Day in Pop Report for 12/19/2014
He was part of a larger group arrested and detained by New York police stemming from a long-term sting operation on gun violence and narcotics operations in the city. Shmurda is being held on $2 million bail, which his label, Epic, will reportedly pay. He faces anywhere between eight and 25 years in prison. The charges against Bobby Shmurda include a count of conspiracy in the second degree, three counts of conspiracy in the fourth degree, one count of reckless endangerment in the second degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and one count of criminally using drug paraphernalia in the second degree. Read more here.
Yes, long before his White Stripes days, Jack White was employed in Detroit as an upholsterer. His upholstery mentor and Brian Muldoon briefly formed a band with him called The Upholsterers. The duo recorded two singles together. The first of these, Apple of My Eye, was released on a small label called Sympathy for the Record Industry in 2000. The second, "Your Furniture Was Always Dead I Was Just Afraid to Tell You," was supposedly pressed to 100 vinyl copies, and hidden by the duo inside of 100 pieces of furniture they were upholstering. It was then lost to time. Until now. Read more here.
The performances were filmed and stitched into a video, which is now online for your viewing pleasure. This is the posse cuts to end all posse cuts. Rappers of all stripes make appearances: Pusha T, Young Thug, Action Bronson, Killer Mike, Danny Brown, Raekwon, and YG are just a few of the names on display. The beats are as scintillating as the appearances: Hudson's horns brawl, his percussion stomps, and odd synthetic elements flutter. Check out a list of everyone on the song, in the order in which they appear here.
The 2015 list consists of 14 songs and 13 albums, including Williams' 1947 single "Honky Tonkin'," Otis Redding's classic "Try a Little Tenderness," western swing maestro Bob Wills' "San Antonio Rose," Chic's "Le Freak" and Aaron Neville's "Tell It Like It Is" as well as albums by Nelson (Stardust), Dylan (Blood on the Tracks), Neil Young (Harvest), Leonard Cohen (Songs of Leonard Cohen) and the Sex Pistols (Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols). Among the 2015 inductees, the oldest is a 1909 recording of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, while the most recent is Bonnie Raitt's 1989 album Nick of Time. Read more here.
Of course, they want all the ladies to know they want to fool around, but they don't really need you. No cuddle sessions here because as Tyga makes clear, his d-k too conceited and you're just his wife for the weekend. This is before he's shouting out Outkast's Stankonia and Prince's main girl, Apollonia. Brown talks about his chain shining brighter than a strobe light, motorboating and even makes some comments about his stint at rehab. Apparently it had a reverse reaction. We'll let you listen to the track yourself here.
That brings us to Wale, who will drop a Festivus mixtape on the common celebration day of the once-fake holiday: December 23. The trailer for the collection is a thing of understated genius, both in the idea of referencing recent releases from J. Cole and Nicki Minaj, and in the details, like the rapper's hat being the Seinfeld logo and proclaiming the message, "The album about nothing." Throughout the clip, Wale's thoughts are coming at a mile a minute, giving some hope that the release will be equally as manic and inspired. Or, maybe it will just be silly, as is hinted at in the closing, when a Festivus pole is delivered and the Seinfeld theme song kicks in. Check out the trailer for Festivus here.
The new DVD "Live Country!" was filmed back in August at The Paramount in Huntington, NY and features a 116-minute concert as well as a bonus interview with Adkins. "Live Country!" will include 20 songs including "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk," "Ladies Love Country Boys," "Songs About Me," "Chrome," "You're Gonna Miss This," and "Every Light In The House." Check out the cover art and tracklisting here.
French composer Pierre Boulez, Flaco Jimenez, the Louvin Brothers and Wayne Shorter will also be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ceremony, which will be held Feb. 8 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Additionally, Richard Perry, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil and George Ween will snag the Trustees Award, while Ray Kurzweil will receive a Technical GRAMMY. Read more here.
She feels like Kendrick gets praised for his use of character voices, something she's been doing for a while. Hello, remember Roman Zolanski and his mother, Martha? But feels she hasn't really gotten her props. According to UrbanDaily.com, Minaj said, "It takes skill [to do voices.]� Sometimes, when I hear the animated things that Kendrick Lamar does I respect and like him, but when I paid attention to certain things he does, I think to myself: 'I did that.'" But, Minaj doesn't harp on that, instead she talks about finding herself on her latest album, Read more here.
Yes, the man will be starring in a new five-part television series, Snoop & Son: A Dad's Dream, for ESPN in which he portrays the part of loving and involved father while his son excels in his role of high school football starting receiver for the national powerhouse Bishop Gorman High School in Nevada. In a new preview for the series, which begins airing on Jan. 14, we see Snoop giving his boy, Cordell Broadus, a pep talk and plenty of high school Friday Night Lights-ish footage of game days and practice. We also see Snoop taking care of fatherly duties like doing the dishes. As interesting as it is to think that Snoop does dishes, let's hope the series doesn't focus on this too much. Dishes are boring. Boring to do, boring to watch celebrities do. Check out the preview here.
While in NYC, the teen heartthrob turned solo pop singer graced the toy store with his falsetto'd presence. Instead of doing Tom Hanks' exact dance from the 1988 movie, Jonas made his dance a little more personal, hitting the keys from his charting single "Jealous," which he released earlier this year. Jonas also proved how talented a multitasker he is, singing and snapping his fingers in perfect time while dancing and playing the chords. The 22-year-old singer posted a clip from the session--which doubles as a second music video for "Jealous"--on his Facebook page with the caption, "I stopped by FAO Schwarz in NYC and had to pay homage to the man Tom Hanks� Check it out." Watch it here.
Two examples he brings up are "Here On Earth" and "Damn These Dreams." "'Damn These Dreams' will always be a really personal song for me because it's so real," he explains to Radio.com of the autobiographical track, which discusses falling in love with Hank Williams' music and the difficulty Bentley now feels having to leave his family for the road. As for "Here On Earth," he calls it "a really honest song that I think people who have experienced a traumatic loss will connect with. I like that it's different than what I've written." For "Here On Earth," Bentley also threw the expected songwriting structure ("verse, chorus, verse chorus, solo, bridge, chorus�") out the window. He says the track is "written from the gut and the heart." Fans already have had a taste of this personal side of Bentley's songwriting thanks to "I Hold On," his No. 1 single from earlier this year--a track that he says is one of the most personal songs he has ever written. Read more here.
The story beings in 1998, when the Roots drummer met LaBelle at an awards show and she offered some backstage promises to invite his band over for some home cooking, detailing an amazing-sounding meal including dinner and breakfast. DJ Jazzy Jeff, in a moment of foreshadowing, told Questlove that it'll never happen, as he's been waiting on those grits and pancakes since "Parents Just Don't Understand" was a hit. Never one to back down from fried chicken and potato salad, with which Quest seems particularly obsessed, he worked on projects for various people around LaBelle and even one for the woman herself, all to no avail. He constantly finds himself high and dry. "Now, this is just done," he said. "I can't with Patti LaBelle anymore. She has burnt me three times. I resolve to never, ever negotiate for any sort of food again." Watch it here.
Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton and Carrie Underwood are set to headline the festival, which will be held at the Woodlands at Dover International Speedway on June 26-28. Additional acts to perform include Jake Owen, Chris Young, Gary Allan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, Eric Paslay, Jon Pardi and Sturgill Simpson, among many more. Read more here.
On Wednesday night's (Dec. 17) wrapping had a little twinkle of former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe. Stipe played a cameo as "elf on the shelf" or, as Colbert introduced him, Stipe on a shelf. The appearance cut to Colbert's yard sale, his last attempt to get rid of the years of "crap" he's collected on the Colbert Report. Colbert invited the public to rummage through his junk in the Colbert studios, including the Stipe on a shelf, which was marked down to a quarter due to lack of interest. In other musical items, Colbert managed to sell a plastic Ringo Starr figure to a yard sale shopper who chose Starr over Paul McCartney. One lucky shopper also got an iPad mini for a dollar. Watch it here.
In an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Adkins talked his plans for a new album and film in 2015. In the midst of his winter tour, Adkins is filming a movie about car racing called Roadrunner and said he often feels inspired from the actors around him. 'When you're on a movie set, you're surrounded by incredibly talented, creative people, and I find that environment stimulating and invigorating, and I dig it," Adkins said. 'In order to grow in this life, you have to get outside your comfort zone, and when I'm doing that stuff, I have no idea what I'm doing, so I'm certainly outside my comfort zone." Adkins admitted that while he has been getting plenty of offers to star on television and in film, he's being picky. "I turn most of them down," he said. 'I'm at a place in my life and my career where I can do that; I don't have to take everything that comes along." Meanwhile, instead of taking up every film offer he's given, Adkins is working on new music. Read more here.
Just be clear, it was their label, Saddle Creek's idea to celebrate the milestone, not theirs. Kasher even admitted that he hadn't actually sat down and listened to the entire deluxe edition, telling Radio.com over the phone days before its re-release that he had only gotten through the first half of the vinyl, which now features eight additional tracks, but was "really relieved" at how it sounded. What Kasher hates about the record--the band's fourth studio LP and their "most alienating" in the frontman's mind--isn't the music necessarily, it's how it made him feel about himself. "I always had a strange relationship with this record because it started to feel like, 'Oh crap, everyone's going to hate this' and then it changed to a different kind of distaste I had for it. 'Why does everyone love this one so much?'" Kasher says. "I started to distrust the record and distrust myself, distrust my songwriting. It made me kind of question if I was somehow selling out without realizing it." The singer admits he doesn't have a lot of good memories from the time of the record. "I think it's a shame that I don't remember the better things, I don't remember the positive," he says. "But I think that's how we are as human beings. You remember all the awful things your parents did, don't remember the good things they did for you." Read more here.
The second annual "Drake Night" Wednesday night (Dec. 17), had Drake taking over, even getting a chance to handle the PA to announce the players as they hit the court against the Brooklyn Nets, putting a rather comedic twist on things. With flames erupting, Drake took the mic to put on his best announcer voice to talk about the starting lineup, which included a 7-foot Lithuanian, a Swiffer Wet-Jet tattoo and a "baby-faced assassin." Along with a pretty awesome special edition OVO x Raptors t-shirt, they also honored their favorite fan with a projection that had them showing photos of the team and Drake--minus him lint-rolling himself. Read more here.
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