Day in Pop Report for 04/06/2010
Lily Allen is set to cause a storm Down Under: she will appear topless on the front cover of Harper's Bazaar Australia. Jam! reports that the image shows her naked from the waist up, with one arm covering the right side of her chest but with her left breast clearly on show. moreWith Michael Jackson's mother, father and three siblings looking on, Dr. Conrad Murray began a slow process toward trial Monday with the appointment of a judge and the setting of another hearing to handle pending matters in his involuntary manslaughter case. more Whitney Houston's European tour was due to kick off in Paris on Tuesday. But a statement released Monday by her representative says an upper respiratory infection is forcing Houston to bow out of that show on doctors' orders. more A police statement says rapper Bounty Killer was arrested Monday at his home in Jamaica for allegedly assaulting a girlfriend. Police did not disclose details of the alleged attack, citing an ongoing probe. more Alicia Keys is postponing the release of her much-anticipated collaboration with Beyonce until the summer - so she can put out a track with Canadian star Drake more A bench warrant was issued Monday (April 5) for rapper Coolio's arrest after he failed to show up to court for a legally mandated progress report. He is currently on probation after pleading guilty to possession of narcotics, specifically crack cocaine. more Jam! reports that R&B singer Brian McKnight has been hauled to court by an alleged former lover over child support payments for a one-year-old boy purported to be his son. more Madonna has been named the most played artist of the last decade in the U.K. The list, compiled by Britain's music licensing body PPL, is based on the number of radio appearances and plays in public places such as shops, clubs and bars, amassed by musicians over the last 10 years. more David Archuleta and Jason Derulo have been added to the line-up of this coming Wednesday's result show of "American Idol". The two are going to join previously-announced performer Rihanna at the upcoming episode of the reality singing competition. more Rihanna has released a PSA urging her fans and people around the world to join in the fight against leukemia by voting for DKMS to receive the 250K grant which will be awarded to one deserving organization at the end of the month. Check it out here. Vote for DKMS here Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum and Sugarland each are up for four CMT Music Awards. more A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment Inc and comic book creator Stan Lee over the ownership of famous characters including Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, The Fantastic Four and X-Men. more Fox is pulling Sunday-night freshman "Sons of Tucson" after four episodes, and has confirmed the cancellation of long-running series "'Til Death." more Rumor that Dr. Dre and Jay-Z have teamed up on a new song has been confirmed by Interscope Records Chairman Jimmy Iovine. more Nicollette Sheridan, the actress who played a divorced real estate agent in ABC's "Desperate Housewives" filed suit Monday against the show's creator and producer alleging assault and wrongful termination. In the lawsuit, Sheridan claims that producer Marc Cherry hit her in the face on the Wisteria Lane set in September 2008. more Heidi Montag recently did an interview with Ryan Seacrest for his KIIS FM radio show and talked about her debut album "Superficial". "The Hills" star insisted the record flopped in the market because it was not properly promoted. more. That's one theory. Another would be that it kind of sucked. On Monday, Tiger Woods... wait, do you honestly care? Honestly?
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Rihanna has confirmed dates for her 2010 North American tour, Last Girl On Earth. Rihanna will be joined by Ke$ha and female rapper Nicki Minaj, who will open all dates on the Live Nation produced tour.
"We've never done a tour to this capacity. The production is unbelievable and the costumes, we just took it to a whole new level. Visually and sonically it's going to be a big step up from the last time. We just keep growing and this time it is a massive production that I cannot wait for," said Rihanna in a recent interview with AOL.Set to launch her sold out spring European tour on April 16th in Antwerp, Belgium, before heading overseas Rihanna will perform on FOX's American Idol on Wednesday, April 7th.
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Last November announces spring 2010 tour alongside Glassnote Records' pop rock band Jonas Sees in Color and guests. The tour will hit select cities in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida showcasing songs from the band's brand new record "tug o' war" which was released January 26, 2010.
Lead singer Luke Pilgrim of Last November shares, "we are excited to get out on the road to promote our new record, and I think that having Jonas Sees in Color on the tour will be great, they are super nice people and deliver a great live show. Our fans will be able to see a few different styles of music from this tour we are hoping to see lots of familiar faces out there and some new ones as well."
Last November's popularity hit new heights in 2009. The single "Seventeen at Three in the Morning" off their sophomore album "Over the Top or Under the Weather" launched the band into mainstream radio as it was quickly added by hundreds of stations nationwide. The band recently picked up their second nomination for the New Music Weekly Awards, in the 2009 New Group category alongside Kings of Leon, 3OH3!, Boys Like Girls, S.T.E.M. and Shinedown.
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Rounder Records is thrilled to announce that Kaki King has confirmed a headlining US tour in celebration of the April 13th release of her new record, Junior. The tour kicks off in Brooklyn, NY, at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on April 15th. The dates take Kaki and her band across the country, coming to a close at The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA, in late May.
Junior, it is the highly acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire's fifth record, and first for Rounder. The record delivers twists-and-turns: lyrically from exuberance and anger to heartbreaking melancholy; and sonically from experimental pieces to accessible pop. While there is plenty of the dazzling musicianship King has been renowned for, Junior showcases her further maturation as a well-rounded artist who defies categorization and expectations.
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In 1967, Frank Sinatra teamed up with Brazilian singer, pianist, guitarist, composer and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim to record an album that married the Chairman's signature vocals with rhythms from the master of bossa nova. The resulting album, Francis Albert Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim, reached #19, remaining on Billboard's rock-dominated album chart for 28 weeks.Forty-four years later, on May 4, 2010, Concord Music Group, on license from Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE), will release a deluxe reissue of the Sinatra/Jobim classic including all ten songs from the original album plus seven songs from a subsequent collaboration between the two, and three songs from that session that were not released until decades later, when they were included in a box set. Sinatra/Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings features digital remastering and expanded liner notes by Stan Cornyn, longtime head of creative services at Warner/Reprise and author of the book about the Warner Music Group, Exploding. Sinatra and Jobim gathered at Hollywood's Western Recorders for three nights, January 30 through February 1, 1967. Jobim brought the beat in the form of bossa nova percussionists and arrangers. Sinatra supplied the producer (Sonny Burke), the string arranger/conductor (Claus Ogerman) and the rest of the orchestra. The resulting session produced ten songs including the classic "The Girl From Impanema" plus "Dindi," "How Insensitive [Insensatez]," "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" and six others. (After bidding atι a vista to Jobim, Sinatra, on the high of making one of his finest albums ever, stayed at the studio to record a duet with daughter Nancy that would reach #1 on the charts, "Something Stupid.")
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Eskamon is the new collaboration project between Amon Tobin (Ninja Tune) & Eskmo (Warp, Planet Mu) and the duo's first single - "Fine Objects" was released yesterday on Eskmo's own imprint, Ancestor Media.
"Fine Objects" is the result of the pair's unique take on sonic exploration and the manipulation of field recordings. From the onset, the two went out with a recorder, gathering sounds from around the house, yard and studio. Material recorded out of the studio included sounds from a parking garage elevator, a broken harp and the droning tones from a discarded piano. These were combined with more home-centric sounds to form the central theme to the song.
Musician, programmer, recording artist, beatsmith, dance floor commander, composer, sound designer, bad ass motherf*cker. Amon Tobin is all of these things but most of all a forward thinker. Pushing forward and never looking back has always been his focus. This is what gets him up in the morning and what keeps him up late into night. Regarded as one of the foremost influential "experimental" electronic artists of the past decade, he has released numerous singles and seven major studio albums under the mighty London-based Ninja Tune.
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Theresa Andersson is happy to announce the release of her first live DVD, "Theresa Andersson: Live at Le Petit." The DVD will be available exclusively at TheresaAndersson.com on April 15. Recorded on February 28, 2010 at The Le Petit Theatre in New Orleans and directed by Bridget Palardy (Be Your Own Pet, The Plastiscines, Nylon TV), the DVD features Theresa's entire performance for the capacity crowd, a duet with legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint, and extra bonus interview footage of Theresa. In celebration of the DVD's release. Theresa has announced a special encore concert and DVD release party at the Le Petit Theatre on April 24th Theresa's first in a series of JazzFest dates.
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Brazilian phenomenon Ceu is returning to the US this Spring for the second time since her gorgeous sophomore album Vagarosa was released in July 2009 via Six Degrees Records. The cross-country tour kicks off with two shows in Seattle at the Triple Door on Monday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 13, and includes a performance at Coachella on Friday, April 16, in addition to covering Portland and San Francisco on the West Coast. Cιu and her five-piece band will also stop through St. Paul and Chicago, before closing the tour on the East Coast with a show at the Highline Ballroom in New York City on Sunday, April 25.
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Townie Records is proud to announce the July 13th release of Star, the debut album from Chicago trio, Hey Champ.Though they have recently gained notoriety as electro-pop producers, Hey Champ have consistently been recognized as one of Chicago's premier rock bands. Since 2008 the band has toured nationally, opening for acts like Vampire Weekend, Lupe Fiasco, Justice, Jet, Kid Cudi, Sebastian Tellier, Raekwon, The Bloody Beetroots and Passion Pit. The diversity of these acts, and their fans, is a testament to the wide appeal of Hey Champ's music.
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Benjamin Taylor is currently working on his new album set to be released in the Fall of 2010 and is releasing new songs every week through his website. He will be sharing new songs, some covers as well as alternate versions of his original songs leading up to the new album release. This week download a new cover of Sade's "By Your Side" as well as a few other songs at
- www.bentaylormusic.com.
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