Zooey Deschanel And Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"

From 2011, here's Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt with "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"

Enjoy!

Culture Brats Top 10 Best Of The Rest Of 2011

Last week, we gave you the best that pop culture had to offer in 2011 with our look back at the best movies, music, and television shows of the past year. This week, we're looking inward and giving you the best of Culture Brats!

So far, we've given you our ten most popular Ranked! columns of 2011, our ten most popular interviews of 2011, and our ten most popular reviews of 2011. Today, we're looking back at the best of the rest:




10. SmackTalk Victim: Meital Dohan's "Yummy Boyz"

9. Solitaire: The Movie

8. The Most Awesomest Skee-Lo T-Shirt Ever

7. SmackTalk Victim: Avil Lavigne, "What The Hell"

6. SmackTalk Victim: Ke$ha, "Blow"

5. SmackTalk Victim: Die Antwoord, "Rich Bitch"

4. SmackTalk Victim: Bag Raiders, "Sunlight"

3. Friends, '80s Style

2. SmackTalk Victim: LMFAO, "Sexy And I Know It"

1. John Hughes, Jerk

The Singularity, "Say What You Want"

From 2010, here's The Singularity with "Say What You Want."

Enjoy!

Culture Brats Top 10 Most Popular Reviews Of 2011

Last week, we gave you the best that pop culture had to offer in 2011 with our look back at the best movies, music, and television shows of the past year. This week, we're looking inward and giving you the best of Culture Brats!

Today, we're looking back at our 2011 reviews. Here are the top ten:




10. DVD Review: Primal Scream, Screamadelica Live

9. Music Review: George Michael, Faith (Deluxe Edition)

8. CD Review: Styx, Regeneration Volume I & II

7. CD Review: Angels & Airwaves, LOVE Part Two

6. DVD Review: Counting Crows, August And Everything After: Live At Town Hall

5. Book Review: Henry Rollins, Occupants

4. Musical Review: Rock Of Ages, Curran Theatre

3. Movie Review: Level Up

2. Concert Review: Prince's Welcome 2 America Tour

1. Concert Review: Glee Live! 2011 Tour

First Look: Modern Family: The Horror Movie

It's amazing how a few edits and some scary music can turn my sweet & sarcastic Alex Dunphy into a homicidal maniac.

First Look: D&D Sluggers, "Jam Of The Year"

If you've ever wondered what the band's gear looks like, here's your chance!

Oh My!, "Dirty Dancer"

From 2011, here's Oh My! with "Dirty Dancer."

Enjoy!



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Culture Brats Top 10 Most Popular Interviews Of 2011

Last week, we gave you the best that pop culture had to offer in 2011 with our look back at the best movies, music, and television shows of the past year. This week, we're looking inward and giving you the best of Culture Brats!

Today, we're looking back at our 2011 interviews. It's hard to believe, but we did forty-seven interviews this year. Crazy, huh? Here are our ten most popular interviews of 2011:

10. The Science Of The Floating City: Thomas Dolby

Thomas Dolby spoke with us about his upcoming album, his online game, his past collaborations, the early days of MTV, how MTV gave his career a boost and nearly killed it, and Jessie J.

9. Last Indie Standing: Troma's Lloyd Kaufman

The co-founder of Troma Entertainment and writer/director of The Toxic Avenger and Class Of Nuke 'Em High talked about the TromaDance Film Festival, indie filmmaking, and the remake of The Toxic Avenger.

8. We're With The Band: Get Scared

Get Scared's Bradley Lloyd discussed touring in a van, their inspiration, their new album, and whether or not he can do a cartwheel.

7. Sunglasses On Airplanes: The Naked And Famous

David Beadle of The Naked And Famous spoke with us about the band, music videos, his musical influences, Nine Inch Nails, jeans, Andrew W.K., life on the road, and rock star moments.

6. Back To Where It All Started: The Human League's Philip Oakey

Philip Oakey spoke with us about The Human League's new album Credo, the band's early videos and MTV, touring, remaining a force for over thirty years, and how the US may have the wrong impression of The Human League.

Ready For World Domination: Our Interview With Stephie Coplan

PHOTO CREDIT: Shervin Lainez

This is my fourth post about Stephie Coplan & The Pedestrians in a little over two weeks, so I might come off as a little obsessed. So be it. Give them a listen and you will be, too.

Stephie was nice enough to fuel my obsession by talking with me about how they came up with their band name, "Jerk!," the upcoming EP, her influences, touring plans, and her New Year's resolutions.

How'd you guys come up with The Pedestrians?
That's so funny. We actually went to Chipotle. I'm not even kidding. This is going to sound like a fake story, but it's totally true. We went to Chipotle one night right after we got together and we were pretty much like, "OK. We need a band name." We had been kicking around a few ideas for a few weeks but nothing really stuck. We just sat there and ate burritos and brainstormed. My bass player John said offhandedly, "Pretenders. Performers. Professors. Pedestrians." And I was like, "That's it! Pedestrians!"

We thought it would be easy to market ourselves if we could do stuff with street signs and traffic lights and the colors red, yellow, and green. We were going to go for a whole theme and none of that actually ended up happening. We've haven't done anything. We were going to call our album something like Yield or Stop And Go or something like that. But something about Pedestrians just sounded cool to us.

I love the song and video for "Jerk!" It's gotten some great buzz online. Has it been a crazy month for you?
Yeah. Oh my God. Definitely. Right after Thanksgiving is when we put it up. It helped that it got on the radio in Boston on the commercial alternative station. It's been crazy. Actually, to be honest, it's always cool of course when a blog picks it up and features it and stuff like that, but the cool thing for me has been hearing from friends I thought had kind of forgotten about me. It's so weird because Facebook is amazing in that I think it's removed the need for high school reunions and stuff like that because at any given moment you can tell exactly what your friends are up to. But I didn't think that anybody ever paid attention to me or knew what I was doing and now I've been hearing from people that I went to middle school with, elementary school with, preschool, people that I knew for only a summer at summer camp. People who I thought had totally forgot about me are telling me how much they like the song and that's just so cool to reconnect with everyone.

First Listen: The Flaming Lips, "I Am The Walrus"

Never has a cover made more sense.