Rockers give their regards to Broadway

Everyone from U2 to Green Day is ripping a Technicolor page from ol’ Andrew Lloyd Webber’s songbook, treating it to a few ragged guitar solos, and getting in bed with Broadway.

John Mayer's one-eyed monster sees in colour

It turns out people do read Playboy for the articles.

Simple Susan Boyle is riding the crazy train

Because there’s no official rule book for how to act like an overexposed celebrity, Susan Boyle can be excused for getting things seriously wrong.

The Osbournes prove entertainers no longer entertain

Earlier this year a pop culture milestone came and went with scant evidence of its passing; a TV show so tremendously awful that it has been mothballed forever: The Osbournes Reloaded.

Video provocation just isn't what it used to be

Viewed through the lens of 2009, it seems scarcely possible that a) there was a time when MTV and MuchMusic broadcast music videos, and b) a clip showing a few cross-dressers and a blink-and-you’d-miss-it flash of nipple would be considered too racy for cable television.

KISS's deal with Satan still paying dividends

Considering that KISS remains huge despite not having made a decent record since Gerald Ford was sitting in the White House, the band obviously signed a long-term deal with the devil.

Pop-culture vultures fly high in crazyland

It’s been a mega month at the auction houses for pop-culture junkies.

The Beatles remain untouchable

More than a cash grab, the great Beatles reissues of ’09 will be remembered as the final cementing of an already unassailable legacy.

Aerosmith shows its age

Mother Nature is clearly trying to tell Steven Tyler something.

Blink 182's return shocks no one

The announcement was inevitable, but no one knew exactly when it was coming.

Coldplay's reinvention could use reinventing

Seeing how he seems like a genuinely humble and all-round decent human being, let’s assume that Chris Martin is as horrified as anyone at the way things have unfolded.

It's time for an Adam and the Ants reboot

By all rights, long-defunct ponce-pop new wavers Adam and the Ants should be ripe for a comeback.

Who are the Killers, anyway?

So just who are the Killers—Sin City pretty boys with a new-romantic streak, or bearded troubadours of the American road?

Supposedly dry Rolling Stones abide

It would have made a great reality show: The Rolling Stones Go for a Physical.

Beyoncé's not quite as fierce as she claims

We know that she's Sasha Fierce, but would it be asking too much of the one-woman Swiss bank account formally known as Beyoncé Knowles to be a little more interesting?