At the Lower East Side’s Angel Orensanz Center on Monday night for their show’s second season premiere, Flight of the Conchords stars Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie seemed prepared to weather the dour economy. "If any show’s going to survive, it’s going to be us," said Mr. McKenzie, referring to the Conchords‘ low budget. (Two Read More
Over the past two years, the parodists from New Zealand, Flight of the Conchords, have scored with a hit HBO show (in which they play a hapless struggling band whose mundane adventures are punctuated by song) and won a Grammy award with their debut U.S. E.P. (seriously, a Grammy, and seriously, for an E.P., which Read More
When Ashlee Simpson began her rise to fame (and later infamy) in 2004, the last thing the world needed was another pop star in her sister’s mold—which was lucky for Ashlee, who does not have Jessica’s vocal range (nor, need it be said, her Barbie looks). Packaged and primed, Ashlee was groomed to be the Read More
