The News Review:
- Kid stuff abounds in new lineups
- Saves The Day | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- Punk pop quartet Good Charlotte say they are just ‘regular…
- Nimble music producer stays several beats ahead of the rest
- The Stooges | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- Artist to Watch: Black Lips
- Are We Being Punk’d?
Kid stuff abounds in new lineups
USA Today – Mar 27, 2007
Her parents including her late dad appear in the early episodes. Dinosapien (July 7) a miniseries combining live-action and animation that depicts dinosaurs living with humans. Noggin The Umizumiz (2008) a mix of “animation photography origami patterns and preschool punk music” the network says. Five high schoolers who are exposed to “primordial ooze” can transform into prehistoric creatures and must protect Earth from invaders bent on “accelerating global warming. ” Sushi Pack (September). Superheroes are fashioned out of animated raw fish that come to life when lightning strikes a cellphone tower interrupting a takeout order.
Saves The Day | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Mar 27, 2007
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Punk pop quartet Good Charlotte say they are just ‘regular…
Channel News Asia – Mar 27, 2007
Things went south last November and he was soon seen in the company of socialite and celebrity pest Nicole Richie. f course Joel declined to discuss the Simple Life star during the interview but not surprisingly he did seem rather peeved at the unending intrusions into his private life. “It’s not good for our music if people would rather focus on my personal life than the music we’re doing” said Joel who is five minutes older than his brother. “I don’t consider myself a rock star at all” he said. “I live my life and we all make mistakes. But sometimes I wonder if all this attention is just personal. Drawing from real lifeEven as the pair struggles with lessons in the cult of personality they take comfort in the fact that fortune continues to shine on the 11-year-old band from Waldorf Maryland… Being that this “darker stuff” includes stories of high school outcasts and absent fathers could the stories behind the seemingly innocent anthems be autobiographical in nature?”I think everything you do there has to be drawn from your real life” said Joel as Benji nodded in agreement. But it seems the band is now eager to shift their focus elsewhere. Perhaps in an effort to separate Good Charlotte from the punk-pop pack their previous album The Chronicles of Life and Death featured more strings and keyboards. It alienated their fan base and was considered their least successful outing selling just over a million copies worldwide. “It was an experiment to re-inspire ourselves” Benji said of the 2004 offering. “It may not have sold as much as The Young and The Hopeless but it did show where our heads were at the time. Giving fans something newIn spite of their attempts to avoid pigeonholing the brothers are aware that their most important constituency remains suburban teenagers looking for a little whiff of teen spirit.
Nimble music producer stays several beats ahead of the rest
USA Today – Mar 27, 2007
Now he’s hoping to make a few jaws drop as well. The producer who in the past year helped put Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado atop the pop heap with platinum albums and torrid singles strives for a new level of creativity April 3 with his genre-busting album Timbaland Presents Shock Value. After more than a decade of flooding the airwaves with hip-hop and R&B hits the adventurous beatmaker blends rap rock R&B punk and world music in his constant quest to stay ahead of the curve. For first single Give It to Me he calls in favors from Timberlake and Furtado and he also collaborates with 50 Cent Bj? The Hives Elton John Fall ut Boy She Wants Revenge Dr. Dre and Sri Lankan rapper MIA. Timbaland does some rapping himself but his boundary-busting ambitions will be realized in the soundscapes he masterminds. “This is just me showing my versatility” says Timbaland (Tim Mosley) 36 aboard his tour bus in back of the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena.
The Stooges | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Mar 27, 2007
Released in 1973 to surprisingly strong reviews Raw Power had a weird thin mix due to various technical problems. Although this would be the cause of much controversy later on — many Stooges purists blamed. At the time however Raw Power flopped essentially bringing the Stooges’ career to a halt with the band’s disastrous final gig captured on the live album Metallic K… The Weirdness was released in March 2007 followed by a major world tour. setNGrp(1);lsConf. setNKw(10);lsConf.
Artist to Watch: Black Lips
Rolling Stone – Mar 27, 2007
Pe (the band’s eldest member at 25) would buy his bandmates beerand cigarettes. They whiled away their days playing musicand practicing for their future lives as rock stars by tossing TVsoff the roof of the house during daylight hours and playing musicuntil dawn. In 2001 the Lips got enough money together from theirrespective jobs at a local skid row diner to book their own tourand they’ve been on the road ever since. “We’ve been on tour forseven years” Swilley says. “It’s not that hard. Hard for me ishaving to work nine to five at the diner… It’s “I Want To Hold Your Hand” for greasers. WHERE T HEAR IT:Everywhere. The Black Lips have released four albums (three beforesigning to Vice) all of which are available on iTunes. In Septemberthe band will release an as-of-yet untitled new album which wasrecorded in some guy’s home studio in Atlanta. SEE THEM NW:Watch the Black Lips indulge in a series of toilet confessionals inwhich they tell embarrassing stories about one another from thecomfort of the bathroom backstage at New York’s BoweryBallroom.
Are We Being Punk’d?
Broadcasting & Cable – Broadcasting & Cable – Mar 27, 2007
But this isn't the first time the Ashton Kutcher-helmed prank show has been said to be on its way out. Back in 2003 Kutcher announced that Punk'd was done but–surprise!–the show returned in 2004. The audience (and unsuspecting celebrity victims) had been punk'd. And while MTV Networks Music Group Entertainment President Brian Graden says this time the cancellation is for real should we (and the celebs) believe him?What do you think?By Rebecca StropoliPosted by.