A collection of controversial magazine covers, including Time Magazine’s April 1966 “Is God Dead?” cover and article by then editor John T. Elson, who incidentally died just last month.

Some of these are awful… if the cover design of these albums is anything to go by I dread to think what their musical content is like.

A collection of pairs of artworks, posters, covers, etc, that are – to a greater or lesser degree – similar. The similarities may have come about as a result of the earlier work’s influence, outright copying, or the resemblance may be entirely coincidental.
The pairs of images in this set are similar in one way or [...]

Surely another feather in the cap of former Star Trek actor William Shatner: recording one of the worst cover songs of all time, with his version of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds”.
He’s in good company however, Madonna is also up there amongst the worst with her rendition of “American Pie”. I count my blessings, [...]

Scarlett Johansson To Wrap Mighty Lungs Around Tom Waits
That’s how it sounds too… I’ve been listening to a couple of tracks from her upcoming album Anywhere I Lay My Head, I’m especially liking her rendition of Tom Waits’ Falling Down…
Mighty lungs indeed :)

The Best (and Worst) TIME Covers
Rate the best and worst Time Magazine covers from 1923 onwards.
I’m not sure what the criteria was in selecting the worst covers (sheer cringe-ability maybe?) but personally I see nothing amiss with this 1981 cover… what’s wrong with Time going for a LOLCATS look?

The annual Triple J Hottest 100 was counted down last Wednesday, on Australia Day. I tuned in at various points but missed most of the top twenty. I later found out that Franz Ferdinand’s “Take me out” was voted the number one song of 2004 by Triple J listeners.
There was a curious entry was at [...]