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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?”
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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.
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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.
Remember when Radiohead released In Rainbows in 2008 and you could pay whatever you wanted for the 11-song download? Remember how the music world was up in arms, either over its revolutionary nature or its downright sabotage of the careers of full-time musicians?
Well, Canadian indie-rockers Jets Overhead did that whole dance two years earlier for their full-length debut, Bridges.
Without the pressure of a major label, the band was able to do whatever it wanted with their album. Physically-speaking, the release strategy was a good move – it is still being called out to this day for its innovation. But flashy releases like this demand music that lives up to the hype. Bridges turned out to be a solid piece of ambient rock, exploring the atmospheric road less-traveled by their peers and garnering a 2007 Juno nomination for New Group of the Year.
Jets Overhead set the bar perilously high with this release – not only was it good, it was free. It was hard to spread the word as the band landed opening slots for Tegan and Sara, Broken Social Scene, Sam Roberts, The Stills, The Dandy Warhols, and Our Lady Peace, but they had to find a way to get people to buy their next album.
When they released No Nations in June, it was with some trepidation they opted for the simple strategy of a record store release, some iTunes distribution and a Creative Commons license allowing them to stream the album online for free. Six months later, it seems to be working out. The band are on a cross-Canada tour opening for Lights, and this summer took their album overseas to China and Japan, two scenes often very curious of Canadian music.
“The response has been really amazing. We’ve played some really cool shows, gotten some really neat feedback,” says Antonia Freybe-Smith, vocalist and keyboardist for Jets Overhead. “We had a really neat connection at quite a few of our shows. It just seems to be on a different level than when we were touring our last record.”
Undoubtedly the biggest gig the band booked in their six-year career was Neil Young’s Bridge School Benefit Concert this fall in California, alongside Neil Young himself, No Doubt, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Fleet Foxes, Wolfmother, and Adam Sandler among others.
“It was such an honour to be there, like a dream,” says Freybe-Smith. “We had the great fortune of playing some really neat shows. It’s good press – that’s always great for a band staying on the radar.”
Admittedly an opening band for much of their career, Freybe-Smith says this has always worked out in the band’s favour. Not only do they get the pleasure of sharing the road with veterans, they book the kind of mid-sized venues their following may otherwise not yet afford, like Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom and the Kool Haus in Toronto. At many of their gigs this summer, when they toured from the West Coast to Winnipeg with The Dears, Freybe-Smith noted a cultural divide in their audience – from pre-teens to senior citizens.
“We make the kind of music that’s quite hard to pigeonhole into a certain genre,” says Freybe-Smith. “We remind some of the older fans of Pink Floyd or something and they like that. Younger fans don’t know what they like about us. We don’t fit in anywhere.”
Of course, the Pink Floyd thing is no accident – Freybe-Smith cites them as a major influence, albeit cliché. As for current bands, she says they’ve always dreamed of playing a show with Wilco, which also comes as little surprise considering a good chunk of No Nations sounds like the offspring of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (most notably “Weathervanes (In the Way)”).
No Nations is a blend of classic Canadian folk-rock a la Neil Young with the whiskey vocals of Adam Kittredge and Freybe-Smith’s harmony, and a touch of ambience and distant prog echoes courtesy of Jocelyn Greenwood (bass), Piers Henwood (guitars, keyboards) and Luke Renshaw (drums).
There’s something different about Jets Overhead, though, something evasive. “Fully Shed” has the essence of Sloan or Sam Roberts (two Canadian acts, it’s true), but the addition of vague synth gives what could be a marketable pop song a dark hue reminiscient of the angsty, edgy Dandy Warhols.
It’s still pop – the layers of “Always a First Time” and the catchy chorus of the album’s opener, “I Should Be Born,” only assert the fact.
“This record we took a lot of time writing the material. We would jam and record it all, a bunch of garbledegook,” says Freybe-Smith. “We didn’t put any pressure on ourselves. Let’s just make a neat-sounding record that we would want to listen to on roadtrips and stuff. That was the only real ambition we had with it.”
In the end, No Nations took about a year and a half to record, some of which was done at a secluded cabin on Hornby Island, B.C. In the end, it was produced by Neil Osborne of 54*40, and mastered by Malcolm Burn (who has produced Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan and Daniel Lanois.)
Freybe-Smith notes with ProTools at musicians’ fingertips these days, it’s easy to record an album in your bedroom with no help. But in order to get the full sound No Nations boasts, Freybe-Smith says they are glad they made the decision to shove more money toward the production.
Yet it’s the bare bones of Jets Overhead that make them a band worth following: song structure, lyrics, instrumentation and a dash – just the essence – of pop sensibility.
“We just want people to listen to it over and over again,” says Freybe-Smith.
