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Day in Pop Report for 04/27/2011


Ice-T Reality Show- Wahlberg Finds A Kidney For Fan On Twitter- Lil Wayne The Movie- Lady Gaga Special- Russell Crowe In Charge- Kylie Rap Team Up For Japan- more
The Day in Pop Digest for 4/27/11: (FMQB) In a new promo for her HBO special, Lady Gaga is shown sitting in a car recalling her rise to fame. "There was never a question in my mind that I was gonna make it and that this is my destiny and that we were all gonna make it as the kids of this city, as the New York generation," she says while driving through the streets of New York to Madison Square Garden, where she taped a concert for the special. more

(Hollywood Reporter) Rapper-actor Ice-T's family life is going under the microscope with "Ice Loves Coco," a new reality series at E! The half-hour series will revolve around the "Law & Order: SVU" co-star's marriage to his model wife of 10 years, Coco. more

(Billboard) Lil Wayne has revealed plans to release t a documentary following his current "I Am Music" Tour. Cameras have been set up to film performances and backstage footage on select dates along Weezy's tour across the United States. more

Outasight's new Figure 8 EP is out today and available for free, for a limited time, in exchange for an email address here

(AP) Donnie Wahlberg's Twitter skills have helped find a kidney for an ailing fan from Nashville, Tenn. After he retweeted a blog about a fan who urgently needed a kidney transplant, which prompted a slew of calls to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a match was found. Read the full story for more details here

(Billboard) Despite not being included on the "Songs For Japan" compilation, Kylie Minogue recently teamed up with Japanese rapper Verbal to create her own single to aid relief efforts in Japan more

(BBC) John Cossette, a longtime executive producer of the prestigious Grammy awards, has died aged 54, his family confirms more

(NME) Russell Crowe is set to make his directorial debut in a new crime drama. The Gladiator star is apparently seriously considering taking the reins in period cop movie 77, in which he would also star. more

(Billboard) Michael Rapaport will be hitting the road this summer with his documentary on hip-hop legends A Tribe Called Quest, "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest." more

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Attempted Murder Charges After Shots Fired At Reality Show Shoot
(TMZ) A man who allegedly opened fire at the "Repo Games" production team Tuesday night has been charged with attempted murder over the incident ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ. And -- TMZ has learned the alleged shooter was the owner of the car targeted for repossession.

Cops tell us ... it all went down when the "Repo" team arrived at a home in North Las Vegas to take the vehicle ... when the suspect came outside and got into a physical altercation with several crew members.

We're told the production security team intervened -- and that's when the suspect pulled out a gun and opened fire at the production crew right on the street. The man then retreated back to his home.

Cops responded to the scene and set up a perimeter around the home. During the stand-off, we're told the man threatened to kill himself. more on this story

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American Idol Lee DeWyze Announces Summer Tour
(RCA) American Idol Season 9 winner Lee DeWyze will be kicking off his first headlining tour in Columbus, Ohio on June 19.

Collaborating with Toby Gad (Alicia Keys, Fergie), John Shanks (Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow), David Hodges (Kelly Clarkson, Weezer), and Norwegian production team Espionage (Beyonce, Train), DeWyze co-wrote all but one song on the album, and as such has become the very first American Idol winner to have writing credit on a first single.


Fans registered to http://www.LeeDeWyzeOfficial.com will receive a special newsletter and password Wednesday morning, granting them access to an exclusive ticket pre-sale for these tour dates. more on this story

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The Go-Go 30th Anniversary Reissue
Capitol/I.R.S. have set a May 17 release date for 30th Anniversary Edition of The Go-Go's double platinum debut album, Beauty and the Beat, which has been digitally remastered and expanded for this special release.

The commemorative edition will be available in a 2CD package and in two digital collections featuring the remastered original album plus exclusive, previously unreleased concert audio recordings from 1981.

On the same date, the remastered original album will be reissued on pink vinyl with replicated original artwork. more on this story

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American Idol Focuses on Carole King This Week
It's probably just a coincidence that this is happening the week of the much-hyped Royal Wedding, but Idol will be celebrating a King this week.

American Idol will feature the music of Carole King tonight and Thursday night, as the final six contestants compete by performing songs written by King.

The show, which has experienced a rating uptick this season, averaging a dominating 25 million viewers per episode, will be devoted to King's remarkable career as a songwriter and performer. The episodes air at 8pm ET/ PT on Fox.

Carole is currently in the studio working on her first-ever holiday album with her daughter Louise Goffin producing, to be released this fall. More details will be announced soon. http://www.CaroleKing.com

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The Civil Wars Announce Dates With Adele
The Civil Wars have announced a series of select North American shows with chart topping singer Adele this spring in addition to their previously announces dates which stretch into early summer.

The Civil Wars are touring in support of their debut album, Barton Hollow, which debuted at #12 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on iTunes' overall Albums chart earlier this year (Sensibility Music).

Additionally, the band is currently a VH1 "You Oughta Know" artist to watch, while their music video "Barton Hollow" is currently #13 on VH1's "Top 20 Countdown." Moreover, on May 6, the duo will return for a second performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. more on this story

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Lindsay Lohan To Begin Community Service This Week
(TMZ) Lindsay Lohan is backing up what she said on "The Tonight Show" -- that she's a big girl who is finally taking responsibility for her actions -- because she's going to start doing community service this week.

Sources tell TMZ ... Lindsay will begin her 360 hours of community service at the Downtown Women's Center in Los Angeles this week.

Lindsay told Jay Leno she's not going to make excuses for her actions and will accept the consequences of violating her probation. more on this story

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Diana Ross Announces Intimate Gigs
Rick Bartalini Presents put out word that Diana Ross is set to appear twice this September and for the first time at two exclusive, small venues in Northern California.

Produced by Rick Bartalini Presents the two concerts by the superstar will take place on Thursday, September 15 at Lincoln Theater Napa Valley in Yountville and on Saturday, September 17 at the Marin Center in San Rafael.

On Friday, April 29 at 11 a.m. tickets go on sale for the first-ever appearances by Ross at both venues. The concerts will be intimate and unlike any other performances of Ross' career. Lincoln Theater Napa Valley seats just 1,200 patrons while the Marin Center seats 2,000 patrons. more on this story

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Phoebe Snow RIP
(Gibson) Singer-songwriter and '70s star Phoebe Snow has died. Known for her 1974 hit "Poetry Man" as well as collaborations with Paul Simon and Linda Ronstadt, the bluesy-voiced singer passed away from complications following a 2010 brain hemorrhage, according to Entertainment Weekly. She was 58.

Although Snow's self-titled debut album was a big success in the mid-'70s, her career was challenged by the care needed for her daughter, Valerie. She was born in 1975 with a severe brain injury.

"Occasionally I put an album out, but I didn't like to tour, and [the albums] didn't get a lot of label support," she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2008. "But you know what? It didn't really matter because I got to stay home more with Valerie, and that time was precious." more on this story

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Theresa Andersson Kickstarts New Album
(Girlie) Theresa Andersson hits the studio this week to begin work on her new album, working with long-time collaborator and fellow countryman Tobias Froberg as producer.

In celebration of the process, and to help finance the new album, Andersson is inviting her fans to watch her recording process live as part of a Kickstarter campaign, also launching today.

Known for her live shows, which feature the multi-instrumentalist building complexly layered songs live on stage, Andersson became an internet phenomenon in 2008, when YouTube featured a home-made video she taped of herself performing a song in her kitchen, created to promote her last album, Hummingbird, Go!. More than 1.3 million fans have since watched Andersson performing "Na Na Na", one of several videos that have come to be known as "the kitchen videos." more on this story

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Okkervil River Webcast Tonight
(Shore Fire) Tonight NPR Music will stream Okkervil River performing their new album, 'I Am Very Far' (5/10, JAGJAGUWAR), live in its entirety at The Cactus Cafe in Austin, TX.

Starting at 6pm CT / 7 PM ET, NPR Music will stream the audio/video webcast online. Later that evening,

KUT-FM will broadcast the performance and make the video webcast available on demand for a limited time at: http://www.npr.org/music more on this story

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