In his latest movie, The Woman In Black, Dan traded his Hogwarts uniform for a totally new role as a Dad.
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.
George Clooney’s “Hope for Haiti” benefit will feature performances by Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Bono, Sting and Alicia Keys, reports CBC. Clooney said he expects more than 40 celebrities to come out to the New York event on Jan. 22 to show their support for the victims of a recent earthquake in Haiti.
He said the goal of the fundraiser is “to show the people of Haiti that the whole world is paying attention.”
Clooney and Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean will host the event, which will be broadcast on over a dozen television channels and will feature CNN’s Anderson Cooper live from the disaster-stricken country.
Sting can now add organic farmer to the long list of occupations that he has held over the years. The 57 year old Police front man and his wife, Trudie Styler bought a 300-hectare property in Italy and have big plans for the land according to chartattack.com.
The couple has already sold honey and olive oil collected from the property and distributed it under the Il Palagio Sumner Family brand name. The property also consists of a vineyard with grapes being made into wine that will be distributed to stores in September.
Sting is an advocate for organic farming and donates a percentage of profits to environmental charities. “I am a farmer who looks after the land to nourish it and not to plunder it,” he explains.
“I came here and I decided to stay and be a farmer, also because I wanted to nourish my family with genuine quality products in a healthy environment. Everyone knows about my environmental commitment, especially to the rain forests in South America.” (more…)
Reformed rockers THE POLICE are expected to announce plans for a world tour on Monday – the day after they perform at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
Frontman STING has expressed his desire to commemorate the band’s 30th anniversary and play a string of lucrative gigs with drummer STEWART COPELAND and guitarist ANDY SUMMERS.
A press conference is scheduled for Monday at Los Angeles’ Whisky A Go Go hotspot.
The ROXANNE band split in 1984 but reformed briefly in 2003 to celebrate their inclusion into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
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STING is considering reuniting with his former bandmates from THE POLICE to mark the 30th anniversary of the group’s formation.
The band’s ex-frontman wants to commemorate the occasion properly and play gigs again with drummer STEWART COPELAND and guitarist ANDY SUMMERS.
He explains, “We started 30 years ago, so it would be nice to do something to celebrate. We don’t quite know what, but we’re talking about it.
“I’m very proud of the band we were in. I left the band because I felt I wanted to grow as a musician, to mature as a musician and to try more things than a band is able to do.
“A band is very constricted. I spent the last 25 years exploring that freedom and having a great time.”
Sting’s reunion thoughts come just two weeks after news circulated the trio was planning a comeback in 2007.
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Back in the day, before U2 and Coldplay ruled the airwaves, there was a talented trio from England whose nervous mix of rock, pop and reggae put them at the top of the charts around the world. The band in question was The Police, a three-piece outfit that spawned so many hits, it’s hard to recount them all. “Every Breath You Take,” “Roxanne,” “Walking on the Moon,” and “King of Pain” are just a few of them, and probably someone, somewhere is listening to one of those songs right now and singing along.
Yes, The Police were huge, and their rise to the top was meteoric and lasting. Luckily for fans, those heady days when the group was on the verge of exploding into international stardom have been captured on Super 8 by drummer and founding member Stewart Copeland, who turned the footage into the entertaining and often funny film, “Everybody Stares: The Police Inside Out.”
Copeland, who was in Toronto this month for the Canadian debut of his documentary at the North By Northeast Music and Film Festival and Conference, shot the footage on a Sankyo 620 camera during 1979 and 1980. The film, which will be released here on DVD in September, is comprised of bits and bites taken from the 50 hours of footage Copeland shot of the band in various countries and situations, with voiceovers by himself and the soundtrack provided by a kind of mash-up of live recordings and original backing tracks.
The documentary takes full advantage of its insider status, including scenes of Sting shaving, the group in the midst of horseplay, hundreds of girls banging on the band’s limo, and guitarist Andy Summers yelling at Copeland to slow down his drumming during a live performance.
“I got Final Cut Pro and so I needed to make something. And after cutting up shots of the kids running around for a while, I thought ‘wait a minute.’ So I went and dug up the shoe boxes with all those Super 8 films in them,” Copeland says as way of explanation for making the documentary. “It was interesting that this film was made by a wild, raging 20-something-year-old and then edited by a 50-something-year-old. It’s almost two different people.”
After watching the movie, it’s hard to believe so much time has passed that Copeland is already in his 50s and a father of seven. Long gone are the golden locks for which he was famous. They have been replaced by thick gray hair. Thick black glasses frame his mature, handsome face. He is tall, fit and possesses the sharp intellect and wit of someone who has been privileged enough to attend expensive boarding schools. (Copeland’s father worked for the CIA and they lived in various countries around the world including a lengthy stint in Lebanon.)
Copeland, who sees himself primarily as a composer now and has done the soundtracks for such movies as “Rumble Fish,” “Wall Street” and “She’s All That,” says one of the main differences between his film and other music documentaries is that “Everybody Stares” does not attempt to explain The Police or make any real statements about them.
“One thing you have to remember about the documentary is that it is a home movie that was lifted from its intended personal obscurity into the public eye and turned into product by people other than myself,” he says. “Sundance [Film Festival, where the movie debuted earlier this year] decided it was a real movie.
“All the other footage I have seen about bands is in the third person. This footage is all from inside the band; it’s first person. You’re a member of the band as you are watching the film, and your name is Stewart — Andy turns and shouts directly at you. Most documentaries dwell on the importance of the group, what the group contributed to music. There’s none of that in my film. It’s strictly a home video.”
The documentary captures the feeling of what it must have been like for the trio as they moved from playing small venues to headlining the largest events in the world. There is one scene when the band is swarmed trying to get to their car after playing Birmingham City Hall that captures this transition.
“Well as soon as we walked out on stage there was this shriek, which was so different because in America we were playing real music to real people,” Copeland says. “But this was something different. It was a teenie-bopper thing, and there’s all these 14-year-old girls with a high-pitched predatory shriek — I mean if piranha fish could make a noise, this is the noise they would make. And it was evident to us right there, from one day to the next, walking out on stage, fame suddenly slapped us in the face. It was just an extremely exciting experience; so exciting that we lost touch with reality. We were in this bubble.”
One might think that this kind of success would strain relationships, but the film paints a picture of a group that genuinely liked each other. None of the band’s rumored infighting is evident, and Copeland says this is just the way it was. He says artistic differences sent the band members in separate directions after eight years.
“In the early days, Sting would bring a song in as a couple of chords, a lyric and a tune, and we’d work out an arrangement for the band, and it was a creative arrangement for all three of us. So we all identified very strongly with the result, which was The Police sound,” Copeland says. “With success came home recording studios in our obligatory rock star country mansions. So now Sting was showing up to the recording sessions with fully mastered, finished pieces of music. So in his eyes they were perfect. Problem is when he brings it to the band, Andy and I are kind of shut out. We wanted a say. And so at first he compromised and went along with it, but that became more and more difficult for Sting.”
While the trio still maintains a close relationship, Copeland rules out any chance of a reunion tour.
“This film has really punctuated the whole Police experience for me,” he says. “Until this film, I felt there was unfinished business. I don’t feel that way anymore. But it was really good. We never saw the downside; we never really started to slip. It was always up, up, up. And so we quit. We never jumped the shark.”
Sting is set to release a new studio album this October ? comprised entirely of 16th century classical music performed on the lute.
“It’s a strange record, a delightful record and I think people will be intrigued by it,” he said says in an interview on his web site. “The album is voice and lute, there are a few four part harmonies that I sing and it’s all music from the 16th century.”
Apparently, the former Police front man was given a lute by guitarist Dominic Miller two years ago as a gift. The stringed, tear-shaped instrument reminded Sting of his fascination with John Dowland, a 16th century composer who wrote music especially for the lute.
The as-yet-untitled album will be released by classical label Deutsche Grammophon.
