New Michael Jackson Songs Fake?- New Lady Gaga Leak Shot Down- Swine Flu Kills Pop Singer- Zsa Zsa Gabor Loses Leg- Katy Perry Tease- Susannah York RIP- more

(Jam!) A publicist for Lady Gaga has dismissed the leak of a new song called "Animal", purported to be a track from the superstar's upcoming album Born This Way, as a fake. more

(BBC) Trish Keenan, the singer in the Birmingham electro-pop group Broadcast, dies of pneumonia after contracting swine flu. The band had been touring in Australia and Singapore before Christmas when Ms Keenan contracted the swine flu virus. more

(Billboard) In another example of artists turning to Facebook over troubled MySpace for their Web 2.0 needs, Katy Perry will be visiting Facebook headquarters on Wednesday to make a "special announcement." more

(Jam!) Aretha Franklin was baffled to hear the media attribute her recent health crisis to pancreatic cancer, insisting she has no idea where that rumour came from. more

(BBC) Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor's right leg, which was infected with gangrene, is amputated in life-saving surgery her doctors have deemed a success. more

(BBC) The creators of 1980s soap Dynasty have announced plans to turn the US series into a film, according to reports. Esther and Richard Shapiro are working on a prequel about Blake Carrington finding out he is heir to the family's oil empire. more

(Jam!) Debbie Gibson has warned Justin Bieber to slow down on his rise to superstardom, because he will "lose his sanity" if he fails to stay grounded. more

(Yahoo) Aretha Franklin's unheralded recordings at Columbia Records will get another perspective with an expansive 12-disc box set that makes the argument that the Queen of Soul was already royalty before her career-defining hits at Atlantic Records. more

(Yahoo) "The Green Hornet" flew into the top spot at the weekend box office in North America on Sunday despite bad critical buzz for the 3-D superhero comic-book adaptation. more

(Jam!) Serena Williams has dismissed reports she's planning a wedding with rapper Common, insisting he's yet to propose. more

BBC() British actress Susannah York, who appeared in several key films in the 1960s and 70s, dies at the age of 72 after suffering from cancer more

(Yahoo) Showtime says it's teaming with the San Francisco Giants for a baseball program that will follow the defending World Series champs this season. more

(Yahoo) Call them amateur paparazzi. A picture happy couple tried unsuccessfully to catch actor Gary Busey on camera in the wrong place at the wrong time, but police arrested the pair instead. more

Cirque Berzerk will add one last show to their nearly month-long CLUB NOKIA run with a one time only matinee Sunday, January 30 at 4:00 PM. The CLUB NOKIA January 2011 residency kicked off January 7 and a special grand opening celebration was held January 12.

Glee and The Social Network Big Winners At Golden Globe Awards

Accepting the Golden Globe for BEST TELEVISION SERIES � COMEDY OR MUSICAL for "Glee" (FOX) is producer Ryan Murphy, at the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA on Sunday, January 16, 2011.

After a digging his comedic claws into more of Hollywood's favorites, the evening launched with Christian Bale taking the Best Supporting Actor trophy for playing the drug-addicted brother of boxing champion Micky Ward in The Fighter. The film also picked up the prize for best supporting actress: Melissa Leo played the mother of the pair. more on this story

Behind the Video: Cosmo Jarvis' Gay Pirates

Well the video initially began with a concept of mine that revolved around being on a boat. A big ass square rigger. Now I had written a treatment for an extremely serious, very raw and literal visual presentation of events and characters in my song. The video was to be brutal in educating the audience of what really went down on that pirate ship. Not a single gimmick or anything ever able to be classified by anybody with an opinion on gimmicks to be a gimmick, was to be allowed anywhere near this piece of drama telling the story of two gay pirates bound together by fear of the homophobic captain. I wanted all the events I described in the song to be there: the pirates sticking glass in the soles of the persecuted pirates' sandals and forcing him to wear them by threatening violence against his true love, the fact that they are only truly at peace with each other as they are forced off the plank one after another by the entire crew of the pirate ship. These events, in my mind, had no other way of being shown unless it was with the profound seriousness I imagined when walking though the story for the first time. But can you imagine the insurance and extra crew needed to shoot an insignificant music video on a fully sized square rigger ship that required twelve crew.? I firstly felt like if all the "MTV-wont-play-it-if-its-got-blood-and-gang-rape-in-it" advice really ended up being true ( despite my answering "it'll be honest, they'll understand, i cant compromise because it'll be so easy to notice and then I'll look like prick who makes sh*t videos with no substance or meaning,) that I'd look like an even bigger prick.

It ended up that the boat thing couldn't happen. Was never gonna. So, while thinking to brew up another idea that was both honest to the intent of the original work and also 'doable', I thought of creating a situation in which the story could be conveyed as if the events in it were considered similar to any other well known tragic tale of love and misfortune. The characters in the video are telling my story to the audience for me but the fact they are doing it through a performance medium suggests they are paying a homage or tribute to, or showing recognition of characters that were conceived to fool people into forgetting that some 'things' need not be things at all. In this instance, Gayness. These show 'a people' still relating to a story years after its fibres began intertwining are honours that legends, saints, martyrs and historical figures receive years later for the journeys, sacrifices, deaths and stories we remember them by. Little things like songs, plays, puppet shows and books. So yeah, I thought it would give the story a more objective take on itself while still maintaining its slightly abstracted core.

I shot it in a village hall in Holbeton, Devon. I used crew I had worked with before for the most part. Not many crew, just Dan Broadley as Camera Operator but also D.O.P, Rosie Hiller painted the set, Chris Roberts controlled the lights, Robyn Egan did make-up and my brother, Fletcher, was production assistant. Everyone helped out on some level with a drill or by making food. The cast were guys I knew, Sebastian, the pirate I kiss is my actor friend Dave Egan. We rehearsed for two days and shot the final take on the second. I insisted that it be one take, firstly because I wanted it to be like watching the show the characters playing the characters are performing. They wanted close ups and sh*t but It would have been worse video for it, what's the point? The Rig was a little thing I call the cross dolly. Its home made dolly resting on two tables pointing at the stage with another ladder dolly positioned on top at a ninety degree angle pointing either side of the stage. This meant that the camera could travel anywhere within an square area of space, almost the width of the hall and able to track forward into more concentrated action onstage or back to show a full view of everyone on stage. This meant the one take thing could be a little more interesting.

Secondly I wanted it to be one take because I love Wes Anderson. Also, one other thing - one take: no post, a little light grading but nothing much at all. It did kinda suck directing it, purely because I couldn't always see what the show looked like because I was onstage. Also, from the work I've done on my shorts, I'm pretty used to acting and directing. But When your acting - on a stage, and directing on a stage in front of everyone else there, like Wendy who did catering, you can't help but wonder if you sound like a little sh*t who wants his own way and is calling the shots based on some idea for a music video about gay pirates. The best thing was playback because everyone was into it. Never worked on anything like that before, where all the actors come out and welcome the realization that they f**ked up that take because they want to improve it next time. Everyone did ace.

Now that you know the story behind this video, you can watch it for yourself right here!

The Social Network The Critics Choice at Critics Choice Awards

"The Social Network" was named the year's Best Picture and David Fincher won Best Director honors for the film. Other big winners of the night included Colin Firth, who took Best Actor for his role in "The King's Speech" and Natalie Portman, who won Best Actress for her role in "Black Swan." Also honored were Christian Bale with the Best Supporting Actor award and Melissa Leo for Best Supporting Actress both for their work in "The Fighter."

Best Action Movie went to "Inception," while Best Art Direction and Best Editing went to "The Social Network." "The Fighter" was honored with Best Acting Ensemble and Best Original Screenplay honors went to David Seidler for "The King's Speech." Best Young Actor/Actress went to Hailee Steinfeld for "True Grit." "Toy Story 3" won Best Animated Feature and Best Comedy went to "Easy A." more on this story

Neil Diamond Radio Returns

"Neil Diamond Radio" will be available only on Sirius Internet Radio, SIR channel 804, and XM Radio Online, XMRO channel 31, and through the SiriusXM App for the Apple iPhone, iPod touch and several BlackBerry and Android-powered smartphone devices on SiriusXM Limited Engagements, starting today Friday, January 14.

The music channel will feature music spanning the iconic recording artist's forty-year career, including songs from his chart-topping, Grammy�-winning albums. In 2010, SiriusXM launched the limited-run "Neil Diamond Radio" channel celebrating the release of Neil Diamond's album Dreams. more on this story

Elvis Is Back

A half-century later, Elvis Is Back is now coupled with 1961's Something For Everybody, an album he recorded back in Nashville one year later. Along with one dozen hit single sides recorded (also in Nashville) and charted over roughly the same period of time, the deluxe Elvis Is Back: Legacy Edition will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting March 1, 2011, through RCA/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

Elvis Is Back: Legacy Edition follows the template of the recent RCA/Legacy releases, From Elvis In Memphis: Legacy Edition and On Stage: Legacy Edition. With each title, the definitive version of one of Elvis' most essential albums has been expanded to include another historically significant album from the same time period, along with the hit singles associated with both albums. more on this story

Trent Dabbs Sets New Album Release

This project is both a return and a departure. The album is a return to Trent's heritage, and recalls how the South has shaped his art, but the tone is also a slight departure from his previous pop and rock-driven songwriting. The track titled, "Leave To See", the first song written for the album, fittingly describes the paradox of more clearly seeing your home from a different place, a different perspective.

Trent says that on Southerner he, "wanted to peel back the layers . . . and portray ten separate stories that have been woven into my southern life". Growing up in the rich literary and religious environment of Mississippi, and then moving straight into the country-soaked musical world of Nashville, Trent has many stories to tell. Like Flannery O'Connor with her short story collection, A Good Man Is Hard To Find, Dabbs pieces his own spiritual and relational questions into a coherent, haunting compilation. The ghosts of Johnny Cash, old gospel-choirs, Neil Young, and Nick Drake are heard roaming the halls of Trent's songs. more on this story

More Artists Added To Country Thunder Music Festival

They will join the previously announced Toby Keith, Jason Aldean, Martina McBride, Rodney Atkins, Eric Church, Neal McCoy, Sawyer Brown, and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band at the event which runs April 7�10, 2011.

Kicking off the festival will be Jason Jones along with Steel Magnolia, recipient of nine major industry award nominations including CMA and ACM Vocal Duo of the Year. On Friday, Georgia native and singer-songwriter Brantley Gilbert will be joining Danelle Leverett and Susie Brown, better know as the JaneDear Girls. With their current hit "Wildflower" earning spots on both Billboard's Heatseekers and Country Chart and their recent ACM "Top New Vocal Duo or Group of the Year" nomination the JaneDear Girls have proven that they are ready to take country music by storm. Saturday's crowd is in for a treat, with entertainment from Walker Hayes, who's debut single "Pants" has already captured country fans across the U.S., and longtime country favorite The Bellamy Brothers, who's talents have earned them more than a dozen chart-topping singles in the U.S. and Europe. For the final day of the festival, 2010 ACM "Top New Vocal Group of the Year" Gloriana returns to the Country Thunder stage, and will be joined by Troy Olsen, who's current single "Good Hands" is currently climbing the country singles chart. With this line-up, Country Thunder is a festival that can not be missed! more on this story

Tony Lucca Maps Out More Tour Dates

Lucca continues his tour in support of his latest album, "Rendezvous With The Angels."

He also recently participated in The Rock Boat XI and made a cameo appearance on the hit NBC show "Parenthood," where he performed his song "Like Love." more on this story

James McMurtry Reissues Announced

Live in Aught-Three has been remastered since its original 2004 release and will be available on vinyl for the first time. The deluxe double LP also includes a copy of the album on CD. McMurtry will also embark on a rare solo tour this winter corresponding with the reissues. His 2011 touring plans also include a co-headlining run with the Bottle Rockets.

While 2005's Childish Things isn't an overtly political record, the centerpiece has to be "We Can't Make It Here," McMurtry's commentary on the state of the union. Novelist Stephen King, a longtime fan who has written about McMurtry several times in his Entertainment Weekly column (including the January 7, 2011 issue, where he hailed McMurtry as "the best songwriter in America"), described "We Can't Make It Here" as the "best American protest song since [Bob Dylan's] "Masters of War."' Childish Things and "We Can't Make It Here" won the Americana Music Awards for album and song of the year, respectively. more on this story