Comedian Jim Florentine on The Zaz!
The Zaz busted up into the offices of HBO in New York City’s Bryant Park to have a throw down with comedian Jim Florentine. Florentine, a stand up guru and Crank Yankers standout, talks about his buddies new show “Down and Dirty with Jim Norton“, debuting on HBO this Friday. The show features top comedians such as Andrew Dice Clay and Artie Lange, along with Norton himself as host. Florentine and I use this interview opportunity to set the record straight about penises. Filed

Chic, Iggy and the Stooges, Metallica, Run-DMC: Metallica, Stooges, Run-D.M.C. all in the running for 2009 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions
The yearly list of aging rockers who are up for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been announced. The museum was famously called a “piss stain” by the Sex Pistols in 2006, and the whole voting process was called into question in 2007, when the Dave Clark Five were refused induction despite garnering more votes than Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Undaunted, the organizers have carried on regardless, stringently sticking to the rule that potential inductees must have rele

Never Mind The Butter, Here's The Sex Pistols [Advertising]
The new ad featuring Johnny Rotten selling Country Life Butter is out for you to watch. Then destroy things. [Guardian UK]

Making A Movie Soundtrack: No Old Dudes Invited [The World Does Not Need More Duffy]
If a studio chose to make a film from your novel, I'd imagine you'd be somewhat protective of the final product, down to the musical choices. Then again, if you're a novelist who enjoys albums that came out before the Duffy record, your opinions about the soundtrack will probably be summarily ignored by the people financing the picture. Toby Young, author of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, wanted to include some of his favorite tracks in the film's soundtrack, but found that his selections o

Interview: Lou Adler on "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains"
By Nick Schager Most film fans have never seen 1981's "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains," the hard-charging, potent tale of an all-girl punk band's meteoric rise and fall, which featured supporting performances by members of the Sex Pistols and The Clash (and a young Ray Winstone, who played the lead singer of the Stains' tourmates The Looters). That's because Paramount Pictures never saw fit -- save for a couple of random screenings -- to give the film any sort of theatrical release, or even put i

Awesome Aussie Grandmas Perform Sex Pistols Song [High Art]
In the video above, a group of Australian women over the age of 80 perform the 1977 song "God Save the Queen" by The Sex Pistols, which was originally titled "No Future" and banned by the BBC. It's part of artist Christoph Büchel's exhibit "no future" at the Sydney Biennale 2008. The ladies were given an open gallery space and told to rehearse the song whenever they wanted. Modern art would probably be a lot more exciting if every gallery featured a group of grannies performing punk rock.

Rotten: God Save The Tweed
JOHNNY Rotten nails punk's coffin closed by prancing around in tweed for new TV ad

Johnny Rotten sells out ... for butter
Doesn't Embed. Click on the picture to watch.   Read through the cut to see why he says he's doing it now. One-time punk pin-up and sometime anarchist John Lydon has mellowed further into middle age by starring in a £5m TV campaign for Country Life butter. The campaign, available to watch exclusively at MediaGuardian.co.uk, marks the first time the 52-year-old has appeared in a TV commercial. "People know I only do things that I want to or that I believe in and I have to do it my way,

Butter Punks [Advertising]
"We don't think enough people know Country Life is the only major British butter brand and John gets the message through loud and clear." Which is to say, The Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten is the new face of Country Life Butter. Really. [NME] Read More: 1 2 3 4 Don't Let A Blow Job Compromis

Pioneering '80s Female Punk Rock Movie Finally Gets Video Release
Filed under: News, ExclusiveSpinner.com: You remember the female punk band the Stains from the early '80s -- a trio of girls in their teens who ran away to tour with the bands the Metal Corpses and the Looters? The Stains were best known for songs such as 'Waste of Time' and... Read more

Sex Pistols: Rhino to release Sex Pistols reunion DVD
Rhino has announced that it will be releasing a DVD of the Sex Pistols reunion performances from November 2007 on October 14. The DVD set, titled There Will Always Be An England, features the reunited Pistols (Steve Jones, Johnny Rotten, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock) ripping through their early singles and cuts from their debut LP, Never Mind the Bollocks, at Brixton Academy.   The DVD also features a Julien Temple-directed (he did The Future is Unwritten) feature called “The Knowledge” that

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains.
"The missing link between punk and riot grrl wasn't a band or even a fleeting subgenre, but an amazing 1982 Paramount music-biz satire that was never properly released, seen only on late-night cable, crappy bootlegs, and at art-house revivals. That mistake will finally be mended when Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains hits DVD on September 16, its borderline-obsessive cult following all but guaranteed to expand virally. Have we mentioned it costars two Sex Pistols, a founding member of the Clash, and

Never Mind the Butter, Here's The Sex Pistols
Bloc Party and Coldplay fan John Lydon is taking a break from revisionist history (remember, you ripped off Richard Hell, Johnny, not vice versa) to sell Country Life butter. A fitting product tie-in for someone who's gone (always was?) so soft. Surprisingly, it's reportedly the first time he's appeared in a television commercial, because going to board rooms to hawk Guitar Hero III doesn't count. The details: "People know I only do things that I want to or that I believe in and I have to do it my wa

See Sex Pistols' John Lydon as the face of British butter
The first pictures from Sex Pistols' John Lydon's forthcoming adverts for Country Life butter have emerged.

'Rotten' Rocker Turns Butter Spokesperson
Filed under: Wacked NewsSpinner.com: We're not certain we see the wisdom in a dairy company going out of its way to associate the word "rotten" with one of its products, but that's exactly the tack being taken by Country Life -- a British firm that's decided to hire Sex Pistols' John... Read more

Never Mind the Bollocks, Johnny Rotten Will Lay You Out
A rotten b**tard, indeed: a TV assistant is seeking monetary damages from Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) for alleged "assault, battery, and emotional distress." Lydon had been working as a celebrity judge on the TV show Bodog Battle of the Bands when the reported abuse occurred. Roxanne Davis "claimed in court papers that Lydon, 52, suddenly went berserk and hit her in the face before screaming a tirade of abuse at her. Miss Davis, who was working on the show, alleged the singer beca

Punk God Johnny Rotten Ditches Anarchy, Cred for Butter Shilling Gig
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Sex Pistols' John Lydon Accused in Racial Attack on Bloc Party's Kele Okereke
John Lydon's anger management issues are well-reported, but is he racist as well? That's what Bloc Party lead singer Kele Okereke alleges after a physical altercation with the Sex Pistols frontman at this weekend's Summercase festival in Barcelona. Okereke says he was simply approaching Lydon as a fan when members of Lydon and his entourage hurled racial abuse at him and physically attacked him. Members of Foals and Kaiser Chiefs witnessed the brawl and "intervened on the Bloc Party singer's behalf," they c

Caption This: Lindsay Lohan's Boobs And Sam Ronson's Eyeline
 Who is this Sex Pistols reject and why is he allowed to peer down Lindsay Lohan's cleavage?Love her or hate her, Lindsay Lohan still has the best boobs in Hollywood, or at least the best cleavage. And as you can see, Lindsay's 15-year-old boyfriend, Sam Ronson thinks so too. Now that's one lucky kid. Could you imagine still being in High School, and getting to date Lindsay Lohan? I think it's every young boy's dream.Har har. The real story is that Lindsay and Samantha Ronson (who i

The Sex Pistols Have Aged
Not so gracefully

5 Annoying Things About The Sports Junkies (Radio Show)
Preface: I don’t listen to The Sports Junkies or testicle radio. I did listen to them a little bit 4-5 years ago, only because they were on the same radio station that Howard Stern was on. If you haven’t heard of The Sports Junkies, pat yourself on the back. They’re a local D.C. radio talk show on CBS radio. The Junkies are basically a Howard Stern rip-off show + some sports sprinkled in, but funny sprinkled out. Here are the first five annoying things about their show that came to mind:

Howard Stern ain’t misbehaving
The Sirius shock jock’s bachelor party was a small affair that started and ended early and didn’t feature a single stripper, one attendee tells Page Six. The 15 stags - including Gary Dell’Abate, Ronnie (The Limo Driver) Munn and other Stern show regulars - toasted their bachelor boss in a private room at Nobu 57 which featured a cake shaped like a microphone. “Artie Lange, who’s on the wagon right now, got there midway through and says, ‘Never in my life did I think I’d be late for a bachelor

Rancid at the Henry Fonda Theater
The punk revivalists in Rancid might look like the Sex Pistols and sound like the Clash, but live, the quartet has more in common with a rap crew. Singer-guitarist Tim Armstrong has a raspy cadence as instantly recognizable as Snoop Dogg's, and the group's lyrics brim with mournful first-person tales of violent street life and ride-'til-we-die paeans to friendship. That visceral street sensibility might be what kept them from the stadium-sized heights of their Bay Area contemporaries in Green Day, even w