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.
Perception, for The Junction, is essential. While working on their 2004-released EP, the members of the Brampton, Ontario-based band invited their producer hear them play some songs from their repertoire in one of their basements. “Do you have anything new?” he asked, as singer-guitarist Brent Jackson recalls now. They had just written the music to a new track but didn’t have any lyrics yet. The producer loved the song and asked to hear it again. “Make sure you finish that song by the time we start recording,” he said, “because I strongly feel that the song can get you to a different level in the industry.”
Great, Jackson thought. But that scared him.
Jackson wanted The Junction to become massive, but for the right reasons.
“I immediately thought, if this is true I want to let people know that I am not selling out and I am very conscious of what could happen to bands,” Jackson tells andPOP. “If they do hear that song on the radio or it becomes a hit, I want them to know that I’m not doing it for any superficial bullshit reasons.”
So when he sat down to pen the lyrics for the song – “Frequencies” – he conveyed those very feelings. “Lyrically, it just expressed my want to be a bigger band for the simple fact that I want to reach more people, not to feed my ego or to become rich.”
The producer included that song on The Junction’s demo and shopped it to an entertainment lawyer. Eventually, Universal Music got wind and signed them to a record deal. Their debut self-titled full-length album will be released on Feb. 13.
For Jackson, being a musician is not just a job – it’s his calling.
“(People) put their faith into a religion. Music is my higher power. I just love it so much. I need it. I need it more than I need food in my stomach.”
Jackson and his bandmates – bassist Matt Jameson and drummer Mike Taylor – are hungry for all kids of music. Their record label bio sums them up accurately: the band “doesn’t put parameters on its music.”
And the proof is in the album, a rock record at the core, but one that bends genres, breaks conventions and flirts with divergence. They had no rules when creating each of the 13 tracks that they would eventually record in Toronto’s Metalworks Studios, in a large room so they could capture their live energy.
Some are pop, some are inspired by jazz and jam bands, some are under two minutes and some are almost seven.
“We’ve never tried to conform to a certain sound,” Jackson says.
“From an early childhood for all three of us, we’ve never closed the door on certain styles of music. We’ve always been open from the beginning to anything that sounds like it comes from a real place.”
It’s the attitude that could drive an A&R rep mad. But, and to Jackson’s surprise, there was no head-butting with his record label while going through the recording process. When they handed in an early version of the album, a label rep said he wasn’t feeling two of the songs, the same two that Jackson says The Junction weren’t crazy about either.
| “Music is my higher power. I just love it so much. I need it. I need it more than I need food in my stomach.” |
“I would have thought that maybe there would have been more pressure somewhere or more advice to do different things, but we were pretty much left to do it ourselves. That was a big relief.”
The Junction are experiencing something that new bands can only hopeful. The attention is on the music. They’re not the offspring of music legends, they aren’t sleeping with Hollywood actresses, they aren’t instigating feuds with other bands, they aren’t getting arrested for the sake of publicity. Their pitch is their music.
“A lot of people forget that music is first,” Jackson says. “It’s using your body as a way to get something bigger out of you. I look at the way that I write music as the most intelligent I could possibly be.”
And it’s his band’s music that Jackson thinks can help people.
“I could have conversations with people and I feel like I could enlighten them in some sense. I could help them open their eyes to different perspectives. On a level of music, you can reach more people that way. It is a universal communicator. I can’t learn every language in the world but if you take a band like Sigur Ros, who sings half-Icelandic and half gibberish, people all around the world feel what they’re doing. That stuff excites me. Energy captured in music can still reach people.”
