In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
Natalia brings you the latest news on Adele’s interview with Anderson Cooper, Kristen Bell’s interview on Ellen is auto tuned, Ladyhawke’s latest music video and much more!
Natalia discusses what’s new with Pharrell Williams and her thoughts on Karl Lagerfeld’s mean comments towards Adele’s weight. She also shows a roster of animals behaving like humans and, wait until you see the new size of coffee available at Starbucks!
Natalia dishes the latest news on the Juno Awards nominees, the upcoming Spiderman 3D film starring Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield and is Katy Perry hooking up with Tim Tebow? Watch today’s episode to find out.
When The Kooks are in the studio they’re focused and most importantly, sober. Watch Hugh and Luke explain their reasoning below.
The Kooks released a new album called “Junk of the Heart,” and you would think Hugh and Luke would be very excited about it. Well, they seemed rather indifferent to be honest. We spoke about that and why they don’t care about critics.
Natalia dishes the latest in entertainment news on Joan Rivers, Lana Del Rey and a brand new trailer for the movie Hunger Games.
Natalia talks about how Snooki might be pregnant, Nicolas Cage’s Cage Rage, Elisabetta Canalis is dating Steve-O and more for Feb 1, 2012.
Natalia dishes the news on Miley Cyrus breaking her tailbone, a 100 year old woman who plays the Nintendo DS to stay young and Houston, Texas contemplating a statute of Beyonce.
David Beckham debuts a new line of underwear, the worst dressed celebrity – Shy’m and Matthew Broderick is back as Ferris Bueller with a brand new commercial airing during the Super Bowl on Feb 5th 2012.
Daniel Radcliffe is back with his new movie The Woman In Black. It’s a bone chilling remake of a film from the ’80s. Ironically, Daniel actually scares very easily but he’s not afraid of ghosts. In this interview he tells us what really gives him the creeps.
Next time you’re struggling to make conversation, try asking this question: “If you could invite anyone (living or dead) to the perfect house party, who would it be?”
Graffiti6 is starting to make their North American invasion, and they are hitting up the Tonight Show. Does this sound familiar? Well the Beatles made the exact same journey over 40 years ago. Naturally, @jordans_life had to make some comparisons.
Nick plays World of Warcraft. Not only that, he’s the head of his guild, demonstrating that it IS possible to juggle being a hardcore gamer with being a top-selling recording artist.
During a LIVE interview on andPOP.com Nick Carter gave out a number and took phone calls from his fans. These were real phone calls from real fans who we gave exclusive access to one of the biggest recording artists of our generation.
There were great questions about music, fitness, the backstreet boys but the most popular question, however, was about his underwear. In this clip Nick talks about his his ‘Haynes’ and covering his fans with glow in the dark paint.
When releasing new music today, half the battle is online promotion. However, contests, signed merch and giveaways aren’t always the best solutions. When working on their latest album, Hedley came up with a brilliant idea, they decided to make trailers.
It’s hard to prepare for an interview with Hedley. So in this interview, we threw caution to the wind, got a 24 of beer and broadcast the interview live on our USTREAM (andPOP.tv). Eventually Jacob, Dave and @jordans_life ended up talking about hairy legs, their newest music video and more.
Diamandis from Marina and The Diamonds talks to us about her very serious disease. It’s called synaesthetic. And we lied, it’s not a disease. More like a cool condition. Diamandis explains further.
Would you be embarrassed if someone scrolled through your iPod? We sit down with Spee and Brendan to talk about the diverse music on their playlist.
Mad Child calls ?Monsters in the Closet? the second and a half album by Swollen Members.
Why? Because it is an in-between album of sorts to satisfy fans before another album is released that includes all new material. ?Monsters in the Closet? is made up of some older songs, a few remixes of previous hits, and a bunch of fresh sounds.
Some of the older songs were left over from their last album, ?Bad Dreams.? It?s not that they lacked in quality, but they didn?t fit quite right with the other material.
?A lot of these songs didn?t necessarily fit the message of what we were trying to accomplish with Bad Dreams,? Prevail tells andPOP. ?They were still songs that we thought were great, and stood behind and took some different steps in the production and experimented, so we though people should hear these songs.?
Although some of the songs are a few years old, they still represent what Swollen Members stand for.
?It really shows the chronological progression of the group,? he says.
One of the most recently recorded tracks is ?Breath,? a collaboration with Nelly Furtado, a long time friend of Prevail?s. The music video was just released, and directed by Todd McFarlane, the creator of Spawn. Furtado was on her way to Victoria, British Columbia to visit her family, and made a stop in Vancouver.
?We went out for dinner and rolled to the studio and we stayed at the studio from 11 or 12 at night until 6:30 or 7 in the morning,? explains Prevail. ?I?ve never seen anybody go into the studio and lay that many variations on one melody.?
Prevail has a lot of respect for Furtado.
?She?s incredibly talented and a super good friend. I?m so proud of her for everything she?s doing and everything she?s going to accomplish.?
Another highlight of the album is ?Rockapella,? a brief acapella track laid down by Prevail that mentions many different rock bands. It was originally supposed to be a verse on a song with Dilated Peoples called ?Canada 3000.?
?That song ended up getting changed and transformed,? he says. ?I rewrote my verse but I was really hyped on doing ?Rockapella.? I thought it was a cool way to approach trying to get a message across. The real message is about revolutionary ideas by using band names.?
Prevail and his partner Mad Child recently added Moka Only and Rob the Viking as official members of the group in August.
?Moka was pursuing and exploring his solo career,? says Prevail. ?Moka?s not only a talented singer, producer, and an MC, [but] he?s one of my oldest friends. He?s my mentor. He taught me how to rap. It all made sense. It?s just family sticking together.?
?Rob the Viking had been producing beats for us for a while and touring with us on the road, just helping out and hanging out before we asked him to become our official DJ. We just felt it really added a lot of dimension to the group having Rob?s ideas on production and knowing that you have someone strong behind you spinning the music and playing the tracks.?
One piece of advice when seeing the Swollen Members perform live: do not try to copy their head banging rituals. If you try to copy them and head bang even half as much as they do throughout their set, your neck will hurt for days. So how do they do it?
?It?s an exercise on to itself,? Prevail reveals. ?Fortunately for us, the vodka and beer help us nullify that situation.?
He says performing live and recording the tracks ?translate very well together.?
?I think we try to capture the same energy on stage and take that to the studio with us and vice versa. I think one of the most disappointing things is when you go see a band live and they suck. We try to make those bridges parallel.?
The group plays a mix of rock and hip hop shows, and it doesn?t matter to Rob the Viking what kind of show it is.
?I like a bit of both,? says Rob. ?It depends on what kind of crowd you?re in. If you?re in an all hip hop crowd, then great. If you?re in an all rock crowd, then great too. We kind of cross over to both of them now.?
With the troop stronger than ever, Swollen Members are ready to conquer the United States. They recently signed a deal with Virgin Records.
?It?s a huge territory. We?re definitely going to attack it very heavily this year and the next years to follow. [We must] keep up our work ethic. I think if we can do that we will be happy with the results.?
They expect to release a new album sometime this year, and will be touring Canada in April, opening up for Avril Lavigne.
