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.
With millions of albums sold and having played over 500 shows, Lit don’t have to keep making music for a living, but they do. They want to. They left their old record label because they wanted to start fresh, and released a self-titled album in June. The casual rock fan will know 
Lit as the band that climbed all over Pamela Anderson (in the video for “Miserable” off their 1999 RCA debut “A Place in the Sun”). Their diehard fans will know them as the band with a little bit of pop and a little bit of hard rock, which remains true of their brand new record.
Guitarist Jeremy Popoff spoke with andPOP before an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
1. Doing a show like Leno, does anything like that make you nervous anymore?
I never get nervous. I get more nervous for my brother (the band’s singer, A.Jay) because he hates doing TV stuff. Other than that, I’m totally stoked every time.
2. The album is being described a “more serious” record. Why did you decide to go that route?
It wasn’t anything that we decided to do. We’ve never written any songs or records or whatever to try to achieve any sort of direction or concept. We just write what we’re feeling at the time. Between the four of us, we’ve went through a lot of shit over the last few years, various personal issues. It would be silly if you’re Lit and you’re doing your fourth record and I’m 32 years old and I don’t think it would be cool if I was writing Simple Plan songs.
3. How have you changed since the last album?
Personally, I had a kid. My son was born the day Atomic came out (he’s 2 and a half now). I’m just seeing the world a little differently now being a dad. The whole watching the demise of the music industry and seeing all the changes going on; some days you just want to kick ass. Sometimes you’re a little embarrassed of the career- you devote your whole life to something and then you’re there and you’re disgusted by the way it’s run and the kind of people that you’re surrounded with all the time. I guess I’m a little bit more jaded — I’m not jaded at all, but I think I get it now. I don’t let a lot of the shit bug me anymore. I know the drill.
4. Do you see this as a reinvention of the band?
I’d say it’s a fresh start. We wrote it, recorded it, and mixed it all in Orange County. We avoided the whole L.A. grind. We didn’t have any A&R guys or producers. As a result, we found ourselves being way more creative and we wrote way more songs that we normally would write for a record. We probably could have kept going and had enough stuff for another record too. Not to say that we won’t be back with a producer for the next record.
5. The song “Lullaby,” how important was it for you to include this track on the album?
I wouldn’t say it was important. It was a song I wrote for my son. It was just supposed to be for him. It wasn’t even for Lit or for the record. As it started to come together, everybody just felt it and felt that it was an important song. A.Jay has a little girl now too. He can relate it to it. It just felt right.
6. Do you think you’re surprising people by having a slower song like this?
It’s probably the most sweet and ballady of any of our other songs but we’ve had ballads on every record we’ve ever done. We’ve always left that door open.
7. You always do something interesting with your videos, and it’s no different this time. Tell me the importance to Lit of having such unique videos?
We’re big fans of MTV. We’re part of the MTV generation. I think videos should be entertaining. If they’re not, why make one?
8. Do you have a lot of input on the videos?
Oh yeah. The My Own Worst Enemy video and the Zip-Lock video, I wrote the treatments for. We usually have 5 or 6 directors submit treatments and then we go with the guy who gets it the most. Then we get together with them and we bounce ideas off each other.
9. What’s your favourite Lit video?
My favourite videos are the ones we make on our own. We have a DVD coming out and our friend, who directed and edited the DVD, has made 4 or 5 videos of different songs from the past 2 records. They’re just a ton of live footage put together. As far as the MTV videos that we made, probably the one we had the least to do with was the Miserable video with Pamela Anderson. We were in between tours and we were so crazy at the time. We didn’t have 5 minutes to ourselves. That was completely the director’s idea. The only thing we had to do was get Pam to be in the video. We shot it and went to Japan the next day. I loved that video because it’s so rare to see that.
10. A lot of people think of that video when they think of Lit and who better than her?
She’s such a great person, such a sweet girl, and so hot. To this day, if you ever see anything on Pamela Anderson, they show clips from that video because she looked so incredible.
11. Why’d you part from RCA?
We went to them and begged them to let us go. Every three or four weeks, we heard RCA was dropping 12 more bands and we used to sit there and cross our fingers and pray that we would be one of them. Everybody that was there when we signed with them in 1998 as of 2001, they were all gone. There was nobody left. We felt like if we’re going to start fresh with a new label, why would we want to do it here? If we’re going to start new we’re going to start new.
12. Were you happy to be away from a major or were you hoping to find another?
We had interest from several and it’s not like we said we absolutely won’t do it. But after talking to a few of them and seeing the state of all of them, it was scary. At the time we were talking to them, that’s when Nitrus came to us. We met with them and thought this is the perfect deal for us. If they pull this off, bands will be calling us everyday because it’s a great deal and very artist friendly.
13. How do you feel about BMG Heritage releasing the “Lit Platinum and Gold Collection”?
I fucking hate it. We tried to get them to stop it but we didn’t have any control of it. Instead we at least played ball a little bit and said, ‘if you’re going to release it and we can’t charge your mind, can you at least make it a little cooler for the fans?’ So we got to change a few photos that they used. We added a bonus track that nobody had heard before and an acoustic song. I know some our fans will buy it and we wanted them to feel like they weren’t getting ripped off.
14. Wasn’t this a slap in the face?
Yeah, it’s kind of a slap in the face but to me it’s less of slap in the face and more that they don’t give a shit if it’s good or bad for Lit. They just want to try and make more money.
15. How many more albums does Lit have in them?
The last thing we ever want to be is the band that is making another album that nobody wants to hear and are peddling it on our web site and just milking it. 999/1000 bands never make it or get a record deal. This is our third record deal, our fourth album, we’ve sold a couple million records, we’ve been all over the world. We’ve proved everybody wrong already. When we were in high school, everybody thought we were losers and bums and thought we should get real jobs and we’ve proved all those people wrong and then we proved ourselves right. Now, if I stop doing it tomorrow, I did it already. Now we’re doing it because we love it and because we do have more to say and because we love playing live. We’re going to keep doing it until we feel we’re done.
