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Monthly Archives: March 2010
American Idol Viewer Alert
Tonights results show includes exciting performances by Usher (with a special guest), American Idol Ruben Studdard, and Diddy with Dirty Money. It will be a night of energetic performances with all kinds of special effects.
On that note, we wanted to make you aware that the Diddy & Dirty Money performance will use a strobe light effect like you have never seen before! The intense strobe light goes for about 10-15 seconds, so you may want to avert your eyes if you have photo-sensitivity.
Enjoy tonights show. While youre waiting for the show to start, you can watch performances from last nights show, here.
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Tour Tracker: John Mayer, Broken Bells, David Gray and Ray LaMontagne
John Mayer plots his second leg of Battle Studies dates through September 2010, James Mercer and Danger Mouse’s Broken Bells announce their first tour and David Gray and Ray LaMontagne set out on a co-headlining run in August. Full dates for all three treks below.
John Mayer
Mar. 31 – Seattle, WA @ KeyArena
Apr. 1 – Vancouver, [...] Continue reading
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SXSW 2010’s Best Video: Court Yard Hounds, Free Energy, More
Nearly 2,000 bands invaded Austin for rock’s annual Mardi Gras SXSW earlier this month, and Rolling Stone was on the scene, bringing you reports from the biggest shows (Stone Temple Pilots, Hole, Muse) and 100 tweets about up-and-comers to watch. RS also hosted our first-ever showcases at the festival — be sure to grab our [...] Continue reading
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MTV News’ Musical March Madness: Tokio Hotel Vs. Owl City
It’s Musical March Madness! The sprawling bracket — both a parody and a tribute to the NCAA basketball tournament, masterminded by MTV News’ James Montgomery — takes the 65 biggest names in rock, splits them up into four regions, assigns them seeds and puts them up against one another in a single-elimination series of match-ups [...] Continue reading
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Wale And K’Naan Will Be Live Tonight!
Sure, the elimination episode of “American Idol” may be on tonight, but if watching Didi Benami get sent home isn’t your bag, then luckily MTV.com has you covered. Tonight at 9:30 p.m. Eastern (6:30 p.m. Pacific), Wale and K’Naan will kick off their new tour live from the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza in [...] Continue reading
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First Look: Watch a Clip From New Doors Doc “When You’re Strange”
A new documentary on the Doors called When You’re Strange is hitting theaters April 9th after opening to acclaimed reviews at Sundance 2009. Since its debut last year, director Tom DiCillo has added a megastar to narrate the film — Johnny Depp — plus tightened up the film’s editing to better tell the story of [...] Continue reading
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MTV News’ Musical March Madness: Breaking Down The Elite Eight
MTV News’ Musical March Madness continues today with the Elite Eight. After two weeks worth of voting and eliminations, our original field of 65 is down to a mere eight: Tokio Hotel, Owl City, Alice in Chains, Coheed and Cambria, Panic! at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Muse and the White Stripes.
So far, the [...] Continue reading
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Breaking: Love Is All
Who: Heavy Swedish pop outfit fronted by manic 34-year-old singer Josephine Olausson, a fierce frontlady who has a fan in Karen O. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer likes the band so much it inspired her song “All is Love” on the Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack.
Sounds Like: The band’s insanely catchy new disc [...] Continue reading
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Song Choices from R&B Night
The Top 10 finalists took on R&B soul songs with help from mentor Usher. There were many strong performances and some surprises throughout the evening. For the first time, we got to see the Idols backstage right after they performed.
Who sang what? Check it out!
Siobhan Magnus Through The Fire by Chaka Khan
Casey James Hold On Im Coming by Sam & Dave
Michael Lynche Ready For Love by India.Arie
Didi Benami What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted by Jimmy Ruffin
Tim Urban Sweet Love by Anita Baker
Andrew Garcia Forever by Chris Brown
Katie Stevens Chain Of Fools by Aretha Franklin
Lee DeWyze Treat Her Like A Lady by Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
<a href="http://www.americanidol.com/videos/season_9/performances/crystal_bowersox_midnight_train_… read more Continue reading
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Erykah Badu Knew Stripping Could Put Her In Jail: The MTV News Quote Of The Day
“I think she really wanted to get arrested, even make a bigger message. There was definitely no fear as far as that was concerned, as far as she was [intent] on getting her message across, which I can respect. I feel like all people who have done great things in the past — when they [...] Continue reading
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MTV News’ Musical March Madness: Coheed And Cambria Vs. Alice In Chains
It’s Musical March Madness! The sprawling bracket — both a parody and a tribute to the NCAA basketball tournament, masterminded by MTV News’ James Montgomery — takes the 65 biggest names in rock, splits them up into four regions, assigns them seeds and puts them up against one another in a single-elimination series of match-ups [...] Continue reading
‘American Idol’ Elminations: The Bells Are Ringing For Didi Benami
Some weeks the contestants on “American Idol” make it too easy. Such is the case this week. Riding a winning streak and a team-leading 70 percent success rate, I was tempted to make a wildcard call for this week’s elimination, but all signs appear to point to the end of the road for fragile flower [...] Continue reading
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Happy Birthday, Trenyce!
Season 2s Trenyce celebrates a big birthday today her 30th! She was originally placed in Group 1 of the semifinals, which was a talented group that included Julia DeMato, Charles Grigsby, and Kimberly Caldwell among others. Thanks to the wild card round, Trenyce earned a spot in the Season 2 finals and made it all the way to fifth place!
Towards the end of 2008, Trenyce joined the national tour of Aint Misbehavin with her Season 2 pal and champ Ruben Studdard and Season 2 hopeful Frenchie Davis. The Tony-Award winning musical was nominated for a Grammy this year for Best Musical Show Album, which Trenyce, Ruben, and Frenchie were a part of.
Happy Birthday, Trenyce!
View photos of Trenyce and the Season 2 gang singing on American Idol.
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New Music Report: Cornershop
Rolling Stone contributing editor Christian Hoard’s “Christian Rock” new music pick this week is Cornershop’s Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast. The band — one of the great alt-rock bands of the ’90s — is led by Anglo-Indian frontman Tjinder Singh and mixes drones, Velvet Underground-style guitars, sitar, bits of electronica and dub. The new [...] Continue reading
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MTV News’ Musical March Madness: Muse Vs. The White Stripes
It’s Musical March Madness! The sprawling bracket — both a parody and a tribute to the NCAA basketball tournament, masterminded by MTV News’ James Montgomery — takes the 65 biggest names in rock, splits them up into four regions, assigns them seeds and puts them up against one another in a single-elimination series of match-ups [...] Continue reading
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Dispatch From Haiti: Progress Slows, Problems Remain Great
Alison Smith is a medical student at Tulane University who wrote on-the-ground reports from Haiti for the MTV Newsroom Blog in the days and weeks after January’s devastating earthquake. She returned to the country this week with a medical team to set up a field clinics in the Central Plateau region and check up on [...] Continue reading
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Dear Heidi Montag: From One White Wolf To Another
By Vanessa White Wolf
Hey girl,
We haven’t met yet, but I guess we’re on our way to becoming sisters. My name is Vanessa White Wolf. I’m actually Native American. This morning I read TMZ’s report from your spokesperson that you and Spencer are planning to change your names to White Wolf and Running Bear, respectively. And [...] Continue reading
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U2’s Massive Rose Bowl 360 Concert Hits DVD June 3rd
Photo: Mazur/WireImageIt was one of the most watched concerts in rock history, scoring over 10 million YouTube streams over the course of a week — and on June 3rd, U2’s performance in front of 97,000 fans in Pasadena, California, will finally hit DVD and Blu-ray. U2360° at the Rose Bowl will feature U2’s October 2009 [...] Continue reading
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MTV News’ Musical March Madness: My Chemical Romance Vs. Panic! At The Disco
It’s Musical March Madness! The sprawling bracket — both a parody and a tribute to the NCAA basketball tournament, masterminded by MTV News’ James Montgomery — takes the 65 biggest names in rock, splits them up into four regions, assigns them seeds and puts them up against one another in a single-elimination series of match-ups [...] Continue reading
Decoding Lollapalooza’s “Wheel of Fortune” Lineup Puzzle: Strokes, Soundgarden, Phoenix, More
This year’s big summer festivals haven’t been to content to simply announce their lineups, insisting instead on finding inventive ways to get fans amped to hit the road. Bonnaroo used the better part of an entire day virally unveiling their slate of artists one-by-one, and now Lollapalooza is employing an even more creative, Wheel of [...] Continue reading
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Kelly Clarkson Calls Crystal Bowersox Her ‘Favorite,’ Thinks Lee Dewyze Is ‘Yummy’ On Twitter
By Eric Ditzian
Kelly Clarkson busted out soul and R&B covers in five of her final eight weeks on “American Idol,” including tunes from Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick. The show’s inaugural champ is well-positioned, then, to size up the stand-outs on Tuesday night’s R&B-themed “Idol.” Which, via her Twitter account, she did for [...] Continue reading
Paul McCartney Revisits Beatles Classics, Solo Gems at Hollywood Bowl Marathon
Has Paul McCartney been borrowing Bruce Springsteen’s trainer? At 67, the former Beatle seems determined to suddenly turn his gigs into E Street-style marathons. When McCartney did an American mini-tour last spring and summer, fans (and, at the Coachella Festival, some curious acolytes) were astonished by shows that stretched out to the two-and-a-half hour mark. [...] Continue reading
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The Backstreet Boys Release Tour Dates, MTV News Imagines Their Set List!
This June, the boys known as Backstreet will be hitting the road for a tour. The Backstreet Boys announced that starting June 1 in Orlando, Florida (obviously!), they will be kicking off their summer tour in support of last fall’s very awesome release This Is Us.
Considering that they have many, many phenomenal songs to [...] Continue reading
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On the Charts: Justin Bieber’s “My World 2.0″ Jets to Number One
Photo: Lacroix/WireImage
The Big News: As expected, Justin Bieber dominated the Billboard 200 in My World 2.0’s debut week in stores, selling 283,000 copies to earn his first Number One debut. My World 2.0 improved on the success of its 2009 predecessor, which arrived at Number Six with 137,000 copies last November. In fact, Bieber [...] Continue reading
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Justin Bieber’s Twitter Fans’ Call to Arms: Unfollow Him For April Fools’ Day!
There seems to be a crazy campaign to get people to stop following constant Twitter trend Justin Bieber for one whole day on the social networking service. Bieber, who tweets frequently with his fans, currently has 1,648,222 people following his every move, thought and link.
But it seems that these fans are rallying to play a [...] Continue reading
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Christina Aguilera Hits the Dance Floor With “Not Myself Tonight”
In 2006, Christina Aguilera went Back to Basics, putting a modern spin on soul and swing-era music. Her new Bionic boasts a futuristic album cover and buzzing first single that show off her renewed desire to hit the dance club with high-powered beats from the 21st century. Aguilera premiered first single “Not Myself Tonight” on [...] Continue reading
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‘American Idol’ Live And Behind The Scenes: T-Shirts, Bodyguards And Chris Rock
By A.J. Mayers
Ever been curious to know what happens at an “American Idol” taping and what you don’t see on your television screen? I had a great opportunity to attend the Top 10 live performance taping of “American Idol” on Tuesday night (March 30). It only took a year of being on the waiting list [...] Continue reading
Eddie Vedder Joins the Who for Powerhouse “Quadrophenia” Show
Photograph by Fleur Neale
There was an elegiac quality to the Who’s performance of Quadrophenia at London’s Royal Albert Hall last night, which marked the 10th anniversary of benefit shows in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust charity. Roger Daltrey, the prime mover behind the benefit, has said that this is the last time the [...] Continue reading
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Fuel Sparkle In The Sun: Wake-Up Video
With the fading embers of emo, laid-back surf rock, jam bands, prog and whatever Tokio Hotel does all clamoring for attention, the current rock landscape is pretty bizarre. But no era will ever match the oddness of the post-grunge era at the end of the ’90s, when pop punk, the beginnings of nü metal and [...] Continue reading
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Usher Guests, Bowersox and DeWyze Score on “American Idol”
Photo: Becker/FOX
Newly single Usher, promoting his latest album Raymond v. Raymond, pulled an Andrew Lloyd Webber on Tim Urban during last night’s American Idol, instructing “Teflon Tim” to sing to him as though Usher was an alluring lady (it wasn’t quite the come-on Webber presented to David Cook two seasons ago: “I’m a gorgeous 17-year-old [...] Continue reading
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