Weekend Roundtable: Favorite TV Show Theme Songs
They’re creepy and they’re kooky. Mysterious and spooky. They’re altogether ooky. They’re… TV show theme songs! In this week’s Roundtable, we talk about some of our favorites.
They’re creepy and they’re kooky. Mysterious and spooky. They’re altogether ooky. They’re… TV show theme songs! In this week’s Roundtable, we talk about some of our favorites.
Let it be known that I love ‘Rock Band’. I also dig ‘Guitar Hero’, but the format and user interface of that one was just never up to the level of ‘Rock Band’. Now that ‘GH’ is defun...
I love it when celebrities turn out to be movie nerds. To celebrate his nostalgia for the “Spaghetti Westerns” of the 1960s and 1970s, music producer Danger Mouse (real name Brian Joseph Burton – the one who was half o...
It’s Motown week on ‘American Idol’. Historically, this is a strong week, as there’s so much good music to choose from. It will be particularly tough to decide who should go home, because the contestant vot...
By now, you know that Ashton Jones went home last week, which wasn’t a surprise to anyone. At this point in the ‘American Idol’ competition, the contestants are busy doing press junkets, red carpets, and hanging ...
I had to do some travelling last week, so I didn’t get to recap the final Hollywood Week where ‘American Idol’ whittled the field down from 24 contestants to 13. Fortunately, nothing terribly unpredictable happened. This wee...
Week six of ‘American Idol’ found us in Las Vegas, where the remaining contestants sang Beatles song on the set of Cirque de Soleil’s ‘Love at the Mirage’. After that, the judges made a few cuts. Then...
Did you watch the Grammy Awards last weekend? If not, you missed out. Eminem sang with Dre, Mumford and Sons got some much deserved exposure, and Cee Lo Green proved that he’s not just crazy talented but a little crazy to bo...
Hollywood Week on ‘American Idol’ continued with the overly-dramatic group rounds on Wednesday, and then had individual auditions with band accompaniment on Thursday. I’ve got to say that this week really got me ...
Week Four of ‘American Idol’ was a split week that brought us the last auditions in San Francisco and the beginning of Hollywood Week. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover, but we’ll hit all the common themes...
In the wake of disappointing sales results for 2010, Activision has made some major cuts. The biggest of these is the entire ‘Guitar Hero’ franchise, which was discontinued along with ‘True Crime: Hong Kong’...
The third week of ‘American Idol’ took us to Austin and Los Angeles, where we saw the usual parade of talent and freaks. Steven Tyler continues to amuse, and the general tone continues to be upbeat and engaging.