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.
After a change in their line-up, Evanescence is back with their first album in five years. To celebrate the release of “Evanescence” (2011) we ignored everything musically relevant to discuss cats and dogs with the band’s frontwoman. Part 3 of 4 of our interview with Amy Lee (who is one of the nicest people alive FYI). Subscribe to catch the rest of the interview where we talk about the band’s hiatus, playing the harp and Evanescence’s legion of fans.
After a change in their line-up, Evanescence is back with their first album in five years. To celebrate the release of “Evanescence” (2011) we ignored everything musically relevant to discuss cats and dogs with the band’s frontwoman. Part 2 of 4 of our interview with Amy Lee (who is one of the nicest people alive FYI). Subscribe to catch the rest of the interview where we talk about the band’s hiatus, playing the harp and Evanescence’s legion of fans.
Yes there are some obvious similarities between We Are The Fallen and Evanescence. They have many of the same band members, they have a similar sound, but there are differences. One notable difference being Amy Lee lead Evanescence but We Are The Fallen is headed by American Idol contestant Carly Smithson. And there are more – but we will let them tell you.
For a 12-year seasoned veteran free-lance bassist, Marty O’Brien is all of a sudden experiencing things for the first time now.
The Rhode Island native’s got his first real band We Are The Fallen, ergo, his first real debut album Tear The World Down, and above his first real consistent gig for the future.
He laughs when thinking this was all thanks to an unanswered e-mail he sent in 2002, to tryout for guitarist Ben Moody’s new band at the time, Evanescence.
“Funny story,” says O’Brien who’s been on three different Ozzfest tours as a free-lancer, and has rocked with A-list people like Tommy Lee, Disturbed, Kelly Clarkson and Celine Dion.
Remember Evanescence? You know, the one with that goth female lead singer with the haunting voice? Well, they’re back, and with a bang.
Wednesday night the band performed a secret show at the Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom in New York, reports rollingstone.com. A little after 9 p.m., the crowd started growing impatient, chanting, “EVAN-ES-SCENTS, EVAN-ES-SCENTS.” And even though the band hasn’t been heard from in years, you wouldn’t know it from their performance.
And as their front woman Amy Lee explained, last night’s intimate show was quite necessary, considering Evanescence will be performing for 40,000 people at the Maquinaria Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Nov. 8. So, Lee said, they needed a little warming up before heading south.
“Thanks for being our guinea pigs,” Lee joked to the predominantly female crowd.
Evanescence hasn’t put out a record since 2006′s The Open Door, but they’re currently hard at work on a follow-up album. Still, it’ll be another year before the band is back performing in New York, making last night’s concert a special treat for their dedicated fans, who sold out the show in just five minutes.
Former EVANESCENCE drummer ROCKY GRAY is unable to comment on the circumstances that led to his leaving the group, because he claims to have been served a gagging order.
The band’s singer Amy Lee has reassured fans Evanescence will continue following the weekend departure of drummer Gray and guitarist John LeCompt.
But Gray insists he has been warned not to mention how he came to leave the band.
He writes on his website: “Amy Lee’s management emailed me last night to tell me that, in their view, the contract I signed to record, perform and tour with the group says I’m not allowed to have any free speech in regard to Evanescence.
“The way they spin it, I’m not even allowed to say I quit the group, I guess. But the news is out there, so, there ya go.
“I need to have a lawyer read over all that mess to tell me what, when and how I can tell you all – the real fans – what really went down, if I ever can, haha.”
As previously reported, LeCompt has also hit out at how his career with Evanescence came to an abrupt end.
Writing on his internet blog, he said: “Without any warning or legitimisations for my future, I was fired for no good reason.”
Both Gray and LeCompt now plan to concentrate their energies on offshoot act Machina.
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EVANESCENCE singer AMY LEE has reassured fans the group will continue following the weekend departure of guitarist John LeCompt and drummer Rocky Gray.
The Going Under singer has posted a message to fans on her website confirming the split and insisting that upcoming tour dates with Korn on the Family Values trek will go ahead as planned.
She writes, “Evanescence is something I have loved and nurtured since I was 14 and I will continue to protect and fight for it as I always have… Stay tuned for more news on that front. And don’t worry about the tour, guys. Nothing will be cancelled and we will see you soon.”
The group’s next show is scheduled for May 19 at the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, Ohio.
Writing on his internet blog on Saturday, LeCompt suggests his departure from the group was not pleasant.
He says, “Around 3.30pm yesterday I received a call on my cell from Amy. This call wasn’t from a friend who appreciated me, but from an enemy who was prepared to hurt me and my family.
“Without any warning or legitimizations for my future, I was fired for no good reason.”
LeCompt and Gray now plan to concentrate their energies on offshoot act Machina.
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EVANESCENCE frontwoman AMY LEE has leaped to the defence of troubled pop star BRITNEY SPEARS following a hurtful web video soundtracked by one of the band’s hits.
A fan of the rock group posted a spoof film of Spears on file-sharing site YouTube.com, using one of Evanescence’s songs in the background.
But singer Lee is adamant neither her nor her bandmates endorse the clip after “everything she (Spears) has been through”, and is begging the amateur moviemaker to take down the short.
Lee insists her music was never intended to inspire projects “based on getting enjoyment out of someone’s pain.”
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Evanescence went from being a little-known Little Rock, Arkansas act to one of the biggest rock bands in the world in 2003.
Then, in the midst of their growing popularity, guitarist Ben Moody quit, almost a decade after he and Lee started the band. Bassist William Boyd departed this summer.
“I kind of started over,” Amy Lee, the lead singer of Evanescence, told andPOP at the MuchMusic Video Awards this summer. “I feel really good and purified right now.”
With the lineup change came a new method of writing as well, as Lee and Moody used to co-write. On “Anywhere But Home,” the band’s second album, due out in October, Lee was on her own.
“I’ve gained a lot of confidence from when we were writing the first album. I listen back and I hear vulnerability and I hear me as a kid, like ‘everything’s wrong and I’m not going to do anything about it.’ And now I kind of am coming from this perspective of, yes, these are the things that are bothering me and I’m writing about them, but I’m looking for a solution and trying to fix it instead of whining about it.”
Like any artist releasing a debut album, Lee had no idea what was in store for her when “Fallen” was released in March of 2003. As it turned out, the album sold over 14 million copies worldwide and earned the band two Grammy awards. And while some artists may let the success get to their heads, Lee appears more confident and more humble.
“It’s really important not to base success on album sales and money,” she said. “I love what I do and I love my record and I love my first record and that’s what matters.”
Gothy rockers Evanescence have announced a new North American tour for this fall, with Toronto and Montreal leading off the string of dates.
Billboard reports that the tour begins on October 5 with a stop at Toronto’s Kool Haus. The band will hit the Metropolis in Montreal the next night, before jetting off for three weeks of shows in the U.S.
In the middle of the tour, the band will take a short break to head south for a performance at the MTV Video Music Awards Latin. It’s being held on October 19 in Mexico City.
Tickets for the tour (which features purposely intimate venues) go on sale August 19. They’ll return to play for bigger crowds in 2007.
Evanescence’s new album, “The Open Door,” is set for an October 3 release in North America.
Catch the band this October across the continent:
Oct. 5: Toronto (Kool Haus)
Oct. 6: Montreal (Metropolis)
Oct. 7: Boston (Avalon)
Oct. 9: New York (Hammerstein Ballroom)
Oct. 10: Philadelphia (Electric Factory)
Oct. 11: Washington, D.C. (9:30 Club)
Oct. 13: Detroit (State Theatre)
Oct. 14: Milwaukee (Eagles Ballroom)
Oct. 15: Minneapolis (the Quest)
Oct. 17: Chicago (Avalon)
Oct. 21: Dallas (McFarlin Auditorium)
Oct. 22: Houston (Verizon Wireless Theatre)
Oct. 24: Denver (Paramount Theatre)
Oct. 27: Phoenix (Celebrity Theatre)
Oct. 28: Los Angeles (Wiltern)
Oct. 29: San Francisco (Warfield Theatre)
It’s a headache for Evanescence.
As of Wednesday, a judge has approved an order to refund customers who bought copies of the album, “Anywhere But Home,” from a Wal-Mart store in Maryland.
The agreement, according to reports from AP, partially settles a lawsuit filed by a local couple, who claim the copy they bought at Wal-Mart contained explicit lyrics but didn’t contain a parental advisory sticker.
Trevin and Melanie Skeens of Brownville are suing Wal-Mart for deception, by selling the album to consumers without a warning label.
The refund offer applies to those who purchased the album before Jan. 1.
