Goldfrapp updated its MySpace blog and website with news of the upcoming album The Seventh Tree, which Mute will release on February 25, 2008. The dynamic electronic duo describes its new music as ?gilded in the butterfly colors of an English surrealism shared from Lear to Lennon,? and the dreamy photo/typography collage on their homepage (not to mention the soothing background music) makes it pretty clear that they?re ready to take a break from the dance floor, for the time being, anyway. It?s about time, too ? as irresistible as Black Cherry and Supernature were, the glam-rock inspired shuffle beat Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory popularized with ?Train? and ?Ooh La La? has popped up almost everywhere else, even on Britney Spears? ?Ooh Ooh Baby.? A reinvention of Felt Mountain?s lavish soundscapes just might be the freshest thing Goldfrapp could do. February is too far away!
Legally embattled rapper TI is a free man once again. A federal judge released him on $3 million bail on Friday. $2 million in cash bond and $1 million in property. He?s not fully free though because TI must remain under house arrest until his trial on weapons charges.
A spokesman for the US Attorney?s Office has confirmed that a private monitoring company will reside at TI?s home and that the rapper will have to subject to drug, alcohol and weapons searches at their discretion. Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman was the one who ordered the 24 hour monitoring of TI and that TI is actually the one who?s supposed to pay for the monitoring service.
TI is only allowed to leave his home for medical appointments and court appearances.
In Rainbows, as a title, implies a sense of comfort and delightfulness. Symbolically, rainbows are more likely to be associated with kittens and warm blankets than the grim and glum circumstances Radiohead are known for sound tracking.
Surprisingly, some of the album?s lyrics are even more personal/universal and straightforward than anything on The Eraser, the album made by Thom Yorke and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. ?I?m an animal trapped in your hot car,? from ?All I Need,? has to be one of the saddest, most open-hearted metaphors used to express unrequited love.
This effective weaving of disparate elements ? lyrical expressions commonly associated with the band, mixed in with ones suited for everyday love ballads ? goes for the music as well. The album is very song-oriented, with each track constantly moving forward and developing, yet there are abstract electronic layers and studio-as-instrument elements to prevent it from sounding like a regression.
Disney star Miley Cyrus recently got done with her sold-out opening of the Hannah Montana concert in St. Louis, Missouri this past weekend. This is what $1000 per ticket will get you. And just as she promised, she made the show worth it.
A few days ago, it was announced that her dad Billy Ray Cyrus and the piano player from High School Musical Olesya Rulin will headline Jim Amatulli?s drama ?Flying By?. It?s a story of a business man who risks his marriage, family and fortune to pursue his dream of being in a rock band. I guess now that Miley?s busy with her own music, Billy Ray has to work without his daughter by his side.
This time Akon was nowhere near the stage when the drama occurred.
A free concert featuring the hip-hop star at Emory University in Atlanta was canceled Thursday afternoon after part of the outdoor stage collapsed during construction, injuring three people, two of them seriously. I feel really bad for the injured because they were there to have some with friends and this happens because the people who were responsible for putting the stage together must have messed up their work and as a result these poor chaps are now getting treatment. There can be insurance for everything and reimbursement for medical aid from hospital but these are some bad scars that are left on the 3 persons injured and it will take a long time to heal these scars on their minds. Thankfully Akon was not there or else his name would have been dragged into this and a controversy created by the media that wherever he goes there is an incident involving him.
If any hot blooded male was to see a sexy blonde clad in a bikini writhing around in the sand all wet, they?d think it?s hot. But when the blonde happens to be Heidi Montag, it all of a sudden just becomes hilarious.
Heidi and her fianc? Spencer Pratt decided to go cheap and film her new music video by themselves last week. And boy was it cheesy! Spencer acts as camera man, producer, director and even sound engineer. Nice boom box!
Heidi did her signature Mariah Carey-wannabe hand movements while dancing around on a jetty. A fisherman completely ignored them as they were filming.
This is a music video for Natasha`s new single titled “Love Like This” featuring Sean Kingston. Natasha recorded this new song to release it as the first single for the US edition of her latest album “N.B” that will be released on December 18th.
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T.I. may not be able to defend himself to the press because he?s in jail but his fellow rappers are speaking up for him about his recent legal troubles and even offering some words of advice for the troubled rapper.
Common says that T.I. should continue to pray saying ?Know that God is with you. Know that He knows what the truth is and the truth is going to allow you to get out and be alright.? But what if he actually did it?
Wu Tang Clan co-founder RZA also had some words about T.I.?s troubles saying ?One of my security guards said ?Don?t you ever buy a gun, because you can afford all the security.?? They should have given T.I. that piece of advice long ago.
Well, it looks like this pitiful album art is definitely the cover of Britney Spears? upcoming album ?Blackout? which is due out on October 30. And here I thought it was just a joke.
Her record label Jive is apparently very serious about her latest release because they just released a ?Blackout? commercial. Well, since Britney isn?t doing anything to promote the album like doing promotional tours and whatnot instead of running over people, I guess it?s just right that they push it as far as they can go.
But I still say that the album?s going to flop no matter how many die-hard Britney fans are still out there.
No matter where she is in the world, Hilary Duff never loses the meaning of the word hot.
The singer/actress looked like one hot piece of meat at the Los Premios MTV Latin America 2007 at the Palacio De Los Deportes on Thursday in Mexico City, Mexico. The show is basically the Latin American version of the Video Music Awards.
Hilary?s hot self performed on the show which was hosted by Mexican actor Diego Luna who co-hosted the show in 2002, hosted the show in 2003 and came back for his third time to host this year. Did I mention that Hilary looked hot?
Finally we get some news about Michael Jackson that wouldn?t cause us to cringe or shrug! FOX News is reporting that the King of Pop is putting together a 25th anniversary edition of ?Thriller? and that four of the tracks from the original album are being redone for the new version.
And proving that Jacko still has a lot of pull in the industry, the songs are being redone by the likes of Kanye West, Akon and will.i.am. The songs being redone are ?Billie Jean?, ?The Girl is Mine?, ?Wanna be Starting Something? and ?PYT?.
I wonder if it?s going to be a remix or a duet or what.
Charity events are great things to come by for raising awareness and truly giving a helping hand. Who knew that they?re also good for getting in some wacky photo ops?
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ?Breaking the Ice? charity event recently took place. It?s the one Orlando Bloom failed to attend. It was arranged to save ocean habitat thus saving some marine life.
But the strangest photo op took place at the event when a feather-haired new father Anthony Kiedis and gaucho-wearing Flea from the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, a mermaid and the organization?s founder, Captain Paul Watson took time to pose in front of a huge plastic whale.
The exact numbers aren?t officially in yet but it?s pretty clear that Jennifer Lopez?s new album ?Brave? is shaping up to be a big disappointment.
Even after a huge media blitz, music insiders are all saying that the Latina singer got beat by debuts from Kid Rock and LeAnn Rimes. She got beat by a wannabe country rapper and a country singer who?s been on the outs.
Maybe JLo needs to announce her pregnancy already. Or, people actually boycotted her for not announcing it. Eh, whatever the reason, JLo?s album is already a flop. Did she take notes from Kelly Clarkson?
Rapper T.I., or Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. as his birth certificate says, was arrested last week in Atlanta. The ATF issued a search warrant for his home and the rapper is said to be in custody.
The agencies at the scene of the federal search warrant include the ATF, US Marshalls, Fugitive Task Force, Fulton Country SWAT, Fulton County PD, Dekalb County PD and the ATF/Atlanta PD Violent Crime Impact Team. Were they arresting one solitary rapper or the Wu Tang Clan and their entourage?
The rapper was arrested on multiple weapons charges after having a bodyguard of his try to buy machine guns and silencers for him. His bodyguard admits to buying firearms for T.I. and other members of his posse in the past.
Here’s the official music video for the new Timbaland single titled “Apologize” feauturing rock band One Republic. The single is already a hit in the US standing this week at #4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart.
Could it be that Pete Doherty has actually cleaned up his act? The ex-junkie is planning a tour and he has requested the locations be at alcohol-free venues. He apparently wants to celebrate kicking his drug habit. If these alcohol free concerts do actually take place at the end of the month, it will be the first time Doherty will actually be performing sober in five years. Do you guys think he is doing this to stay out of trouble with the courts or has he finally kicked his habit? Well whatever, don?t to think we are talking of his Booze-free tour as if we a celebrating a major festival, we are so like willing to forgive and forget everything that as if drug were some jelly beans that kids take when they are 4 odd something and there mom warn them that it could spoil their teeth?s and get them cavities. Let?s see how long he can stay of drugs and if he has managed to leave them behind them Kate Moss would be ruing that she?s not with him no longer.
Fergie has a new video out for her new single ?Clumsy?. It?s a ?pop-up book? music video of a clumsy Fergie falling in love with model Alex Lundquist. The singer also walks the runway for the label Dsquared2 in her new video.
Her videos are always fresh and cool but all those corporate plugs thrown in are just irritating. Maybe she should just get one sponsor to pay a lot of money instead of four or five paying milk money.
Props to her though because she has an album good enough to have five singles off it. ?Clumsy? is likely to become another hit.
Australian pop princess Kylie Minogue is back and better than ever. Channeling her inner Marilyn Monroe, Kylie looks gorgeous as she struts her stuff. Sorry if I have said it wrong cos she?s never looked better and she keeps amazing one and all with her looks and her style. Black is classic and this is classic Kylie, the whole video and the song is a classic and she?s got everything right again. Even when her previous hit number ?Can?t get you out of my head? was released I though that?s the best of her but she has it to prove you and herself wrong when she comes up with something like this, not to say that Britney Spears would be on fire right now when she sees this video. I think Britney needed something like what Kylie has done but then that?s why Kylie is what she is. After so many years of success there has been no let up and that?s what makes a super star not some crap video put together in haste. AWESOME!!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE HER!!!!! WHAT CLASS!! Learn from this one–Brit, Linds and the rest of you losers that cannot grow up and act like a lady!!!!
Diddy may be a lot of things but he?s not a deserter. Rap mogul Sean ?P. Diddy? Combs has finally owned up to fathering his sixth child, 15-month old Chance.
Chance is his daughter with Atlanta-based baby mama Sarah Chapman. The woman who is said to be the major factor for the breakup between Diddy and his longtime girlfriend and other baby mama Kim Porter. Diddy has 10-month old twins with Kim and then there?s 15-month old Chance. Do the math.
Diddy originally denied that Chance was really his for more than a year because he was lacking DNA evidence. But now that it?s proven, he said that ?I will take care of her for the rest of her life.?
Philadelphia cops are saying that rapper Beanie Sigel is headed back into the slammer once again. The rapper who?s had several run ins with trouble is in hot water this time for theft and unauthorized use of an automobile. He has allegedly held on to a rental car for over three months now!
According to the police, Beanie rented a car in Southwest Philadelphia in late July even though his license was suspended. Add to that, he failed to return the car. The rental company continued to charge his credit card and finally reported the car stolen last month.
The car was finally returned on October 5 just as police were headed to Beanie?s home to arrest him.
The release date of Madonna?s new album may still be unknown to all of us. It?s even unclear if she will release a new album within this year. But any other works regarding Madonna are pretty much set.
Madonna?s right hand man and business partner Guy Oseary is coming out with a book filled with original photography with the Queen of Pop as his main subject. Obviously, his relationship with Madonna garnered him an all access pass to the ultimate icon of our era. Unfortunately, the book won?t be out until June 2008. Either way, it?s an interesting buy for die-hard fans.
Justin Timberlake has landed himself membership at an exclusive Los Angeles golf club. The pop superstar has been accepted to the Mountain Gate Country Club after biding his time and waiting for a hard-to-come-by vacancy. The Cry Me A River star didn’t hesitate to pay the $50,000 initiation fee. 50 grand?s for a golf club membership that?s every expensive I guess but then that wouldn?t create a hole in his pocket at least. More over I am a firm believer that if you love sports but are not a full time active sportsperson then too you should persevere with your interest if you can afford to. Look at me , I do not have much money with me yet I love sports and I love to play something that I can. Just last year I bought myself a gift by taking a membership in my local city gym and recreation center club, we have tennis, squash swimming amongst other facilities and I really spend good quality time there flexing those muscles there. So we both have a club membership though the names of the clubs are different, haha.
Rihanna brought the house down on Thursday night when she performed another of her hit singles ?Shut Up and Drive? on ?The Late Show with David Letterman?. Before and after the show, the singer was seen carrying her small dog DJ in and out of the Ed Sullivan theatre.
How diva-like is that? Apart from the whole pooch thing, she also had mass security, an awaiting SUV and was uninterested with fans. Fans were calling out to her to sign autographs or to even just wave in their general direction but Rihanna did neither.
A recent convert to anti-Rihanna-ism was even heard saying ?Don?t do that Rihanna! We won?t buy your CDs!? Boycott!
Troubled soul star R. Kelly is making early Christmas plans to tour without getting official permission to leave his native Chicago. The singer/songwriter initially denied reports he was planning a winter tour with Keyshia Cole and Ne-Yo but has now come clean about the tour after Cole let the news slip in a recent interview. This guy needs to be sitting in a prison cell instead of giving concerts. And I am sure that now since this word is out that he has been secretly planning a tour without informing the officials of his plans and has now gone on to confirm the same I think the police department in Chicago shall be swift in making the charges against him and squash all his noble plans and put him behind the bars because that?s where he belongs. He shouldn?t be let out until proven not guilty of those child molestation and other girl abuse cases that have been put up against him, you never know he could be up there playing his dirty nasty tricks with some young girls when he is on the tour celebrating Christmas and spoiling it for others.
Britney Spears? video for her comeback single ?Gimme More? was supposed to premiere Monday on TRL but iTunes beat everyone to it. This is her first video for any single off of her upcoming comeback album which would be dropping on November 13.
In the video, Britney plays ?split personalities?. A dominatrix type wears a leather vest, a studded belt and skimpy panties over ripped fishnet stockings. Now why does that get up sound familiar?
The video, if you could even call it that, has Britney swing around a stripper pole most of the time. It?s supposedly her concept and vision. It was directed by first-timer Jake Sarfaty who was handpicked by Brit.
Keyshia Cole dreams of opening an animal hospital with the money she makes from her music career. I love a celebrity who has bigger aspirations than owning several mansions and ridiculously overpriced cars. Having worked in one of the best Veterinary Colleges in the U.S. – I can tell her this – you must study VERY VERY hard if you want to become a veterinarian yourself! Lots of science and math and a whole lot of commitment! It’s not only harder to be a veterinarian than it is a doctor (for the fact that your patients cannot communicate-no offense to Ang4ever…) it’s also harder to get into a veterinary school than it is to get into a human medical school. That’s mainly because there are only 28 veterinary colleges in the U.S. Just my 2 cents. . . .you know how I love to share my plethora of useless knowledge and facts….
This is an interesting article I found it at Geno’s World , Check it out!
There have been rumors circulating that Gioia Bruno of Expos? fame is secretly meeting with executives to replace Paula Abdul the upcoming season on American Idol. The talk has been growing, as Gioia, a music industry veteran who once lost her voice due to a benign tumor, has been visiting Los Angeles quite frequently and meeting with many powerful entertainment industry moguls. Some fans of Expos? have also been chattering about there being an Expos? night on American Idol this coming season as well.
Several of Gioia’s friends are saying that she has been talking a lot about how she would love to replace Abdul on the hit show. Recently, Gioia was heard by extras on the set of her latest music video for “Your Love is Lifting Me” (Higher and Higher)” saying, “I can do Paula’s job. I am going to be a great judge!”
The switch does make a lot of sense, while Abdul has slipped up time and time again, Gioia Bruno as a replacement would be an easy transition for viewers and fans. Both are pop stars from the eighties, both are brunettes, both have a slew of hits under their belts and they are quite often mistaken for one another in public.
Gioia’s publicist, Jim Strzalkowski, has confirmed that there is discussion with execs but declined to comment specifically about Gioia Bruno moving into Paula’s seat as well as an Expos? night on American Idol. However he did say, “It would be great to see Gioia on American Idol. She has a rich history, is an incredible performer and has a truly amazing voice.”
Grammy-winning R&B/pop music superstar Kelly Rowland will launch an eagerly-awaited North American fall concert tour beginning October 28 in Seattle and ending with a three-night run at the Orleans Casino in Las Vegas. I think Kelly is the bom. I trust her a lot and think that this is going to be her most ultimate selling album because she is now on her own. I feel that she was not given much chance in destiny’s child to show case who she really is and what she can really do. So now girl is the chance to go for the big break and make your mark I believe in you and I love you?re new her style and look you are fabulous. Love you very much. Come visit us also please we would love to see you performing your new songs in our country love you a lot. These are certainly exciting times in her blossoming career and if she get it right I think very soon her name will be all over the place and her tunes played at the best events and awards will be following wherever she goes.
