Lady Gaga’s recent accomplishments include having more “fans” on Facebook than any other living human. She crushed the 10,000,000 mark earlier this year, surpassing President Barack Obama. Not bad for a 24-year-old diva. Although far less exclusive, but obviously impressive, she can add the cover and interview with the venerable Vanity Fair magazine. It’s not surprising [...]

Kanye West protege Kid Cudi from Cleveland recently got himself into some trouble. He tore a door of its hinges during a domestic dispute. Scary shit–yea, we know. The cops came and he was arrested for criminal mischief. When they found some liquid cocaine in his pocket they slapped on a drug possession charge. Kid [...]

At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, one of the most talked-about movies to debut was The Tillman Story. “Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002—and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately more [...]

She was instrumental in crafting Hole’s best-selling album, “Live Through This”, Spin’s #1 album of 1994, and a founding member of Minneapolis’ Janitor Joe. To celebrate the life and music of Kristen Pfaff we’d encourage you to punch the volume, get out of your seat, and watch Janitor Joe drop the heat on Athen’s 40 [...]

While Willy Brown and his headstone is making headlines, there is a continual search to find physical evidence of the blues era’s men . There are no known photos of Willie, but it would make sense given the times, the vagabonding lifestyle these men lived and the likely chance anyone in the audience was carrying [...]

Red Sox rookie, Daniel Nava, crushed a Grand-Slam out of Fenway Park on his first at bat in the Majors. In fact, it was the first ball he had seen pitched in his rookie debut for Boston’s big leagues. He is only the second player to do so following Kevin Kouzmanoff’s September 2nd, 2006 dinger [...]

27 represents the number of outs a pitcher needs to complete a game. The mid-20s are the golden years for players. Following the heels of Oakland’s Dallas Braden’ (26) 19th perfect game in Major League history in May, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga’s perfect game ended controversially with the 27th batter in the ninth inning. [...]

“You can run, you can run, tell my friend boy Willie Brown” With those words, rock’s grandfather and 27s archetype Robert Johnson immortalized bluesman Willie Brown in his prophetic “Cross Road Blues.” Cream (Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce), of course, brought the song into the rock canon with their version of the song. While Willie [...]

National Public Radio dubbed Janis Joplin “the Queen of Rock” on a segment that aired this morning. Instead of the typical “best of” (read: “most famous”) track selections, the producers included a live version of “Women Is Losers” from a 1966 performance at San Francisco’s Avalon Ballroom. “Ball and Chain” from Monterey Pop followed and [...]

While shooting the video for his first single, titled “Yung Hott Killin ‘Em,” Griffin, Georgia, rapper Yung Hott (his real name was Jerode Paige) was shot and killed. He was 27 years old and is thus the latest member of the fabled 27 Club. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports this morning that the police has arrested [...]