Britney Spears

Party Pick of the Week: Rump Shaker

Premiere 1710 Las Palmas, Hlywd., Fri., Oct. 4, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., $5 admission; 18 and older The '90s are officially retro. For real this time! Some clubs tried to make it happen before, but it finally seems to have that pop! pow! wow! factor. The Spice Girls and 'N Sync now are the so-called classic ... More >>

Is Britney Spears a Next Level Gay Icon?

By Brittany Spanos Britney Spears' new song "Work Bitch" debuted recently, and she also announced her upcoming two year residency in Las Vegas. The single, helmed by an EDM heavyweight, is in the vein of her will.i.am collaboration "Scream & Shout," but not what we once expected from the pop star ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List What we talk about when we talk about sex and rock 'n roll is often dudes, the lusty front men and axe-grinders who, perhap ... More >>

Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #5-1

*Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #20-16 *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #15-11 *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time: #10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List 5. Avril Lavigne Combining ... More >>

Miley Cyrus Is Hipper And More Liberal Than You. Oh, And She Hates Rick Santorum

She's just being Miley.​Miley Cyrus' Hannah Montana is one of the easier Disney shows for adults to sit through. Her voice and wide eyes aren't totally unlike a young Lucille Ball. Still, that might not be enough to make an adult investigate her music. But her surprisingly not-overplayed cat ... More >>

The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life

It's hard to believe, but five years have passed since the release of Kevin Federline's debut Playing With Fire, which came out on Halloween, 2006. It was a scary night for some, but K-Fed was on top of the world. Married to Britney Spears, he was psyched to finally bring his brand of hip-hop to the ... More >>

Top Ten Greatest Videos from TRL's Heyday

​MTV turns 30 this week, and on Monday we spotlighted the five '90s shows the channel should bring back. The end of that decade, of course, saw the rise of Total Request Live, which kicked off in 1998, by which point MTV had long succumbed to the domination of reality shows. Part of TRL's appe ... More >>

Top Five Videos Featuring School Girl Uniforms in Honor of Club Suicide's Summer School

Lina LecaroStraight to the principal's office missy!​As we suspected Carma (-you know what) was a bust this past weekend. In fact, traffic was better than ever on the streets of Los Angeles. Still, we did see one big casualty of the freeway closure and subsequent hype: nightlife. Indeed, with ... More >>

Bonnie McKee: Pop Tart

The singer-songwriter behind Katy's and Britney's sugarcoated hits

Music Picks: Alison Krauss, Flying Lotus, My Morning Jacket

Also, Jaga Jazzist, Kid Cudi, Baths and others

Sexual Attraction: Smiling for Men is Chick Repellent

NBC / HuluBlizzard Man is a virgin.​Those brooding hip-hop guys in puffy jackets in the corner of the club -- the place where "nobody smiling." Turns out they get all the girls after all. A study published this week in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion states that women a ... More >>

Mercedes To Open Teen Driving School in Los Angeles For The Rich And The Furious

MBUSASL65 AMG: Educational.​Not so sure that if we had a teen daughter we'd want her to learn how to drive behind the wheel of the same kind of car Lindsay Lohan ditched on the side of a local road en route to a DUI conviction and her much publicized legal woes. But if there's anyplace in Ame ... More >>

The Surreal World of ASCAP's Pop Awards: Where Adam Lambert and Ke$ha Honor the Guys Who Made Them Famous (and Train is the Best Rock Band)

Lina LecaroKe$ha and Adam Lambert hold Luke and Martin's plaques.​Haters might say that Dr. Luke and Max Martin are responsible for the downfall of music. After all, manufactured pop has killed it for other genres, especially harder and more experimental ones. But at ASCAP's Pop Music Awards ... More >>

Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Nolte Invoked For Movie Investment Scam, Feds Allege

Britney was used.​In a town for where handshakes and words often suffice for written contracts, it's easy to see how an alleged scam like this could go down. Two L.A. area men were arrested today on suspicion of running a "boiler room" operation that raised $300,000 for films that weren't pro ... More >>

Why Britney Spears' New Video Will Do It Again (Plus Scenes from Club Tigerheat's Britney Night at the Palladium)

MTV.comFrom "Hold It Against Me" ​The hype machine behind Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" has overshadowed everyone and everything else, but come this Thursday, the popster zeitgeist will, at least for a day, shift to another embellished (if less outrageous) video diva. You know who we're talking ... More >>

Dance Club Pick: Tigerheat's Britney Night at the Palladium

Top Ten Musician Restaurant Franchises (In Honor of Flavor Flav's New Fried Chicken Joint in Iowa--Yes, Iowa)

Don't Believe the Hype! 10 Musician's Restaurants Less Strange Than Flava Flav's Chicken Joint

Top 10 Rejected Titles for Britney Spears' New Single (Before They Settled for "Hold It Against Me")

​ We all know Britney Spears luuuuuuuuvs lame sexual puns as names for her singles--remember "IF U Seek Amy"? ZOMG--if you say it out loud it spells out "F.U.C.K. Me", you guys!!! Well, the bitch is back with a new single and this time, yup, she went for another lame sexual double-entendre. ... More >>

Top Ten LA Musician Mansions For Sale (Sorry Millionaires: Jack Black Just Snapped Flea's Los Feliz Pad)

Jack Black Buys Flea's House More Musicians Insane Mansions For Sale

Gabriel & Dresden: Giant New Year's Eve

Hot Chicks Don't Get Tix? Mercedes Driven By Moms Top List Of Most-Ticketed Cars

imagevenue.comIf memory serves, this is Britney Spears famously stepping out of a Paris Hilton's Mercedes SL -- and into the Brazil-wax hall of fame.​Hot chicks don't get tix, right? Maybe. Jerks in douche-mobiles (the always-leased Audi A4, the self-important Mini or the self-righteous Prius) ... More >>

Nightranger Goes Gaga for Comedienne Nadya Ginsburg ( Hilarious Gaga and Madonna Impersonations)

We've known of self-proclaimed "edgy, Jew-Talian Tracy Ullman" style comedian/singer Nadya Ginsburg as part of a posse of pals and performers around Los Angeles that includes club king/actor Mario Diaz (Full Frontal, B.F.D), song parody/comedy queen Jackie Beat and burlesque star/reality fave Selene ... More >>

Britney Spears' Ex-Manager 'Libel-Proof'?

​Call it the douche defense. Former Britney Spears "manager" Sam Lutfi is such a low-down scoundrel that it would be impossible to find words that would libel him: That's what the legal team of Spears' mother, Lynne Spears, is arguing in Los Angeles court this week in its bid to get Lufti's de ... More >>

Lady Gaga, Michael Jackson and the Lizard People: The Incredibly Strange World of Music Conspiracy Theory

​Last month we reported on the persistent Internet rumor that Lady Gaga is actually a puppet of occult forces. That post was extremely popular and our amazing readers used it as a springboard to engage in a lively, still ongoing debate in the comments section (44 and counting!). Well, this mo ... More >>

West Coast Sound's Top Ten Cover Songs of the Decade

Cover songs are a massive gray area for music fans. If a band sticks too close to the original, they might be perceived as a cheap knock-off, but if the band makes a drastic diversion, the results might only be amusing for a moment. When a cover works, though, the payoff can be massive. Fans can be ... More >>

Gitmo Torture Music: Songs That Will Break You

Music by Pearl Jam, NIN, R.E.M. used at Gitmo, musicians protest.

New Har Mar Superstar Track, Originally Intended for Britney Spears, Released: "Tallboy" (MP3)

​So if this isn't a gay club hit this fall, we don't know what from what. The new Har Mar Superstar track has arrived after a musical Har Mar Hiatus of ... has it been five years? It's from his forthcoming album, Dark Touches. In that time, a lot of blue-eyed soul singers have come and gone, b ... More >>

Rock Picks: Leonard Cohen, Wavves, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Britney Spears

Also, The Henry Clay People, Vetiver, Mad Professor and others

Let's Forget About the Tongue-Tied Lightning: Battling Britney Spears and Gilbert Arenas for 2008 Weblog Awards

Sunday afternoon, my editor e-mailed me and asked how I was doing in the 2008 Weblog Awards, where I'm nominated for Best Celebrity Blogger, alongside blogging heavyweights Gilbert Arenas and Britney Spears. Yes, you read that correctly. "I think I'm going to lose to Britney Spears," I wrote back. ... More >>

WORN OUT- Britney's Comeback Looks

What's there to say about America's favorite trainwreck, except, well, the meds seem to be working. On The Record, the MTV doc that aired this past Sunday, and every night since, sought to be a sympathetic, somewhat real attempt at changing Britney Spears image and launching her new record, Circus, ... More >>

Music Makes the Popstars Come Together: Britney, Justin (on stage) and a slew of celebs (in the audience) join Madonna at Dodger Stadium

All photos by Timothy Norris. Click image for entire slideshow. Two hours inching along Sunset Blvd. to Dodger Stadium from our Silver Lake abode only blocks away, and another one waiting amid bright lights and rabid camera phone-clicking star-mongers who literally cheered like someone hit a home ... More >>

This Week in LA Music: Victory Music, Eagles of Death Metal, Madonna, TV on the Radio, DJ AM and Spinnerette

all photos by Timothy Norris Something big happened that resulted in lots of great music echoing across the land, a Tuesday night became a virtual New Year's Eve, and we rejoiced, as we always do, with music. Erin Broadley snuck backstage and hung with the Eagles of Death Metal before their Jimm ... More >>

Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

2007: Outta Sight

Falling, spinning, shining stars and the year's most stellar parties

Blackouts, Sellouts and Freakouts

Shoe Gazers

Daliwood

And anarchy on Sunset

Nightranger: Role Model in the Brown Bottle

And glamour ghouls

Snooze City

By Lina Lecaro She had a lot of people rooting for her. But Britney Spears' opening performance at the MTV VMAs tonight -though not the trainwreck some said it might be- was just... blah. Talk about going through the motions. Her moves were robotic, her outfit unflattering, her lip-syncing ha ... More >>

To The Max

My '70's fetish is probably most evident by the Technicolor collection of maxi frocks in my closet. I've been amassing these vibrant columns for years ( my pals call them my Sonny and Cher dresses) and wearing them out to clubs has always been a blissfully comfy alternative to the tight mini's or j ... More >>

Bringin’ Sassy Back

Bad Charlotte

The Charlotte Church Show

Fashion Flashing

Best Sunken Lair For Techno-Geeks

People Whose Passing We Lament

Blood Rush

No more Coldplay, show us the love

Hollywood at the Edges: And You Are?

Today, on a Vicious Blue Planet

Katie Couric, Britney Spears, Lou Reed and Alastair Fothergill. Alastair Fothergill?

Rhythm & Chews

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Devil in Miss Spears