Five years ago, it was a fresh-faced Jesse McCartney who was an MTV Video Music Awards virgin. He was up for Best Pop Video for “Beautiful Soul,” and says that even though he didn’t win, it was an exciting moment for him in his burgeoning music career.
While Travie McCoy fans are no doubt excited to see him perform at the VMAs, we wondered, who does he most want to see perform at the awards show on Sunday?
Pop star shoots 90-second commercial to current single as she channels characters including Marilyn Monroe.
Occasionally, when a musician and his former band part ways, it can be detrimental; but in some cases it can cause three like souls to find one another and create something that has been burning within them all this time.
Traffic authorities were still struggling to cope with days-long congestion on a major national expressway, nine days after traffic slowed to a snail’s pace, and nearby residents are profiting on the latest traffic snarl by overcharging drivers for food.
‘We wanted a track that represented where the album was going to be and how it was going to work,’ says bassist Phoenix Farrell.
Both men agree it is classic sinners versus saints.
It began with a benign four-minute ferry ride through calm waters to a little-trafficked landmass in the Upper New York Bay, but Saturday night at The Beach on Governors Island proved to be anything but gentle.
California’s kings of summery rock anthems have released their third album just in time to beat the inevitable heat, and with Eureka the band have once again proven their ability to craft a timeless record collection of fun-in-the-sun jams.
The band’s long-in-the-works new album now has a title and a release date. Their follow-up to 2007’s Minutes to Midnight will be called A Thousand Suns and it’s scheduled to hit stores September 14. The album even has a first single, “The Catalyst,” which heads to radio August 2.
