“Election Day” to play in Election Year
By Jon Chattman

Nick Rhodes, longtime keyboardist for Duran Duran, told thecheappop.com that the band plans on rehearsing “Election Day” soon and include it in their current Red Carpet Massacre tour. The song, which the band has never played live, was a big hit on Rhodes’ 1985 side project Arcadia, which featured Duran Duran bandmates Simon Le Bon and Roger Taylor. The band only recorded one album (So Red The Rose, which went multiplatinum), but has never toured together.

“Funny enough,” Rhodes told the pop humor website that Duran Duran guitarist John Taylor actually came up with the idea for the band to include it in their set list.

“John said recently he’d really love to do ‘Election Day.’ We sort of prepared it and figured out what certain things are and what sounds we need and all these kind of things. We haven’t rehearsed it yet [but] yeah that’s going to be coming into the battalion.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Paramount Pictures just released a slew of G.I. Joe pics and I don’t know about you but I wish this summer were next summer. Growing up, I played with the tiny action figures and watched the cartoon religiously. Only drawback of next summer being this summer? I’m a year older, and I miss Indy on the big screen. Read the rest of this entry »

“Well, the best one ever without any shadow of doubt is Salvador Dali. There’s even a book on Salvador Dali’s mustache. It’s a fantastic surrealist book, and it’s available on reprint and I would recommend for you mustachees out there that you go straight to that book and rethink your position on your mustache. As you will see, Salvador Dali had many ideas of what one can do with a little wax.”

On whether the band ever considered a mustache?
“I don’t know that any of us have ever had a mustach. I think maybe John had a mustache for a little while perhaps when he was doing some of his solo stuff, and Simon definitely wins the unshaven award.”

Check out my full interview with Nick tomorrow!

That’s right. The movie star is going to be in Westchester County, and I will be there with bells on. (Note: that’s an expression - I don’t not plan to wear bells.)

Photo/Mike DiScuillo

Survivor (the TV show not the classic 80s band obviously) alum and former TNA personality Jonny Fairplay is set to make a special in ring appearance at the Ring Of Honor show at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on May 10. Fairplay will make his ROH debut in an event that also will feature Bryan “The American Dragon” Danielson against Tokyo’s Naomichi Marufuji.

In other action, a “Battle Of The Brawlers” will take place with Takeshi Morishima facing The Necro Butcher; the FIP World Championship will be on the line in a “Three-Way Dance” when challenger Erick Stevens and Japanese superstar Go Shiozaki take on Champion Roderick Strong.

Tickets are available at www.rohwrestling.com, www.tickets.com, or by calling (215) 781-2500.

- Jon Chattman

They’re hip. They’re young, and they’re on the pop next week!

Check out Jon’s skinTerview on MrSkin.com tomorrow

Jon Chattman and Rich Tarantino will be signing copies of The Book of ‘Bert’ at the Borders Book Store in Eastchester, NY on May 10th at 2 p.m. Join the authors as they sign copies and offer insight into the mind of the mustache! Comment below if you’d like more details.

The Bosch, one of thecheappop.com’s favorite new (or newer anyway) bands, has released a follow-up to their Hurry Up EP. You can stream and download the songs now!

AOL music gave us a shout out today in their galley of best music ’staches ever. Here’s the link and thanks to AOL for recognizing the mustache phenomenon and my site!

Don’t forget Wednesday is Chi McBride Appreciation Day on thecheappop.com. Kids, dress up like Chi to school. Parents, purchase DVDs of Boston Public, watch recorded Pushing Daisies episodes on your DVR, and take an hour to reflect on “The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer”

thecheappop.com  has declared today Caramel Ralph Macchio Day. Go into your local Starbucks and request a Grande Caramel Ralph Macchio instead of a Caramel Macchiato.

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I can’t wait to see The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull . I hope they come out with a kickass videogame to it like Temple of Doom back in the day. I used to play that videogame after school and during my lunch breaks in the third grade like it was going out of style… and, um, it did. But it was still cool. Read the rest of this entry »

Movember founder Adam Garone met up with yours truly in NYC to discuss The Book of ‘Bert’ and plans for the upcoming Movember event in - when else? - November! thecheappop is going to go full throttle with Movember this year. Stay tuned for details how you can help raise money for prostate cancer research by merely growing a straggly mustache like yours truly!

New design. Same inaneness. Coming soon…the site gets - to quote MGMT - an “electric feel.”

Look for our exclusive pics all day long. Movie stars. Music stars. Maybe even a dude with a mustache thrown in for good measure? Tuesday is Photo Day, and today is Tuesday!

Harold & Kumar give the pop a shotty (Oh yes. There will be puns. Sweet sweet puns.)
Stay tuned for interviews with Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, and other members of the cast of Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, which exhales itself in the face of theaters everywhere this Friday, as well as the film’s writers/directors.

You’ll also find out the pop’s thoughts on the film itself (a few high points that will definitely sate your movie munchies: Harold’s college hairstyle, the orthodontist, and Chris Meloni’s rockin handlebar ‘stache). We’ll pack up a lil’ something about the movie throughout the week.

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I know you’ve probably seen this on another pop site, but I couldn’t resist. I can’t wait for G.I. Joe to come out. Here’s a first peak of Rachel Nichols as Scarlett!

This Antioxidant Water and low calorie product line makes my stomach grin - whatever that means.