Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Fri, 2006-11-03 19:10.
Last night’s MTV’s Europe Music Awards left Justin Timberlake and Gnarls Barkley with both hands full. The two took the top awards of the evening, which Timberlake hosted.
Justin was awarded Best Male and Best Pop Act for his recent release, “Sexy Black/LoveSounds.” Gnarls was awarded the prestigious Future Sound award, which was determined through a vote cast by his peers. He also won Best Song for “Crazy” which has done crazy-good on the charts, as it has with radio play and downloads.
Christina Aguilera was deemed Best Female Act, taking the award from Beyonce and Shakira. Madonna was also nominated for the honor, along with two other nods she lost. Though she was extremely successful last year, this year, eh…goose egg. Sorry Madge, but you already have your hands full at home.
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Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Thu, 2006-11-02 19:58.
“High School Musical” means many things these days. Ask your favorite tween what the term meant months ago and you would have learned about Disney’s made-for-TV musical that produced a triple-platinum selling album with some seriously catchy pop tunes.
Now this pop culture phenomenon has spawned a touring concert, which goes on sale Saturday, Nov. 4. With a 40-city tour, this concert will ride the coat tails of Disney’s successful prototype The Cheetah Girls. Their 60-city sold-out tour has taken the country by storm, after two hit specials on The Disney Channel. In line with the Cheetah Girls’ path, a second “High School Musical” movie is already in the works.
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Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Wed, 2006-11-01 19:41.
Having a ton of fans can be easy on the pocket but hard on the voice, as Mick Jagger found out this week. The Rolling Stones aggressive tour schedule landed Mick with a doctor’s note saying he had to lay off his voice for at least four days.
Because of that change, the tour has been affected, including some cancelled dates, like Honolulu. Oakland’s show moves from Nov. 5 to Nov. 6, Los Angeles from Nov. 18 to the 22nd, and Vancouver changes from Nov. 3 to Nov. 25.
Though the announcement came up Friday the 27th of October just hours before a show in Atlantic City and that show was rescheduled for Nov. 17, the group did make it to a NYC benefit on Sunday. And then their Halloween show was rescheduled for tonight.
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Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Mon, 2006-10-30 17:42.
The mass-marketing of the holiday season has crossed into yet another genre, well, make that several genres. Though it’s not even Halloween, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra joins your local CVS with selling an amazing 500,000 tickets before the holiday season has even kicked off!
Not that CVS sells tickets, but they sure do pile up the Christmas stuff before we’re ready. That’s where the TSO stands apart from the rest of the pack, its fans ARE ready. So ready that they’re not going to wait another minute, they’re getting their tickets before the first flake of fake snow falls.
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Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Mon, 2006-10-30 16:52.
Save some room for Meat Loaf after all that Halloween candy.
Meatloaf’s third installment in the “Bat Out of Hell” trilogy, aptly titled, (you guessed it) “Bat Out of Hell III,” hits the shelves tomorrow.
The accompanying tour, the Loaf says, will mark the end of Meat Loaf on the road. But that’s de ja vu for many that heard him say that at the end of his 2003 tour. I’ll bet it’s a ticket-selling tactic. “Hey everybody! Come see me in concert! It’s your last chance!” Then, very quietly years later, “Sike.”
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Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Fri, 2006-10-27 16:42.
While Barbra Streisand has cornered the crooner’s corner of the music market, she can now add “rapper” to her list of talents. A recent outburst at one of her concerts has been remixed into a pop-electronica dance hit.
Talk amongst yourselves all you want, but Babs is showing her potty mouth can be used to produce more than one genre of music. She's featured in a new song released this week that's taking the Internet by storm, “STFU.”
At one of Streisand’s recent New York concerts, during a Bush-bashing gone bad, Bab’s dropped the F-bomb. Not everyone in the crowd had realized that in addition to the ground-breaking music they were about to hear that night, they’d be getting a healthy dose of a liberal agenda, interlaced with dirty words. *Gasp*
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Submitted by cheeky monkey on Thu, 2006-10-26 21:30.
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Kevin Federline is releasing an album at the end of the month. I know, I know... old news. But my interest in exactly what kind of musical masterpiece K-Fed would create was piqued when I came across an article about him in the latest People magazine.
The brief interview revealed Kevin's intelligent side with such humble and articulate statements as this review of his own performance (as your basic garden-variety urban delinquent) on CSI: "'I shocked myself. There were parts that I wish I would have done different, but there are parts that really took me, like, Wow, did I do that? I looked at myself and I was like, It looked good. It looked perfect.'"
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Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Thu, 2006-10-26 14:04.
Janet Jackson’s newest album, a celebration of the release of her “Control” album 20 years ago has gone pretty much unnoticed. Except now that her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri has left Virgin records over it, “20 Y.O.” may see more sales.
The album was released Sept 26 and in three weeks was unable to reach 500,000 in sales.
With Ludacris poised to reach gold-record status in the same time period for his number one album “Release Therapy,” the question must be raised: Did Ludacris only get those sales because he dropped the price to $5.99 a CD?
Dupri, president of the Urban Music Division at Virgin Records, blamed his colleagues for poorly marketing Janet’s newest album. Can we really say that Ludacris marketed his any better? Perhaps, lowering the cost may get more sales, but is putting such a low value on your product successful marketing?
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Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Wed, 2006-10-25 18:55.
Flavor Flav!! Deelishis, Flav’s recent choice on his second season of “Flavor of Love” ousted New York, the alternative girl, in the last episode of the show. Flav had his choice of 15 women at the beginning, including New York who returned from season one.
The winner, Deelishis, not only gets Flav’s love, but a set of brand new gold teeth to boot. I mean, this is every girl’s combination dream.
Not to be left in the cold, the trashy and violent street diva “New York” made such good TV with her outlandish acts, fighting everyone on the show but Flav, that she is getting her own series. Believe it or not, even though Flav didn’t want her, it seems viewers do. “Flavorette” is rumored to be the title of this series, which will no doubt prove to impress.
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Submitted by Cecilia Paluch on Wed, 2006-10-25 18:37.
Snoop Dogg’s possible plan to beat down Billie bad-asses with his collapsible baton has been thwarted. Found Sept. 27 in his laptop case when he was going through security at John Wayne International Airport, the 21-inch baton was a “prop” according to the rapper, for a film he was shooting in New York.
He wasn’t arrested this time, unlike the episode in May that got him permanently banned from flying British Airways. When one of his cronies was rejected from entering the First-class lounge, he and five others in his group started a brawl that left seven officers injured, one with a fractured hand.
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