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.
Death Cab for Cutie’s bassist doesn’t hesitate when asked about the race to the White House.
“We’re Obama fans through and through,” says Nick Harmer. “We try to pay attention to American politics right now.”
And they will continue to follow the McCain vs. Obama battle despite being on a tour that will take them across North America, Europe and Australia this summer.
The 33-year-old Harmer along with Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla and Jason McGerr make up Death Cab for Cutie, a staple in every college student’s music collection. The band, which began as a solo project by Gibbard in 1997, released their sixth studio album, Narrow Stairs, on May 13. It’s the band’s first album to make it to No. 1 on the Billboard charts and it debuted at the top spot in both the U.S. and Canada.
After enjoying the huge success of their last album, Plans, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Album, the band is looking to take their music in a different direction.
“It’d be really easy for us to remake Plans,” says Harmer. “We wanted to keep things fresh. There’s a tendency for artists in other fields, if they have some level of success, to try and repeat that. I think it’s more interesting and more satisfying to break from what we’ve done and look for other ways to express ourselves musically as a band.”
The new direction Death Cab took with their latest album one that is darker. Rolling Stone called Narrow Stairs “a dark, strangely compelling record that trades the group’s bright melancholy for something nearer to despair.” The band’s new sound, sonically and lyrically, is made clear with their first single “I Will Possess Your Heart,” which is 8 minutes in length (the radio version was cut to four minutes) and features a repetitive, driving bass line courtesy of Harmer.
“All of us were really drawn to the idea of this dark, obsessive, creepy stalker quality,” says Harmer. “The song isn’t about a stalker but I think everyone at a certain point, if you have a really [intense] love with someone, some of the thought patterns and behaviours you go through, boys and girls, some qualities can get a bit obsessive.”
The album’s title also helps to set the tone for Death Cab’s latest.
“We were drawn to the symbolic nature of narrow stairs. As you move through life, there are points when things are very easy going and the path is wide and there are times where you have to walk your footsteps a little bit closer because things are little more precarious,” says Harmer. “It’s also a play on words. For someone who is critical of you or always watching you or judging you, they’re giving you a narrow stare out of their eyes.”
Death Cab is no stranger to criticism. The band has endured flack from some fans for switching from an independent record label to a major, Atlantic Records, in 2004. However, the band has maintained a close relationship with fans by never becoming manufactured in their sound and they detail their lives in online journal entries. One blog post by Harmer details his trip to a post-Katrina New Orleans.
Harmer stumbles over his words when the subject comes up before being able to speak.
“I don’t even know where to start,” he says. “It highlights a lot of the problems that I find with the leadership of our country currently. I can live in the supposed most wealthy and prominent country in the world and go to a city like New Orleans and think why is it like this here? It shouldn’t be like that. In all the sadness and pain, there’s all this banding together and people trying to rebuild their lives there. It’s inspiring.”
And some of the haunting tones heard on the album were influenced by Harmer’s experience in New Orleans.
“I think that in some indirect way, it did [make an impact on the music]. One of things we tried to do after Plans was to all go off into our own worlds and explore, think, read, see and experience,” Harmer says. “All of that stuff absorbs into you and it affects you on a deeper level.”
Death Cab for Cutie recently played at the famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre, an open air amphitheatre surrounded by Colorado boulders, which has seen the likes of Grateful Dead, U2 and Dave Matthews Band grace its stage. “It was a really cool benchmark in touring to be able to play Red Rocks and have a good show,” says Harmer. “It’s a phenomenal validation in some way.”
The band has been on tour since April in promotion of their new record and will be touring all summer long, ending in Australia on August 22. Their next Canadian stop will be at the Pemberton Festival in British Columbia on July 27.
