Day in Pop Report for 09/20/2010
The Day in Pop Digest for 9/20/10: (Jam!) Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian have threatened legal action against a doll-making company, demanding staff stop producing inflatable sex toys based on their looks. more(BBC) Russell Brand is arrested after allegedly pushing a photographer at Los Angeles airport. According to police, the photographer he is accused of assaulting placed him under citizen's arrest. more (Jam!) British singer Robbie Williams has been battling a mystery illness for the last four years. He tells British radio station Magic 105.4FM, "I found out a few months ago that I'd been ill, completely by mistake, and I don't want to go into the whys and wherefores but what I had made you lethargic and made you depressed and I'd had it for years and not known and I'm on treatment for it. It's changed my life." more (Jam!) Amy Winehouse has cut all ties with her one-time pal and collaborator Mark Ronson, accusing the superproducer of taking credit for her fame and insisting he is now "dead" to her. more (BBC) Jailed pop star George Michael is transferred from Pentonville Prison to a softer Category C prison. more (Yahoo) Police Superintendent Altermoth Campbell says a badly bruised woman alleged that Bounty Killer beat her Saturday night at his apartment. more (Jam!) Superproducer Mark Ronson is keen to work his musical magic on Culture Club - he is hoping to team with the Karma Chameleon legends for a new album more (Jam!) Justin Bieber was swarmed by pubescent fans as he cruised through West Edmonton Mall Saturday. Bieber stopped by Hooters restaurant to get a picture with the tank-topped servers (MTV) Lindsay Lohan has admitted to failing her recent drug test. Hours after reports surfaced on Friday that Lohan didn't pass her latest test, the troubled starlet conceded she was still struggling with addiction. more (MTV) Kanye West dropped his weekly gratis track early Saturday (September 18), and this week's offering, "Lord, Lord, Lord," features Mos Def and Raekwon and fellow producer/MC Swizz Beatz more (Yahoo) Paris Hilton has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanors stemming from her arrest last month at a Las Vegas resort, a Nevada prosecutor said. more (Yahoo) Actor Randy Quaid and his wife were arrested after being found apparently squatting at a California home they owned years ago. more (ASB) Rihanna made the headlines on Friday, September 17 night after her music video of "Who's That Chick" is leaked. True to her mission to wake up from the dark "Rated R" album, the music video reflects her intention to have fun in the new album. more
(Yahoo) The Web site run by the Motion Picture Association of America, the lobbying arm of the major Hollywood studios, was temporarily brought down Saturday by pirates enraged by an escalation in anti-piracy efforts. more (Yahoo) Screenwriter Anthony Peckham ("Sherlock Holmes," "Invictus") has been hired to work on Paramount's reboot of the Jack Ryan spy thriller franchise. more. (Billboard) T.I. is expected to appear before a federal judge in Atlanta to explain why his probation shouldn't be revoked after his recent arrest in Los Angeles. more (BBC) Simon Cowell is to be presented with a special award at the Rose d'Or television festival in Switzerland, organisers announce. more (MTV) In a weekend stacked with new movies, the bank-robbery action pic "The Town" ran the box office. The film, which also took the top spot on Friday, roped in an estimated $23.8 million more
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Katy Perry and Lady Gaga lead with five nominations for MTV Networks International 2010 EMAs which will feature live performances by Perry and Linkin Park. Set to take place at Caja Magica in Madrid, the 17th annual EMAs will broadcast live on MTV channels across the globe from Sunday 7th November 2010, 21:00 CET. Two previous EMA winners are confirmed to perform on Sunday 7th November as part of the 2010 MTV EMAs. Pop superstar, Katy Perry and rock gods Linkin Park will be taking the stage, live in Madrid.
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Cherry Tree/Interscope Records have announced an October 12th released date for Far East Movement (also know as FM) debut album 'Free Wired'.
The album's lead single "Like A G6" has been exploding on the country's sales and radio charts, currently #9 at iTunes and #16 on Billboard's Hot 100 making FM the first Asian American group to land on the mainstream pop music charts. The song has consistently grown each week since its release and was the #2 most added song at Top 40 radio the week it went for adds in Top 40 markets. Collectively the song and its accompanying music video have received over 7 million YouTube views and 4.5 million MySpace streams. The music video was also the #1 rated music video on MySpace the week it debuted.
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(MTV) "The Real World" is turning 25 and is ready to celebrate in style as seven strangers take over Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. In true Real World fashion, a high roller's suite in Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will be transformed into the ultimate party loft as the series premieres in the 1st quarter of 2011. The news comes following a strong season for "The Real World: New Orleans," averaging nearly 2 million viewers, a 25% increase versus last season.
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(WBR) Foxy Shazam have announced a nationwide co-headlining tour with Free Energy. The two-month string of dates, which kick off October 12th in Portland, ME, come on the heels of a summer tour with Hole as well as memorable performances at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Reading & Leeds. Foxy Shazam's self-titled major label debut is out now on Sire Records and their debut single "Unstoppable," first aired during the 2010 Super Bowl and is featured in three television promo campaigns this fall.
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Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson have been tapped to co-host the Soul Train Awards. The music special will be taped at the Cobb Energy Center in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday, November 10 and will premiere on both Centric and BET in a special simulcast at 9:00 PM* ET on Sunday, November 28. The Soul Train Awards special will honor the longstanding careers and musical influences of legendary artists Anita Baker and Ron Isley. The special will also celebrate soul music's legacy and the hottest stars who have helped pave the way for today's crop of performers.
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Harmonious bec is the Japanese duo ZaMaRoo and From Vapor to Water, covert composers of intriguing, eclectic electronica. The group's debut album, "Her Strange Dreams", is scheduled to be released November 16, 2010 on Monotreme Records.The songs on "Her Strange Dreams" have everything from the ominous ambience of a dream world, the relentless techno groove of an urban nightscape, jazzy piano, staccato cut-up hip-hop, and ethereal female vocals to exploding artillery, playful upbeat bleepery, and hyperactive R.E.M. states - all while Japanese themes/traditional instrumentation weave in and out. Think of musicians like DJ Shadow, Boards of Canada, Mϊm, The Books, FourTet, and Radiohead. Guest artists on the album include Mizube and 1968. A free MP3 download of Harmonious bec's single "Solitary Bonze Prayer" is
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Strange Teen Heart is the second Record Machine release for Saharan Gazelle Boy, a collaboration between Capybara's Darin Seal and Sea Change (aka Sarah Handelman). The EP is a super-quad of songs that conjure the love, loneliness and naivetι of teendom while continuing to develop the sleepy, bedroom pop of Saharan's Airplane's Can't. The melodramatic, synth-pop is the soundtrack for the shy, 1980s, pretty-but-doesn't-know-it high school girl in all of us.
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Atlantic Records has announced the release of a new EP from Donnis, entitled "Fashionably Late." The five-song collection will go on sale via the iTunes Store on Tuesday, September 28th. The Georgia-based rapper is set to celebrate the release of "Fashionably Late" with a major North American tour alongside acclaimed dance-punk duo Matt & Kim.
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You discovered her on So You Think You Can Dance and now Christina Perri has released her debut music video for her song "Jar Of Hearts." Directed by Jay Martin (Death Cab for Cutie, Cold War Kids, Wolfmother), the video was shot on a soundstage designed as a New York City street and features SYTYCD All-Stars Kathryn McCormick and Allison Holker (who both danced to Christina's song on the show) as well as Keltie Colleen, Peter Chu, Chelsea Thedinga, Chantel Aguirre and Eboni Adams. The dancers were choreographed by none-other than SYTYCD's Stacey Tookey, who is responsible for using "Jar of Hearts" in the show on June 30th. Check it out here A few months ago Christina Perri was waiting tables in LA when her friend Keltie Colleen, a Radio City Rockette, passed along Christina's demo to her friend Stacey Tookey, a choreographer on the hit show So You Think You Can Dance? Taken by the raw, defiant break-up song named "Jar of Hearts", Tookey used it as the backdrop for a memorable choreographed piece that aired on Fox's So You Think You Can Dance on June 30th.
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(Girlie) Mere weeks away from the release of his first solo project, Lazerbeak has dropped his acid trip of a video for the ominous, tribal-drum driven "Land's End." The clip's bugged-out visuals match the surreal lyrics of the song, which Beak delivers in his typically blunted, raspy croon. His album, Legend Recognize Legend hits stores September 28th on Doomtree Records.
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(Girlie) Experimental French artist Turzi has announced the details of his sophomore album, B, due out September 24th through the visionary French label Record Makers. B is the follow-up to Turzi's debut album, A.
The emphasis on improvisation that forms the live hallmark of the band was captured on A continental rock, melded together in frenetic but disciplined fashion with tinges of Ennio Morricone. There are two sides to Turzi- the leader, and his band. Romain Turzi is the leader. Hailing from Versailles, his youth was fueled by experimentation, with hours spent in bedrooms surrounded by synthesizers, and surrounded by violently fierce live shows around Paris.
In April 2008 Turzi was personally invited to support Simian Mobile Disco and The Whip on an NME endorsed tour around the UK. A line up blessed with the ability to satisfy hardened rockers as well as casual clubbers.
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(PR) CMT and MTV Networks announced that they will host an international streaming event and online contest to celebrate the release of Taylor Swift's new album Speak Now at the United Nations in New York on Monday, October 25, the same day her new album is available in stores worldwide. The online contest 'Speak Now With Taylor Swift In New York City' is live now at www.WinWithTaylor.com offering fans the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Taylor perform live in New York and join her on a cross-country flight to Los Angeles, where they will have the chance to 'speak now' with the superstar mid-air. CMT and many MTV Networks web properties worldwide, including CMT.com, MTV.com, VH1.com and websites across Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America, will stream the event from New York at approximately 5:00 p.m. ET, which is set to include an intimate performance from Taylor.
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