Douglas Ernst

Jack White blasted onto the music scene in 2003 with The White Stripes’ instant classic, Elephant. It’s now 2012, and it looks like the donkey is about to introduce him to the political scene. After the success of Jack White’s first solo album, Blunderbuss, Senate Democrats are not happy. Blunderlust sold an amazing 138,000 copies [...]

Butch Walker is one of the most amazing American musicians alive. Period. And pretty soon there will be a documentary released on him titled Butch Walker: Out of Focus, which looks amazing. Thank God one of my Army buddies introduced him to me well over a decade ago. Billed as “a film about never giving [...]

Cameron Crowe’s documentary, Pearl Jam Twenty, is a film about a great band. It’s also about a liberal band, which is why it demands a fair conservative review. I read a review upon its release, written by an ideological ally, that I thought was a blatant hit job. Since I don’t like political hacks on [...]

What liberal movement would be complete without poetry as a public policy placeholder? The Beats had Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, so it only make senses that the Occupy Movement nominate…Zack De La Rocha? Hmmm. Zack might be a “Renegade of Funk”, but he’s certainly no poet. Those Beats who killed themselves on liquor and [...]

Every day I’m thankful that Charles Blow is on the New York Times’ payroll. He’s the gift that keeps on giving. He hunts non-existent Tea Party racists with the fervor of a backwoods Bigfoot fanatic. He’s speaks on constitutional issues in ways that suggest he’s never looked at what the Constitution actually says about a [...]

What do you do when you’re a has-been band that needs to wear weird headgear for people to recognize you? If you’re Devo you sell out by doing Swiffer Wet Jet commercials. And when that’s done you insult Sarah Palin. Devo has long talked about the theory of “de-evolution”, and in a recent interview they [...]

If you listened to rock music in the 90’s, you’ve heard Tom Morello’s handiwork. If you’ve ever watched your kids play the Guitar Hero video game series, you’ve probably seen his avatar. And if you live in Wisconsin, you may have experienced his plea for you to consider taking a bite from his Noam Chomsky-inspired [...]

At one time kids had posters of their favorite artists on bedroom walls. Today’s kids will have pictures of their favorite artist on their condom wrappers. Multi-platinum selling Kesha will have her image imprinted on 10,000 “special edition” condoms. Although it comes as no surprise from a person who makes money off youth orgy anthems, [...]

Justin Bieber, who regularly tells anyone who will listen to never say never, did just that. In the latest issue of Rolling Stone, the singer asserts that he never plans on becoming an American citizen. The reason? Apparently the U.S. health care system, which leads the world in the creation of cutting edge medical technology [...]

Weezer’s newest release, Death to False Metal, features a cover of Toni Braxton’s Unbreak My Heart.  In a parallel universe an openly conservative Rivers Cuomo has given fans an album titled Death to False Conservatives, and the Braxton cover is aimed at the 112th Congress, a plea for the GOP to return to its fiscally [...]