Break out your Halston and get your booger sugar ready, Studio 54 is coming back, baby! No, seriously. After finding success this summer with its Studio 54 radio station, the folks over at Sirius XM have gone and rented the famous disco's original location (now a Roundabout theater) for one night only. Come Tuesday, October 18, Studio 54 will rise again. And some of the original team are even taking part—just don't expect bosses Ian Scrager or Steve Rubell.
Studio 54 Is Coming Back (For One Night Only)
Bedbugs Tormenting Howard Stern, DDT-Hating Hippies Blamed
Over the weekend, Sirius XM shut down its studios so that an exterminator could treat the building for bedbugs. On his show yesterday, Howard Stern announced, "supposedly we're 100% bedbug-free. The only place in New York City that probably is 100% bedbug-free." But he's having a hard time freeing himself from the bedbugs in his head, revealing that "I'm scratching every minute... You know how paranoid I am about bedbugs. I just wish our contract was done and we could get out of here." And just like last month, Stern waxed nostalgic for the bygone days of DDT.
Week in Rock: Remembering Jesse Camp Edition
It's been a long 10 years since the show first debuted, and this weekend, the last drops of actual music will finally be sucked out of MTV. The daily countdown show, which (like it or not) was a gateway for most successful acts over the last decade, will celebrate the end of its run this Sunday night at 8 p.m. The show will feature original host Carson Daly, along with his eventual replacement Damien Fahey steering the ship, and an actually impressive lineup of guests and performers, whose careers might not exist was it not for this show. From Limp Bizkit and the Backstreet Boys to Taylor Swift and Fall Out Boy, this show guided an entire generation towards their pop idols, for better or worse. So while the reactions of many may be may be a hearty good riddance, nobody can deny the influence this show once had. Certainly worth tuning in, if only to see off the end of an era.
Mad Dog Gets Even More Sirius Than Expected
Howard Stern and Oprah were two of the first big names to get their own channels on satellite radio. Now add Chris “Mad Dog” Russo to the list. At today’s press conference where Sirius XM was expected to announce him as their newest on-air host, it was revealed that Mad Dog is getting an even bigger bite of satellite pie: he’ll have his own twenty-four hour channel, “Mad Dog Radio.”

