Day in Pop Report for 03/02/2010
A shorty short short quicks for you today. Let's get started! Beyoncι has decided that she no longer needs her alter ego, Sasha Fierce, to enable her to do her wild stage moves without being inhibited. In a recent interview with Allure magazine, the singer declared that, "Sasha Fierce is done. I killed her." moreSick of singing along to "Glee" at home? Well, get ready to watch the performers live on tour. The Fox network said Monday that the cast of the Golden Globe award-winning show about a high school glee club will hit four cities in May. more. Wonder if they will use autotune "live"? Gang Starr Rapper Guru is in a coma after suffering a heart attack, according to a Sirius XM interview with his Gang Starr partner, DJ Premier. more Cast members of the 1988 movie "Stand and Deliver" are appealing for donations to help the movie's real-life subject, an East Los Angeles high school teacher, pay his medical bills. Jaime Escalante is battling cancer, and his family has run out of money to pay for his treatments. more Kelly Rowland has entered recording booth with Michael Buble to remix a classic song from the Bee Gees. The R&B singer teams up with Michael for the remix of the band's 1977 single called "How Deep Is Your Love". more Walt Disney Co's ABC network threatened on Monday to drop its programs from Cablevision in a dispute over ABC's demand for $40 million in new fees, similar to an impasse between Fox and Time Warner Cable Inc that was resolved earlier this year. more Wow, ABC is still around?
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Today is the world premiere of If I Can Dream, a ground-breaking webbased TV-quality reality series that chronicles what it takes to really "make it" in Hollywood. The show, which is produced by Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment (creator of globally recognized hit shows like Pop Idol, American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance), is Hulu's first recurring series to be made available to international audiences worldwide. Every week for the next year, Hulu will begin streaming new episodes on Tuesday mornings, shortly after midnight Pacific Time. In the first episode of If I Can Dream, available at www.hulu.com/ificandream, viewers are introduced to all five of the aspiring artists a musician, an actor, two actresses and a model as they leave behind their friends, family and hometowns and embark on a Journey to Hollywood. At the start of their journey, the aspiring artists begin a promotional tour to help create buzz and awareness for the show. Throughout the first episode, the artists come to the realization that they have begun the road to accomplishing their dreams. To help viewers keep up with the fast-paced lives of each aspiring artist, Hulu has created a few new features, including custom show pages for each artist and dedicated feeds into their Twitter accounts. With these new tools, viewers can watch, follow each artist on Twitter, write a review, or join discussions about the show, all in one place on Hulu.
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International pop superstar and 3-time Brit Award winner Lady Gaga announced today that her hugely successful Monster Ball Tour has been extended. Following her upcoming and sold out concert dates in the UK, Australia and Japan, Lady Gaga will perform in Europe beginning May 7th in Sweden, followed by dates in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France before returning the UK.North American audiences can look forward to her first major arena tour when Lady Gaga returns to North America this June for a 30-city tour. The North American itinerary and on-sale information will be announced soon.
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"The Imagine Project", the new CD from multiple Grammy-winning artist and musical pioneer Herbie Hancock, is an unprecedented international recording and film project featuring collaborations between music legend Herbie Hancock and over a dozen superstars from every region of the planet. Utilizing the universal language of music to express its central themes of peace and global responsibility, the musical collaborations combine Hancock's genre-defying musical vision with the "local" musical identity of cultures from around the world. Additionally, noted Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Taxi To The Dark Side") is serving as one of the film's producers with veteran music producer Larry Klein serving as one of the album's producing consultants. "The Imagine Project" is set for release June 22, 2010 via Hancock Records/RED. Tracks include "The Song Goes On" with Anoushka Shankar (sitarist daughter of Ravi Shankar), Chaka Khan and Wayne Shorter which was recorded in Mumbai, India, along with a stellar group of Indian musicians; "Don't Give Up," a duet with guitarist extraordinaire Jeff Beck recorded in London featuring Seal and Pink, "Imagine" with Konono No. l, Jeff Beck, Oumou Sangare and Lionel Louke recorded in Paris and London; "Tamatant Tilay/Exodus" featuring Tinariwen, "Times They Are A Changin'" featuring The Chieftains, Lionel Loueke and Lisa Hannigan recorded in Ireland; "Jackpot" with Dave Matthews and Marcus Miller, "Space Captain" with Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, "Mi Tierra" recorded with Latin superstar Juanes in Miami and a track with Brazilian singer-songwriter Cιu recorded in Sγo Paulo.
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Setting Sun, aka. prolific songwriter Gary Levitt, will release his latest record Fantasurreal this Summer. The fourth full-length from New York State's leading indie folk pioneer, Fantasurreal finds Setting Sun exploring new, more electronic territory than his previous full-lengths. And in preparation for the release, Setting Sun has announced their first single, the album's powerful "Driving."The recording of Fantasurreal was very much a cathartic moment for Setting Sun. Tired from a relentless tour schedule that encompassed much of 2008-2009, Levitt returned home to the quiet of his home in upstate New York. Over the course of six months, the record just flowed. "This was the easiest record I've ever made," says Levitt. "It felt natural to come home to my studio and let these songs pour out while embracing the solitude that is so hard to find on tour. It was a big relief and a great way to ease back into my life." The end result was textured indie folk layered with driving percussion and swirling electronics, creating a record that exists somewhere between Beck's most insular moments and the giddy excitement of MGMT, simultaneously undercutting the vitality with raw, emotive vocals and lyrics that channel Bright Eyes or Elliott Smith. Driving pop songs like "Driving" share space with introspective indie folk tunes like "Don't Grow Up." Add in booming, four-on-the floor stomps like "Make You Feel" make Fantasurreal Levitt's most diverse work to date.
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Great Northern Blues Society is proud to announce their 2010 Blues Cafe to be held March 27, at the Rothschild Pavilion, 1104 Park Street in Rothschild, WI.Five blues bands will perform, including: Red, White & Blues Band * Meantooth Grin * The Insomniacs * Lil' Ed & the Blues Imperials * Shane Dwight Doors open to the public at 12 noon with the first band taking the stage at 1:00 pm. Generous seating will be provided (personal seating allowed), with both food and beverages available in the hall (sorry, no carry-ins).
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With a self-titled debut album that has gone on to sell nearly 500 thousand copies and a string of top 10 hits including "A Different World," "It's Good To Be Us" and "I'll Walk," Lyric Street recording artist Bucky Covington returns with his newest single, "A Father's Love (The Only Way He Knew How)." Beginning March 1, Bucky Covington will give PEOPLE.COM an exclusive FIRST LISTEN to "A Father's Love" which tells the story of a father who shows his children how much he loves them by taking care of all the little things in life. Written by Liz Hengber, Thom Sheperd and Steve Williams, the featured track is from his upcoming sophomore album, I'm Alright, releasing fall 2010. "We were basically done with the new CD when this song came across the desk ... the minute I heard it I knew that I had to cut it," said Bucky. "It reminds me of my dad when I was growing up and I think many people will relate to it too!"
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Playing For Change Records/Concord Music Group will make legendary New Orleans street performer and Playing for Change vocalist, "Grandpa" Elliott Small's debut album Sugar Sweet available at traditional retail outlets nationwide on April 6. Sugar Sweet was previously only available exclusively on Amazon.com. Living Blues Magazine recently enthused, "Sugar Sweet will not leave you disappointed." After nearly sixty years of captivating crowds on the streets of New Orleans, Grandpa Elliott will make his debut at the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on April 24. His popularity has gone global in the last year after the Playing for Change hit viral video for "Stand By Me," featuring 37 musicians from around the world, received over 30 million views on sites like YouTube and Vimeo. After so many years persevering through incredible hardships and performing for free on the streets of New Orleans, Grandpa Elliott has become an unlikely cultural icon. He has performed as part of the Playing for Change Band twice on NBC's The Tonight Show, The Bonnie Hunt Show and has led the band in an emotional rendition of "Stand By Me" on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.
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Kate Nash will release the follow up to her 2008 critically acclaimed debut Made Of Bricks on April 20th here in the U.S. on Fiction/ Geffen Records. The as yet untitled album was produced by former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler and recorded at RAK studios in the UK. The tracking listing for Kate Nash's sophomore release is: "You'll Never Listen," "Kiss That Girl," "Don't You Want To Share The Guilt," "I Just Love You More," "Do Wah Doo," "Higher Price," "I've Got A Secret," "Mansion Song," "Oh Jay," "Later On," "Pickpocket," "You Were So Far Away," and "I Hate Seagulls." From the outset Kate knew where she wanted to go on her second outing but with the worldwide success and nearly two years of touring after the US release of Made of Bricks in 2008, she took time out to write this album and do "normal things." Those normal things consisted of finding her first flat, learning to drive and looking after her pet rabbit Fluffy! Kate learned to play drums and in 2009 became part of a new punk band called The Receeders for which she plays bass!
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Tractor Beam Management is thrilled to announce the signing of Lost In The Trees, an inventive music collective from Chapel Hill, North Carolina helmed by composer and songwriter Ari Picker. The band merges the dramatic symphonic elements of classical music with the accessibility of American folk and modern pop, creating a sound that is simultaneously intimate and sonically ambitious.Creative Loafing has described their unique sound as "beautiful soul baring music combining folk with unconventional classical that will make your toes curl." Picker, who has already composed and publicly debuted his first symphony with members of the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, draws band members from prestigious music schools such as Berklee, Eastman and University of North Carolina, as well as the rich, indie-rock community in North Carolina.
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