Editor’s note: Each Friday, our internet-savvy friends over at BuzzFeed curate a post for us that’s filled with links to some of the most talked-about items on the web that week. Enjoy!
* After beating Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber for Album of the Year at the Grammys, Arcade Fire was met with a resounding “Who?”
* When Esperanza Spalding won the Grammy for Best New Artist, Beliebers collectively lost their minds on Twitter.
* It sounded like Justin Bieber implied that rape is all a part of God’s plan when his words were twisted in a recent interview with Rolling Stone.
Well, here’s one way to try and save print media: Rolling Stone is opening it very own eatery. Rolling Stone Los Angeles will be “the first Rolling Stone Restaurant & Lounge” — which we assume means that if it’s successful, we should expect more to pop up. Should the Hard Rock Café be shaking in its studded boots?
Honestly, we’re not sure the world needs a music magazine-themed dining experience. But since it’s happening whether we like it or not, we thought we’d provide the new executive chef with ideas for some dishes inspired by some of Rolling Stone‘s recent covers.
If you haven’t heard VICE magazine’s MTV show, The VICE Guide to Everything, debuts tonight. The show follows VICE co-creator Shane Smith and his cohorts on trips around the globe, exploring politics and culture on a street level — think a traveling The Daily Show with a dash of Jackass. Tune in to MTV tonight at 11/10c to catch the big premiere, but in the meantime check out a brief history of other print publications that made the jump to television.
1. George Lucas plans to release all of the Star Wars movies in 3D, beginning with The Phantom Menace in 2012, with one per year to follow. [via Deadline]
2. Kanye West’s fifth album might not have a name yet, but it does have a release date: the Monday before Thanksgiving. [via Vulture]
3. President Obama talks about what’s on his iPod in the new issue of Rolling Stone: “Jay-Z used to be sort of what predominated, but now I’ve got a little Nas and a little Lil Wayne and some other stuff, but I would not claim to be an expert.” [via Just Jared]
4. Behold, the first casualty of the fall TV season: FOX’s Lonestar, which originally sounded like it had potential, has been canceled after only two episodes. [via The Live Feed]
5. Just in time for the holidays, Justin Bieber is releasing a line of singing dolls that will all presumably have great hair. [via Digital Spy]
Today, Google turns 12 and Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. — aka Young Money founder Lil Wayne — celebrates his 28th birthday. While he may be spending time in the clink instead of out partying this year, his sentence is up in a little over a month, and he still managed to release an album today. In other words, the age of Weezy is about to begin all over again. As such, we’ve put together a list of 28 things you might not know about the prolific rapper. Check it out, after the jump.
This week, BuzzFeed was hard at work forcing our political opinions on everybody. When we weren’t complaining about President Obama, we were busy defending the sanctity of marriage with famed imbecile and head of the National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher. The Gathering of the Juggalos was also last weekend, which seemed like a good time. Then Tila Tequila was assaulted with feces and rocks and it became a GREAT time. A certain celebrity mom (who is suspiciously absent from this list) sent some embarrassing tweets to her daughter, and Rolling Stone debuted its sexy True Blood cover, which was promptly ‘shopped to make it 800% sexier. Coincidentally, that’s exactly how much slower somebody made this Justin Bieber song, making it about as intelligible as these terrible lyrics from 2010′s richest rappers. But, don’t tell Snoop we said that. We don’t want him to blow us up. Happy Trails, BuzzPokes!
Nudity on the cover of a magazine is intended to create buzz, and in turn, sell newsstand copies. But it can take many forms. From the funny to the artistic to the totally bizarre (anyone remember Blind Melon on the cover of a November 1993 issue of Rolling Stone?), we’ve rounded up 40 magazine covers featuring famous celebrities in the buff. We think it really puts into perspective how provocative this new True Blood cast cover of Rolling Stone is. Not only does it feature multiple nude celebrities, but the image is extremely suggestive, rather than silly or playful, which is usually the case in the rare instance of male cover nudity. Click through and examine the evidence.
1. It’s almost official: The U.S. Department of Justice has given its blessing, so now Live Nation and Tickemaster can stay married — as long as the US District Court in Washington, DC says it’s OK. [via Variety]
2. Rolling Stone‘s profile of General McChrystal (the boss in Afghanistan) is scandalizing people (including President Obama) long before the magazine hits newsstands. Read the article in question here, courtesy of Politico. [via The Awl]
3. At 91 years old, Andy Rooney says that he’ll never retire. Ever. “I will work until I drop, or until I lose my head.” [via NYP]
4. The Mighty Boosh‘s Noel Fielding is staging his second art exhibition in London next month with a soundtrack courtesy of Kasabian. [via NME]
5. Just like something out of Highlights, one of Michelangelo‘s rare anatomical drawings — of a brain! — has been hiding on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for the past 500 years. [via NYT]
Russell Brand is your new favorite fake rock star. Although based on his performance at LA’s Roxy nightclub last week promoting his new Judd Apatow film, Get Him to the Greek, it’s not all that much of an act. More like a dream come true, one he’s finally letting himself believe. Watching the 35-year-old comic make the transition from self-deprecating admiration for “the real rock stars who made it easy for me to act like one,” to possibly pretending not to recall the words to his own songs, to finally casting aside his lyric sheets and embracing the persona with gusto — in the space of just a few songs — was like watching a butterfly hatch from a cocoon right on the Roxy stage. Granted, a wild-haired, potty-mouthed, scalawag of a gorgeous-looking indie shock comic butterfly, but still.
