Gossip blogger Perez Hilton along with “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller and tour director Jamie King are searching for the next big boy band. The trio are combining forces to look for what they are billing as “The Boy Band for the Next Generation!” in an online contest.
“American Idol” fans barely had time to process Paula Abdul’s shocking exit from the show back in August before another surprise came their way: Ellen DeGeneres would be taking her seat on the judges’ panel.
Though 2008 bared just four albums worthy of our highest acclaim, 2009 delivered the following 10 essentials: Boys Like Girls Love Drunk The Friday Night Boys Off the Deep End Fun. Aim and Ignite Green Day 21st Century Breakdown Michael Jackson This is It Paper Route Absence Paramore Brand New Eyes Say Anything Say Anything The Secret Handshake My Name in Lights Third Eye Blind Ursa Major
NEW YORK – Music fans were certainly surprised by Lady Gaga’s performances at the beginning of her career, but no one was more surprised than her father.
Chris Brown’s irate state of mind, as displayed over the weekend in a series of angry tweets, was silenced Monday afternoon when the embattled artist abruptly canceled his Twitter account.
Nominees announced Wednesday in top categories for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards
Rising star Mike Posner is a student in more ways than one.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – It’s been Taylor Swift’s year, and Wednesday was her night as she became the youngest person and the first solo female act in a decade to win the Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year award.
On an appropriately cold and rainy Friday night in the Minneapolis warehouse district, the Despair Faction, AFI’s fan militia, was working itself up, chanting the intro to Black Sails in the Sunset (”Through/Our bleeding!/We/Are one!”) and throwing up martial fist pumps. The all-ages crowd had already been primed by opening act Gallows, whose lanky, ginger vocalist, Frank Carter, spent half his time singing from the middle of the pit and the rest on stage, gobbing loogies with impressive trajectories. The Faction had just spent three years waiting for AFI to break their hiatus with a new album, Crash Love, and… Read more »
When Panic! at the Disco wrote “New Perspective,” the band had no idea it’d wind up on the soundtrack for the Diablo Cody-penned horror flick Jennifer’s Body starring Megan Fox. “I had this really lucid dream – it was so vivid I wanted to write it down before I forgot about it,” lead singer Brendon Urie told Rolling Stone. “I was never the best at explaining anything, so it wound up being random [lines] that ended up as the first verse.” Urie and drummer Spencer Smith – the remains of Panic after the quartet split in two earlier this summer… Read more »
