Day in Pop Report for 10/29/2014
John Carter Cash was taken into custody for stripping down to his underwear at the airport, where he was returning home after a hunting excursion. According to CBC News, police responded to reports that a man had missed his flight, and appeared either drunk or to be suffering from some medical issues. Upon assessing the scene, the Canadian cops deemed Cash was indeed drunk. Read more here.
Instead of dropping her latest album on Nov. 24 as originally planned, she's pushed back the release date until Dec. 15. No reason for the delay was given. This announcement comes after it was revealed that her Young Money boss Lil Wayne will be pushing back the release of his upcoming album Tha Carter V originally supposed to be released on Tuesday (Oct. 28). No new release date has been announced as of now. Read more here.
"They're like a grenade waiting to completely injure you to the point where�okay, you can't see a sea urchin if you're in the Caribbean and you're like, 'This water's so beautiful. It's amazing!' and you're walking, it's clear water, you can't see a sea urchin's right there. You step on one and it has barbs and it goes into whatever it touches and then you have to go to the emergency room and it has to be surgically removed. You could lose your foot. You could lose your hand. You could lose your hand trying to get it off your foot. I don't like sea urchins." Swift also discussed her (sort of) new cat, Olivia Benson, who was named after her favorite Law and Order: SVU character. Her cat's full name is actually Detective Olivia Benson in honor of the character's position on the show, but since then, the human Olivia Benson has been promoted to Sergeant. "It's very confusing for the cat," Swift told Ellen. "Also for me." But, Swift has another name for her cat when they're just hanging around the house: "Dibbles," which she says better fits her kitty's personality. Read more here.
Filmed at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center last month the night his new album Sundown Heaven Town dropped (Sept. 16), "Shotgun Rider" shows all the elements of a McGraw concert. At the video's start we see McGraw backstage fixing his iconic black hat before strapping on his guitar. Dressed from head to toe in black, the country singer croons to the audience, who are seen taking photos on their camera phones. Throughout the four-minute clip we can see McGraw running into the crowd shaking fans hands, serenading girls in the front row and dancing along onstage. "This is one of those songs that really paints a picture and sets a mood," McGraw said in a press statement. "In my mind, you look over and see the person that you love next to you sitting in the front seat, and you think, 'How good do I have it? Life is perfect.' There is a certain warmth to this song and several others like it that really establish the tone for the whole album." Check out the video here.
Guests on Guetta's sixth studio album include, most prominently, Nicki Minaj, Sia, John Legend and MAGIC!. Nico & Vinz, Emeli Sand�, Afrojack, Ryan Tedder, Charli XCX-tourmate Elliphant, Sam Martin, Ms Dynamite, the Script, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bebe Rexha, Sonny Wilson, Jaymes Young and Birdy fill out the tracklist. Maybe Guetta is competing against T.I. for most features of the year? Guetta will premiere the video for "Dangerous," which he's teased with a lyric video, this Friday at noon ET. It was directed by Jonas �kerlund, who was one of the hands on deck for Beyonce's self-titled visual album that came out last December, and it will premiere globally via Google+ Hangout at YouTube Space New York. If you have any questions about the clip or anything else for Guetta, you can submit it starting tomorrow. According to a press release, he'll "be answering the top 10 questions from Google+ users with the most +1s." But for now you can check out the tracklist here.
The as-yet-untitled biography will be written by J. Randy Taraborrelli, who previously wrote biographies about Madonna and Michael Jackson, and is unauthorized, which means Bey has nothing to do with this. The book will attempt to "explore all facets of Knowles' life" including her childhood, her time with Destiny's Child, her solo career and her marriage to Jay Z through interviews with those who know and have worked with Beyonc�. Read more here.
On "Together," Stefani sings over some Harris' beats, and stresses the importance of living and loving in the moment. "One day we're gonna wake up together/ You won't want to go home," she sings on the trippy chorus. "We'll find a love here together/ And it feels so good in my arms." Stefani is just one of many guest vocalists on Harris' upcoming album Motion. Additional artists include Big Sean, Ellie Goulding and Haim, among others. Listen here.
If that seems crazy know that it was all in good fun for their new "Rollercoaster" video, the Springsteen-indebted single from their debut album Strange Desire. Singer Jack Antonoff, who also plays guitar in fun., wanted to go a less obvious route for the video and channel the visuals he saw as a kid. "The idea of getting on top of a car and playing on a highway felt distinctly '90s in a way that excited me about videos I saw growing up," Antonoff told Pitchfork, who premiered the video. However, there was a bit of a hitch with the video, about which Antonoff talked to Radio.com earlier this month. The ice cream truck apparently almost crashed while they shot the clip. "It wasn't scary in the moment, because we didn't know how dangerous the situation was," Antonoff told Radio.com over the phone days after shooting the clip. "It's not some crap where someone says they were in danger, like we literally were in a very, very treacherous situation, which makes the video more exciting if you know what were were up against, like, 'Oh, well, that's the moment right before the horrible thing almost happened.'" But as Antonoff told us this scary moment ended up being a good thing in the long run. "It's good because you put yourself in a dangerous situation to make something and it feels cool that you tried," he said. "Not that we did that on purpose, but that's what happened "I want people to know that when they watch the video, that, you know, it was like real life crazy danger." Watch it here.
Standing between August Wilson and Neil Simon theaters, Sting fittingly surprised pedestrians by joining the cast for The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic." An energetic number complete with confetti, the cast even managed to get a few New Yorkers involved in the sing-along. Streetgazers were in luck because that wasn't the only sidewalk performance of the night. After the performance of Sting's 1981 hit the cast then performed a choreographed number of "All Night Long" from The Last Ship. Watch the performance here.
The rest of the album features guests from a variety of genres: Devonte Hynes, aka Blood Orange, drops by for a soulful hook and some tender guitar work on the last song, "Figure It Out." Elsewhere, Jesse Boykins III lays down a verse and a hook on the pounding "Tribe," riding the EDM-inspired beat. "The goal was to get back to a happy place in my life," explained London to Complex. "I went through some dark times. On this album, I was chasing demons and sacrificing a lot." Hear the album, via Complex, here.
So if your curiosity about the Australian artist has been building, you might be able to soon quench it with an upcoming auction for charity. A jar of breath - you read that right - from the elusive singer is up for grabs on Halloween in her hometown of Adelaide. It's all part of the Adelaide Film Festival, whose director Amanda Duthrie orchestrated the auction for charity and will be kicking it off after hosting a movie quiz night with her partner David Stratton. If you're worried about the "Breathe" singer's breath escaping the bottle, Duthrie can assure you that it's packaged well. Read more here.
The first album since 2012's Invisible Stars, and the Art Alexakis-fronted outfit's 9th album in total, will get road-tested in advance of the release, as Alexakis goes on a solo tour this fall in advance of the new album. Fans attending the Everclear solo tour will receive the yet-to-be-named first single from Black Is the New Black as a download card. Check out a full itinerary here.
On their latest album, With a Little Help From My Fwends, they cover the Beatles' entire Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with a little help from their "fwends," including J. Mascis, My Morning Jacket, Foxygen, Phantogram and Maynard James Keenan, and Miley Cyrus. All artists' royalties from the album will be donated to The Bella Foundation, a non-profit organization based in the band's hometown of Oklahoma City that assists low-income, elderly, or terminally ill pet owners with the cost of veterinary care. We spoke with frontman Wayne Coyne about the album, doing covers, pets and some of his famous collaborators. I'm really curious what it's like when you work with Miley Cyrus: is she like what you thought she'd be like? Did she have a lot of handlers with her when she was in the studio? Last year, if there was a "person of the year," it was Miley Cyrus. I had a sense that she just didn't give a f-k. She had so many people telling her how stupid she was, or how embarrassing she was. But also, she had a lot of people telling her how absolutely great she was. And I could tell that she was like, "I don't give a f-k what people think." And to me, that's when the power of music and art really starts to accelerate. Because if you're really trying to sell records, that's a difficult area to play in. If you're trying to be popular, that's difficult. If you're trying to be something other than yourself, you're probably gonna lose. But I could tell with her, she's like, "I'm just doing whatever the f-k I want and I don't give a f-k what people think." And I think she knew that we were fans, and last year on my birthday she tweeted a happy birthday wish to me and said that I was one of her favorite artists, and I tweeted her right back. We just got each other's numbers after that and became friends. I think if you were around her, after five minutes you'd go, "Oh, I get it." I don't think I would have any fun being in the studio with someone that was surrounded by managers and handlers. She's not like that at all. I think that most of the people that are going to want to be around me aren't like that. Even when we did stuff with Kesha, three years ago now, she wasn't like that. Everybody's always like, "Working with Kesha: what was that like?" We just went to her house, and it was just her and us. There wasn't anybody else there, there wasn't anybody telling us what to do. It was our songs, and we recorded until about four in the morning, and then we went home. But Miley, in a sense, is like me in that she just does what she wants to do. She's the boss, she's not calling anybody saying, "Can I do a song with Flaming Lips?" If she wants to do it, she just does it. And anybody that works for her says, "Great, let's go do it!" And I think her camp does not look at it as being absurd. They know her, she's a freak. I can tell you for sure, she's a bigger freak than I am. You'd love her. I mean, if you were around her, the perception that people have, that would completely disappear, you'd just love her. She's absolutely fun and full of love. I don't know if you're familiar with the controversy between her and Dr. Luke. But is he the reason why your collaborative album with her got shelved? Well, yeah, when I go do music, I don't think about lawyers and contracts and things, I've kind of lived in this Flaming Lips world for so long. We really are just doing what we want to do, and Miley Cyrus is like that. She doesn't have a dilemma like Kesha did, or does. I think Kesha, when we did this stuff, we didn't know how it would turn out, we didn't have that much time together. But the stuff that we did together was just spectacular, and it made us want to do more. And I think we did like four or five songs, and then Kesha would remind me, "Wayne, I can't put this music out, Dr. Luke will kill me." I was like, "Oh! I didn't know!" I don't really consider it: to me, it's just about us and the music and if the music is worth it, I'll do anything I can to make it work. I worked with Erykah Badu, so believe me, I can make anything work! And Erykah is wonderful in her own crazy way. If the music is great, all these other things that get in the way - like the Dr. Luke thing - it's like, "We can get through that, it'll be OK." I don't really know the situation, only they do, I hope it works out. I hope that everybody can hear this music [that we made], it's great. It will be great, even if it takes five years to come out. The music that we did together, it's just stellar and I know that's why she wants it to come out. I don't know Dr. Luke at all, but when we [Kesha and I] speak, I know there's some anxiety about their relationship. I think she would like to have the freedom to do more things in that spirit. Where it's not - again, I don't know their situation - but so many producers producing her. She could produce herself, that's probably what she is wanting to happen with her own career. I love Kesha, she's great. Miley is a lot more of her own entity, I think the success of Hannah Montana has allowed her to be the king of her own destiny. And I think Kesha will get to that eventually. She doesn't have that sort of power now, but I think she will eventually. Read the full interview here.
"We have been looking at this category as fashion inspired fitness develops, and know that this is right in our customers' heartland," said Sir Phillip Green, owner of Topshop's parent company Arcadia. "Creating a partnership with Beyonc�, one of the most hard-working and talented people in the world, who spends many hours of her life dancing, rehearsing and training is a unique opportunity to develop this category." The Parkwood line is set to cast a wide athletic-wear net, creating "clothing, footwear and accessories across dance, fitness and sports categories." The items will be available for purchase in Topshop stores and online at their website. Read more here.
The track, "Liberty Street," is sung and co-written by Goldsmith and features a lyric video created with Dylan's original lyrics, detailing a time of waiting in Kansas City on Liberty Street. It's one of the album's shorter tracks, clocking in at only 2:45. The track is also available as an instant download with pre-order of Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes. The full album will be released on Nov. 10. The New Basement Tapes also includes Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops, Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons and album producer T Bone Burnett. Watch the video here.
Pharrell performed his first ever set at the Apollo earlier this year in a huge performance directed by none other than Spike Lee. The announcement listed five other individuals who will also be joining the board: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Jason L. Matthews, Carolyn Minick Mason, Charles Phillips and Bronson van Wyck. Together, these six new members will help further the theater's progress through planning and fundraising. Read more here.
"Radio Wave" is the first single from my new album In Real Time to be released October 28th. "Radio Wave" is a commentary on the multiplex of the new social experience, and the pursuit of meaning in an overwhelming sea of opportunities. Radio Wave ended up differently than what I initially thought would happen. I brought it into the studio after having loosely charted and fleshing out the arrangement the night before. I gave the charts to the musicians, and we started jamming on the chord progression while I hummed over the top. I had some ideas for hooks and a groove, but the melody was in shambles. After we did 2-3 takes - which is all we had time for at the end of a long, last day of tracking - everyone felt fine; that the song "played itself." It was in my personal studio that over the next year I could write and re-write the lyrics, change the format of the song, and sing about 200 takes before it felt like the features had taken shape on an anonymous malleable form. Overall, this song is a bit of an Americana-disco-outlier on the album. It's got the same textures as some of the other train-beat shuffles and ballads; upright bass, acoustic guitar, pedal steel, and piano - but the sum of the parts gives it a middle-of-the-night-wet-streets-loner-dance-party vibe. The second best place to listen to this song is probably in a car or on headphones while going to meet friends. The first best place is cranked up loud at a house party where it will flow easily between The Bee Gee's, Gotye, Chris Issak, and Robert Palmer. Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself here and learn more about the album and find Chris' upcoming tour dates with Ingrid Michaelson right here!
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