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.
The drummer is usually the quiet one, the shy one, the one you never hear about, the one you might not care about. When you think of U2, you think of Bono and the Edge. Think of the Rolling Stones and you think of Mick and Keith. Sorry, Ringo, but you were the fourth Beatle.
However, read a review on a Phantom Planet album and there is constant mention of Jason Schwartzman, who is sometimes the sole focus. When Schwartzman wasn’t drumming in the Southern California-based band, he was acting, with roles in Rushmore and Slackers.
“I would read reviews all the time where the first three paragraphs would be about Jason being in movies. The last paragraph would be about how much they liked the album and then they’d give us a bad grade,” says Sam Farrar, the bass player of Phantom Planet, on the line from Los Angeles. “I didn’t understand that at all.”
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For a while, Farrar was pissed off when reviewers would write about Schwartzman but ignore Phantom Planet’s music. Now he finds it funny, but he once almost snapped.
“Someone wrote something all about Jason and didn’t pay attention to the record at all. Then I saw her at a party one night and was so close to yelling at her.”
But he didn’t, which is why they are widely considered the nicest guys in rock. “I don’t see a point to being an asshole.”
When the band started working on their third album, Schwartzman decided to leave them to focus on acting. Having this founding member depart almost ended the band.
“It’s one of those things that you know is going to happen and you just don’t want it to happen,” Farrar says. “It was very scary there for a minute. We all contemplated whether we should keep going because he was a big staple in the band. We listened to the record again and we’re like, ‘this record is great’.”
Their new drummer, Jeff Conrad, has brought new life to the band.
“Jeff hasn’t been exposed to any major tours or major press or television. It’s really exciting to see him act like a kid and be really excited about things that we’ve always done and maybe taken for granted at this point.”
The band had been writing material on the road prior to hitting the studio with Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Longwave). Their self-titled album, which was released in January, took just six weeks to record.
“The semi-melodic pop has changed into straight up rock and roll,” Farrar says of the new album. “It’s the next phase of our life. We’ve grown up a little more, gotten taller. We have longer hair. People have told us over and over that our last album didn’t have enough energy to it. Our goal for this one was to pull you into the room and make you feel like you’re standing there watching us play.”
Fans will have the chance to see the band play live as they headline dates until early May, and then open for Blink 182 and No Doubt in June.
But don’t expect them to be on tour for too long. Prior to the release of this album, Phantom Planet had been on tour for 18 months.
“17 months into it we were dying. We went around the world in three weeks. It really takes a toll on you. We were getting really good offers for tours and we just knew if we took any more tours at that point, we would fall apart.”
They also hope to release another album by the end of the year.
Even with Schwartzman out of the band, they now have another diversion from their albums, but at least this time it is actually for their music. A song from their second album, “California,” is the theme song for the hit show, “The O.C.”
Remember when the Rembrandts thought they would get a career boost by having “I’ll Be There for You” used as the Friend’s theme song, but it ultimately killed their career? Farrar does.
“That was exactly our worry and that is exactly why we didn?t put any mention of us on the show. You have to kind of hunt it down a little bit. When we play live, we say, ‘do you want to hear ‘Lonely Day’ or ‘California?’ And 9 times out of 10 times they say ‘Lonely Day’.”
Check out the music video for “Big Brat,” directed by Spike Jonze:
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And check out a live version of the song from their “Live At the Troubadour” DVD:
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