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 Tragically Hip and k-os boast a rare connection.
Both have managed to be mega-successful Canuck acts without having much success in the U.S., which is usually a prerequisite if an artist wants to do well in Canada.
Canadians are much more accepting to their own artists if their friends north of the border approve first.
Take Nickelback as an example. The rock foursome won a Juno Award in 2001 for their album, The State, but 99 out of 100 Canadians were more familiar with the non-existent music of Freddy Kruger than they were with Chad Kroeger’s band’s tunes.
It wasn’t until the band reached number one on the singles charts in the U.S. for their late-2001 hit How You Remind Me that Nickelback became a known act in Canada.
Add soulDecision to the list as well. They were just another Canadian pop act until their fans decided to rally together and vote for them on MTV’s TRL, which didn’t even air in Canada. Suddenly they went from playing high schools to selling out large theatres.
Of course, no one heard from the boys for almost four years, the pop scene changed considerably, and when soulDecision released their Shady Satin Drug album towards the end of last year, nobody seemed to notice. Especially their U.S. fans, probably because the album wasn’t released stateside.
On the other hand, there are too many Canadian artists to list in one article that should be much more successful in their native land than they are. And they all share a common characteristic: little or no U.S. success.
In Essence, Choclair, Kardinal Offishall, Sarah Slean, Kyprios, Stars, Jacksoul, some former Canadian Idol contestants (note: that’s some, not many), Barlow, Low Millions, Jarvis Church, Jeremy Fisher, Stabilo.
Some of these artists aren’t the best Canada has to offer, and some are still managing to make a living off their music in Canada. But all lack U.S. success, and thus the type of fame in Canada that is reserved for the Simple Plans and Avril Lavignes of the industry.
And then in a category of their own: The Tragically Hip and k-os.
The Hip have been able to sell out arenas all over Canada, but in the U.S., they struggle to fill clubs with a capacity near 1000; and a lot of the people in those clubs are usually Canadians on a road trip.
It took Toronto-based rapper k-os two albums before Canadians took notice, and he broke in with his mega-hit single Crabbuckit. He too has had trouble in the U.S., despite a major push by his label which included a 30-minute show on VH1.
So why can the Hip and k-os be considered A-list stars in Canada, when hoards of other deserving artists in the same boat as them ? no U.S. success ? struggle?
The simple answer: I don’t know.
Some potential reasons: dedicated fans (especially true with the Hip), great music that appeals to a broad array of fans (especially true with k-os), and some pure luck.
