Pete Wentz got a little drunk this week and made a bad decision – he got a tattoo of Cobra Starship singer Gabrile Saporta’s face. The Fall Out Boy bassist went on his Twitter to tell the world all about it, saying “my head hurts. i was buzzed lightyear last night. followed thru on a gentlemens bet w/@gabrielsaporta now i have 1 more bad tattoo. my brain needs to stop kicking my eyeballs in the face. it makes sense in my head.” I’m sure the wife and the baby love it. How stupid can he be? Oh wait – he did marry Ashlee Simpson after all.
The premiere of the Michael Jackson documentary ‘This is It’, brought the King of Pop fans out in droves last Tuesday night but Sony is a little worried. Even though the film earned $2.2 million in one night, the execs at Sony are crossing their fingers that the number won’t taper off by the weekend’s closing. Luckily, critics are predicting that the film will earn $15 million by next week, not to mention the massive flood of money coming in from screenings overseas. All that’s left now is for us to wait and see if the numbers go up or will prove to be a disappointment.
I have some good news for the residents of LA – Courtney Love is moving out! The washed up rock singer and incoherent blogger has packed up and gotten the heck out of Malibu and is now officially living in New York City. New Yorkers can blame the move on Courtney’s “double-crossing employees” for staging bogus police raids on her Malibu home in an attempt to get a piece of Kurt Cobain’s fortune – or so she says. She also said claims that her phone had been tapped and computer could have been hacked into. There’s some evidence though that her employees attempted to place fund “to senior citizen housing developments and property all throughout the United States”. It’s hard being Courtney Love.
Bon Jovi is pretty much charging an arm and a leg for the band’s upcoming gigs at the O2 Arena in London and their fans are pretty upset about it. The upper tier ranges from 45 to 75 pounds while floor seating costs up to 200 pounds. An angry fan even started a website voicing concerns over ticket prices, explained “This means I’d have to pay £200 to get a good spot to see the band perform. Last time they played London I paid £75 for the same spot. And then I’m not even talking about the booking fees…” I have to admit – the prices are steep for any concert really, much less a Bon Jovi concert.
After Garth Brooks announced that he was coming out of his retirement and performing at the Wynn Las Vegas resort, tickets to the country singer’s first 20 shows sold out in less than five hours. I’m not surprised at all considering that Garth is one of the best selling solo music acts ever. Garth signed a five-year deal with Steve Wynn to perform 15 weeks of shows a year with the first one going down on December 11. The tickets cost $125 and that still doesn’t include all those pesky convenience charges. He better give his fans a good show if people are forking over that kind of cash in the crappy economy that we’re all in.
Cheryl Cole’s debut single ‘Fight for this Love’ has topped the UK sales record that was set by the singer’s group Girls Aloud. The band’s 2002 single ‘Sound of the Underground’ sold 213,000 copies in its first week of sales but Cheryl’s new single sold over 231,000 units in the first five days of its release alone. Wow! Congratulations are definitely due for her. With Cheryl coming out on top of her own group’s sales record, it’s pretty safe to say that she has made a good start with her solo career. I wonder if she’s going to shatter any more records.
Verizon People’s Champ Award – Fabulous Ft. The Dream – Throw it in the Bag
Best Hip Hop Collabo – T.I. FT Rihanna – Live Your Life
Lyricist of the Year – Jay-Z
Producer of the Year – Kanye West
CD of the Year – T.I. – Paper Trail
Best Hip Hop Video – T.I. FT Rihanna – Live Your Life
DJ of the Year – DJ AM
Made-You-Look Award – Kanye West
Best Live Performer – Jay-Z
Video Director – Hype Williams
Track of the Year – Young Money – Every Girl
Rookie of the Year – Drake
MVP of the Year – Jay-Z
Hustler of the Year – Jay-Z
Courtney Love has been having all kinds of money issues lately and there seems to be no end to them. A US judge has recently ordered the rock singer to pay Elite Maids for their services totalling over $3000. Apparently, Courtney refused to pay for the maid service which prompted the company to take her to court. But being who she is, Courtney ended up bailing on the court date and by default, the judge had to rule against her. I guess she has other more important things to worry about – like maybe that $300,000 she owes the US government.
Beyonce had a show slated for Malaysia this week but she has decided to postpone the concert, allegedly due to Islamic extremist criticism of her performing style. Due to her so-called provocative clothes and choreography, conservatives of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party think that the show would be immoral and should be cancelled. Promoters of the singer’s show would not confirm whether the postponement was in response to the criticism but they did confirm that it would be rescheduled for a “future date to be announced shortly.” If Avril Lavigne and Gwen Stefani could make it work in Malaysia, Beyonce sure can too!
U2 have confirmed via video blog that their sold-out concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California, Sunday 25th October 2009 will be streamed free, in full and live on YouTube. It’s the first time a show of this size will be streamed live.
The Rose Bowl show is the penultimate U2 show this year – with more to come in 2010 – and already is set to host the venue’s biggest ever audience of over 96, 000 fans. The 360˚ Tour, which has been critically acclaimed and “re-invents rock’n’roll”*, will now boast unique access for fans worldwide – as fans in territories yet to be visited by the tour, or not at all, will be able to enjoy the whole show online. Managed in partnership with Live Nation, this sell-out tour has broken attendance records in most venues it has visited – its success due in part to increased capacity coupled with a lower ticket price and great sight lines afforded by the stunning in-the-round stage set. Visit U2.com or youtube.com/u2official for details of how to join in this ground-breaking on-line event.
U2 manager Paul McGuinness said – “The band has wanted to do something like this for a long time. As we’re filming the LA show, it’s the perfect opportunity to extend the party beyond the stadium. Fans often travel long distances to come to see U2 – this time U2 can go to them, globally.”
YouTube will be streaming live across five continents. The show will be available in the usual You Tube way, as video-on-demand, following two full replays – after the live stream – on both U2.com and You Tube.
“YouTube is thrilled to be able to provide our global audience with a live streaming performance from one of the world’s greatest bands” – Chris Maxcy, Director of YouTube Partner Development. “We are always looking for new ways to connect fans around the world with their favourite artists, and this is the perfect opportunity to do just that.”
On November 2 at 11 p.m. ET, Fuse, the national music network, will televise the worldwide premiere of Nirvana Live at Reading, the band’s legendary, never-before-released 1992 Reading concert. The show, marking the first time that Nirvana fans will experience the epochal August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at UK’s Reading Festival, will debut as an hour long broadcast the night before the limited edition 90 minute CD+DVD Deluxe Edition is by Geffen/UMe.
Featuring 25 songs including “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” “All Apologies” and “Come As You Are,” Nirvana’s performance at Reading ranked No. 1 in Kerrang Magazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” chart and was voted as “Nirvana’s No. 1 Greatest Moment” by fans in a recent NME poll.
“Fuse is excited to provide Nirvana fans with the first opportunity to witness this historic music event since the concert 17 years ago,” said David Weier, vice president, programming, Fuse. “Not only are we airing a highly anticipated, never-before-seen concert in more than 65 million homes, we are providing Nirvana’s loyal fan base with companion programming for a comprehensive and unique viewing experience.”
Leading up to the premiere of Nirvana Live at Reading, Fuse will air “Loaded: Nirvana,” a half-hour of Nirvana’s greatest music videos at 10 p.m. ET, followed by “Videos That Rocked the World: Smells Like Teen Spirit,” a celebration of the legendary music video which was a breakthrough for music, entertainment, culture and society.
While the show’s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn’t be released until 2 years later on In Utero: “All Apologies,” “Dumb,” and in its first ever public performance, “Tourettes.” The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band’s 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and first single “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-’80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound– “The Money Will Roll Right In” by Fang and “D-7″ by The Wipers.
Kim Kardashian has admitted she is feeling “a little old” as she celebrates turning 29.
The reality star said she feels older already and said her boyfriend Reggie Bush was the first one to wish her a happy birthday.
Kim turned 29 on October 21 and she said: “I’m not going to lie, I woke up this morning feeling a little old! It’s my last year in my 20s.”
She added: “The first person to wish me a happy birthday was Reggie. He called so early this morning.”
Kim also dished the details on how she plans to celebrate: “I lived it up at Tao in Las Vegas over the weekend, then New Orleans had a special birthday celebration for me.
“Tonight [Oct 21] in LA. I’m having an all-girls dinner. This will be fun and I can let loose with all my best friends.”
Joel Madden has said his daughter Harlow is “so happy” to be a big sister to new brother Sparrow.
The 30-year-old Good Charlotte singer became a dad for the second time when girlfriend Nicole Richie, 27, gave birth to son Sparrow James Midnight on September 30.
Madden said: “I love kids, I love working with kids, I love being around kids.”
Asked about how Harlow has adapted to being a big sister, he said: “She loves it. She’s so happy, she’s just psyched. She totally gets it. It fit in perfectly there – hasn’t been a hitch.”
Madden said that parenthood is much easier the second time around: “Well, one, it’s a boy – so you’re not as precious, so he’s going to be a little tougher.”
Tune in to The Ellen DeGeneres Show on October 20th to catch a performance from OneRepublic. The band will play their current single “All The Right Moves” which appears on their forthcoming album Waking Up due out on November 17th.
OneRepublic recently premiered the Wayne Isham (Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, Metallica) directed video for the track which can be seen here.
A woman who once claimed that Michael Jackson communicated with her through his music just filed a creditor’s claim against the late singer’s estate and she wants an insane amount of money. Helena Harris-Scott filed the creditor’s claim in LA County Superior Court last week, demanding a cool $50 million. The crazy woman first filed a lawsuit against the King of Pop in 2006, claiming that Michael installed a tracking device in her car, wiretapped her phone and even had “organized criminals watching me inside my house in L.A. and reporting to him.” She was asking for $100 million back then. What the heck would Michael been tracking her for?
Today, and for the next 3 weeks, AOL’s Noisecreep.com will be releasing an exclusive and/or unheard audio clip from the amazing FMQB Metallica/Alice in Chains interview, “Inside Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way To Blue.” This week’s clip features Metallica talking to Alice in Chains about their collaboration with Elton John on the song “Black Gives Way To Blue.” “It’s a really intense song, and a really open-hearted song to Layne and the experience that we went through,” Cantrell says to Hetfield and Ulrich about the title track. “Facing up to all of that stuff, and owning all the good, and owning all the bad, and moving forward together. It was a lot of big steps…things were pretty black for us. It’s pretty literal to that, and things are starting to get a little lighter.” Keep checking back in the coming weeks for parts 2 and 3 of this classic interview.
Breaking Benjamin lead singer Ben Burnley is going to be part of Xbox Live’s “Game With Fame” series tonight (10/15)! Ben will be playing “Call of Duty 4″ with the gamertag “BreakBen GwF” (make sure you put the space between BreakBen and GwF!) between the hours of 7pm-9pm EST. Anyone can play so all you need to do is log into XBox live and play “Call of Duty 4″. Make sure to bring your “A” game!
Breaking Benjamin have also just released their new album Dear Agony on September 29th. The album made a big splash at iTunes, debuting at Number 1 on the album chart.
Breaking Benjamin are also about to embark on a fall tour with Rev Theory, Sick Puppies (select dates), The Veer Union (select dates), and Adelitas Way.
Tour dates are as follows:
11/29/09 Sunken Garden Amphitheatre, San Antonio, TX
12/2/09 The Pavilion, Lubbock, TX
12/5/09 The Cotillion, Wichita, KS
12/6/09 Shrine Mosque, Springfield, MO
12/8/09 Val Air Ballroom, West Des Moines, IA
12/9/09 Sioux Falls Convention Center, Sioux Falls, SD
12/14/09 Scottrade Center, St. Louis, MO
12/16/09 The Egyptian Room at Murat Centre, Indianapolis, IN
‘Gossip Girl’ actress turned aspiring singer Leighton Meester just released her first single ‘Somebody to Love’ off of her debut album. The song features R&B crooner Robin Thicke. The 23-year old spoke to Ryan Seacrest on his radio show recently, talking about her song. Leighton said the song is “definitely about what’s going on in my life and I think anybody can relate. You’re crazy, you’re busy, you’re young and you’re running around and it’s really hard to find somebody to love. People love you but you don’t really love them.” I like the song. I’m just not completely sold on it.
American Idol cutie David Archuleta has recently announced via a video blog that he’s going on tour this Christmas to promote his latest album ‘Christmas from the Heart’ which is already out. David’s a precious little singer and he seemed so excited about going on tour again. You just have to love the young people in the music and entertainment industry who are still so keen on everything. But it’s even more fun to get a look at them a couple of years later and see just how jaded and angst-ridden they become. Here’s to hoping that David doesn’t end up like any of those guys.
Emmy Rossum is opening up about her 45-year old rumored boyfriend, Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz. The 23-year old actress told People at the grand opening of the W Hotel in Washington DC, “I get why chicks dig him. He’s extremely kind, incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, creative and respectful.” Adam has dates the likes of Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox. As for her dating status, Emmy would only say “I don’t discuss my love life because it’s always misinterpreted or put under the microscope. It’s especially annoying when you’re dating someone else who’s well-known, which is why I normally would never go out with a famous guy… Let’s put it this way. I’d be flattered if someone hit on me tonight, but I really can’t say if I’m available or not.”
