Day in Pop Report for 07/09/2014
On Tuesday (July 8), though those plans have come to a halt. A statement from Aiken Promotions, the company behind setting up the five shows, has confirmed Brooks' decision to pull out of all five concerts in Croke Park. According to The Journal, the Dublin City Council refused to grant a license for two of the five concerts. Brooks has been adamant that it was "all five shows or none at all." He later added that to choose which shows to do and not to do would "be like asking to choose one child over another." This news comes ahead of Brooks' press conference this Thursday (June 10) on his website. more on this story
Radio.com reached out to Oberst's publicist, who refuted these claims. "He has not been dropped by Nonesuch. We're contacting TMZ to correct." The contract in question was purportedly worth $200,000, though Oberst's publicist did not address this claim when emailed. According to Rolling Stone, Oberst filed a libel lawsuit over the rape allegations back in February. In the suit, he claims his accuser has a "history of inventing stories and personalities online in order to gain attention." more on this story
But now U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland has dismissed the rap-metal duo's lawsuit, reports the Detroit Free Press. Within the 14-page opinion released last week, Cleland noted the FBI's gang threat assessment "does not recommend any particular course of action for local law enforcement to follow, and instead operates as a descriptive, rather than prescriptive, assessment of nationwide gang trends." ICP's lawsuit was prompted after the FBI's 2011 report titled "National Gang Threat Assessment: Emerging Trends,"a document that classified their fans, commonly known as Juggalos, as a "loosely organized hybrid gang," with warnings that they'd begun expanding across the country and were known to "exhibit gang-like behavior and engage in criminal activity and violence." more on this story
Sweatshirt was scheduled to appear at a series of music festivals including the Montreux Jazz Festival, Splash Festival, Les Ardentes, T In The Park, Pemberton Music Festival, and FYF Fest. Here is what he told fans via Twitter, "I sincerely apologize to any of y'all who planned to see me at these next couple festival dates. Due to lack of self maintenance I had to press eject on the tour. I am physically and mentally at the end of my rope. I weigh a fraction of what I'm supposed to and without synergy between the body and mind there is nothing. No point in performing if it's not the best show I can give every time. Now that I am home I can get healthy and get this album out to y'all while it's still fresh."
Last year Metallica caused a stir with a massive show promoting their movie Through the Never at the giant gathering, and this year only seems to expand on the notion that music can be included in the convention. Linkin Park will headline the first ever mtvU Fandom Awards and MTV Fan Fest, both to be held at Petco Park, Thursday, July 24, MTV announced today. Also slated to appear over the course of its run, July 24-27, will be G-Eazy, MGMT, and Grimes, reports Billboard. Those last two won't just be playing any party, they will be playing a party on board an actual aircraft carrier.
The video, which was also released on Tuesday, paints a similar image and brings the song to life. While a man is burying his wife, he tells the story of their lives together, which all started in dirt. "You know you came from it and someday you'll return to this," Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley sing. "Dirt" is the first single from the duo's upcoming album, the followup to the chart-topping Here's to the Good Times, which spawned multiple country hits. In an interview with Radio.com during the ACM Awards, Florida Georgia Line said they feel no pressure recording the follow-up to their ACM-nominated debut album Here's to the Good Times. "We're in the studio working hard," Kelley said. "We've already got five to six songs tracked and rockin'. Joey Moi, our producer, is chompin' at the bit. He's as excited as we are." More from Kelley and the video here.
In fact, it may just be the most girl-power perfume ad ever made. In the new clip, the animated version of Perry swashbuckles and confounds a crew of men, including guards, kings and wizards, who aim to turn all the first born daughters in the land into brainwashed maidens of the court. A spritz of Royal Revolution dazzles them and in the end Perry uses the bottle to crack the spell in the most literal of ways. She becomes the animated liberator of all the women in the land. Watch the clip here.
Nutini's new studio album, "Caustic Love", will be released in North America on September 6th. The album has already topped the charts around the world including in the UK, Ireland and Italy. To celebrate the North American release of the album, Nutini will be launching the tour on September 15th at Sound Academy in Toronto, ON and will wrap up the trek on September 29th at the House of Blues in San Diego, CA. U.S. fans will be able to catch Nutini on television as he makes appearances on CBS Saturday Morning this Saturday, July 12th, ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! on August 28th and NBC's Today show on September 17th. more on this story
The Nashville event will include appearances from Randy Houser, Kip Moore, Jon Pardi and Chris Young and will benefit the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, a Children's Miracle Network Hospital. The Greenroom sent over these details: This year's annual event will once again begin at the Harley Davidson of Columbia (1616 HarleyDavidson Blvd., Columbia, TN) for an hour-long ride that ends downtown at Nashville's Riverfront Park. From Riverfront, Bentley will take the stage for a family-friendly day of music with a lineup that will continue to grow as the event approaches. "The Riser bird symbol we've been using to represent this album has really come to mean something to my fans. I've been hearing stories about it on the road, people are getting tattoos of it. It's a symbol of strength and resilience, and I think it's perfect to extend into what we do for Miles & Music, especially when we are talking about the history of the event, the bikers and fans who come out every year to support it and most importantly, the children and their families being treated at Vandy. " said Bentley. "The Riser Bird Movement that started this week is a cool way to get the community involved in a deeper way and earlier this year�.it's been fun to see it start to spread across town." This month, Nashville residents can "Flock It Forward" here by sending Riser Birds to their friends, also benefitting "Miles & Music. More info and ticket details here.
"She Came To Give It To You" features production by Pharrell, and has his fingerprints all over the track with the smooth '80s boogie soul sound. "Don't be like O.J. and forget your glove" Nicki Minaj comes in and delivers 16 bars. Usher's as-yet untitled eighth studio album will be out later this year, and will feature from Diplo, Juicy J, Chris Brown, and more. Listen to the new song here.
And then Crosby, Stills and Nash, appearing on the show to support their latest box set CSNY 1974, come out to add their lush harmonies to the chorus. Previously, Fallon only reunited with Crosby and Nash for a similar rendition of Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." but this time they got the whole "band" back together. Watch the performance here.
Menzel, the Oscar-winning singer behind Frozen's chart-topping "Let It Go," will bring her theatrical vocal chops to the pre-game ceremony where she'll perform a cover of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young," Billboard reports. Meanwhile, Imagine Dragons will kick off the festivities this Saturday as part of the lead-up at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. They'll be followed by a performance from Panic! At the Disco at the All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game a day later. more on this story
As the congregation breaks into song with "Amazing Grace," a young Moore is portrayed listening to an equally fiery pastor as he preaches about heaven and damnation. In an interview with Radio.com during the ACM Awards, he elaborated on the theme behind the song. "I grew up in a small Southern Baptist town, and the song is speaking of what that's like as a young kid and young teenager," he told Radio.com. More.
"Diamonds" is more hard-hitting than the soulful material Common's become known for, with its echoed shuffling beat produced by his longtime collaborator No I.D. It seems primed for the club with lyrics like "Walk up in the thing and got my campaign poppin'/ Champagne poppin, bad thing poppin'" casually delivered by Big Sean. The song is a lot more light-hearted than "Kingdom," the Chiraq-inspired first single Common shared from Nobody's Smiling, featuring verses from Chicago upstart Vince Staples. Listen here.
Fans of the artist formerly known as Diddy's shiny electro album Last Train to Paris should find something to like in "My Heart." The slinky, atmospheric slow-burner sees Sean Combs rapping over balmy synths and melodic guitar work - with his voice processed almost beyond recognition - and backed by Gerber's robotic vocals. It sounds like a continuation of the sonic palette Combs experimented with Last Train to Paris, which makes a lot of sense considering he sampled Gerber on the intro to that album. In an interview with VIBE, Gerber said that the pair connected after Diddy released Last Train to Paris. "He said, 'I really love your stuff. Maybe we should do some music together. If you're in New York, let's hang out," Gerber recounts. "He told me, 'All electronic music is booming right now in the States' but he was coming to Ibiza 10 years ago and he told me, 'Let's show them what it really is, because right now it's booming with really commercial stuff. Let's show them how originally it was supposed to be.'" Listen here.
But look closer and you'll see something more. The directors, Alex Lee and Kyle Wightman of BRTHR Films, have placed Ware into positions that loosely recreate several artistic masterpieces. Ware's sprawl upon the grass, with hair floating around her, is a recreation in a different setting of Waterhouse's "Versions of Ophelia." There's a shot framed so we only see the back of her head as she stares off into the sun over a grassy field. It is also, in the first time we see it with the blue sky/white clouds background and her dark trench coat, a different visual take on Magritte's "Son of Man." The constant blurring and fuzziness is a nod to the style of work done by Gerhard Richter, who pioneered photorealistic painting. Watch the video here.
Going on to carve out individual careers at the advent of the new millennium, Digweed would establish the influential Bedrock record label and launch the long-running Transitions radio show, releasing a string of mix albums including the Live in� series, which debuted in 2012. Voted the world's #1 DJ in 2001 by DJ Mag (a distinction currently held by Hardwell), Digweed is diplomatic about his place in the relatively new world of EDM in America, now marked by huge festivals and pop crossover success. "It's their moment. It's their Woodstock, it's their Twilo," he said during a recent interview with Radio.com about the current generation of dance music fans. "I think it's great they're getting their experience in electronic music. It's not the music that I play, but you can see how much fun they're having and there's nothing wrong with that. It was the same when the raves first started in England. Some of the music and some of the people�it was just terrible. But their musical tastes changed. Everyone wants to be at the biggest event. and then suddenly after a while they want to go somewhere�where the music's a bit cooler, to something a bit more edgy to what's happening in here. I think it's a balance, you know." When asked to define music released on his own label, known as "the Bedrock sound," Digweed described it as a conglomeration that runs the gamut of electronic music, yet still works together as one. more on this story
The rapper called out Wale on Tuesday on Twitter for not helping to promote his upcoming album, Dreams Worth More Than Money. He tweeted, "Wale just ain't gone tweet a thing about my album�. He's been hating on me long time now �don't even text me cornball! #UNOTMMG." He then tweeted " I don't really want no suckas in arm reach of me.... My hands might lose control! That's how I'm rocking" and then added " I don't need no support...It's about a lot of these dudes really b hating behind closed doors..All these guys that's on the rap scene kno" Wale responded in a long, thoughtful manner via his Instagram account. Read the full, unedited post here.
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