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VIDEO: Lady Gaga’s Oprah Show Appearance
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Performances, Videos, Pop,
Lady Gaga may have been too sick to perform at Purdue University last night, but she appeared to be in fine form less than 24 hours later.
During today’s Oprah broadcast, the singer covered a wide range of topics including her distinctive wardrobe, her love of cooking and the disaster in Haiti. Gaga even mentioned Oprah and Gandhi in the same sentence and shed a few tears for the audience.
The sit-down followed a medley of songs which included “Monster,” “Bad Romance” and “Speechless.” You can see that performance after the jump.
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Mix Tape: Record Deal for Glee Actor, Dixie Chicks Minus One
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Artist News, Gossip, Upcoming Releases, Country, Rock,
-Glee‘s Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester) will be taking a break from teaching to do a little singing of his own. The 31-year-old has just scored a deal with Mercury Records.
-Garage-punk rocker Jay Reatard passed away at the age of 29. Reatard, who was found in his Memphis home, “died in his sleep” according to his label. No cause of death is known yet.
-Dixie Chicks’ Martie Maguire and Emily Robison have been working on a side project without Natalie Maines. The Columbia Records release will reportedly come out sometime this year.
-Superficial, Heidi Montag’s debut album, has finally dropped. I doubt it will blow up as big as her new breasts.
-Valleys of Neptune, new album of never-before-heard Jimi Hendrix songs, will be released on March 9. The legendary guitarist died in September 1970.
Singer Teddy Pendergrass Dies at Age 59
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Videos, R&B / Soul,
Teddy Pendergrass, the voice behind the hit “If You Don’t know Me By Now,” passed away yesterday in Philadelphia. He was 59.
The singer, who had been paralyzed from the waist since a 1982 car accident, had been battling colon cancer.
“To all his fans who loved his music, thank you. He will live on through his music,” his son, Teddy Pendergrass II, said.
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Beyonce and Jay-Z: Hollywood’s Biggest Money Makers
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Gossip, Hip-Hop & Rap, R&B / Soul,
Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z have topped a poll of Hollywood’s highest-earning couples compiled by Forbes.com, with combined earnings of $122 million between June 2008 and June 2009.
The singer and her hip-hop mogul husband amassed the massive sum through their music, movies, fragrances and endorsement deals with brands including Budweiser and American Express.
Their earnings were almost double that of runners-up Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart, whose $69 million was largely based on Harrison’s $65 million Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull paycheck. (That amount still put them $14 million above third-placed Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.)
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Giveaway: 10 FastPencil Book Publishing Packages
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements, Features, Internet,
If you’re an aspiring author who’s been wanting to publish a book, or if you’ve got a blog that you think would be fantastic as a printed work, pay attention. FastPencil has hooked us up with 10 giveaway packages that will let you take your work and put it into a physical, published form, for free. In case you aren’t aware, FastPencil is a super-simple way for anyone to write, organize, sell, and distribute physical books, as well as ebooks. Ten of you will win:
- A free printed book
- A free eBook
- Free shipping and handling
In order to redeem, you’d just put in your original work in the FastPencil system, or if you have a blog, it can be automatically imported. Seriously, it’s very cool, and we’re gonna hook up 10 of you with the prize package. How do you enter? Simple. Just leave a comment here on this post, or over on the Gear Live Facebook page. We will choose ten people randomly a week from today!
Lady Gaga Makes Oprah Appearance This Week
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Artist News, Performances, Pop,
Although Oprah Winfrey is known for nabbing many exclusives, the talk show queen is finally getting caught up with the times.
To date, Lady Gaga has had numerous television interviews including sit-downs with even Jay Leno and Barbara Walters. Now this week, the “Bad Romance” will get a chance to have her outfits scrutinized by Miss Winfrey herself.
According to Oprah’s website, Lady Gaga won’t be the only hitmaker appearing on Friday’s show. Avatar director James Cameron is scheduled for a visit as well.
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Human League Working on New Album
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Upcoming Releases, Pop,
The Human League have signed a record deal with label Wall of Sound and have started work on their tenth studio LP.
The “(Keep Feeling) Fascination” hitmakers - made up of Phil Oakley, Susan Sulley and Joanne Catherall - are hoping that, after their extended break from recording, they can win over new fans and head back into the charts. Their last album, 2001’s Secrets, was a commercial flop.
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Family and Fans Gather to Celebrate Elvis Presley’s Birthday
Posted by K.C. Morgan Categories: Artist News, Rock,
Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley were joined by three thousand fans at Graceland today to celebrate what would have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday. Some fans traveled from parts of Europe to be in attendance.
Presley died in 1977. He was 42 at the time and the unrivaled King of his rock n roll music genre.
“It’s certainly bittersweet,” Queen Priscilla remarked. Her own relationship with Elvis was purportedly rocky and ended in divorce. Their only offspring, Lisa Marie, was in attendance with her children.
Two of Presley’s grandchildren cut a large birthday cake, which was shared with the waiting crowd. “He would have been very, very proud, absolutely very proud of his grandchildren,” Priscilla said of Elvis.
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The legendary rockers of KISS surprisingly don’t adhere to a commonly used phrase in their industry.
“Even the phrase ‘sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll’ what a losers phrase that is! Why isn’t it just sex and rock ‘n’ roll? How did drugs become cool?” bass player Gene Simmons said. “You can’t win a marathon high, you just can’t. Don’t get me started.”
Gene - who claims to have slept with nearly 5,000 women - and singer/guitarist Paul Stanley are the only original members left in the band, who had their heyday in the 70s.
Drummer Peter Criss and guitarist Ace Frehley joined the group for a 1996 reunion but Gene and Paul realized they had still had the problems which originally caused the breakdown of KISS in the 80s. “There’s magic in people seeing the original line-up, but from there it was really downhill,” Paul said.
Gene, 60, added to The Sun newspaper: “If you listened to it objectively, it grew old pretty quickly. All of the bull-s**t we had to go through with the drugs and booze and lack of self esteem that Ace and Peter had just sucked the life out of us. It’s been a thorn in my side for a long time.”
Oh, say it isn’t so-so!
George Michael insists there will never be a reunion for Wham. The 46-year-old singer, who made his name in the pop band alongside Andrew Ridgeley in the 80s, claimed it would be impossible to recapture the feel of the group 20 years later.
“Wham! was about being young and exuberant and you can’t recreate that feeling at a certain age,” Michael said. “Andrew Ridgeley and I are still good friends but I’m afraid we’ll never get back together. We both agree on that.”
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