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.
Once upon a time, long before the sold out stadiums and screaming fans, little Howie D was a self-proclaimed “Dough Boy.” Apparently, his first love wasn’t music, it was Twinkies. In all fairness, Howie went on to much better things, however, for this interview the guys reminisce about some of their more embarrassing moments.
As far as celebrity trends go, this one is at the top because at least it usually results in some great music.
Yet another super group has taken shape, reports CHARTattack.com, involving members from R.E.M., Snow Patrol and Belle And Sebastian.
Tired Pony consists of Belle And Sebastian drummer Richard Colburn, R.E.M.’s Peter Buck on guitar, and Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody on the lead.
The band has apparently already finished recording their debut album, The Place We Ran From, which has a set release date of July 12. The record is said to have an alternative country sound, and She & Him’s Zoey Deschanel (also known for the film 500 Days of Summer) apparently contributed to the album.
We think super groups may one day rule the world.
Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, has finally given a name for his new side project: “Atoms for Peace”, reports MTV News.
The super-group consists of Flea, bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Joey Waronker, drummer for R.E.M., Brazilian percussionist Mauro Refosco of Forro in the Dark, and finally, Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich.
“It has been decided that we call ourselves Atoms for Peace,” Yorke said on the Radiohead web site. “Hope you like the name. It seemed bleedin’ obvious.”
In April, Atoms for Peace will begin a brief tour starting with two nights at New York’s Roseland Ballroom. The tour will come to a close on April 18, with a performance at the Coachella Festival in Indio, California.
A group of musicians joined a campaign on Tuesday that asks the Obama administration to close down the terror suspect camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reports MTV News.
The musicians are all angered after hearing that their songs are reportedly being blasted at ear-bleeding levels in an attempt to break uncooperative terror suspects. Artists including Nine Inch Nails, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, and Rosanne Cash have announced their support for the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo.
Part of the effort entails the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. filing a Freedom of Information Act request. This is in an effort to uncover classified records that prove the use of loud music as a means of interrogation. A report by the Senate Armed Services Committee in November, 2008 makes reference to the use of loud music to unhinge terror suspects. One instance involved the case of a Mauritanian prisoner who was allegedly blasted with songs such as Drowning Pool’s “Bodies” to cause him stress because he believed that listening to music was forbidden. Drowning Pool has apparently so far not objected to the use of its music at Guantanamo Bay or other U.S. detention sites.
Some of the songs reportedly played at high volumes close to the prisoners at the camp are Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” Don McLean’s “American Pie,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” Nine Inch Nails’ “March of the Pigs,” Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” the Meow Mix cat food jingle, music from Sesame Street, the “I Love You” song from Barney, as well as songs by R.E.M., Pearl Jam, AC/DC, Britney Spears, Marilyn Manson, the Bee Gees, and more.
Simply uttering Thom Yorke’s name in a news release is often enough to make music bloggers and listeners the world over froth a little with excitement. But this latest news from the prolific Radiohead frontman is enough to incite hysterics.
Yorke has announced a supergroup side-project with Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which seems to be enough talent and spunk as is. But where there’s smoke, there’s fire, so where there’s Yorke, there’s Radiohead’s long-time producer Nigel Godrich. And heck, why not throw in Beck and R.E.M.’s drummer Joey Waronker? After all.
The project is yet unnamed, but the group took the stage this weekend in what Yorke called a “public rehearsal” at Los Angeles’ Echoplex for a blistering set of showmanship to a very lucky exclusive audience. The set was packed with the entirety of Yorke’s first solo effort, 2006′s The Eraser, flourishing under the care of his new backing band, according to Pitchfork’s Ian Cohen (lucky bastard). Yorke played four new songs solo, “Open the Floodgates”, “Lotus Flower”, “Skirting on the Surface”, and “Judge, Jury, Executioner” and then brought the band back for a few hits off Radiohead’s Com Lag EP as well as their new song, “Super Collider”.
R.E.M.’s Canadian fans can catch them in Vancouver and Toronto this spring, when the veteran band heads out on a cross-continent tour in support of their upcoming album, “Accelerate.”
The tour kicks off at Vancouver’s Deer Lake Park on May 23 and stops by Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre on June 8.
Opening for the Athens, Georgia band are Modest Mouse and The National.
R.E.M. will be promoting the 11-track “Accelerate,” which is set to be released on April 1 and is the band’s 14th studio album. However, fans can check out a new video snippet every day at www.ninetynights.com.
A video for the lead single “Supernatural Superserious” was shot in New York City last week.
Those who can’t wait for R.E.M.’s May-June tour can also catch the band at the Langerado Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 8, and at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas on March 12.
Here are R.E.M.’s tour dates with Modest Mouse and The National:
5/23 – Vancouver – Deer Lake Park
5/29 – Los Angeles – Hollywood Bowl
5/31 – Berkeley – The Greek Theatre
6/3 – Denver – Red Rocks Amphitheatre
6/6 – Chicago – United Center
6/8 – Toronto – Molson Amphitheatre
6/10 – Raleigh – Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
6/11 – Washington, DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion
6/13 – Boston – Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
6/14 – Long Island – Jones Beach Theater
6/18 – Philadelphia – Mann Center for the Performing Arts
6/19 – New York City – TBA
6/21 – Atlanta – Lakewood Amphitheatre
R.E.M. are among the initial slate of bands confirmed to play this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
The veteran act will be previewing their new album “Accelerate,” which is due for release on March 31.
According to their manager Bertis Downs, the album will feature an edgier side of R.E.M.: “It’s not like we’re going to pretend these are ballads. These are rockers.”
It will be the band’s first time performing in the Texan city in five years.
Other acts scheduled so far include Morning Jacket, Vampire Weekend, Daniel Lanois, Tech N9ne and My Brightest Diamond.
The music portion of this year’s South By Southwest festival will take place from March 12 to 16 in various venues across Austin, with Lou Reed as the keynote speaker.
In one of only a few such performances since he left the group in 1997, original R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry joined his former bandmates for a one-off concert celebrating their induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
E! Online reports that the ceremony on Saturday saw Berry, Mike Mills, Peter Buck and Michael Stipe take the stage for 3 songs in front of an intimate crowd of 1500.
“This is going to be loud,” announced Stipe before the band launched into their 1986 track “Begin the Begin.” They followed that up with “Losing My Religion” and “Man on the Moon.”
It was the fourth time Berry rejoined the band for a performance. He left the group after suffering a brain aneurysm on-stage during their 1995 Monster tour.
Last week, R.E.M. released “And I Feel Fine: The Best of the IRS Years, 1982-1987,” a set of two CDs and one DVD tracing the group’s beginnings.
REM is kickin? it old school with its 4 original band mates for the first time together since a concert in Raleigh, North Carolina, during the “In Time” tour in 2003.
Drummer Bill Berry came together with members Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills for an original line-up reuninon.
It is Berry?s first shedualed show in eight years. In 2003, he made a surprise guest appearance after turning up to watch the band.
The special occasion took place this Saturday at the wedding for one of their roadies, technician Dewitt Burton.
The wedding reception, held at Kingpins Bowl and Brew in Athen, Georgia, was all ears to seven of REM?s hits.
“It was awesome to look behind me and see Bill on drums,” bass player Mills said afterwards.
Lead singer Stipe toasted the bride and groom during the set and invited requests from the 300 guests.
The bride requested “Begin The Begin” from the 1986 album “Life’s Rich Pageant.”
