This spring, beloved jerk Simon Cowell enlisted the help of the press in his American Idol salary negotiations by telling a bunch of reporters he was considering leaving the show . And it worked! The Post reports today that Cowell — who made a meager $36 million last season — has been offered between $100 million and $144 million per year by Fox and 19 Entertainment to extend his Idol contract when it expires at the end of next May. We would point out that this is an insane sum of money t

In a creepy bid for censorship, Beijing, China has ordered that all personal computers sold on July 1st and beyond be installed with software that filters images that could be seen as harmful to their citizens’ moral health. So what does China deem as a threat to one’s morality? Pictures of Johnny Depp, Garfield, and pork. Yup, these images, along with pictures of sex, drugs and rock and roll, are being blocked to the general public of China. Why? I don’t know. China is obviously on some other

Okay, let’s face it, and let’s be honest with ourselves. So many Latino artists have been influenced by Michael Jackson , as seen by this post. So, as a continued tribute to Michael, check out these fabulous pics of El Rey del Pop with some Latino celebrity heavyweights. This is El Rey with Latino 80s boy band Menudo , including a young Ricky Martin . Ricky of course, let his feelings be known about his one-time musical idol, saying: “Estoy muy triste. Nadie lo podrá re

By Graham Rae. 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day . “My generation is zero/I never made it as a working class hero” - Billie Joe Armstrong. Let’s face it, Green Day are an unfortunate phenomenon at best. They came to world prominence in 1994, shortly after Kurt Cobain had blown his head off. The kids of America (and, by extension, the rest of the American-electronically-colonized world) needed a bit of comic relief after this grim (or hilarious, depending on your view of Cobain) mus

Sitting down to write this review what is whirling in my mind is that the novel was not at all what I was expecting and that it surprised me in more point than one... and that, in a way, it was also a teasing book. The story is told in first point of view by Benjamin Blume, a former rock and roll groupie London boy of the late '80, who now, 20 years later, is become a rock band manager in Tokyo. He is the manager of Hayate, a young boys band which is struggling to emerge, but they have potenti