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.
Depending on whom you talk to and what you read, the All-American Rejects sound like a lot of different groups; some rock, some pop, some punk. Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter, the founding members and songwriters of the Rejects, don’t bother paying too much attention to those types of reviews, but not because they don’t care.
“It’s funny that half the bands they say we sound like, we’ve never even heard of or listened to,” Nick says, speaking to andPOP on a recent tour stop in Toronto. “Honestly, I heard when we were making the album, people would come in and hear the mixes and say, ‘sounds like The Cars.’ To tell you the truth, I never bought a Cars record until after somebody said that.”
Tyson, the vocalist and bassist, calls the sound of their self-titled debut album “power pop rock.” Since its February release, it has gone Gold in the U.S.
“It’s melody driven, but the stuff behind it is definitely rock,” adds Nick, who plays guitar, drums and keyboard.
The first single off the album, “Swing, Swing,” was recorded as somewhat of an afterthought, and it was one of the last songs that they wrote.
“We were just trying to crank out songs to finish our album, because we were actually scheduled to go and record it in the winter of last year with Doghouse Records,” says Nick. “We only had like five or six songs when they signed us. We had to finish the rest of the album.”
The Rejects credit radio with turning the song into a success.
“What’s great is that on the single, there’s no payola,” says Tyson. “People were happy to play music again. We didn’t have to buy anybody off to get this on the radio, which is how 98 percent of it is now.”
When they recorded the album for the independent Doghouse label, they had no money, almost no budget, and they slept on their producer’s floor. They lost 20 pounds during the recording process, which isn’t that bad considering their diet consisted of granola and yogurt everyday. They signed with Dreamworks, who re-released the album, and the biggest change with signing to major label was the food.
“We’re eating fast food and drinking beer, so we’re still not eating very well,” says Nick.
“But we’re eating more,” says Tyson.
The Rejects have been touring all over, even playing an MTV gig with 50 Cent. When Nick called his mother to tell her about 50 Cent, she needed little explaining.
“I’m like ‘we’re playing with this new rapper; he’s the new hip thing. His name is 50 Cent.’ She’s like, ‘I know, I watch TRL everyday.’ Our sound guy Dave got to meet him. He got his autograph on a dollar bill.”
Nick’s mother never let him watch MTV as a kid, but she watched it now in hopes of seeing her son.
They have a few songs recorded for their next album, but they won’t be recording it for a while. They will be touring like madmen, jumping on the Warped Tour this summer and headlining a tour in the fall.
As for their name: “I think that was a lyric on one of our songs,” explains Nick. “‘The All-American? What do we finish it with?’ And [Tyson] said ‘Rejects,’ and it just stuck. By the time we were writing this album, we were like, ‘alright, this is for real, what’s our name?’ We just said it enough, it doesn’t sound so fun anymore, so we kept it.”
Adds Tyson, “Nobody gets us, but we’re just there, having a good time.”
