Monthly Archives: August 2009

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Blink-182 will not perform their scheduled concert tonight at Saratoga, New York’s SPAC as the band mourns the death of their pal and collaborator, DJ AM. “Due to circumstances surrounding the unfortunate and untimely passing of our dear friend Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, Blink-182 will not be playing tonight in Saratoga, NY at SPAC,” [...] Continue reading →

For a band with a strange, sordid and downright volatile history like Oasis, it’s only fitting that we’re mourning the exit of Noel Gallagher the same weekend we were celebrating the 15th anniversary of the band’s debut album Definitely Maybe. Hyped by some excited fans upon release as the second coming of the Beatles and [...] Continue reading →

By now Christina Aguilera fans are well aware of the direction the vocal superpower is heading for her next album — as Rolling Stone recently reported, the singer has recruited a list of collaborators with electro-pop cred that includes M.I.A., Santigold, Sia, Goldfrapp, Le Tigre and Ladytron.
Aguilera sheds a little light on when she caught [...] Continue reading →

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Police will reportedly review their investigation into the 1969 death of the Rolling Stones’ guitarist Brian Jones after uncovering new evidence related to the case, the BBC reports. Jones was found dead in his swimming pool in East Sussex in 1969, just months after leaving the Rolling Stones at age 27. While [...] Continue reading →

R.E.M.’s double album Live at the Olympia isn’t due until October 27th, but Michael Stipe and Co. are giving fans an early taste with their second video shot during the Dublin “working rehearsals.” As Rolling Stone reported, French filmmakers Vincent and Jeremiah Moon captured the band’s 2007 shows at the Olympia Theatre, and their backstage [...] Continue reading →

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Bruce Hornsby and his band the Noisemakers will be joined by Eric Clapton for a September 17th performance during the inaugural week of the new Jay Leno Show. Clapton will team with Hornsby for “Space is the Place” off Hornsby’s upcoming album Levitate; he previously contributed to a few songs off Hornsby’s [...] Continue reading →

Photo: Winter/Getty(Diamond), Michael Ochs Archive/Getty (Ellie) Last week songwriter Ellie Greenwich died after a heart attack at age 68. Rolling Stone spoke with her frequent collaborator Neil Diamond, who shared his memories of working with the woman he credits with keeping his career on track:
“If I hadn’t met Ellie Greenwich I wouldn’t have had a [...] Continue reading →

American Idol’s Season 4 winner, Carrie Underwood, will release her third album on November 3, and she just announced that Play On will be the title of the new album. Play On is the name of a song featured on the upcoming record,and it’s also representative of the feelings of countless fans who have come to love Carrie’s music since her time on Season 4 of American Idol. Carrie released her debut album, Some Hearts, in 2005 and a second record, Carnival Ride, in 2007. These two CDs have amassed sales of over 10 million albums! Some Hearts and Carnival Ride have earned Carrie four Grammy Awards, ACM Entertainer of the Year, and three CMA and ACM Female Vocalist awards. Recently, Carrie brokea recordwhen she becamethe first country artist in history, and the only American Idol winner, to achieve 10 #1 singles from their first two albums.

Currently, Carrie is continuing work on Play On with producer Mark Bright, who also worked with her on Carnival Ride and Some Hearts. One week after Play On is released, Carrie will co-host the CMA Awards.

Although she’s constantly busy with recording and touring, Carrie always finds time to help those in need. Read about the foundation Carrie established.

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Last week after reporting on news of “Best Of” collections from Madonna and the Foo Fighters, we opted to honor Greatest Hits albums in our rock list. With Beatles fans forced to split their votes among three collections, Bob Marley & the Wailers’ essential Legend, one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums [...] Continue reading →

Every day a multitude of stars wanders through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with staff members. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that’s why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild.
The Jonas Brothers sure know how to draw a [...] Continue reading →

By Ben Hockin
Heidi Montag made headlines and turned heads by appearing on the cover of Playboy’s September issue. When you saw the “Hills” star wearing that white bikini and covered in dirt, you couldn’t help but think, “Wow!” Well, good news for all you Heidi fans: Montag recently told MTV News she would consider posing [...] Continue reading →

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Saturday, August 29th, would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday, and to mark the occasion, cities around the world celebrated the King of Pop with gatherings honoring Jackson’s musical legacy. One of the most noteworthy tributes took place in Mexico City, where a reported 12,397 — and countless [...] Continue reading →

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On October 12th, Echo and the Bunnymen will release their 11th studio album, The Fountain, and as a recent Q&A with Rolling Stone demonstrates, irreverent frontman Ian McCulloch’s humor is aging as well as their landmark 1980 debut:
It’s been nearly 30 years since the band’s debut Crocodiles — are you thinking about that [...] Continue reading →

By Gigi Abrantes
Since he first dropped his debut album in 1996, Jay-Z became an instant classic on the hip-hop scene. Now that he is about to drop his 11th album The Blueprint 3, MTV News takes a look back at the history of one of the greatest artists in rap history with The J to [...] Continue reading →

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Outside of a few tweets, some rumor mongering and the occasional impromptu airport terminal interview, Paula Abdul has remained mostly silent since revealing that she would not be at the judge’s table for the upcoming season of American Idol. Now Abdul is setting the record straight for the first time since her shocking [...] Continue reading →

What did you do on Sunday?
Well, if you were Jay-Z or Beyoncé (or Beyoncé’s sister Solange), then you braved the be-jorted masses in Brooklyn to check out Grizzly Bear’s set down at the Williamsburg Waterfront.
Yes, that’s right: In perhaps the summer’s biggest fish-out-of-water moment (aside from Kanye at Nine Inch Nails last week) Jigga and [...] Continue reading →

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First Radiohead provided fans with two brand new songs, and now it appears frontman Thom Yorke is on the verge of doing the same: According to Canadian entertainment site Exclaim, Yorke will release a new 12′’ single carrying two new tracks, “The Hollow Earth” and “Apart By Horses” on September 22nd. As Rock Daily [...] Continue reading →

By Reneé Jackson
You can’t tell me the King of Pop is dead, because I ran into him at least 15 times at the baddest birthday party in history, hosted by director and Jackson friend Spike Lee. Despite the rain, thousands of adoring fans flocked to Prospect Park in Brooklyn on Saturday (August 29) to wish [...] Continue reading →

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In Chris Brown’s first public interview since his arrest and plea for assaulting Rihanna, Brown tells Larry King that he has no recollection of what happened on February 8th in a rented Lamborghini and that he can’t believe he did what he eventually pleaded guilty to. “When I hear about the police reports, I [...] Continue reading →

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In Chris Brown’s first public interview since his arrest and plea for assaulting Rihanna, Brown tells Larry King that he has no recollection of what happened on February 8th in a rented Lamborghini and that he can’t believe he did what he eventually pleaded guilty to. “When I hear about the police reports, I [...] Continue reading →

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More details have emerged regarding the shocking, sudden death of Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein, who was found dead in his New York apartment August 28th. Friends first became concerned that something was wrong when AM missed his flight from New York to Las Vegas, where he was booked to perform his weekly set at [...] Continue reading →

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Unreleased Jimi Hendrix studio recordings and concerts may see the light of day now that the guitarist’s Experience Hendrix and Sony’s Legacy Recordings have reached an agreement. Deluxe editions of all Hendrix’s releases are also on the way, according to a press release.
Jay-Z appeared on Bill Maher’s Real Time on HBO [...] Continue reading →

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Unreleased Jimi Hendrix studio recordings and concerts may see the light of day now that the guitarist’s Experience Hendrix and Sony’s Legacy Recordings have reached an agreement. Deluxe editions of all Hendrix’s releases are also on the way, according to a press release.
Jay-Z appeared on Bill Maher’s Real Time on HBO [...] Continue reading →

Did you see a movie this weekend? Maybe you took in “Inglourious Basterds”? Then you have Thomas Edison to thank (at least in part). On this day way back in 1897, Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a sort of early movie projector. The design allowed a self-contained series of images to run [...] Continue reading →

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Beastie Boys replacement headliner Jack Black of mock rockers Tenacious D sent his love to the ill Adam Yauch Sunday night during a chilly set that closed out the final day of San Francisco’s Outside Lands in Golden Gate Park. “Adam, I love you, you’re the greatest,” said the [...] Continue reading →

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M.I.A. delivered a kicking and screaming Beastie Boys mash-up medley Sunday afternoon to tens of thousands at Outside Lands in San Francisco’s woodsy Golden Gate Park. Clad in a garish, gorgeous tiger print dress complete with blazing red tiger ear-shaped shoulder pads, black wayfarer sunglasses, black tights and bronzed sneakers, M.I.A. strutted in fine [...] Continue reading →

Remembering DJ AM

The 36-year-old musician was found dead in his New York City apartment on Friday.

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The last notes have been played at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, which means the 2009 Outside Lands Festival has wrapped up. Tenacious D closed out the weekend with a crowd-pleasing set of their acoustic metal epics. The Beastie Boys were originally supposed to wrap up the weekend, but they had to bow out [...] Continue reading →

MTV News has been keeping a close watch on the backstage happenings at the 2009 Outside Lands Festival, and we’ve been talking to so many artists that it’s sometimes difficult to find the time to actually stand in front of a stage and watch a band perform. But there was one person I definitely wanted [...] Continue reading →

There’s a chill in the air in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, which suits Jack White just fine. His latest band, the Dead Weather (a collaboration with members of the Kills, Queens of the Stone Age and the Greenhornes) took the stage in the middle of the afternoon on the final day of the 2009 [...] Continue reading →