Day in Pop Report for 06/03/2010
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack is now streaming exclusively for 24 hours only here. The soundtrack will be available in stores and online next Tuesday, June 8thAdam Lambert promises that it will be safe for anyone who was offended by his sexually charged performance of "For Your Entertainment" at the 2009 American Music Awards to check out his Glam Nation tour. "I definitely think they'll be comfortable," Lambert said of fans who will see him on the tour, which begins today more Work could begin next year on a $300 million museum and arts center dedicated to Michael Jackson in his hometown, his father and Gary officials announced Wednesday. more New details surrounding TV actor Gary Coleman's death have emerged with his attorney saying the child star of "Diff'rent Strokes" and his wife divorced in 2008, and Utah authorities releasing a tape of her frantic 911 call after he struck his head in a fall. "Now issues are being raised about whether or not Shannon had authority to terminate the life support," Coleman's attorney Randy Kester said.more Lady Gaga revealed that she was set to open for Michael Jackson in London before his death, in an interview with CNN's Larry King that aired Tuesday night (June 1) that also touched upon the pop star's "borderline positive" lupus diagnosis. more Drake is not worrying too much when materials from his first upcoming effort "Thank Me Later" were leaked one by one prior to the release date. The Canadian rapper shared his insight about the leaks on his Twitter. "I gave away free music for years," he wrote more Randy Newman, the songwriter who penned "I Love L.A.," "Sail Away" and the quirky hit "Short People" got the 2,411th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday. more Nashville's country music mecca the Grand Ole Opry is expected to reopen on October 1 after a $17 million renovation and clean-up to repair damage from flooding in May, the Opry's owners said on Wednesday. more Dizzee Rascal wants to explore his dark side - by teaming up for a collaboration with goth rocker Marilyn Manson. Rascal says, "I know he's worked with other hip-hop artists such as DMX, but I'd want it to be bigger than that." more Star Trek star Patrick Stewart paid tribute to a former teacher as he was knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. BBC reports that the 69-year-old said he owed "literally everything" to the English teacher who first encouraged him to perform. more Jack Nicholson and Val Kilmer were among the actors who joined dozens of Dennis Hopper's relatives, friends and Taos locals to remember the two-time Oscar nominee at a memorial Mass on Wednesday in New Mexico. more A California District Court judge has issued a preliminary injunction preventing the U.S. release of the indie comedy "I Love You Phillip Morris," starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. more 3OH!3's "My First Kiss" music video which has a cameo from their featured guest Ke$ha was revealed. In match with the song theme, the music video shows off many people, from teacher to soldier and from sailor to rocker, locking lips with their lovers. more An MGM remake of the 1984 film "Red Dawn" -- this time, with the Chinese as the enemies -- has drawn sharp criticism from one of the leading Chinese state-run newspapers two days in a row. They should instead question why we need a remake in the first place. more Vampire mania has reared its bloody head on disc, with HBO's Season 2 set of "True Blood" topping the national home video sales charts during its first week in stores more Long-running BBC comedy Last of the Summer Wine is to be axed after 37 years, the BBC has announced. more
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Glee: The Music, Vol. 3 Showstopper's album has once again topped the Billboard 200, edging out the Stone Temple Pilots reunion album to claim the no. 1 spot.This, on top of selling over 2 millions albums and 7 millions songs throughout the season, brings the total of Showstoppers to 200k albums sold in 2 weeks!
Today, a clip from the Season 1 Finale, "Faithfully" has premiered and is from the new album, Journey to Regional's which will be released on Tuesday June 8th (same day as finale). Check it out
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Crowded House return this July with a brand new album and tour. Their new album, Intriguer, is set for release on July 13th, 2010, on Fantasy Records, a division of Concord Music Group. The internationally acclaimed group begins a nationwide tour of the U.S. and Canada in support of the new album on Monday, July 12th. Also available that day will be the 2-disc Intriguer Deluxe Edition, featuring a special bonus live DVD.
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Barry Manilow received the "Best Strip Headliner" and "Best Bang for your Buck" awards from Las Vegas Weekly publisher Bruce Spotleson during Manilow's Saturday, May 29 performance at Paris Las Vegas. The awards were voted upon by readers of the publication.Manilow's new two year engagement at Paris Las Vegas has been wildly heralded by critics and fans alike. In celebration of the success, AEG Live and Paris Las Vegas just announced an additional 18 new performance dates from August 20th – October 24th.
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MC Lars has joined with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in an effort to spread awareness for Lars' new single and video, "Twenty-three." The track appears on his album This Gigantic Robot Kills and is a sobering, emotional tribute to Lars' college roommate Patrick Wood, who tragically took his own life at the age of twenty-three while attending Stanford University.
Lars explains "In October of 2009 when I was supporting the Grammy-nominated Texas pop-punkers Bowling for Soup in the UK, BFS front-man (and also Lars' record label head) Jaret Reddick, and I were sitting backstage in Bristol, England and discussed the plan for the next video from This Gigantic Robot Kills. We decided it had to be "Twenty-three."
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Lonestar will make a special appearance on The Price Is Right, with host Drew Carey, on Thursday, June 16, (11:00 AM-12:00 Noon, ET; 10:00-11:00 AM, PT). Lonestar will play live throughout the show as the house band. The show will also offer an exciting showcase with prizes that include a new car and trip to San Diego, as well as tickets to attend a Lonestar's concert plus band merchandise.
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South Africa's alternative music icon Ashton Nyte will be bringing his self-titled project to AmericaDistinguished as "Johannesburg's Bowie" by Cosmopolitan South Africa and "the pioneer of alternative music in South Africa" by South African Rock Digest, Nyte will release his album The Valley on June 15 marking his long awaited U.S. debut. Following the release, Nyte will embark on his first U.S. tour. The Valley, Nyte's fifth solo album, is "a hybrid of post-punk and alt-folk," according to Nyte, who calls it "the unlikely love child of Johnny Cash and Nick Cave." Influenced by his relocation from South Africa to the U.S., the album has been described as "a collection of songs caressed with Americana styling as uniquely as only a non-American could," and "a sepia-toned film reel of old western imagery," by South Africa's Canonfire Creek Magazine.
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Paolo Nutini won the Best Album Award at the 55th Ivor Novello Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London for his latest full length release Sunny Side Up. Presenting the award to Paolo at the lunchtime ceremony was Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon who talked about Paolo's current record Sunny Side Up saying "you know a great record when it captures your attention for the duration of the record without wanting to skip through songs – and this record certainly gets your attention brilliantly!" The Ivor Novello Awards, judged by songwriters and musicians, is the pinnacle of the music award season in the UK as it really does focus on the craft of songwriting. For Paolo to be honored in the best album category is an amazing achievement. Afterwards, Paolo said, "It's an honor to get an award voted for by songwriters. Happy days and thanks for the support."
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Orange County, Ca's Great Park is going back in time on June 19th. Here is the announcement: Take a stroll through the 1940's on a walkable historical timeline at the former MCAS El Toro and experience a pivotal era in world history. Outdoor displays of period autos and airplanes along with indoor performances, lectures and film screenings will invite visitors to discover the history of the land that is now the Orange County Great Park.
"Festival of Time: An Evening of History" is a multimedia event designed by the Great Park History Committee to explore how World War II changed American life. This carefully crafted evening of history takes place on Saturday, June 19th at 6:30 p.m. at the Great Park. Festival highlights including interpretive tours of the walkable timeline and a special screening of excerpts from the 1946 Academy award winning film The Best Years of our Lives designed to provide audiences with an informative and entertaining "living history" lesson.
"The Orange County Great Park History Program bridges the past, present and future of MCAS El Toro as the site transitions to the Great Park," said Larry Agran, Chair, Orange County Great Park Corporation. "The Great Park is a place where people can experience Orange County's rich history through programs like the Festival of Time."
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School Of Seven Bells are offering different limited edition packages of their upcoming album Disconnect from Desire, which arrives July 13th on Vagrant/Ghostly International. Three options will be offered to US and Canadian fans for preorder. The first, limited to 3,000 pieces at $17 each, includes a double LP with gatefold layout and swirled vinyl. The vinyl LP is accompanied by a digital download card of the album. The second features a limited edition UK CD box set with deluxe packaging and a set of exclusive SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS tarot cards. It will be limited to 250 pieces at $15 each.
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Robyn and Kelis have announced a North American co-headlining tour that will kick off on July 23rd at The Music Box in Los Angeles. The two recently exchanged tweets about the outing, deciding to name it the "All Hearts" tour. Robyn and Kelis have selected UK sensation Dan Black and Far East Movement, Robyn's Cherrytree Records label mates, to kick off the festivities. Black was named as one of the Top 15 rising music stars on the BBC's "Sound of 2009" list and heralded in the States for his recent solo debut, UN, and its smash single/video, "Symphonies."
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STS9 will be performing select intimate acoustic Axe The Cables shows in New York, Chicago, and Atlanta, as well as plenty of the electronic heavy-hitting events the band is known and loved for, culminating with their annual, 2 night musical takeover of Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheatre. STS9 has signed on a massive slew of supporting acts across the entire tour including Thievery Corporation, Big Gigantic, The Disco Biscuits, The Album Leaf, Lotus, Ghostland Observatory, Bassnectar, Alex B, John Hughes, RJD2, and many more to still to come. In December of 2009, STS9 sat down in Denver, Colorado in one of America's most pristine modern opera houses to create "Axe The Cables... An Evening of STS9." What this night encompasses is one of the most flawless evenings of STS9 music in the band's decade plus history.
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This year's ATHFest kicks off on Wednesday, June 23rd with the ATHFest Comedy Showcase at the New Earth Music Hall. Hosted by TJ Young, comedians include Joe Zimmerman (Rooftop Award Winner, "Charlotte's Best Comedian" - Creative Loafing), Dan Weeks (Atlanta Stands Up Award winner) and more. Tickets are $10.00 and $5.00 with an AthFest wristband.The music on the outdoor stages begins on Friday, June 25th 5:00 P.M. The "headlining" artists this year are MODERN SKIRTS, PACKWAY HANDLE BAND, PERPETUAL GROOVE, BUBBA SPARXXX, KINCHAFOONEE COWBOYS and CRACKER. Other bands performing on the outdoor stages over the course of the weekend include David Dondero, Ken Will Morton Band, Stewart & Winfield, Five-Eight, Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs, Dave Barbe & The Quickhooks, Spring Tigers, The Incredible Sandwich, Vinyl Strangers and so many more! All performances on the outdoor stages are open to all ages and are free of charge to the public. On Thursday, June 24th at 8:00 PM, The Flagpole Music Awards will be held at the historic Morton Theatre presenting the winners of the Flagpole Magazine's annual reader's choice poll. The performers and presenters will be announced the week before the show.
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Madison Gate Records has released the original television soundtrack album to Drop Dead Diva. The album, which will feature music from both season one and two and include songs sung by several cast members, is now available on both iTunes and Amazon.com. Also available is the DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Drop Dead Diva: Season One, which contains exclusive bonus content including short films, deleted scenes and all-new behind-the-scenes featurettes. Lastly, the second season debuts Sunday, June 6 at 9 PM ET/PT on Lifetime Television. On the 14-track compilation, Margaret Cho performs an original song that she wrote entitled "Restraining Order;" Margaret and the series lead star Brooke Elliott sing a duet of "Would I Lie To You;" series co-star Ben Feldman sings a compelling rendition of "Baby, I Need Your Loving." There is also an original song from Confetti entitled "Begin Again" that features prominently, as a real clue, in episode six of season two. Other artists featured on the album include Becca Jones, Platinum Pied Pipers, Lil' Wendy, Madi Diaz, Dri, Katie Herzig, Malbec and Joshua Morrison.
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Thumbplay Music has become the first and only on-demand, subscription music service available across the three major platforms in the U.S. iPhone, Android and BlackBerry smartphones. This adds the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch to the growing list of devices supported by Thumbplay Music (complete list below). Thumbplay Music is also available as a companion app on PCs/Macs. With this announcement, Thumbplay Music is the most widely available cloud-based music service available in the U.S. According to the NPD Group, as of the first quarter of 2010, RIM (BlackBerry), Google (Android) and Apple (iPhone) collectively address 85% of smartphone users in the U.S.*
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Sara Bareilles has set a September 7th release date for her sophomore release, Kaleidoscope Heart. The album – which Sara wrote and the renowned Neal Avron produced - is the follow up to her massive Grammy nominated debut, Little Voice which has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. "King Of Anything" the first single off the forthcoming album is currently at radio and garnering early critical acclaim from the press. The immensely addictive and charismatic pop driven track featuring Sara's extraordinary vocal prowess hit airwaves May 10 where it is quickly gaining steam and kicked off the official countdown to the album's September 7th release
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