Justin Timberlake Takes Fans On Wild Goose Chase For Video Debut

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Mumford & Sons Plan New Album and Their Own Whiskey

(Gibson) Things are going well for Mumford & Sons. After wrapping up their current tour in support of their sophomore release Babel the band plan to take the rest of the year off before regrouping in 2014 to work on album number three, according to Mumford keyboardist Ben Lovett.

When speaking to The Sun, Lovett also shared news about a possible future project for the band - making their own whiskey. Said Lovett: "It'll happen. It takes a few years to make, so we better cracking."

Mumford & Sons aren't the first rockers to get in to the distillery business. For example, there's a Motörhead Bastards Lager, KISS wine, and perhaps most successful of all - Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Tequila. Hagar sold 80% of his interest in the company for a reported $80 million in 2007.

Regarding the next Mumford & Sons album, Lovett says there are no plans yet in terms of what musical direction the band will take: "We're incredibly excited. Our third album can be anything we want it to be." more on this story

Katy Perry Hints At John Mayer Relationship

(Extra) "Extra's" Ben Lyons caught up with Katy Perry on the white carpet of the premiere of "The Smurfs 2" this past weekend and hinted about the status of her relationship with John Mayer.

Perry who stayed true to her, character, "Smurfette," wearing a blue Tadashi Shoji dress, brought her grandmother Ann Hudson, who previously attended the 2011 Grammy Awards with her.

Perry's on again, off again boyfriend John Mayer was not at the premiere however, when talking about her new music she dropped a hint that the two are back on or at least working together.

Ben asked if there was any chance of John and Katy collaborating on a song, Katy playfully responded with a wink, "We're doing a lot of collaborating."

Perry did say her new music would be out sooner than later. For now you can catch Katy in "The Smurfs 2" in theaters today. more on this story

Kings Of Leon, Bob Weir, Slayer Lead Live Digital Music Festival

(Radio.com) For seven days and seven nights, a live digital music festival will be broadcast and streamed across the globe. Kings of Leon and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and Furthur will headline the Forever Festival, which launches Aug. 4 and will run through Aug. 11.

While Weir performs from San Francisco, Kings of Leon will broadcast their previously announced American Express Unstaged performance from London, which will be directed by comedian Fred Armisen. Other artists on the bill include metal acts Slayer, Anthrax and Lamb of God, rapper Mos Def, country acts Thompson Square and Lukas Nelson, among many others.

The concert will be sponsored by IROCKE, a platform that streams concerts online. Forever Fest will be streamed at 4EVRFEST.com.

"So, we're looking at some Big Fun here with Forever Festival: live music from around the world, much of it going down at the same time, like the regular festival, without the mud," Weir said. "If you're not into what's in front of you, you go to another stage, only you let your fingers do the walking and you stay on the couch, or on the bed, or whatever…"

On Aug. 7, Weir will share his insights as an artist before he performs with Scaring the Children, a group that includes Rob Wasserman, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti and Lukas Nelson. Complete lineup

Early Lana Del Rey Demos Leak

(Radio.com) Lana Del Rey is known for her retro style that she likes to call "gangster Nancy Sinatra." But there was a time long, long ago (we're talking pre-Lizzy Grant era) when Del Rey was still trying to find her sound. It's a time that Del Rey probably wouldn't want fans to know about. Unfortunately, Princess Superstar didn't feel the same way.

The producer has released three tracks and one remix from a 2009 recording session she had with Del Rey, according to SPIN. Though the songs were never released, they show an early sign of what was to come from the singer.

On "Maha Maha," which translates to "great," she croons (not always on key, unfortunately) like a lounge singer over a highly produced beat that has a bit of Middle Eastern influence.

With the spacey track "Catch And Release," Del Rey seems like she was going for something a little Pink Floyd-inspired to focus on her current favorite topic, old Hollywood glamour. "If you've got the cash, lock it down tight/ I've got the looks. You've got my heart right?" she sings over a droning beat.

Her track "Golden Grill" starts with a cacophony of fake horns before eventually going into an operatic solo from Del Rey. more on this story

Los Lonely Boys Release Brand New Song and Kicking Off Tour

Los Lonely Boys have recently started work on a new studio album but they couldn't wait for fans to hear some of the new music, so they have released a brand new single.

The first new song from the new album sessions is a track called "Blame It On Love," which the group released as a new digital single yesterday. You can check out the lyric video for the song here.

The band is recording the new album with producer Don Gehman (Mellencamp, R.E.M.) and Emmy award winning composer/producer Matthew Gerrard.

The band will be taking a break from recording next month and will be hitting the road for a North American tour and they have announced dates that kick off on August 2nd and conclude on November 9th. more on this story

TV On the Radio Premiere First New Music In Two Years

(Radio.com) Brooklyn indie rock all-stars TV On the Radio are back with their first new studio recording in over two years. "Couldn't be more excited to be getting back into it, all together," singer/multi-instrumentalist Kyp Malone told Huffington Post, who premiered the track.

"The new songs 'Mercy' and 'Million Miles' came to fruition with such ease that it felt like an invitation to get back to this good work." While we've yet to hear a studio version of the latter (you can find some live clips floating around YouTube), you can listen to the driving, new-wave pulse of "Mercy" here.

It's unclear whether these two songs Malone mentions will appear on a forthcoming album, as the band recently parted ways with Interscope, who have put out all of the band's LPs, including their most recent, 2011′s Nine Types Of Light. If an album does appear, it will be on band member's Dave Sitek's record label, Federal Prism.

"We're sort of collecting material for a record," singer Tunde Adebimpe told SPIN earlier this year, "but right now we're only thinking in terms of songs, smaller things we can put out regularly until an album seems possible. Which I love. It's not that you're less precious about the process, but I like coming in and saying, 'Let's make a couple songs,' not feeling any sort of pressure to lock ourselves in a room." more on this story

Kip Moore Returns To No. 1 With 'Hey Pretty Girl'

(Radio.com) Kip Moore's poignant single "Hey Pretty Girl" lands at No. 1 this week on the Mediabase country singles chart. This marks Moore's third consecutive No. 1, as "Hey Pretty Girl" follows his previous chart toppers of "Somethin' Bout A Truck" and "Beer Money." All three songs are from Moore's 2012 debut album Up All Night.

Up All Night was the best-selling debut album from any country artist released last year. It's also the first country album released since 2008 to earn three back to back No. 1 songs. To understand why that last fact is impressive, note that Moore is only the third artist to achieve that since the chart's inception.

Numbers aside, it's Moore's music that is the most impressive, and "Hey Pretty Girl" is no exception. Moore visited Radio.com recently and explained how the song came together.

"Hey Pretty Girl," he explained, was written with one of his "dearest friends," Dan Couch (the pair also cowrote "Somethin' 'Bout a Truck"). Moore came up with the concept for "Hey Pretty Girl" after his guitar player, Dave Lapsley, came to him when he learned his wife was pregnant.

"I met Dave right when I moved to town," Moore recalled. "Dave and I used to really hit the town hard together. He was my wild running mate. Dave settled down and got married, and about three years ago Dave's wife told him she was pregnant. I didn't have a record deal yet, and he was still trying to grind it out with me. He came to me and was like, 'My wife's pregnant, and I've got a kid on the way, and we need to make this thing happen now.'" Moore explained how there was a whole new dimension to his friend.

The Weeknd Premieres New Song 'Love In The Sky'

(Radio.com) Canadian alt-R&b star the Weekend (AKA Abel Tesfaye) continues to slink seductively towards the September 10 release date of his second album, Kiss Land, by revealing a new song from the set, "Love in the Sky."

The brooding and atmospheric "Love in the Sky" is the third track to be previewed from the forthcoming Kiss Land, following "Belong to the World" and the album's title track. Like much of the Weeknd's notoriously lascivious catalog, the new song is filled with sexual innuendo and drug references among the heavy orchestral bombast.

The Weeknd recently generated controversy of a different kind over the release of "Belong to the World," which many believed to contain a sample of Portishead's "Machine Gun," the first single from that band's 2008 full-length, Third. After Portishead producer Geoff Barrow called Tesfaye out on Twitter claiming that he denied the request to use Portishead's music, the Weeknd mastermind fired back that his song does not contain a sample from "Machine Gun." more on this story

Cher Opens Up In New Interview About Her Age, Dating and more.

(Extra) "Extra's" Jerry Penacoli sat down with Cher before the performance of her new single "Woman's World" at Rasputin Nightclub in West Hollywood. "Extra" was with the legendary singer every step of the way. With no topic off limits, Cher opened up about her age, dating, and son Chaz Bono.

On Her Age: Cher partied with her fans until 2:00 AM, proving that even at 67, she can keep up. She told Penacoli she forgets how old she is. "I forget and then I'll remember and I'll go, 'Oh my god!'… What was I doing all this time?"

On Dating: Cher admits she isn't dating anyone right now, "It comes and goes. It takes a very strange man to come and approach me. Michele Pfeiffer and I once wanted to go dancing, we went to this club and we sat at this table for 15 minutes and no one came up."

Cher did date Tom Cruise in 1985, recently revealing to Andy Cohen he was one of her all-time favorite lovers. Cher has not heard from Cruise since making the comments, but says, "I know him from a different time. The sweetest, most fun boy. Adorable. I don't know him now, but every time I've seen him, it's been like, you know, adorable… that was a wonderful memory."

On Son Chaz Bono: Cher says she is proud of her son, Chaz, though it is not always easy, "It's easier and easier when Chaz and I are together, it's a no brainer, but sometimes you're just not prepared or someone talks about the old days and then you just wonder how to process that."

Tune into Extra tonight for more of their exclusive one on one with Cher. You can find your local broadcast schedule here. more on this story

Charli XCX Explains How She Wrote 'I Love It' For Icona Pop

(Radio.com) Charli XCX is pop music for people who think they don't like pop music. The 20-year-old British singer-songwriter has been riding on a critical and commercial high in 2013, those two sides complementing each other surprisingly well.

While her debut album, True Romance, earned her cred from the tastemakers (including Pitchfork's coveted Best New Music title), her song "I Love It" has been a breakout Top 10 hit for Swedish duo Icona Pop.

However, she sees a divide between her own work and the songs she pens for others. "When I write my songs, I always have like a visual connection with them," she recently told Radio.com. "Usually when I write a song, I'll see a music video, or at least an idea for a music video, and that's how I know I'm connected with it.

"When I wrote 'I Love It,' [it] was a really quick process. I wrote it in a half an hour in a hotel room in Sweden. It was just me screaming into my laptop and that was it. But afterwards, I didn't really see anything, so I knew straightaway from the beginning that that song wasn't right for me, but I knew it was right for someone else."

She continued: "It was cool when Aino and Caroline [of Icona Pop] came down to the studio and they heard it. It was funny, because the lyrics for them were really relevant at that point, because they were going through break-ups. It kind of found a home with them, whereas with me I was just kind of like, I don't know, I was just on some weird anger rush. After that, it was gone. But for them it really meant something, so it had to go to them. I'm glad it did, because they're really doing it some justice."

Though XCX's own dark electropop isn't as overwhelmingly Top 40 in its appeal as "I Love It," she can be pure bubblegum in her tastes and influences, particularly when '90s pop nostalgia is involved. In other words, she doesn't believe in the concept of guilty pleasures. Check out the full interview.

Jay Sean Makes New Album 'Neon' For Himself, Not The Radio

(Radio.com) "I'm not making music for the radio." When an artist says this, it usually means they're going in a new artistic direction, like Kanye West, who railed against radio during his performance at Governors Ball, telling the crowd, "Honestly, when I listen to radio, that ain't where I wanna be no more." It was his way of explaining why he didn't release a radio single to promote Yeezus, but more importantly it stood for something big. He was saying, "I'm making something more than just pop music."

Of course, after having his lowest first week sales ever with his latest album, he did end up sending his song, "Black Skinhead" to the airwaves. Whether Kanye's anti-radio screed was just his typical bluster, or whether he realized how many millions of people still tune in, saying you don't want to make music for the radio, could ultimately mean you won't be heard by a majority of America.

But even with that disclaimer, Jay Sean is bold enough to say that his latest album, NEON, was not made with radio in mind. "It sounds like a crazy thing to say, 'I'm not making this for radio,' because if you don't make it for the radio and it doesn't get played no one will hear it, right?'" Sean said. "But what happens in songwriting is you're writing just so it becomes a hit. There's no heart in it. I have to write with heart."

Sean explained to Radio.com that he doesn't even let other people say the words "hit" or "smash" while they're in the studio with him. He's afraid it will go to everyone's head and the magic the song once had will be lost.

"When you listen to radio there's certain things you have to keep in mind," Sean explained. "It has to have tempo or you have to talk about this subject because people like to sing about this right now. Or asking, 'Can this song get played at five in the afternoon when people just finished work and they want to have fun?' And you start getting too scientific with it." more.

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