor Rick Scott. Through his Elton John AIDS Foundation, the singer wrote a letter to Scott urging the governor not to make ... More >>

LeBron James is the 10th Most Powerful Celebrity in the World According to Forbes

​Forbes has tallied up the world's most powerful celebrities, and the Miami Heat's own LeBron James comes in at number three. Though he's not that most powerful athlete (Tiger Woods somehow still takes that one), he is the most powerful celebrity athlete from a team sport. Besides Woods, only A-li ... More >>

Castro Death Meter: Fidel Is Only 32 Percent Dead and Might Never Shut Up, Scientists Believe

Fidel Castro has put aside the too-old-to-care tracksuits and unearthed his old olive-green military uniforms. He has returned to his weathered rut in front of the Cuban parliament, back on television, ranting incessantly again. As Elton John would say: The bitch is back.

Q&A With Foxy Shazam, Opening for Hole at the Fillmore Miami Beach Tomorrow Night

photo by Smallz & Raskind​Hole may be the main attraction at the Fillmore Miami Beach on Friday night, but even Courtney Love's potential antics may be upstaged by openers Foxy Shazam.  A gonzo outfit hailing from the somewhat unlikely locale of Cleveland, the six-piece aims to be "the Mi ... More >>

Elton John Performs for Rush Limbaugh... Wedding!

via dno1967 on Flikr Fourth time a charm?​The same guy who said that half of all parents would abort their unborn children if they knew they'd be gay, had none other than Elton John--who's been gay since he was a zygote--perform at his 4th wedding at the Breakers in Palm Beach over the week ... More >>

WTF Florida: Orlando's Split Pants and Glitter Shine on American Idol, Real Life Batman Arrested

​There's more than enough weird things that happen here in Miami-Dade, but sometimes it seems we're downright sane compared to the rest of Florida. WTF Florida is our new weekly survey of all the weirdness our Peninsula has to offer. American Idol Comes to Mickey Mouse LandAmerican Idol skipped ov ... More >>

Concert Announcements: Brandi Carlile at Culture Room and Dropkick Murphys at Revolution Live

via Flickr user Guy McCullough​Hey look! It's a concert announcement that has nothing to do with jam bands, '80s hair metal, or sugary pop-punk acts! Don't worry, they'll be back next week. For today, let's focus on Brandi Carlile's announcement that she'll be coming to Culture Room on February 20 ... More >>

The Re-Rebirth of Soul

via Flickr user Guy McCullough​Hey look! It's a concert announcement that has nothing to do with jam bands, '80s hair metal, or sugary pop-punk acts! Don't worry, they'll be back next week. For today, let's focus on Brandi Carlile's announcement that she'll be coming to Culture Room on February 20 ... More >>

Notes From the Soundboard: Something Blue

​To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here. One constant theme of this column is a fixation on bands and artists that somehow fell through the cracks that occur within pop music's lengthy trajectory. That's one hazard of rock's rich repertoire -- so many artists, but so li ... More >>

Rainbow Harmony

​To read past installments of Notes from the Soundboard, click here. One constant theme of this column is a fixation on bands and artists that somehow fell through the cracks that occur within pop music's lengthy trajectory. That's one hazard of rock's rich repertoire -- so many artists, but so li ... More >>

Girl Talk Plays the Culture Room

Gregg Gillis's cut-and-paste is the present and future of pop music.

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Have Another Ball! (Fat Wreck Chords)

Manhattan Transfer

Have Another Ball! (Fat Wreck Chords)

Beyond Bling

Have Another Ball! (Fat Wreck Chords)

National "Make it Work" Day

Have Another Ball! (Fat Wreck Chords)

Dirty Purdy

There’s a passel of crazy peeps at the Purdy Lounge

Postscript Professor

Warren Zanes wrote some of his best songs while working on his dissertation

Various Artists

"Tears in Heaven" (RIAA)

Joss Stone

"Tears in Heaven" (RIAA)

Ol' Dirty Bastard

A Son Unique (Def Jam)

A Son Unique Def Jam

CRAP Festival

A Son Unique (Def Jam)

A Son Unique Def Jam

Verdi Lite

Yes, it's dumbed-down music, but this superb cast will make you forget that

Night&Day

Yes, it's dumbed-down music, but this superb cast will make you forget that

Scissor Sisters

Scissor Sisters Universal

Everything Elton

Crocodile rock along with men's chorus

Señor Coconut and his Orchestra

Fiesta Songs (Emperor Norton)

Aleks Syntek

De Noche en la Ciudad "EMI Latin"

Staying on Target

Aiming for a familiar audience, the films of summer hope for more hits than misses

The Men Who Would Be Queens

The Road to El Dorado

Swelter

The Road to El Dorado

Don't Wanna Hold Your Hand

Who in his right mind would have passed up the chance to join the Beatles? Rock-and-raving pianist Roy Young did. Regrets? Don't get him started.

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Who in his right mind would have passed up the chance to join the Beatles? Rock-and-raving pianist Roy Young did. Regrets? Don't get him started.

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Who in his right mind would have passed up the chance to join the Beatles? Rock-and-raving pianist Roy Young did. Regrets? Don't get him started.

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Who in his right mind would have passed up the chance to join the Beatles? Rock-and-raving pianist Roy Young did. Regrets? Don't get him started.

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Who in his right mind would have passed up the chance to join the Beatles? Rock-and-raving pianist Roy Young did. Regrets? Don't get him started.

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Who in his right mind would have passed up the chance to join the Beatles? Rock-and-raving pianist Roy Young did. Regrets? Don't get him started.

Rock and Roll Graveyard

Jimi Hendrix's guitar. John Lennon's furniture. Bono's sunglasses. Hope I die before I get sold.

Solid Old: Top 10 Rock Relics of All Time

Jimi Hendrix's guitar. John Lennon's furniture. Bono's sunglasses. Hope I die before I get sold.

End of The Line

The last set of local-music reviews -- for this year