Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Top 10 Season 8 finalists are currently touring around the country and performing live for their fans. While the Idols are traveling about, we will be asking them your questions! Do you have a question for Kris, Adam, Danny, Allison, Matt, Anoop, Lil, Scott, Megan, and Michael? Post any and all of your questions in this thread: We’re Still Asking the Top 10 Questions.

Meanwhile, visit the Idol Tour page to read interviews, view photos, read reviews, and watch video clips.

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The week is over (as is the month of July), so it’s time to close the books here in the Newsroom. It was another wild one, with plenty of beef, a handful of rumors, a little hilarity and at least one incredibly amazing video care of Shakira. But what lessons did we learn? You can [...] Continue reading →

She has performed with Def Leppard, T-Pain, Miley Cyrus, Kellie Pickler and yes, even the Jonas Brothers. While hard at work on her new album, Taylor Swift shared with MTV News how much she’d like to work with White Stripes/ Raconteurs/ Dead Weather frontman Jack White.
Given the diverse kinds of talent she’s worked with over [...] Continue reading →

“Any random person can type something on the Internet and then the world believes it. I don’t talk to press or do TV or do promotions of any sort. I’ve stopped chasing and buying into fame. Fame is like cigarettes with no surgeon general warning. It destroys most people as it did to the true [...] Continue reading →

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Rock Daily is already on the grounds of New Jersey’s All Points West festival, ready to rock with Jay-Z, Tool, Coldplay and dozens more. We’ve already broken down the fest’s essential sets and artists to watch, so keep it locked to our APW hub for our coverage this weekend.
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Photo: Wargo/WireImageEarlier this week, a satirical Website called Scrape.TV posted a (fake) story about how, with the passing of Michael Jackson, Kanye West declared himself as the new King of Pop. For those who actually scrutinized Scrape TV and saw its other headlines (”Study Finds Silver Bullets Largely Ineffective Against Werewolves,” “Satanist Group Claims Devil [...] Continue reading →

This morning, the latest shot was fired in the beef between Eminem and Mariah Carey. Their war of words started a few years ago when rumors circulated that the two had been involved in a romantic relationship and escalated with the release of Em’s “Bagpipes From Baghdad” from this year’s Relapse. From there, Carey released [...] Continue reading →

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Wayne Coyne caught a ride on an ape and Big Boi made friends with a penguin this week. Plus, Bruce Springsteen engaged in some water aerobics, AC/DC ignited some stage pyrotechnics and Kid Rock made friends with the Red Sox manager. All those pics and more in our weekly roundups of the zaniest [...] Continue reading →

John Hiatt, Jimmy Davis, Sid Selvidge with Jimmy Crosthwait, Amy LaVere, Shannon McNally and North Mississippi Allstars will hit the stage on August 8th at a benefit to raise money for Memphis legend Jim Dickinson. Dickinson — a songwriter, producer and session player who sat in with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan and helmed [...] Continue reading →

“Funny People,” the latest film from “Knocked Up” director and all-around Hollywood comedy tastemaker Judd Apatow, opens today nationwide (and is getting excellent reviews). It stars a bunch of Apatow regulars like Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill but marks the first collaboration between the director and star Adam Sandler. The accompanying movie soundtrack features a [...] Continue reading →

It was a big week for supergroups: Monsters of Folk debuted three songs off their upcoming album, the 7 Worlds Collide project featuring Wilco, Neil Finn and members of Radiohead plotted their next release and we caught up with the Van Halen-and-Red Hot Chili Peppers-powered Chickenfoot in London. So this weekend’s Rock List is dedicated [...] Continue reading →

Kings of Leon brought their fiery sex to the Today show this morning, performing in a light rain that swiftly became an unfortunate downpour. Their brief set featured “Use Somebody,” “Notion” and “Sex On Fire” from the Followills’ latest album, Only By The Night. As it was live TV after all, the band wasn’t beyond [...] Continue reading →

The last time Weezer featured in a Flashback, we thought it was rambunctious Alternative Nation host Kennedy that stunned Cuomo into silence, but it turns out back in the mid-1990s, Rivers just didn’t like giving interviews all that much. This time around, on a Pinkerton promotional tour in 1996, Cuomo blames his uneasiness on the [...] Continue reading →

By Selina Kaye
While Kings of Leon were breaking records a few blocks south, Kelly Clarkson was attracting her own horde of die-hards to New York City’s Central Park for a performance on “Good Morning America.” The wet morning didn’t prevent fans in “I Luv Kelly Clarkson” T-shirts from forming the biggest crowd for any artist [...] Continue reading →

By Haley Murphy
As thousands of fans stood outside of NBC studios this morning for “Today,” it felt like a flashback to the JoBros’ appearance on the show earlier this month, but this time, “Today” hosted another set of brothers to their summer stage: crossover indie rock darlings Kings of Leon. It was the sixth [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Miller/Getty Jay-Z, “99 Problems” [Light Year Remix]
It’s unlikely that Jay will opt for this disco re-structuring of this Black Album classic at his headlining slot at All Points West tonight but, hey, who knows? Remember that one time when My Bloody Valentine played that all-bluegrass set?  That was weird.
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Photo: Nunez/WireImageGhostface Killah dropped a new mixtape on Imeem yesterday, collaborating with DJ Essence on RNB N Fish. The mixtape is a blend of newer, R&B-infused cuts that fans can expect to hear on Ghostdeini’s upcoming album Wizard of Poetry alongside newer versions of past hits like “Back Like That” and 30-second snippets of Ghostfaced-renditions [...] Continue reading →

By Sandra Segura
When I got the opportunity to spend an afternoon with director Tim Burton while he was interviewed by MTV News’ Josh Horowitz, I had certain expectations. After all, this ridiculously innovative filmmaker made a name for himself diving deep into the dark recesses of the imagination with eerie flicks like “Edward Scissorhands” [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Coffrini/AFP/GettyDepressed that John Mayer’s Mayerboat cruise has been docked while he records his new album? Dave Matthews Band might have the cure, as the Big Whiskey crew have launched a new contest that will allow some lucky fans to take a four-day cruise to a small Caribbean island to see DMB perform live. Contest [...] Continue reading →

Thursday night’s “So You Think You Can Dance” results show opened with the top six dancing to “Send In The Clowns,” but the song proved to be most meaningful to 29-year-old ballerina Melissa Sandvig and contemporary dancer Ade Obayomi, who the ones eliminated from the competition by the end of the tense hour.
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Eminem’s beef with Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon escalated earlier today when his latest dis track “The Warning” was unleashed on the masses. The bile-filled rant was recorded in response to Carey’s “Obsessed,” which most people believed was about the rapper even though both her and husband Cannon have categorically denied that that song and [...] Continue reading →

Photo:Granitz/WireImage In 2006, Oklahoma City named an alley after its favorite freaky sons the Flaming Lips, last month it was announced that Run-DMC will lay claim to the corner of 205th Street and Hollis Avenue in Queens when it’s rechristened “Run-DMC JMJ Way,” and this Saturday, the city of Warren, Ohio, will honor Dave Grohl [...] Continue reading →

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Trent Reznor has made a brief return to social networking, hitting up the safe confines of his NIN.com message boards to tell fans why he left the savage world of Twitter. As Rock Daily previously reported, Reznor unceremoniously deleted his Twitter account a few weeks back with no explanation. Prior to the deletion, Reznor [...] Continue reading →

You didn’t really think Eminem would sit silently as Mariah Carey dressed up like a joke Shady and mocked him in the “Obsessed” video, did you? Eminem, with a little assistance from a big-time Dr. Dre beat, has fired back at Carey and her husband Nick Cannon, completely eviscerating the Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel [...] Continue reading →

In what is fast becoming a Wake-Up Video tradition, today we celebrate the birth of somebody attached to the worldwide phenomenon that is the “Harry Potter” book and movie franchise. Today’s birthday is significant, because without this person, the whole of “Potter” wouldn’t exist. It is, of course, writer J.K. Rowling’s birthday today, so if [...] Continue reading →

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If the track list for an upcoming platinum edition of Beyoncé’s I Am … Sasha Fierce as posted by ThisIsRNB is correct, the singer will be including a cover of Billy Joel’s “Honesty” on the September 4th CD/DVD set.
Say Anything’s new self-titled album is set for an October 4th release, RCA confirms. Frontman Max [...] Continue reading →

Taylor Swift’s Chart-Topping Year

Taylor has collaborated with everyone from Miley Cyrus to T-Pain, who does the country pop star want to work with next?

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Taylor Swift’s Chart-Topping Year

Taylor has collaborated with everyone from Miley Cyrus to T-Pain, who does the country pop star want to work with next?

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Spotlight: ‘Funny People’ Star Aziz Ansari

The comedian/ actor, who stars in Amy Poehler’s “Parks and Recreation,” breaks out in Judd Apatow’s latest flick.

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Mixtape Daily: Lil Wayne, Tony Yayo, The Game, More

Weezy plans to release his <i>Rebirth</i> album and a Young Money LP on the same day, in <i>Mixtape Daily.</i>

Related Artists

• Lil Wayne
• Young Jeezy
• The Game
• UGK
• Bun B
• Too Short

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