Day in Pop Report for 05/24/2010
Police say the husband of deceased actress Brittany Murphy has been found dead, according to the Los Angeles Times. Sgt. Louie Lozano of the Los Angeles Police Department tells the paper that screenwriter Simon Monjack was found dead Sunday night at his home in the Hollywood Hills. moreJustin Bieber reportedly got booed when he was announced to take the stage at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend Music Festival over the weekend. But, the Canadian singer was defended by 30 Seconds to Mars' frontman Jared Leto. "He's a young kid," Leto told BBC. "He'll be able to charm the crowd." more Justin Bieber walked smack into the glass of an automatic revolving door when trying to exit a German hotel, sending his fans into a blogging frenzy. "Ouch! I just walked into that door ... my forehead hurts ... I walked right into the window," Bieber told a local broadcast team that captured the incident on camera more Lady Gaga has reportedly fired her security team after an overzealous fan leaped onstage during a show last month. The Poker Face hitmaker was performing in Japan as part of her Monster Ball world tour, but the gig was interrupted when a concertgoer hopped over the security barrier and jumped on stage. more A jury acquitted a man Friday of killing up-and-coming Atlanta rapper Dolla during a shooting last year at a crowded, upscale Los Angeles mall. AP reports that jurors rejected prosecutors' contentions that the killing of Dolla, whose real name was Roderick Anthony Burton II, was a callous act of apparent revenge. more An attorney for Marion "Suge" Knight is denying allegations that the former rap mogul pulled a gun on a man in South Los Angeles. Knight was arrested in suburban Gardena on Thursday. Police say his Cadillac Escalade was stopped after a man claimed Knight pointed a gun at him. more The Lost finale has left the press confused. AP's headline said "'Lost' addresses years of questions in finale" (hereWhile the Reuters crew proclaimed, "Lost' leaves fans with still more questions" here. Thai film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival, while Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Javier Bardem earned acting honors. more More than 600 museums nationwide are offering free admission to military families all summer in a new partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. more Robin Gibb shocked onlookers at Heathrow Airport in London on Sunday when he allegedly hurled expletives at staff and refused to board a plane bound for Los Angeles over a security issue. Jam! reports, The Bee Gees star was randomly selected for an extra security check and reportedly fumed at British Airways employees before storming out of the pre-check-in. more Shrek Forever After roared its way to the top of the box office, making $71.3 million in its opening weekend. But the fourth film in the monster franchise from DreamWorks Animation had the weakest debut of all "Shrek" sequels more A former Survivor producer wanted for questioning in Mexico about his wife's death has returned to the United States, his lawyer said Sunday. Bruce Beresford-Redman returned to Los Angeles County "to be with his children and attend to family and personal matters," attorney Richard Hirsch said in a statement. more Russell Crowe's Robin Hood braved a generally soft weekend at the foreign box office, narrowly holding on to the No. 1 spot for a second round. more
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Ryan Star's new album "11:59" will arrive everywhere on August 3rd. Ryan will mark the release with a hometown headline performance at The Filmore at Irving Plaza in New York City.Star will herald the release of "11:59" with a cross-country radio promo tour, including on-air performances and concert appearances. A full-scale U.S. tour itinerary will be announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, the album's first sing "Breathe" is a breakthrough smash for Star. The track is poised to hit the top 20 at Hot AC radio outlets nationwide, while its poignant companion video clip has just gone into rotation at VH1. What's more, "Breathe" recently debuted on the network's VSPOT Top 20 Video Countdown
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Herbie Hancock has announced the guest stars and tracklisting for The Imagine Project which is set for release June 22, 2010 via Hancock Records/RED. There will also be a deluxe package released with the CD, DVD, 60-page color photo book, and The Imagine Project sheet music. Birthday tribute concerts will take place on June 24 at Carnegie Hall and September 1 at the Hollywood Bowl. Tour dates for The Imagine Project will be announced for the fall. The Imagine Project is the next step in Hancock's extraordinary ground-breaking career, and builds upon his recent successes and recognition. (2007 Grammy for Album of the Year - "River/The Joni Letters", Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, multiple award-winning album/film, "Possibilities", Jazz Chair for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, amongst many others). Award-winning producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Madeline Peyroux, Luciana Souza, Tracy Chapman, Melody Gardot and Hancock's collaborator on "River") has served as producer on a number of the album's tracks.
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(The imaginatively named) Jonas Brothers Live In Concert world tour kicks off Tuesday, July 27 in Dallas, Texas, and will continue throughout North America, Latin America and Europe this Fall. Joining the multi-platinum-selling recording artists will be special guest and Hollywood Records label mate, Demi Lovato, as well as friends and co-stars from the upcoming Disney Channel Original movie, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. Celebrating their upcoming tour, the Jonas Brothers performed to a record-breaking crowd of thousands of fans at The Grove in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 15. It was the largest crowd ever seen at The Grove since the popular outdoor shopping center opened in 2002 with fans filling the area to full capacity.
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Frightened Rabbit are just about to finish their near sold-out tour of North America and will cap it off with their first-ever national television performance. The fivesome will be the musical guests on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" on Tuesday, May 25. Tune in or set your recorders to 12:35 am to see Frightened Rabbit in action, where they will perform their kiss-off anthem, "Nothing Like You."
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Deluka's remix for fellow U.K. based group Band Of Skulls' "Death by Diamonds and Pearls" was leaked this week and is already building a steady buzz. Southhampton's Band of Skulls' paring with Deluka forms an exciting alliance between two rapidly emerging British rock bands. Deluka turns the tune on its head applying their brand of synth-drenched electro nirvana to the track. The "Diamonte" remix illustrates why the band has enjoyed the recent attention of industry giants like NME and MTV. Conjuring thick clouds of distorted synth bass, crisp snares and kicks, Band of Skulls vocalists Russell Marsden and Emma Richardson emerge into an energetic field of sound. With the additional distinction as top-notch remixers added to their credit, Deluka proves they are a group to keep an eye on.
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Mishon has returned to the scene in a big way with "Turn It Up," an energetic club anthem featuring guest verses from fellow newcomer Roscoe Dash. The percolating pop/R&B/hip-hop infused dance track has just broken into the top ten of BET's "106th and Park" countdown, delivering on the ear-arresting promise of Mishon's earlier singles, "Excuse Me Mama" and "Just a Kiss." The new single also showcases another aspect of Mishon's many talents: he co-wrote and co-produced "Turn It Up," on which he infectiously proclaims, "The party don't start 'til I walk in." Shot on a soundstage in Los Angeles, the video for "Turn It Up" features Mishon in full party mode, connecting with a special lady on the dancefloor. The clip was directed Mickey Finnegan, who has also helmed recent videos from Jamie Foxx, New Boyz, LMFAO, Mario and R. Kelly. Mishon's debut album The Yearbook is coming later this year.
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Lucy Schwartz and RCA artist Landon Pigg have a new song, "Darling I Do" on the soundtrack for the Dreamworks film Shrek Forever After (in theaters today).The soundtrack, available now via DGC/Interscope, features the duo's single written specifically for the film, in addition to new tracks from Weezer and Scissor Sisters and classics by Lionel Richie and The Carpenters. Watch Lucy and Landon perform "Darling I Do" from Shrek Forever After on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
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Grey New York's fourth annual Music Seminar with Living Legends will feature Yoko Ono on Friday, June 25, at the Debussy. The 2010 Cannes event follows three years of high popularity for the Grey music seminar with legends Stevie Van Zandt in 2009, Tony Bennett in 2008, and John Legend and Donavan in 2007. Yoko Ono is multimedia artist who constantly challenges the traditional boundaries of art, known for her groundbreaking conceptual and performance pieces, experimental films and music.
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Wooden Wand will be playing select North American dates this June and is looking at a Fall release of a new album; these will all be solo performances. Wooden Wand releases his new album, Death Seat, on Michael Gira's Young God Records October 2010. Death Seat was produced by Gira, recorded by Glossary's Joey Kneiser and Stephen Goose Trageser at the Haunted Mansion, Murfreesboro, TN and at Old Soul Studios, Catskill, NY recorded by Kenny Seigal; it is being mixed by Gira and Kevin MacMahon at The Walkmen/McMahon's Marcata Studios in New Paltz, NY. Death Seat is Wooden Wand's label debut for Young God.
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Shunda K of Yo! Majesty's official solo debut, the release of the maxi-single "Here I Am To Save The World" a collaboration with Cindy Wonderful of Scream Club, is set for release on July 27th.The track was co-written and produced by Chrissy Murderbot and Electrosexual and mixed by longtime Shunda K cohorts, female French DJ Flore and Christian "Duke" Quermalet.
The maxi-single also features remixes of "Here I Am To Save The World" by up and coming producers Scripts 'N Screwz (St. Louis), Nite Club (Brooklyn), and The New Loud (Milwaukee). The single is Shunda K's first release as part of her new partnership with Fanatic Records. The album version will appear on Shunda K's dizzying 38-track solo debut double album The Most Wanted, scheduled for release in early 2011.
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Laura Burhenn has just released the first video from What We Lose In The Fire We Gain In The Flood, her debut album as The Mynabirds (in stores now on Saddle Creek). The clip is for "Numbers Don't Lie," and was directed by Alan Tanner, who has also helmed videos for Jenny Lewis and Conor Oberst. Watch it here You can catch Laura and her band live as they hit the road this month for headlining dates and some slots supporting Josh Ritter, plus a special show opening for Al Green.
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A record number of harmonica players will meet at the Ramada Inn-Mall of America as the Society for the Preservation and Advancement of the Harmonica (SPAH) holds its 47th Anniversary Convention in Bloomington, MN from Tuesday August 17th thru Saturday, August 21st, 2010.This year featured American artists appearing at SPAH 2010 include Howard Levy, a pioneer of modern day harmonica playing techniques; Joe Filisko, a world renowned innovator in harmonica construction and a master traditional blues player; Andy Just, a west coast rock n' blues wizard; Clint Hoover, local Minnesota legend that "does it all" on many styles of music; Dick Gardner, another Minnesota native who was a member of the "Harmonicats", the harmonica group that stormed the popular music charts. International headliners include Susan Sauter, a classical sensation from Germany; Bart Leczycki, a blues/jazz phenom from Poland and Thiago Cerveira, a multi-instrumentalist from Brazil. Many more notable players will be added before show time.
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