A Word or 73: LA, get ready for your dirty underbelly to be nauseatingly exploited as the sixth season of The Shield gets underway tonight. There's a bit more room on the dial after, thank god, the following shows got the ax last week: The Wedding Bells (Fox) which was truly awful, Six Degrees (ABC) another bad one, 7th Heaven (the CW) which I don't even know about and The Black Donnellys which was... more ›

A Word or 30: Golden Globes redux: was happy that Sacha Baron Cohen won; Forest Whitaker, OK; Alec Baldwin, thank you; but "Cars"? "Grey's Anatomy"? No wonder I hate those award skeet skeet sessions. Tonight - Tuesday - January 16th, 2007 Blues @ Ducks (PRIME, 7:00 p.m.) "American Idol" (Fox, 8:00 p.m.) 2 hour season premiere "America's Funniest Home Videos" (ABC, 8:00 p.m.) A two hour death march of fun "The Unit" (CBS, 9:00... more ›

Even though they have every record company at their beck and call, even though they can basically hand-pick the performers and the songs that they will play, MTV's Video Music Awards are usually hit-or-miss and as comfortable as watching Michael Jackson try to make out with Lisa Marie Presley. Last night's ceremony was no exception with generous parts cringe and a sprinkle of inspiration. Christina, Justin, and Jack Black were talented and wonderful, as... more ›

Santa Monica-based MySpace.com announced its plans to create its own label dubbed "MySpace Records" that will be manufactured by Universal Music Group's Interscope Records and distributed by Universal's indie Fontana Distribution. Earlier this year, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. purchased MySpace's parent company, Intermix Media for approximately $580 million. more ›

Is locally based web phenomenon and recent newscorp acquisition MySpace really only two years old? Gracious. They grow up so fast. One of the single most popular, unattractive and youthful websites in the world is hosting a two year anniversary concert at freakin' Dodger Stadium this weekend from 5 PM to 11 PM featuring Dashboard Confessional, The All-American Rejects and Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World and proceeds going to Hurrican Katrina Relief. Tickets went on sale earlier this month with only a limited number being available online. Well, 1500 more tickets (priced at $10) were made available through Vans.com today but you know those crazy MySpace kids - they are quicker than most to jump on the good stuff before you can get your grubby paws on them so act fast. more ›