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.
Tom Selleck is the definition of manliness and one man who is not arguing with that belief is Ashton Kutcher.
PopEater reports that Kutcher became envious of Selleck’s mustache on the set of “Killers.”
“I have been trying to grow that mustache since I could grow facial hair,” a glum Kutcher said of his ‘Killers’ co-star. “I believe that Tom produces more testosterone in his little finger than I produce in my entire body.”
“I’m so enamored by Tom’s facial hair that I would say that Tom’s mustache is akin to Chuck Norris’s beard,” Kutcher added.
The Killers will release their B-sides collection, titled “Sawdust,” on Nov. 13.
The release via Island Def Jam will feature Lou Reed, formerly of the Velvet Underground, guesting on the track “Tranquilize.”
The tentative song list also includes “All the Pretty Faces” (the B-side to “When You Were Young”), a cover of Mel Tillis’ “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” and two songs the Killers recently contributed to movie soundtracks: “Move Away” from “Spider-Man 3,” and “Shadowplay,” a Joy Division cover from the Ian Curtis biopic “Control.”
The band says that previously unheard songs written during sessions for 2006’s “Sam’s Town” will likely appear on “Sawdust” as well.
In other Killers news, the band will release their second annual holiday single, “Don’t Shoot Me Santa,” on Dec. 1. Profits from the single will benefit the RED campaign, which fights AIDS in Africa. The Killer’s holiday single last year, “A Great Big Sled,” also raised money for RED.
On what was supposed to be a day of rain, Virgin Festival’s Sunday installment thankfully remained dry while offering up what was, overall, a better line-up than on sunny Saturday (best performance of the weekend still goes to Bjork, however).
The list of bands I’d hoped to catch was double that of the day before, so a relatively early trip to the Toronto Islands was needed. After sifting through the first security line, then the ferry entrance line, then the ferry exit line, then the ticket line, then the second security line, I quickly made my way to catch the final few minutes of a side-stage performance from DD/MM/YYYY (Day Month Year). Their sound is an explosive mash, and the band members play musical chairs with instruments, but it all comes together in a delightful mess. The Toronto boys also have a great time, at one point urging the crowd to take back the “raise the roof” motion. “I can’t believe you guys just did that,” quipped the drummer/singer after a disquieting number of watchers joined in.
Crossing the river onto Olympic Island, the site of the festival’s main stage, brought the reggae-influenced Britpop sounds of Jamie T. While not necessarily my taste in music, the singer charmed the crowd to no end, bringing the audience interaction to one of the festival’s requisite English performances after Arctic Monkeys failed abysmally on Saturday.
Next came a set from Toronto’s very own Tokyo Police Club, a band that has enjoyed a huge surge of success, sure to continue growing after their recently inked deal with Saddle Creek Records. They played a tight set, received amazingly well by the cheering crowd, many of whom flooded toward the stage in the minutes before their set time.
With a lull in main-stage action, I headed back over to one of the side-stages for an uninspired set from Blonde Redhead. Not being familiar with much more than their name, I found the music largely ignorable; the most interesting aspect of the performance was a fake, stuffed horse that front-woman Kazu Makino used for a keyboard bench. This band likely translates better in a smaller, darker club, but falls flat outdoors in the daylight.
Right after, however, came a rejuvenating yet all-too-short performance from The Constantines. The band is well known for their amazing club shows, but they have no problem commanding a festival stage. With two new songs (plus the announcement that their next album will be released on Broken Social Scene-populated label Arts & Crafts), they tore through half an hour of tracks from all three of their LPs, including opener “Draw Us Lines,” “Nighttime/Anytime,” and closing pick “Young Lions.” Sadly, they inexplicably ended their set 40 minutes before the following band was scheduled to play, the notice of “last song” coming from somewhere offstage and seemingly catching the band by surprise.
Crossing the river again, I maneuvered through the insanely packed crowd. Since last year, a number of fenced-in areas had been added to the side of the main stage, completely congesting all areas with a decent view, when many had room for blankets (and breathing) last time. Next up was the night’s most anticipated performance, judging from audience excitement, with the Killers taking the penultimate slot. The first (and only) time I’d previously seen this band was at a small Toronto club, opening for Stellastarr, who still plays small clubs. Things have changed. Brandon Flowers is obviously a gifted front-man, but there is a distinct air of entitled arrogance that envelops the group. From the victory parade-like music of their video montage opening to Flowers’ glittery gold jacket, the whole performance is rather pompously over-the-top. The crowd digs it, though, and “Somebody Told Me” gets a bigger sing-a-long going than any other song on either day of the festival.
I didn’t stay long, though, as British band Editors was set to headline one of the side-stages. After another battle through the over-packed crowd, I found a fairly small gathering for the Joy Division-inspired group. Despite the frequent comparisons to Interpol, this band is an entirely different experience live. Unlike Interpol singer Paul Banks, Editors front-man Tom Smith is energetic and engaging, prodding the crowd for cheers, throwing kicks in the air, and generally showing a demeanor that definitely doesn’t find its way through the band’s dark, deep sound. The group seemed genuinely appreciative of the rousing response from the crowd (which grew as they played), and rewarded with a strong, sharp set of material from both The Back Room and An End Has a Start. This is definitely a rising group worth catching on a return visit.
To close the night and this year’s installment of Virgin Festival came Billy Corgan and his mostly non-original pack of Smashing Pumpkins (the reformed group features only Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlain from the band’s original lineup). The performance was the band’s second in Canada since regrouping (they played Montreal the night before), and rivaled the Killers in terms of anticipation. Opening with “United States” from their recent album Zeitgeist, the band sounded tight. Unfortunately, the song spun into an extended guitar solo featuring Hendrix-inspired renditions of both American and Canadian national anthems. It was a little much for early on in the set. Quickly adding to the disappointment was the lackluster performance of “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” that followed. Corgan sounded passionless compared with the song’s intense original version, despite the fact that it didn’t seem to be a slowed-down or otherwise reworked performance of the song. The band was quickly living up to the watered-down standards linked with so many reformed groups (though decades usually separate them from their heydays).
But the Pumpkins’ improved, and with a solid performance of “Tonight, Tonight,” plus blistering shots of “Zero” and current single “Tarantula,” the band proved that there is some grounds to justify their pseudo-reunion. Corgan’s interaction with the crowd was limited to the odd “thanks,” but he put a little more of himself out there for the audience with an acoustic, solo version of “1979″ that must’ve opened many a memory floodgate across the park. Closing their main set was another strong performance in “Heavy Metal Machine” from 2000′s Machina/The Machines of God, which Corgan amusingly transitioned into a cover of Canned Heat’s “On the Road Again.” Clever. After a short break, the band returned for a quick, one-song encore of “Today.” And while the second and final day of Toronto’s Virgin Festival 2007 may not have been the greatest ever, considering the crowds and the cloud-cover, it was pretty alright.
THE KILLERS frontman BRANDON FLOWERS’ wife Tana is reportedly pregnant with the couple’s first child.
The 25-year-old singer has yet to confirm the news, but friends insist they are expecting a baby boy.
The couple, who married in 2005, are due to become parents in July.
A pal says, “He’s smitten, especially because it’s a boy.”
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THE KILLERS and ARCTIC MONKEYS both emerged victorious at the Brit Awards tonight, picking up two prizes each.
The Killers walked away with Best International Group and Best International Album for SAM’S TOWN, while Arctic Monkeys took Best British Group and Best British Album for their debut WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE won Best International Male Solo Artist and JAMES MORRISON was a surprise win for Best British Male Solo Artist at the Earls Court ceremony in London.
Best International Female Solo Artist went to NELLY FURTADO, while AMY WINEHOUSE collected Best British Female Solo Artist.
Reformed boy band TAKE THAT’s comeback track PATIENCE won Best British Single.
OASIS were honoured with the Outstanding Contribution To Music accolade, which was presented to PAUL WELLER last year (06). Oasis ended the night with a three song set including CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL and MORNING GLORY.
Among the acts who performed were RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS and SCISSOR SISTERS.
The full list of winners is:
Best British Live Act – MUSE
Best Breakthrough Act – THE FRATELLIS
Best International Breakthrough Act – ORSON
Best British Male Solo Artist – JAMES MORRISON
Best International Male Solo Artist – JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
Best British Female Solo Artist – AMY WINEHOUSE
Best International Female Solo Artist – NELLY FURTADO
Best British Group – ARCTIC MONKEYS
Best International Album – SAM’S TOWN by THE KILLERS
Best International Group – THE KILLERS
Best British Single – PATIENCE by TAKE THAT
Best British Album – WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT’S WHAT I’M NOT by ARCTIC MONKEYS
Outstanding Contribution To Music – OASIS.
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If you’re fans of Mariah Carey and The Killers, you’re going to want to tune in to the MTV Video Music Awards, August 28th.
MTV announced Tuesday that the diva and alternative rock/pop artists are slated to perform at the VMAs.
They join the likes of Kayne West, Kelly Clarkson and Green Day.
The Killers nabbed four nominations for, “Mr. Brightside,” and Carey’s nominated for her soulful rendition, “We Belong Together.”
More details as to who will be performing at this year’s Video Music Awards show will be announced in the next couple of weeks.
