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.
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.
When the mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” came out in 1984, it blurred the lines between fiction and reality in music. Though the film was fictional, and the band’s members were actors, it spawned a whole world of very real music: albums, videos, even concerts.
Platinum Weird has done just the opposite of the faux metal-heads from the ’80s. Instead of starting with a fake story and creating a real band, they’ve started with the band and created a fake story.
As the myth has it, Platinum Weird was formed in 1974 when Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics fame) teamed with a mysterious singer named Erin Grace. However, after only a few performances, Grace disappeared, leaving behind a half-finished record and an emotionally wrecked Stewart. The band was all but forgotten. Then, 30 years later, songwriter Kara DioGuardi met a neighbour in New York who would become a musical mentor to her. When she met Stewart in 2004, he played an old Platinum Weird song for her; DioGuardi already knew the words, having learned it from the neighbour — the long-lost Erin Grace.
Unfortunately, it’s a big stretch of reality — an elaborate marketing campaign for Stewart and DioGuardi’s debut album as Platinum Weird (a group they formed in 2004 while collaborating on tracks for The Pussycat Dolls).
“Normally, labels or people launching something, they’ll go the traditional route,” explains Stewart by phone from Los Angeles. “‘We’ll take ads here, and we’ll do this, and we’ll make this video and we’ll place them in all the normal channels.’ And I’ve never been like that — I’ve always been a bit eccentric or quirky.”
It’s not exactly like Stewart — or even Spinal Tap, for that matter — was the first to create a fake back-story to enhance their musical efforts. David Jones took on a new persona when he became David Bowie; Bob Dylan said he was Woody Guthrie’s son.
“Creating this mythology is just as valid as those,” says Stewart. “But they were all created in print or word-of-mouth. Now we’re living in a world with all these mediums, whether it’s YouTube and the Internet and TV and radio and everything.”
To that end, Stewart definitely took advantage of modern technology. Several websites began popping up earlier this year (some run by Interscope Records, others by Eurythmics fans) dedicated to the remembrance of “’70s band” Platinum Weird.
Stewart even worked with the label to produce a VH1 “Behind the Music” documentary about the band. It features appearances by the likes of Elton John, Mick Jagger, and Lindsay Lohan, each of whom recounts their varied encounters with Platinum Weird (for example, Lohan says she first heard about the band when she dug up one of their vintage t-shirts).
“85 per cent of that documentary is absolutely true,” says Stewart, though the Lohan bit is in the other 15 per-cent. “Elton John did sign me, and I’ve been through massive drug things, and I did meet an American girl and we started writing songs.”
Now, Stewart is back to writing songs with another American girl in DioGuardi. And though her name might be new to most music listeners, she certainly isn’t new to the business; songs like Celine Dion’s “Right In Front of You,” Kelly Osbourne’s “Shut Up,” and Enrique Iglesias’ “Escape” were written or co-written by the New York native.
But despite all her experience, it doesn’t mean that fronting a band was an easy challenge for DioGuardi; a few things took some time to get used to.
“Seeing myself on camera, more than anything. Watching the way I move,” she reveals. “Now I feel very used to it, but at first it was difficult. It was sort of getting to know myself in a different way. When I look in the mirror now, I look at different things. It’s made me accept who I am, physically as well as emotionally.”
For Stewart, the project has been a combination of both new and old experiences. His most popular band — Eurythmics, with Annie Lennox — was a male-female duo, just like Platinum Weird.
“Annie and I would always write a song very quickly, in half an hour, and record it,” he says of that collaboration. “And the only other person I’ve ever had that with so quickly is Kara. But everything else is different.”
Still, the one girl that eludes Stewart is the original — the mysterious American from the 1970s, who he hasn’t heard from since she jetted away 30 years ago. However, it seems as though Stewart is trying to recapture this girl with Platinum Weird’s mythology; trying give meaning to their brief relationship. After all, she even inspired the band’s name.
“One time she was in my dark, damp sort of squat in London,” he recounts. “And she said, ‘You’ve got to get something to cover that damp patch on the wall.’ And I said, ‘Oh, that’ll be our platinum album.’ And she said, ‘Oh, now that would be so weird.’ And I said, ‘Yeah, platinum weird.’”
Though the mystery girl did, in fact, disappear without a trace from Stewart’s life, her name wasn’t Erin Grace.
Eurythmics’ upcoming best-of album will feature two new songs from the British synth-pop duo.
The retrospective ?Ultimate Collection,? due Nov. 8 via Arista Records, will include the tracks ?I?ve Got a Life? (the first single) and ?Was It Just Another Love Affair??
The two songs are Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart?s first new material in more than five years.
?Annie and I didn’t plan to go in the studio ? she was staying with me in Los Angeles and we seemed to spontaneously write and record some songs,? said Stewart, according to Billboard.
?It was just like the old days, songs coming at lightning speed and recorded and mixed in a week.?
The 19-track ?Ultimate Collection? also features some of the ?80s most enduring pop songs, including ?Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This),? ?Here Comes the Rain Again,? ?Would I Lie To You?? and ?Missionary Man.?
The best-of compilation marks the group?s 25th anniversary. Their last album of new material was 1999?s ?Peace.?
Here is the track list for ?Ultimate Collection?:
?I’ve Got a Life?
?Love Is a Stranger?
?Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)?
?Who’s That Girl??
?Right by Your Side?
?Here Comes the Rain Again?
?Would I Lie To You??
?There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)?
?Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves?
?It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)?
?When Tomorrow Comes?
?Thorn in My Side?
?The Miracle of Love?
?Missionary Man?
?You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart?
?I Need a Man?
?I Saved the World Today?
?17 Again?
?Was It Just Another Love Affair??
