The Artist Currently Known As Prince Speaks!

Oh, Prince. In this week’s New Yorker, the magazine’s Claire Hoffman visits the singer at his 30,000-square-foot LA mansion. Inside, she finds purple paisley pillows, purple thrones, a Lucite grand piano with the “artist-formerly-known-as” symbol dangling overhead, a series of half-naked photographs of His Purpleness, and maybe most mysteriously, a TV cycling through images Read More

Morning Memo: David and Victoria Beckham Robbed; Prince Brought Down by Cellphones; Stanley O’Neal Snubbed at Michael’s

Two housekeepers employeed by David and Victoria Beckham have been arrested for selling some of the couple’s possessions on eBay. [US Weekly]

Some of the high-profile attendees of Prince‘s Gansevoort Hotel show refused to turn off their cellphones, even after the signals crashed the musician’s high-tech sound system. [P6] Read More

The Week In Music: Radiohead, Jewel, Weezer, Spiritualized, Robert Pollard

There’s nothing like a good feud between two massively iconic rock artists to keep the fanboys sweating. And that’s just what happened last week when an unlikely Internet controversy erupted between Prince and Radiohead. See, Prince did a rendition of Radiohead’s 1993 break-through hit, “Creep” at this year’s Coachella Music Festival in late April. And Read More

Prince: The Artist Who Formerly Liked the Internet

Prince, who was one of the first major recording artists to sell music online and also received a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for his "visionary use of the Internet to distribute music," is suing the internet. He has become such an internet Grinch over the past few months, that he’s being compared to Napster’s party Read More