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Joelle’s Top Five: Songs To Bring In The Summer

Joelle Tomlinson — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:48:06 +0000

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5. Summer Lovin’ – Grease

Call me nostalgic, but admit that this upbeat shoe-tapper from the epic movie is irreplaceable. I’ve yet to meet a person that doesn’t know the chorus from this song, let along the funky dance actions to accompany the lyrics. This throw-back is guaranteed to get some hips twisting and some put you in the mood to throw on those tight leather pants that used to fit so perfectly.

4. Summer Breeze – Jason Mraz

This representation of Mraz’s remarkable voice is better than Xanax on a particularly tough day. It’s laid back lyrics and acoustic guitar combine to weave a relaxing melody that anyone can enjoy. When it’s time to lay out in the sun with accompanying music, “Summer Breeze” is a quintessential fit.

3. Don’t Trust Me – 3OH!3

Okay, I’ll admit that this seems completely irrelevant to the whole summer thing. Yet, the first time I heard this catchy alternative tune, I happened to be driving down a teeming street in the throes of road rage. As song as I heard “Don’t Trust Me” come on the radio, all anger dissipated, the window rolled down, and the head started bobbing to maximum volume. What better way to introduce summer?

2. All Summer Long – Kid Rock

I wasn’t sure whether to love or hate this song at first. It was disconcerting to witness my mom cranking up the radio and singing along to Kid Rock’s country approach. Apparently it’s one of those “good old glory days” tunes. Yet, in the end Kid Rock’s swampy riffs, distinctive guitar solo and gospel choirs won over my better judgement.

1. Right Round – Flo Rida

Summer means a lot of different things for different people. You recognize that giddy feeling you get when you think about the warmest months of the year, and exactly how you’re going to spend them? Whether it’s going home, spending time at the lake, vacationing, or (heaven forbid) working, this song acts as that metaphorical pep talk before the big game. Summer requires preparation, and in order to be amped, head-bobbing, foot-tapping, and relentless dancing is in order. “Right Round” by Flo Rida is a catchy, upbeat tune that is becoming popular at a perfect time of the year.

Nicole Scherzinger, Kid Rock Confirmed For Wrestlemania XXV

Eva Lam — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:02:44 +0000

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Next month’s WrestleMania event is set to feature a one-two punch of music entertainment from Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger and Kid Rock.

According to People, Scherzinger will open the pay-per-view event with “America the Beautiful,” a tradition that has been carried out by the likes of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Ashanti and John Legend in the past.

Kid Rock will later take the stage for a medley of his greatest hits, including “Cowboy” and “Bawitdaba.”

A WWE representative confirmed last week that “The Wrestler” star Mickey Rourke would also be making an appearance at the event, though the extent of his involvement is not yet known. The actor had expressed his interest in participating in the annual wrestling showdown earlier this year but later backed out, citing work commitments.

Wrestlemania XXV will air live from the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas on April 5.

Lineup For Youth Inaugural Ball Announced

Eva Lam — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:19:42 +0000

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Kanye West, Fall Out Boy and Kid Rock are bound for Washington, D.C. to headline the Youth Inaugural Ball, the Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Saturday.

The event at the Hilton Washington will air on MTV as part of its Inauguration Night coverage, “Be the Change: Live From the Inaugural Special,” beginning at 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Usher and Rosario Dawson will report live from the ball as MTV Guest Correspondents, joining MTV News Correspondent Sway Calloway.

The show aims to celebrate the huge youth voter turnout in the presidential election, as well as the work young people are doing to drive social change through volunteer service.

“This year, millions of young people got involved and worked to bring change to this country,” said PIC Executive Director Emmett S. Beliveau in a statement. “We wanted to make sure this Inauguration recognized the important role young Americans are playing in making our nation stronger.”

He added: “With MTV’s coverage highlighting national service and reaching millions of young people around the world, this event will be a great follow-up to Monday’s kickoff of the President-elect’s new national service initiative, ‘Renew America Together.’”

The Youth Inaugural Ball is one of 10 official inaugural balls being hosted by the committee that day.

Kid Rock Gets One Year Probation for Waffle Scuffle

andPOP Staff — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:22:04 +0000

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Waffles weren’t on the menu for Kid Rock on Tuesday when he was sentenced to one year probation, six hours of anger management counseling and 80 hours of community service for his involvement in a fight that took place in an Atlanta Waffle House last October.

After a gig in Atlanta, Rock and his entourage headed to the waffle house where they got into an altercation with Harlen Akins, 39. The altercation led to a fight in the parking lot with Akins allegedly breaking one of the restaurant’s windows and Kid Rock driving off on his tour bus before cops stopped and charged Rock and five others on misdemeanor battery charges.

Rock pleaded no contest to one count of simple battery with four other counts of battery being dropped. Band mates Jason E. Krause and James W. Murphy also pleaded no contest and received similar sentences. The charges were dropped against the other three men.

Rock’s attorney, Darryl Cohen, told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution that Rock was “not terribly unhappy” with the sentence. “I think my client is satisfied. He would have liked to have tried it. He came within a hairbreadth of going to trial.”

Kid Rock was also fined $1000. That could have bought a lot of waffles.

Kid Rock Hospitalized

Irene Ogrodnik — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:16:45 +0000

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According to British press reports, Kid Rock was sent to the hospital minutes before he was scheduled to go on stage at a music festival in England.

The organizers of the festival said the rocker had been hospitalized in Nottingham due to dehydration and stomach cramps.

Minutes before Rock was scheduled to perform on-stage, an announcement came over the public-address system which said Rock was unwell. Rock reportedly had a late night at Central London’s Whiskey Mist nightclub by partying into the wee hours of the early morning.

Just recently, it has been reported that Rock’s ex-wife Pamela Anderson was back together with former husband Tommy Lee. According to reports, when asked about Anderson, Rock said: “If I see her, I say hello, but I kind of don’t want to be on that scene. I touched the stove, it’s f—— hot, I don’t want to touch it any more.”

Pam Anderson Ends Third Marriage

andPOP Staff — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:33:37 +0000

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Rick Salomon is about to join rockers Tommy Lee and Kid Rock on the list of Pamela Anderson’s ex-husbands.

The Canadian starlet is seeking to annul her five-month marriage to Salomon making this her third failed attempt at lifelong marital bliss.

The couple’s union started in the city of quickie weddings. They married in Las Vegas between magician Hans Klok’s shows where Anderson was appearing as an assistant.

Almost immediately after the Vegas nuptials, rumours were rampant that the two had called it quits.

The British Columbian actress posted a statement on her website in December saying that the pair was “working things out”. A little over a month later, she filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences.”

Salomon shares the bad-boy image of Anderson’s previous husbands and is best known as the man responsible for exposing a now infamous sex tape featuring his ex, Paris Hilton.

Anderson, 40, has two children from her marriage to drummer Tommy Lee and has told press that she plans on shifting her focus to her boys during this time.

Did Pamela Anderson Lie About Miscarriage?

andPOP Staff — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:48:23 +0000

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In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Kid Rock makes harsh claims about his Canadian bombshell
ex-wife, Pamela Anderson. He says that at one point in their four-month marriage, she pretended to have had a miscarriage while upset with him.

“She’s in Vancouver shooting a movie and I have Lakers seats on the floor, and I’m gonna go to the Lakers game with my friend Jesse James,” he told the magazine.

“I’m like, ‘Baby, I got these tickets. I’ll see you on the weekend there,’ and that leads into her saying, ‘You don’t care about me, blah blah blah,’” Rock says. “She finally comes up with this: ‘I just had a miscarriage’…and hangs the phone up.”

Rock said he had been unaware if Anderson was pregnant, but he chartered a plane to Vancouver to take care of his wife. But, “When I get there, she’s partying at this restaurant, drinking champagne, jumping on the tables. I’m thinking, That’s a quick recovery from a miscarriage.”

Anderson recently became engaged again to a professional poker player.

Kid Rock: ‘Rap Is Easy’

andPOP Staff — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:14:52 +0000

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KID ROCK looks set to lose a few friends in the hip-hop industry after dismissing rap as “easy”.

Reverend Run, real name Joseph Simmons, recently confirmed an album with Kid Rock and the rock-rapper will also appear on Lil’ Jon’s album Crunk Rock, due for release later this year (07).

But the pair may reconsider working with him again after the rock-rapper branded their craft facile.

He says, “Writing a rap, to me, is easy. I could write a rap like that.

“But writing songs and melodies and s**t that’s hopefully going to stick around for 30, 40 years is f**king hard.”

Kid Rock Dating Another Andersen

andPOP Staff — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:44:09 +0000

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KID ROCK seems to like the name ANDERSON – or ANDERSEN.

With his divorce from 2006 wife PAMELA ANDERSON almost finalised, the rock rapper is now dating Danish Sports Illustrated model MAY ANDERSEN.

The new couple arrived hand-in-hand at SIR ELTON JOHN’s 60th birthday party concert in New York at the weekend and sat through the three hour show together.

The Madison Square Garden party/show came after Rock and Andersen attended the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony together on March 12.

Andersen’s past boyfriends include JACKASS star STEVE-O. Kid Rock split from Anderson in November after four months of marriage.

Kid Rock Escapes Charges Over Alleged Assault

andPOP Staff — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:04:31 +0000

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LATEST: Rap/rocker KID ROCK will not be charged over his alleged assault of a woman in his native Michigan, due to lack of evidence.

A 28-year-old woman claimed the AMERICAN BAD ASS star shoved her as she attempted to leave a party at his house in Macomb County on March 8.

However, prosecutors said the rocker, who recently divorced PAMELA ANDERSON, will not face charges because no sufficient evidence has been found to back up the woman’s allegations.

Oakland County Prosecutor DAVID GORCYCA says, “The reports are fraught with differing eyewitness accounts and without substantiating injuries there exists insufficient evidence to support a charge.”

Rock, real name ROBERT RITCHIE, said he is considering suing the woman for making the ‘false’ claims.

His lawyer MICHAEL NOVAK says, “These allegations were taken very seriously by Kid Rock and he’s not going to walk away. It’s just a complete, unfounded lie.”

Kid Rock & Pam Anderson Get Married Again

andPOP Staff — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:32:53 +0000

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Kid Rock and wife Pamela Anderson have tied the knot for the third time. This time, they wed at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville on Thursday morning.

Shocking everyone from the crowd to the club’s staff, singer Dustin Wilkes announced, “You guys aren’t going to believe what we have next – Kid Rock and Pam Anderson are going to get married on stage and we’re not even kidding,” he said, reports People.

The ceremony, performed by Davidson County General Sessions Judge John Brown, took place on stage after midnight. The bride wore a white juicy dress, while the groom wore a white tank top, explained Rock’s rep Kirt Webster.

“They did the regular vows, and when it came to the ‘I do’ part, he responded ‘Hell yes!,’” said McKenzie Davis, an onlooker who witnessed the nuptials. “Her response was, ‘Unfortunately yes!’ and she got a laugh out of that.”

After they said their “I dos,” Rock, 35, serenaded Anderson, 39, with the song, “Some Kind of Wonderful.”

Rock and Anderson first got married in St. Tropez on a yacht, and then for the second time at a Beverly Hills Courthouse.

Pam Anderson and Kid Rock Marry on Yacht

andPOP Staff — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:47:19 +0000

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Pamela Anderson, in her second-most-famous outing on a boat, has married singer Kid Rock.

People magazine reports that the couple wed on a yacht near St. Tropez, France, on Saturday. The Canadian actress announced the engagement on her Web site only last week.

“Yes, I’m finally getting remarried,” she wrote on www.pamelaanderson.com. “I’m in love. I’m happy.”

Anderson was married to Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. The two, who divorced in 1998, have a pair of sons.

The 35-year-old Rock and 39-year-old Anderson began seeing each other in the early 2000s, but broke up in 2003. Recently, the two had been spotted vacationing together along the French Riviera, sparking speculation that they had reunited romantically.

As andPOP previously reported, the two plan to hold additional marriage ceremonies in several different cities.

Pam Anderson and Kid Rock Confirm Multiple Weddings

andPOP Staff — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 02:21:06 +0000

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After becoming engaged four years ago and subsequently breaking up, Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock are once again set for marriage — many times over.

“I’m going to get married a few times this month to the same guy,” said the 39-year-old ex-Baywatch actress during a news conference for her poker Web site, PamelaPoker.com.

Reuters reports that Anderson’s initial wedding with Kid Rock (real name: Bob Ritchie) will take place around St. Tropez, France, possibly on Saturday.

After the first ceremony, the couple will embark on a celebratory tour of the U.S., with more weddings along the way.

“We had to do Malibu, we’ve got to do Detroit, and we’ve got to do Nashville,” said Anderson.

No other details about the ceremonies were offered.

Pam Anderson and Kid Rock Not Dating

andPOP Staff — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:52:49 +0000

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Buxom blonde Pamela Anderson, known for always having men fawn all over her, is currently single, contrary to reports that have her linked to former flames Kid Rock and Tommy Lee.

The rumours about Anderson and ex-fiance Kid Rock were fuelled in part by the rocker?s scheduled guest appearance tonight on the season premiere of Anderson?s sitcom, ?Stacked.? But Anderson announced on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday that while she was friendly with both Rock and ex-husband Lee, she?s ?not seeing either of them.?

When asked by DeGeneres whether there was anyone else, Anderson responded that she had enough to handle. “My kids and Tommy are enough to handle,” she said.

Lee and Anderson, who divorced in 1998, have two sons, Brandon and Dylan.