Hasn't Haiti suffered enough? The mildly anticipated retread of Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie's landmark "We Are The World" -- with 21st century flashes in the pan and abundant Auto-Tune in place…   Read Story »

It's frustrating when texting "Haiti" to 90999 is the best most of us can do to counter the overwhelming devastation in that country, but that's a reflection both of our limited day-to-day resources…   Read Story »

As with most events in the final act of his life, the King Of Pop's memorial today at Los Angeles' Staples Center comes with pomp, overwhelming media attention, and of course, controversy. The…   Read Story »

In the spirit of Stereogum being your #1 source for documentation of Lionel Richie appropriation, last year we turned our attention to the spliced genius of Oh Astro's "Hello Fuji Boy" ("Hello" +…   Read Story »

None of us are doing a good job of keeping tabs on American Idol, but Stereogum's usually up on its Lionel Richie. We have history together. Where else will you get frame-by-frame analysis of the…   Read Story »

"We Are The World" is in the air. We caught a pretty good whiff of it with Jimmy and Ben, but this footage from Japanese television takes USA For Africa to the next level. In fact, the footage you're…   Read Story »

The sample happy Illegal Art roster recently made a four-song sampler available for the price of free online, featuring the likes of patron saint Girl Talk, Realistic, and Steinski. Good stuff and…   Read Story »

Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you…   Read Story »

No list of the all-time awesomely bad videos is complete without a top-two slot for "Hello" by Lionel Richie (that's The Simple Life star's adopted father, kids). Whit jogged our love for the clip…   Read Story »

Remember that will-not-confirm-or-deny-anything 20th Century Fox intrigue over whether Green Day were in fact getting Groening'd? That lasted about two minutes? Internet's fun like that. The…   Read Story »