Tom Breihan

Now that Curtis and Graduation have finally hit stores and everyone has (prematurely, but whatever) handed the sales victory to Kanye, it feels like a good moment to take a break from event-rap and talk about another album, one that has none of the world-conquering ambition of those other two...

Tere's something I can't quite figure out: Why does Rihanna get to be a pop star? And I'm not asking that to demean Rihanna, not necessarily. I just reviewed her new album, Good Girl Gone Bad, and I was surprised at how much I liked it. In the past, the...

There's been a lot of really good stuff on TV lately: 24, 30 Rock, Big Day, Rome, the new cruelty-enhanced season of American Idol. People are finally fighting on Heroes. This season's Real World cast is pretty much completely insane. Lost is coming back soon. I like all those shows,...

Perhaps it shows the Continental Club's sense of resignation over sparsely attended Wednesday-night shows that they've booked Chris Knudson, the eternal opportunist who wrote that ham-fisted Kinky Friedman-for-governor song "Stand Up and Be Counted." Knudson seems willing to attach himself to any artist or cause -- from Kinky to the...