Justin Bieber to Fans: Sorry, Why Can't Ü Clap On the Beat?
What do you mean, Justin? When you tell fans to clap, then you tell them they’re crap, what do you mean?
Carrie Brownstein Finds the Home Within In Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl is a document of self-actualization. These days, most people likely know of author Carrie Brownstein from Portlandia, her creepily-accurate Portland parody sketch show, and might actually be taken aback by how seriously she takes her music criticism. After all, she maintained a music…
Here's the Exclusive First Look at Carrie Brownstein's Memoir Cover
Back in mid March, Riverhead Books announced the upcoming release of Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, a memoir by Sleater-Kinney guitarist and one half of Portlandia, Carrie Brownstein. Today, Jezebel is thrilled to give you an exclusive first look at book’s evocative cover.
Sleater-Kinney Returned to the Pacific Northwest & I Cried (A Review)
“There are more books at this show than any other one I’ve worked,” the door guy at the Showbox remarked immediately after checking both mine and my friend Sonya’s bags. We looked at each other and laughed. That pretty much summed up the crowd for the second of three sold-out Sleater-Kinney shows in Seattle—the very…
Fred Armisen Wants To Be A Sleater-Kinney Roadie, Can't Lift Anything
Portlandia stars Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen appeared on Conan last night to chat about the Sleater-Kinney reunion, on-set hijinks, and a tiny painting of Fred that lives in Carrie's den.
Natasha Lyonne and More Very Cool People Really Want You to Vote
Joan Jett! Tracee Ellis Ross! Carrie Brownstein! A dancing ovary puppet! Everyone you ever thought was cool got together and remixed "Bad Reputation" to help you vote in next week's midterm elections on Nov. 4th. Why? The War on Women rages on and Republicans are trying to stop The Ladies from voting because we …
Carrie Brownstein to Complete Nora Ephron's Jane Austen Project
The dream of the 1790s is alive in Meryton.
Ellie Goulding Is Magically Both Underweight and Overweight
In today's Tweet Beat, Ellie Goulding is reading the comments, Ellen DeGeneres wishes Cher a happy birthday and Carrie Brownstein, you and me both.
Courtney Love Will Respond to 'All, Ok Most' of Your YouTube Comments
In today's Tweet Beat, some fantastic women hang out, Courtney Love has some exciting news and it's also Presidents Day.
Portlandia's Hilarious NPR Tailgate Is Killing Me Softly
Do you experience anxiety upon realizing that you're almost out of Radiolab podcasts? Does every spring cleaning involve discarding at least three complimentary tote bags? Have you ever had a sex dream about Kai Ryssdal (and are you able to spell Kai Ryssdal's name without Googling it)? Then you, public radio addict,…
Carrie Brownstein Is Willing to Give a Hug to a Certain Car Owner
In today's Tweet Beat, Frances Bean tells someone to S her D, Clare Bowen is moved by August: Osage County and Carrie Brownstein is worried about a bumper sticker-toting unicorn lover.
Portlandia Performs Salt-N-Pepa, Officially Becomes the Best Thing to Happen to Us
Sweet Brownstein! Could the duo behind Portlandia get us anymore pumped for the show's upcoming season? The answer — no doy (yep, I said "doy") — is of course they can, especially if they (joined by Mirah and Thao) close out their premiere party with every person on Earth's favorite song, "Push It" by Salt-N-Pepa.…
10 Things You May Have Missed On TV This Week
In this week's compilation of pop culture crap: Isaiah Mustafa paints a portrait of Matt Lauer, Community channels Glee for an episode, and more kissing from those adorable adult virgins.
Though you might have thought you'd seen it all when Shanna and Ryan's was plastered all over the internet before TLC's even…Feminist Bookstores
ThunderAnt is a comedy duo that is a double dose of awesome: it consists of Carrie Brownstein, formerly of Sleater Kinney, and Fred Armisen from SNL. The two get together, don wigs and make hilarious videos about one man shows, chefs and awkward dates. One of their more popular videos centered around two women who…
Guitarist Carrie Brownstein of the late, great Sleater-Kinney
tried out Wii music for and found it kind of…wussy. But not in a bad way! Brownstein says, "For one thing, your Mii (the avatar you create to represent yourself in the game) has mallets instead of hands, a pair of harmless, fingerless spheres...Not…
Who Is The Liz Phair Of The New Generation?
Moe is not the only Phair-lover on staff; I, too, listened to Exile In Guyville at least once a week for the entirety of my college career, not to mention the time spent on whitechocolatespaceegg and Whip Smart. I was shaped by Phair, but not just by her alone — I also spent many, many ponderous hours with…
