Day in Pop Report for 10/09/2014
The 53-year-old Arkansas native was taken into police custody after she missed her probation hearing for impersonating Krauss and went on the run, KRQE in Albuquerque reports (via Taste of Country). Evers, who was tracked down by police at an Albuquerque motel, impersonated the singer on a dating website and then convinced a recently widowed man that she was Krauss in person, by singing some of her songs. It should be noted that Evers in no way resembles Krauss and it's ironic that someone who'd be looking for love on a dating site wouldn't be tech-savvy enough to google the GRAMMY-winning musician he thought he was dating. Read more here.
The latest paparazzi encounter may have left a bad taste in Jay's mouth, however. On their way into the Louvre, Jay Z and his daughter encountered some Parisian paps. As their security guard asked the press not to shoot video, the photographer asks, "Who's he?" If the intent was to ruffle feathers, he was successful. Jay Z caught the remark and shot back at him, "Who are you?" with a grumpy look and kept walking. Watch it here.
The shows, which are part of Brooks's ongoing world tour, take place Nov. 21 to 22 at 7:30 pm at the Greensboro Coliseum. They mark the singer's first shows in the state in 16 years. Brooks will release his new album, Man Against Machine, on Nov. 11. The album includes his current radio single "People Loving People." Fans can pre-order the album at garthbrooks.com and at Brooks' new digital retail outlet GhostTunes. Read more here.
Such is the case with the NY Post, who just this past Sunday (Oct. 5) posted a story with the title "Ex-Fugees rapper bailed on his own 9/11 benefit concert," and yesterday (Oct. 8) saw a $30 million dollar defamation lawsuit filed against them. According to the NY Post article (via Billboard), Pras didn't show up as the headliner for a 9/11 charity event in Hell's Kitchen to benefit his Hope for Them foundation. Also among the claims was that the foundation bounced a check to the venue, falsely claimed MTV was sponsoring the event and failed to register the charity with the state. According to Pras, he "has never owned nor been an owner, director or officer of the Foundation, that he never guaranteed a performance at the event and that the event had nothing to do with 9/11." Read more here.
FGL's Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley just revealed tour dates for their upcoming 2015 Anything Goes Tour Wednesday morning (Oct. 8) on the Today Show. "With this tour, it's our first worldwide tour," Brian Kelley tells Radio.com. "It's our first full-year of headlining. We're bringing our buddies Thomas Rhett and Frankie Ballard along with us to join the party. It's a bigger scale. Bigger venues, more people, more lights, more smoke. Maybe some pyro. Maybe some lasers. You never know. We're still planning. We're trying to make it big and fun and try to create the best moments that we can. That's what our shows are all about, moments that you're never going to forget. Feel the music is what we're going after for our fans." The tour kicks off Jan. 15 in Toledo, Ohio, at the Huntington Center and includes stops throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as a gig at New York's Madison Square Garden on Feb. 25 which the guys say is a "dream come true." "We're very, very excited," Hubbard tells Radio.com. Currently, the trek ends May 8 in Atlantic City. Dates announced so far here.
As he walks through this beautiful autumn wonderland, where the leaves have already changed to yellow and orange, Pharrell runs into some familiar French robots, Daft Punk. And no, they don't share a Pumpkin Spice Latte. Instead, Daft Punk ride around in boulder spaceships in the likeness of their helmets only to appear as constellations in the sky. Of course, we already knew those Frenchies were out of this world. But, it's Pharrell's G I R Ls who take center stage in this clip, showing off their Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon moves. Watch it here.
"Being on my own, prioritizing my girlfriends, my family and my music above everything else and trying things I never thought I'd try," Swift told the magazine. "It's really been a liberating and freeing time." Swift said she made a conscious decision to embrace the single life. "I made the decision to spend time on my own and figure out who I am," she said. Read more here.
It will be specially packaged in a lift off box that includes five CD mini-jackets housing the discs and a 16-page booklet. According to a press release from their label, Alive in Berlin "includes the full live show, inter-spliced with behind-the-scenes footage, multiple interviews with the band and their fans, and a two-song acoustic session, which was filmed at Salon Bel Ami, the oldest existing brothel in Berlin." Corbijn has been shooting videos with Depeche Mode almost since the launch of the band in the late '80s. They first collaborated on music videos for "Strangelove" and "Behind the Wheel," continuing with Corbijn helming iconic videos for the singles "Personal Jesus," "Enjoy the Silence" and "Walking in My Shoes." Alive in Berlin is available on Nov. 17. The track list for all included deluxe version discs is here.
Songs on the album include their breakthrough hit "Chicken Fried" from their 2008 major label debut as well as last year's "Sweet Annie." Additional hits featured are "As She's Walking Away (featuring Alan Jackson)," "Knee Deep (featuring Jimmy Buffett)," "Goodbye In Her Eyes," "Whatever It Is," "No Hurry" and "Jump Right In." The Greatest Hits So Far� collection follows the late 2013 release of Zac Brown Band's The Grohl Sessions, Vol. 1. See the full track listing for the new compilation here.
Andy, "They seem very unified�I asked her (Theresa) on Thursday night (part two of his sit down airs Thursday) if she blames Joe for her sentence and term, what she says is pretty interesting�We also talk about whether he has a problem with alcohol and some other kind of allegations that they made in court about the show." Andy addressing reports Teresa kept stopping the taping, "It was a typical reunion show which means it was really dramatic, emotional, intense, obviously there was an undercurrent of something incredibly serious that'd just happened with Teresa as we all know, but we all got through it." Andy also commenting on Teresa and Joe arriving separately, "It was because we needed her first thing and didn't need him for a few hours, so they did arrive separately, but they left together." Read more here.
There's choreographed dancing, dreamlike shots of Jessie J, and sexualized adonis male dancers � la J Lo's "I Luh Ya Papi." Amid all of those things, Jessie cools off in a pool while wearing what has got to be one of the most decadent swimsuits ever made.Spoiler: it's made of gold. 2 Chainz comes in near the end with this fiery introduction: "Everything hot like it's fresh off the grill." The music video for "Burnin' Up" marks Jessie J's second video from her upcoming album Sweet Talker, following the similarly-spirited summer-day-in-the-city video with Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj for their collaborative track "Bang Bang" - which also appears on Grande's My Everything. Watch the video here.
First came "Or Nah", then "Black On Black," and now "Hit Em Hard." Like all the cuts we've heard so far off Year of the Wolf, The Game has locked down excellent features - this time from Bobby Shmurda, Freddie Gibbs and Skeme. Shmurda handles the chrous, his gravelly voice a perfect foil for the hard, trance-y beat. The Game proves that his run of strong singles before this wasn't just a fluke; he's in fine form, rapping in his typically referential way about "shmurdering" his enemies. But the strongest verse comes, undeniably, from Gibbs, who's been mostly silent since dropping his Pinata project with Madlib. His verse illustrates his tough-as-nails approach to street politics: "ES to the GN I'm the boss/Drop the package off," he raps. "Comin' for the murder, masks off/B***h you took a loss/F**k the DEA, we shook them off/B***h we shook them off." Listen here.
The video finds Aoki and Kid Ink exploring a world of Where The Wild Things Are-esque cyclopses and neon pillars, "staying out all night until [they] feel delirious." The creatures harry the rapper and producer through iridescent portals and turgid lakes of gelatinous color, through skies filled with oranges and eyeballs. Watch the video here.
Strippers haunt his attempts to enjoy everyday civic spaces: a park, a recording studio, even a convenience all mysteriously sprout a stripper pole as Ne-Yo walks through them, a hunted man. Strippers even invade a library. Is nowhere safe? Juicy J features on the song. We never learn if he, too, is afflicted, because he remains safely in the confines of a strip club. Joining him there is the famous stripper Nicole "The Pole" Williams, famous for her appearance in Rihanna's "Pour it Up" video. Ne-Yo is releasing the video in advance of his Live In Concert tour, an 11-city run that starts off Oct. 12 in San Francisco. Watch the video here.
Anticipation is high for her album, Sound of a Woman, with the pop artist already having attained 100 million views on her video for the single "Hideaway" and charting at No. 1 on iTunes in 30 countries. "Michael Jackson was a huge influence in my house," Kiesza said in a VEVO Lift interview. "Robyn, CeCe Pennisonton, Etta James - anybody with a big voice�These people just seemed impossible to reach. How could I ever have a voice like that? I just loved listening to their music." Listen here.
It's been more than a year since Trap Lord hit stores, and during that time Ferg's been holed up in the studio with some of his favorite producers. Rumors spread that this coterie includes Skrillex and Diplo. On this topic, Ferg was elusive. "Maybe," he told XXL. "But you know, a lot of those people are my friends, so a lot of the times if I'm not working with them, we're just vibing. But I can definitely tell you it's going to be crazy and it's the new Ferg; it's not A$AP Ferg, it's not Trap Lord, it's Ferg and I'm giving my all and I'm going in. I'm going in deep, like I'm telling true stories and it's gonna be crazy." So how long until we can hear the final project? "It's almost done. I'm just tweaking it right now," he explained. Read more here.
The 50-year-old studio is part of an office building at 30 Music Square West that was sold to local Bravo Development this summer for $4 million. Bravo had plans to either sell the building to a new buyer or to raze it in order to allow for new development on the site. Preservationists, musicians and fans - including musician Ben Folds (who has rented Studio A for years and regularly produces artists in the space) - built a grassroots campaign to save the studio that gained national attention. Now area philanthropist Aubrey Preston has stepped in, forming a trust in order to purchase and preserve the property. AMT Trust is currently under contract to pay $5.6 million for the property. This isn't Preston's first preservation project. He was previously involved in revamping the historic Franklin Theatre as well as the nearby Leipers Fork area. He is also working with the Americana Music Association to create a tourist region called the multistate Americana Music Triangle, which will encompass an area from Tennessee to New Orleans. In an interview with industry magazine MusicRow, Preston called the impending destruction of Studio A in favor of condos or other development on the site a "disaster for our town." For Preston, this wasn't any ordinary building. His interest in the space, he said, "comes from my appreciation of the history of American music and the role that Studio A played in that." Read more here.
One of the items up for bid was Nelson's red braids, which the country singer gave to Jennings in 1983 to show support for Jennings' sobriety. The story gets even better once you know Nelson presented Jennings with the hair at a party thrown by Johnny Cash that same year. It has not yet been revealed who exactly bought Nelson's red braids. Though, we're interested to know what you do with someone's old hair, albeit a famous person's 31-year-old hair. Read more here.
Radio.com: Your book Hell: My Life in the Squirrel Nut Zippers, about your time in the band and the aftermath of "Hell" just came out. Is there any stone left unturned? Tom Maxwell: Of course there is. There's the stuff that I don't want to tell anybody, and there's the stuff that I don't want to tell anybody and the stuff that I don't remember or wasn't there for, really good stories I have no doubt. Then there's my memory of the stuff and I don't even know if that's�it's like a Fellini film. And then there's all the stuff that happened after I ended the book. So we're in a field of stones, my friend! [laughs] Have you heard from former bandmates at all? [Zippers guitarist/saxophonist] Ken Mosher called me and said it made him cry. In a good way! He said he really liked it. You underline several times that you had no idea it would be singled out to be a hit. Was that true even from a novelty standpoint? Oh yeah, that's probably the truest thing I've ever written. For one thing, just given where radio was at that time�.we didn't even think like that. If you looked over the playlist from KROQ at that time, there was no room for us. We weren't really capable of sitting around and calculating, um, the degree to which we'd be able to write a novelty song. I wrote it because we needed a closer. We needed an uptempo songs to close our sets. Crowds really liked it�but crowds really liked us! And I was happy for them to like it. Other than record people telling you that's the song they were pushing, there was no insight into- Oh no, the record label didn't push it! That was never released as a single. What happened was the label rep in California went to KROQ and wouldn't stop bugging them about it. Tom Osborn was the guy's name. And he was just, "Please play this. Please play this. Please play this." And he just knew it. He knew it. The label tried to work "Put a Lid on It" as a single, and I don't think it did super awesome. But this guy Osborn goes on his own and harangues these people, and they go all right, all right, and they play it as a joke, on like, the lunch show. And then the phones go crazy. And we're like, what? I don't think the label imagined in their most fervent prayers, that we would go top 20. What did you clear up the most with this book? Oh my god, I have no idea. I don't know if there's anything to clear up. I think it's just, who are these people, how did this whole thing get started, what were the mechanics of it? And how improbable the whole thing was. We recorded the Hot record in New Orleans in six days. And it did pretty well and I think we sold scores of thousands of copies. And for us, that was better than the first record, so everything was groovy were happy. And we were in the middle of recording our third record when "Hell" broke as a single. It got all these great reviews. Pitchfork! Read more here.
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