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  • Pop Life: Gross 'Anatomy'
    November 30, 4:10 AM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    God bless America -- what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after Meatballs III: Summer Job? His reign a... | More »

  • Now He's K-Fed-Ex, Just Another Guy With a Lot of Wife-beaters and No Wife
    November 17, 10:20 AM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Poor Kevin Federline. We never thought we'd miss him, but we're all a little choked up right now, watching our Chaotic DVD over and over, cranking Journey�... | More »

  • Pop Life: The State 2.0
    November 3, 11:02 AM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    It's not easy loving the State. For a couple of years in the early Nineties, these jokers were on MTV all the time, with absurd skits about grunge dating, monkey ... | More »

  • CMJ Madness: The Horrors Play at Dim Sum Joint
    November 2, 11:33 AM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    I've seen lots of bands worse than The Horrors. I saw Morningwood once. And Jamiroquai, they weren't very good at all. Neither were Jonathan Fireeater. I... | More »

  • Rod vs. Barry
    October 27, 11:24 AM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Seeing these two billboards every day, at the 53rd Street subway stop, is like a glorious vision of gods in combat. Rod Stewart goes up against Barry Manilow, two silv... | More »

  • Live-Blogging the "Project Runway" Finale
    October 19, 11:03 AM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Like any other big night, the Project Runway finale has a morning after. Today, bittersweet memories litter the mind like the pizza boxes and Smirnoff Raw Tea bottles ... | More »

  • Pet Shop Boys: Still Our Favorite Synth Rock Bum-Outs
    October 16, 4:38 PM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Question: Does the world really need another comeback tour from the Pet Shop Boys? Answer: Yes, obviously. Twenty years after "West End Girls," the great Eurotrash syn... | More »

  • Freddy Fender: We Salute You
    October 16, 12:40 PM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    This clip is a shout-out to Freddy Fender, who died yesterday of lung cancer. A Texas legend, Freddy packed a lot of road into sixty-nine years -- a Tex-Mex journeym... | More »

  • The Hold Steady Tear It Up in NYC
    October 2, 5:51 PM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    October 2nd is always a bummer day for Red Sox fans (damn your bones, Bucky Dent!) but fortunately we have memories of last night's Hold Steady show to get us thr... | More »

  • RS at Fashion Week: Rob Sheffield Goes to "Project Runway" Show, Fandom Ensues
    September 15, 4:12 PM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Fashion week? It's on like Malan Breton! We just got back from this morning's Project Runway show at Bryant Park, and as Vincent would say, it got us off. ... | More »

  • Whitney and Bobby: Didn't They Almost Have It All?
    September 14, 2:05 PM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Bittersweet memories "that's all I'm taking with me" and it's all Whitney's taking from Bobby — at least until the lawyers get involved. But dam... | More »

  • Live-Blogging the 2006 VMAs
    August 31, 6:58 PM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Gosh, another MTV Video Music Awards! Tonight is the night when millions of music fans hit the couch to bury a Thursday night's worth of brain cells in a Zima cof... | More »

  • Live Review: Sonic Youth and Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Brooklyn
    August 15, 12:44 PM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Only a few objects on earth are visible from space: the Great Wall of China, Nick Zinner's gothgantuan hair, Thurston Moore's willowy neck, the Pyramids, Kar... | More »

  • Live Report: Sleater-Kinney's Last Show in NYC
    August 3, 5:21 PM ET
    | Rob Sheffield

    Sleater-Kinney went out the way they always promised they would - all at once, not piece by piece. "Like a whole bucket of stars dumped into the universe," as Corin T... | More »

ABOUT THIS BLOG

Rob Sheffield

Rob Sheffield is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, where he writes about music, TV and pop culture. He is the author of two books, Talking To Girls About Duran Duran and Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time.

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