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.
Napster and Dell are teaming up to give College students a legal way to get their music.
Dell will bundle their PowerEdge 1855 servers with Napster’s digital music service to allow Colleges to implement the hardware and allow students to listen and purchase music from their local campuses. This means extremely fast downloads and easy access to hundreds of thousands of songs.
So far the two companies have signed on the University of Washington, who will debut the service during the upcoming school year. Napster already provides a similar service to thirteen other universities.
Pricing for students will be discounted and sold through Dell, bundled alongside Dell’s DJ MP3 player.
Late last month, a court rules in favour of the record labels, saying that peer to peer services such as Grokster can be held responsible for the trading of illegal music.
Software giant Microsoft is said to be investigating its foray into the subscription MP3 download market after announcing its MSN Music service last year that competes with Apple’s iTunes.
The new service would offer users a subscription model, similar to how Real’s service and Napster’s service work.
“We are actively investigating the subscription model, but we don’t have anything to share today,” Christine Andrews, lead product manager of Microsoft’s MSN Internet division told Reuters, “Once we are ready to talk more, we’ll let you know.”
The latest player to enter this market was Yahoo, who introduced their own subscription service at prices much less than that of their competitors.
The subscription model allows users to listen to unlimited songs each month, however, a fee must be paid if they want to burn the track to a CD.
Yahoo is launching a beta version of its brand new subscription based MP3 downloading service tomorrow (May 11th, 2005) and it’s already being seen as a major threat to rivals Napster and Real Network’s Rhapsody service. Yahoo will launch its subscription service starting at US$4.99 month, compared to Napster’s US$14.95 a month fee and Rhapsody’s US$9.99 a month fee.
David Goldberg, Yahoo Music General Manager, tells Reuters that prices may go up once the trial run is complete. “We’re not saying it’s the price forever, but we’re assuming it’s the price throughout the Beta (trial) period, which is an undetermined amount of time,”
Shares of Real and Napster fell 12% and 20% in after hours trading, respectively. Yahoo, which currently operates the Yahoo Instant Messenger service, said users will be able to share music with friends as well as transfer songs to their portable devices. Yahoo’s music will only be compatible with devices that support Microsoft’s Windows Media format, forcing iPod users to use Apple’s iTunes store.
Yahoo’s initial library will consist of 1 million songs. Users who wish to copy or own the music will have to pay an additional US$0.79 per song.
Once famous for its ability to find you any song for free, Napster has officially launched itself in Canada. Boasting more than 300,000 tracks from both the 5 major labels and independent labels, Napster brings that much needed competition to the Canadian market. To celebrate its launch, Napster is offering a free 7 day trial.
In addition, Napster and Molson have announced a marketing partnership over the next several years.
“We are thrilled to offer Canadian music fans the most inclusive, exciting, and diverse music experience available,” said Brad Duea, president of Napster, “and we have focused on making the first on-demand subscription service in Canada reflect the unique and discerning nature of Canadian music tastes. The Cat has skated up north and is officially ready to rock.”
Songs are available for $1 with a monthly fee of $9.95 or with no monthly fee at $1.19 each. You can download Napster by visiting Napster.ca.
*All prices in Canadian dollars
It seemed like this day would never come, but Apple, who said iTunes for Windows would originally ship by the end of the year, is bringing us an early Christmas present.
On October 16th, Apple Computer will unveal the long awaited Windows version of the iTunes Music Store. As a Mac only product, iTMS has sold over 10 million songs in the United States. With its lenient copy protection, iTMS has been very successful, deterring users from using illegal services such as Kazaa.
Earlier this week MusicMatch launched a downloading service for Windows and today, Roxio launched Napster 2.0
Napster, once the largest online community for illegal music, will debut on Thursday as a legal alternative to obtaining music via the Internet.
Purchased by Roxio for $5 million last year, Napster will launch with 500 000 songs, more than double what iTunes launched with earlier this year. In addition, Roxio’s subscription based service, Pressplay, will shut down on Tuesday.
Users will have a choice between an a la carte service or a monthly fee. If you choose the monthly fee option, there will be a fee to burn the tracks to CD, but you will be able to download an unlimited amount of songs.
“Within the Napster environment, it’s yours,” says Roxio CEO Chris Gorog. “But if you elect to move it, you can click and buy it.”
