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.
The tag is inevitable no matter what he accomplishes on his own but it’s a label he unquestionably is proud to hold; Stephen Marley knows he’s always going to be seen as Bob Marley’s son. The same can be said about his brothers Ziggy and Damian, both respected musicians and both forever linked with their father.
But something happened in 2005. Instead of being acknowledged as a second-generation star with a hit single, Damian saw the order reversed when he released one of the biggest songs of the year, “Welcome to Jamrock.” Suddenly, he was an artist with a massive hit, who happened to be the son of the most influential reggae artist ever to live.
Every step towards Damian’s new manner of fame, Stephen was there. Stephen, the second son of Bob and Rita Marley, produced that song and much of Damian’s work over the past decade. Stephen saw how people were coming to Damian’s concerts, not at the chance of hearing a Bob Marley cover song performed by his son, but to hear Damian’s work.
“We don’t want to separate ourselves from our father,” Stephen says, “but I saw that.”
And it soon may be Stephen’s turn to experience it. The 34-year-old will release his debut solo album, “Mind Control,” on March 20.
His solo project seemed like it was never going to happen as he had been working on it for the better half of a decade. The clouds have decided to just now come together, he explains.
“It’s just time,” Stephen tells andPOP. “No conscious effort not to put out the record. Time has cut into the work that was set for me.”
The album will be his first venture as a solo artist, but Stephen is a rookie in no sense of the word. His recording debut can be traced back to when he was six years old when he, Ziggy and two of their sisters recorded a song with their father. A few years later after Bob passed away, the four siblings, now known as the Melody Makers, released their first of 11 albums. Three of those albums earned the group Grammy Awards.
More recently, Stephen has appeared on tracks with Erykah Badu, Nelly, Buju Banton, Eve and produced songs for Sean Paul, The Fugees, Damian and Julian Marley.
If he never released an album and spent his whole career producing for his brothers, Stephen would be happy, he says.
“(Damian and Julian) are my younger brothers, so I have to teach them all to fly first thing, and make sure their wings are strong,” he explains. “I would have been happy if the things that are inside of me came out, and if all of it came out with producing then I would have been fine.”
Those “things” are largely social critiques that start with the title track, “Mind Control,” and continue throughout the album.
The topic of mind control, he says, was specifically important for him to include on the album because it affects everyone.
“It’s mental slavery,” Stephen says. “The system cannot put chains on us anymore because we will rebel. We came a long way since chains and shackles so they can’t do that anymore but they will try to control us mental; how to think and how to live and how to speak.”
“Mind Control” is the first chapter in Stephen’s book, he says. “It’s the beginning. It’s not the whole story because I have much more things to say.” The eclectic album features appearances by Mos Def, Ben Harper and Damian.
And though it isn’t a priority, Stephen wouldn’t mind a Grammy, like Damian won last year and like Ziggy is up for in February.
“It would be nice, but if it doesn’t happen… I mean I don’t make music for the Grammy.
I make it for the people. I want to have a positive effect on people’s lives so we can all come together, and it might sound unattainable but it is not.”
