Jonah Weiner

Rowdy fans of the horror-rap group Insane Clown Posse, or “Juggalos,” made headlines recently after pelting singer Tila Tequila and rapper Method Man with rocks and other objects at a live music festival in Illinois.

With Fashion Week in high swing in New York, we turn to an artist who blurs the line between pop music and haute couture: Lady Gaga. The divisive superstar was called "a pretentious pop starlet" and "a savvy media manipulator" by the music writer Jonah Weiner -- and he's a ...

As musical boundaries erode in the digital age, cover songs are becoming ever more farfetched – from indie boys covering teen starlets, to lounge lizards covering metalheads, to bookish singer-songwriters covering R&B Casanovas. Blender magazine editor and Slate.com contributor Jonah Weiner joins us to talk about this “thorny tangle of ...