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Day in Pop Report for 09/11/2014


A Nearly Naked Justin Bieber Gets Booed
(Radio.com) Nothing comes between Justin Bieber and his Calvins, except for maybe a booing crowd. Tuesday night (Sept. 9) at Fashion Rocks, the music and fashion show that aired on CBS (Radio.com's parent company), Bieber hit the stage with model Lara Stone to introduce a performance from Rita Ora and the corresponding Calvin Klein fashion show.

According to Billboard and confirmed by clips that have surfaced online, from the moment Bieber hit the stage the crowd started booing, but that didn't stop Bieber from stripping off his blazer, black top and pants. Eventually he was just standing on stage at the Barclays Center in a pair of boxers. Though, as he made clear, he is very comfortable in his Calvins.

Unfortunately, there were not nearly enough Beliebers in attendance to overtake those who weren't really interested in seeing the Canadian pop star in his skivvies. Though, perhaps, the crowd was just concerned they were going to see Justin Bieber's private parts�again.

Not that Bieber seemed to mind the tepid response, tweeting a Vine of his Magic Mike moment with the message, "Grandma always said kill 'em with kindness�and then strip on live national tv." Watch video here.

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Want To Date Britney Spears?
(Radio.com) Are you thinking about asking Britney Spears out on a date but would like a helpful checklist of the pros and cons to mull over before you actually do? Well, Jimmy Fallon sure made things easier for you.

Spears has made no qualms about letting fans know she is single after her boyfriend, David Lucado cheated on her. Now Fallon says, Brit-Brit "sings good jingles, she loves her Pringles and she's ready to mingle."

On Tuesday night's (Sept. 9), Tonight Show Fallon brought Ms. Spears out to a standing ovation and let the pop star know that he had taken a pretty big step in her quest to find the perfect mate. Namely, signing her up for Tinder. With Britney looking rather confused, Fallon admitted he was totally serious and even set up the profile using the tagline, "This better work, b-h."

"I want to stress that Britney had nothing to do with this," he said. "This was our idea." And how does Britney feel? "I'm thrilled," she said, ever so sarcastically. So, start swiping eligible bachelors.

Fallon did eventually give his pros and cons of dating Britney, included pro: you can cuddle and watch her favorite show. Con? That show is The Late Show with David Letterman.

Watch the rest of Fallon's list here.

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Chris Brown and Kendrick Lamar Collaboration Leaks
(Radio.com) Chris Brown's latest album, X, is nearing its September 16 release date, and that means songs are starting to leak out of the collection like air from a punctured tire.

The song that is creeping around the internet at the moment is the previously announced collaboration with Kendrick Lamar, titled "Autumn Leaves." The song features Brown's voice swirling behind masks of delay, echoes and a vocoder, giving the song a particularly modern feel.

Lamar shows-up mid-way through to drop a show-stealing verse, typical of his tendency to steal just about every song he is featured on, including the recently released collaborations with Flying Lotus ("Never Catch Me"), Jeezy ("Holy Ghost") and Jasmine V ("That's Me Right There"). Read more here.

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Ancient Swamp Creature Named After Mick Jagger
(Radio.com) Over his 50-plus-year career, Mick Jagger's lips have become icons in their own right - but now they have been immortalized in textbooks, kind of. Scientists have named a swamp creature that lived 19 million years ago in Africa after the Rolling Stones' frontman for his lips.

Jaggermeryx naida, which translates to "Jagger's water nymph," was a mix between a hippo and a long-legged pig, according to Phys.org. As for its facial similarity? "The animal probably had a highly innervated muzzle with mobile and tactile lips, thus the Jagger reference," said Duke University paleontologist and study co-author Gregg Gunnell.

"It may have used its sensitive snout to forage along river banks, scooping up plants with its lower teeth and large lips," co-author Ellen Miller added. The extinct animal's fossils were reportedly found scattered around catfish, turtles, waterbirds and crocodile poop at a remote site in the Egyptian desert. More details here.

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Ariana Grande Announces North American Tour
(Radio.com) Fresh off of releasing her new album, My Everything, Ariana Grande is taking her acrobatic falsetto on the road. After Grande kicks off the new season of Saturday Night Live and presumably releases a couple more visuals for her album, the singer will tour across North America in February, beginning in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 25.

From there, the pop star will head to the East Coast and then back track to the West, where she'll finish in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on April 16.

One of the biggest dates of the tour is a set on March 20, when she'll take over Madison Square Garden in New York. Check out a full list of her tour dates here.

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Neil Diamond To Release Melody Road Next Month
(Radio.com) Neil Diamond's Capitol Records debut will arrive next month. The singer's Melody Road, his first release with the record label, will hit stores on October 21st.

Produced by Jacknife Lee and Don Was, it's the first studio release of original material from Diamond in six years, 2008's Home After Dark, and his first record since 2010's Dreams, which was made up of covers.

The 12-track album includes the title track (and a later reprise), plus songs like "First Time," "Something Blue" and more. The 11th track, "The Art of Love," has a newly premiered lyric video as well.

"It takes tremendous vision, focus and determination - combined with a mega-dose of God-given talent, charisma and soul - to create music that becomes indelibly ingrained in the fabric of our culture," co-producer Was said in a statement about the album. Read more here.

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Nick Carter Discusses New Reality Show
(Radio.com) For those wondering what exactly it's like to date a guy in a boy band, Nick Carter's new reality show I Heart Nick Carter will reveal everything. In an interview with Radio.com, Carter opened up about the show and how he and his wife deal with death threats from fans.

"I'm basically starting a life with my wife now," the Backstreet Boy told Radio.com. "It shows how difficult it is to be in a relationship with someone like myself. The lifestyle that we actually live, being in a boy band at 34-years-old, all the things she puts up with because she's just a normal girl and it's hard. It leads to a happy fairy-tale ending but it's not typical."

While Carter describes the show as a unique love story, he said it does have it's fair share of drama in it. In fact, in an interview last year with Radio.com, he revealed that life isn't easy for the wives and girlfriends of a boy band member.

"My fianc� actually gets the brunt of it," he told us last year. "There are girls out there that send her death threats and tell her they want to kill her and write her name on Twitter and draw pictures of her. We deal with that on a daily basis."

So how does Carter and his wife overcome these things? Nick and Knight bandmate Jordan Knight, who will appear on an episode of the show, has given him some advice. Read what he had to say about that and more here.

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Stevie Wonder Launching Songs in the Key of Life Tour
(Radio.com) On Wednesday in Los Angeles, legendary R&B singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder announced a 10-plus city tour of his beloved album Songs in the Key of Life that will see him hitting major cities this fall.

The location for the announcement makes sense, as the album was recorded primarily in Hollywood in 1976, Wonder's 18th album at the time, and considered by many to be both his best and his most important. That "plus" included in the number of tour dates takes on increased importance in the city of the press conference, as Los Angeles wasn't one of the 10 cities included on the initial itinerary.

The tour, produced and promoted by Live Nation, will kick off Nov. 6 in New York City at Madison Square Garden and will continue through Dec. 5 when it wraps in Oakland, Calif.

In between, Wonder has lined-up stops in Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Auburn Hills, Atlanta, Toronto, Las Vegas and Seattle.

Check out the current slate of dates here.

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The Lumineers Working On New Album
(Radio.com) We last heard from the Lumineers with the release of a song they wrote for The Walking Dead, "Visions of China." But soon, we'll be hearing a whole lot more from them because the Denver folk rock band is at work on their sophomore album, the followup to their 2012 self-titled debut.

The band announced the news on their Instagram today, where they posted a photo of lead singer and guitarist Wesley Schultz along with the caption, "Well folks, we are back in the studio, chippin away at some new ideas. It's been one hell of a ride so far and we are excited to be writing again. Thanks and stay tuned�"

On top of working on their album and having written a song for The Walking Dead, the Lumineers also contributed to the Lorde-curated soundtrack for the upcoming film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 - out Nov. 21. More details here.

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Nas Appears On ScHoolboy Q's 'Studio' Remix
(Radio.com) Nas and ScHoolboy Q have at least two things in common. Not only are they both on the brand new remix of Q's standout track "Studio," from his recent album Oxymoron, but they also both have new releases on the way.

In "Studio (Remix)," Nas takes a moment to casually drop that his new album is imminent. "Finished up my new album / single about to be droppin' / Last album on Def Jam and I got so many options," Nas raps before joining in on the song's hook.

Just yesterday, ScHoolboy Q revealed that he's already at work on a new album, possibly due out at the beginning of next year. BJ the Chicago Kid also hops on the remix right after Nas leaves with the announcement that's he's single and looking - "I'm interviewing, holla."

BJ picks up where Nas leaves off on the chorus, making the remix a little slinkier. Take a listen here.

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Macy Gray Returning With New Album and Tour
(Radio.com) Macy Gray is back, with a new album called The Way due out on Oct. 7 and a tour to go hand-in-hand. She's also got a new music video for the track "Bang Bang." It's a blues-inspired track full of fuzzy guitars and scratch notes that sounds like a first cousin to the music The Black Keys are making.

Radio.com caught up with the GRAMMY-winning singer/songwriter to talk about The Way, Stevie Wonder and Metallica. "You gotta hear it," Gray says of her new album. "It's really raw, it's dirty, it's grimy but it's some of the best songs that I've ever done."

Gray says the album reflects where she is now; speaking to grown-ups instead of kids who have some life experience under their belts. And uniqueness, long a characteristic Gray had in spades, was at the forefront of her thinking when she was working on this album.

Gray also addressed her remake of Wonder's Talking Book, a project she undertook for the album's 40th anniversary.

"It was really a challenge to try to redo 'Superstition,'" Gray said. "So many people have done it and we didn't want to do it the same way as the original. That was a big deal. Other than that, we had a really good time."

More with Macy here.

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Miranda Lambert Starts Her Own Bed And Breakfast
(Radio.com) Miranda Lambert continues to build her empire. Recently, the country singer launched her own bed and breakfast called The Ladysmith in Tishomingo, Okla. Located near her store, The Pink Pistol, Lambert restored the historic 1901 building, which resides at 221 W Main Street.

According to its website, the bed and breakfast has eight bedrooms, each of which was personally designed by Lambert - "It's Shabby Chic meets Rock & Roll," the website states.

Lambert purchased the building last year - and though she renovated it, the history remains. Vintage photographs surround the bed and breakfast, and antique items collected by Lambert herself can be found on the premises.

More details here.

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Frankie Ballard Releases Sunshine & Whiskey Video
(Radio.com) Frankie Ballard's latest single "Sunshine & Whiskey" is an ode to kisses and whiskey. So it's only fitting that his music video for the song has plenty of each.

Shot in a Pueblo village in southern California, the video finds Ballard driving into the town with a vintage Porsche convertible. Once settled, he straps on his guitar to play some tunes for the locals before he joins them to take shots of whiskey in the hot summer sun.

When his dream girl approaches, he leaves to follow her. With the chorus of, "Every time you kiss me it's like sunshine and whiskey," it's no surprise that the kissing scenes take up the majority of the video.

In an interview with Radio.com during record release week, Ballard talked about the title track to the album. "The way we arranged it, sonically speaking, that sound is going to be identifiable with the record," Ballard explained. "It's a fun song, 'Every time you kiss me, it's like sunshine and whiskey.' It's a summertime thing."

Read more and watch the video here.

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Ariana Grande Set For SNL Season Premiere
(Radio.com) Ariana Grande is among the musicians kicking off Saturday Night Live's 40th season when it rolls around later this month. SNL is celebrating its 40th season for 2014-2015, with a large retrospective planned for Feb. 15.

According to Vulture, Grande will be the musical guest on the season premiere of SNL on Sept. 27, pairing with host Chris Pratt, who will host the show for the first time.

The performance will be Grande's first appearance on Saturday Night Liveas she continues to promote her just-released new studio album "My Everything." More details here.

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