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No Doubt might as well change their name to No Rules for their upcoming album. Rock Steady, due December 18, is a scattered collection of pop, rock, rap and reggae songs produced by everyone from Prince to Dr. Dre. Singer Gwen Stefani, all smiles talking about her band’s fifth album during the video shoot for the all-star “What’s Going On” remake, explained how her band of brothers returned from Saturn with an urge to do something different. “After 14 years of being a band, you build all these rules up,” Stefani said, adjusting her shiny No Doubt belt buckle. “That’s… Read more »

It’s two days until ground zero, when artists, a few lucky fans and music biz bigwigs will descend on the Metropolitan Opera House in New York for the 18th annual MTV Video Music Awards. While the night of the show is traditionally characterized by glitz and glamour, the feeling in the air Tuesday, the first day of rehearsals, more closely resembled the frenzied first day of a high school stage production than the controlled chaos the VMAs have come to represent. The sweeping stage flaunted its massive video screen and raised circular podium, though all its other accoutrements remained under… Read more »

Some of hip-hop’s biggest names had yet to make their way to the Jackie Gleason Theater a few hours before the Source Hip-Hop Music Awards show was to begin taping late Monday afternoon (August 20). Others had dropped out entirely. Snoop Dogg was scheduled to perform but pulled out at the last minute for undisclosed reasons, and multiple nominee Jay-Z also decided to skip the event. P. Diddy and the Bad Boy Family, like Eminem and D-12, won’t be at Monday’s show but will still be a part of the program, which will air August 28 on UPN. They pre-taped… Read more »

Original pop princess Debbie (now Deborah) Gibson, who scored massive pop hits in the late Eighties with “Shake Your Love” and “Lost in Your Eyes,” will meet a new generation of screaming teens when she opens up for ‘N Sync on six dates of their current Pop Odyssey tour. Gibson, who released her latest album, M.Y.O.B. (Mind Your Own Business) on her Golden Egg label earlier this year, will open for the ‘N Sync boys from August 16th to 27th. ‘N Sync, Deborah Gibson Tour Dates: 8/16 – Indianapolis, RCA Dome 8/18 – Pittsburgh, Heinz Field 8/20 – Columbus, OH,… Read more »

As one of the very young, very blond female singers on the pop charts these days, Mandy Moore has gained a reputation as the most wholesome of the bunch. Moore, who dresses in jeans and T-shirts, says she’s not trying to send any good-girl messages – she’s just being herself. “I’m probably the most boring, lame 17-year-old out there,” she told The Associated Press. “I’m not necessarily sending out the message that you shouldn’t dress provocatively.” Britney Spears, 19, and Christina Aguilera, 20, have been criticized in the media for their sexy wardrobes. Moore’s third album in two years, “Mandy… Read more »

While lip-synching on a four-wheel Honda motor bike during his “Livin’ It Up” video shoot late last month, Ja Rule took a little time to count his blessings. No, not because he narrowly escaped being shot by voluptuous, water-gun-toting models who served as eye candy for the clip’s barbecue/party setting, rather, because Ja has finally shaken a beleaguering hex. “It’s been a jinx with me and Case,” he said, referring to his collaborations with his crooner labelmate and the song’s guest star. “Everything we’ve done hasn’t got cleared. We made a record in like ’95, ’96. We did a song… Read more »

New artists try to make it in the entertainment industry everyday, what makes Melissa Ruth any different? For starters, this Orange County, Ca. native’s first single “PLEASE” hits straight to the point of how to deal with emotionally abusive relationships. Talk about a message! She’s targeting her audiences with solutions to these problems, rather then dwell in the pain it causes. The title “PLEASE” is a misnomer, in that the song is directed to the abuser, from the “victim.” She is saying that the victim no longer exists, but the time for payback is here. Her title earned in the… Read more »

Word spreads by flyer and e-mail, drawing a small but dedicated corps of young hipsters to a nondescript club on a sleepy, dimly lit street corner. They are in search of deejays spinning a sound so new that some have crossed state lines for their first chance to dance to it. That sound is UK Garage, or Two-step, a dance genre from London’s underground club scene that has crossed the Atlantic – and not just to such likely haunts as New York and San Francisco. It’s also growing in popularity from Washington to Dallas and, in this case, Minneapolis, where… Read more »

Jennifer Lopez is negotiating to star in “The Chambermaid,” a modern retelling of the Cinderella story. John Hughes, best known as the director of such dramas as “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” will write and produce the romantic comedy for Revolution Studios, with a tentative start date of winter 2002. Hughes was also initially set to direct the film, which would have been his first time behind the camera since 1991’s “Curly Sue.” Lopez will play a young dreamer who takes a job as a chambermaid in a luxury hotel in an attempt to better her life.… Read more »

The cute superstar couple that sings together, stays together. That’s the plan of ‘N Sync heartthrob Justin Timberlake, who wants to duet with his pop princess girlfriend Britney Spears, according to Rolling Stone magazine. Timberlake, 20, told the magazine he is helping 19-year-old Spears move away from her hugely popular bubblegum pop in favor of a harder sound. When the timing is right, he envisages them recording together, a collaboration he vowed would be “huge.” “I want it to be somethin’ new that they haven’t heard us do, that they didn’t think we could do. I feel like we still… Read more »