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...onstage, the Cramps were spectacular. Interior could stoke a crowd with writhing and pogo-ing that made Iggy Pop look like a folksinger, and when he opened his mouth to deadpan songs like "I Was a Teenage Werewolf," he could make the crowd laugh too. Perhaps the Cramps' most perfect performance was a 1978 concert at the Napa State Mental Hospital in California. "Somebody told me you people are crazy," Lux screamed from the stage, "but I'm not so sure about that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lux Interior | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

While the American Society for Training & Development reports that spending on outsourced corporate education is on the decline, a session at PIU--at about $2,000 a pop--is cheaper than, say, a day of golfing. And, depending on your handicap, no more humiliating. Plus, it gives companies a rare opportunity: to guarantee their employees a soft landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Better Business Via Bouncy Castles | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Allen takes on a few subjects that are beyond her grasp--"F___ You," her rotten egg lobbed at George W. Bush, feels ridiculous and late--but even when she's being stupid, she sounds like an honest pop star. To quote a line from her ballad "Who'd Have Known," "Even though it's moving forward, there's just the right amount of awkward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pictures of Lily | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Born in London and raised there by an actor father and a film-producer mother (as a girl, Allen appeared as a lady-in-waiting in Elizabeth and was mentored by, among others, Joe Strummer), Allen, 23, appears to have embraced a slightly more serious view of what pop can be. Not that you can tell from the hooks. Produced by Greg Kurstin of the retro-pop duo the Bird and the Bee, the music robs every genre it can in the pursuit of anything that might stick in your ears. There's a klezmer-inspired accordion that morphs into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pictures of Lily | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Pop Chart": I don't think it was the least bit "predictable" that Jennifer Hudson sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl [Feb. 2]. Given what she's been through in the past six months, it showed remarkable fortitude for her to manage to perform yet at all. Jennifer Fisher, TUCSON, ARIZ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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