From Knight Rider to The Partridge Family, NBC under entertainment president Ben Silverman has been a remake-happy network. So is it any wonder that NBC's signature chime sound (you know, the "boooo-beeeee-boooooh" that plays alongside the peacock logo) is also getting a reinvention? The B-52s, The Flaming Lips, and B.B. King are among the musicians redoing the signature tones (apparently it's Read more

It's pretty awesome that the B-52s aren't just still around and kicking (Kate Pierson is about to turn 60!), they're also still putting out hilariously fun, catchy songs, complete with their signature flamboyance and silliness. The new video for the tune "Funplex" takes place partially inside a futuristic Funplex, and partially in outer space. It seems to be about pleasure-seeking and, well, Read more

The best parts of the week were when you weighed in, so check out my polls: If Ocean needed a fourteenth person and that person were a woman, which lady could play Ocean's Fourteenth? Do you have any interest in Eli Roth's torture-horror film Hostel: Part II? Would you get busy with Seth Rogen? Yes, I mean in that way. What is this summer's song? And in other news... Check out the top ten Read more

With all this news about cartoons from my childhood being made into movies, the return of Better Off Dead director Savage Steve Holland, and now, a comeback by The B-52s, I really do feel like I'm living in the '80s. In the case of the self-proclaimed "world's greatest party band," I consider this a good thing. As reported in Billboard today, B-52s just finished laying tracks for a new album, the Read more