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.
Marina and The Diamonds are working on some new music, but Marina is being very secretive about it. Although the release has been delayed, she let’s us in on some secrets about the new album, and how alcohol changed her life.
Once upon a time, long before the sold out stadiums and screaming fans, little Howie D was a self-proclaimed “Dough Boy.” Apparently, his first love wasn’t music, it was Twinkies. In all fairness, Howie went on to much better things, however, for this interview the guys reminisce about some of their more embarrassing moments.
The Toronto crowd saw the lights dim around 10 p.m. and let out a thunderous roar of cheers at the Kool Hause. A pre-recorded voice came over the speakers, which at first was difficult to identify. Eventually, anyone with attuned ears could tell it was a quote from the M. Night Shyamalan movie Unbreakable, which describes the purpose of villains and heroes in comic books.
The closing bit of dialogue, read by Samuel L. Jackson’s character, sums up the spirit of a live Coheed and Cambria show: “You know how someone can tell he’s the hero of a comic book? If it’s the villain is his exact opposite.”
With that final bit, the mythology-steeped, comic book-obsessed, sci-fi loving quartet of Coheed and Cambria took to the stage. They immediately launched into music from their new uber-concept album In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3.
To try and explain the exact mythology behind Coheed and Cambria would take far too long. Suffice to say, enough chat rooms and message boards are filled with thousands of theories and explanations. They all delve deep into the dense and mythical lyrics, all written by lead singer and guitarist Claudio Sanchez.
“All the time we have fans asking us to explain the lyrics. I go to the boards every once in a while, but I can’t answer questions because I don’t know. It’s all Claudio’s baby,” says Michael Todd, the bassist for the band.
The essential information is as follows: Coheed and Cambria are actually a husband and wife, who reside on Earth sometime in the distant future. Earth has been part of a Keyhold of 78 other planets, but has broken free. At some point, Coheed was injected by a poisonous dragonfly (whose silhouette haunts the band’s performance), and turned into the evil Monstar.
All of the couple’s children are dead, except for Claudio, who may hold the secret to saving the universe. Toss in a Han Solo-like ship captain, who happens to like killing young white girls, and mystical goddesses that protect the planets and you have the mind-warping, insanely addictive repertoire of the band.
Seeing as their songs have as much to do with monsters as they do with heartache and tragedy, it’s no surprise to learn the band are passionate genre fans.
“We’ve always been into horror movies. The Nightmare on Elm Street films, I’ve seen a million times. We watch a wide variety of horror movies. Travis just has a huge folder of them on the bus,” says Todd, referring to lead guitarist Travis Stever.
The band is currently on a headlining tour across North America, after playing to wildly receptive audiences at this past summer’s Vans Warped Tour and dates in Europe.
Still, just because their songs shift from heavy guitar to thrashing vocals with emotive screaming doesn’t mean they are simply the next new “emo” sensation. Consistently, the band is lumped in with the likes of Thursday, Brand New, or other so-called “emo sensations.”
“I think the emo label is just our timing. I consider us sounding more like progressive rock. We don’t really sound emo, or hardcore. The whole thing is timing, but it doesn’t bother me,” says Todd.
Though the band, once known as Shabutie, is still a bit obscure in Canada, the constant rotation of their new video “A Favor House Atlantic” on MTV will hopefully ensure only more fans fall into their fold.
For now, the band is more than content to allow their second album to carry them into the next stage of their career. Still, the central question on most fans’ minds is once the story of Coheed and Cambria ends, as it’s planned as a quadrilogy of albums, will the band continue on?
“We still have two more albums to do. The next one is going to be the prequel, a Star Wars-type thing. We’d also like to do a double disc at some point, if we have the time. We’ll take it as it goes from there,” says Todd.
The band plans to go into their Woodstock, New York studio sometime next year to record the next album, but whether any more clues will be given to the band’s epic mythology is shrouded in the band’s usual air of mystery.
“I always ask Claudio what’s going on. I don’t know everything, but I’m definitely curious. That stuff is always so complicated, I can hardly keep up with it myself,” says Todd with a laugh, before leaving to take the stage.
