It’s always been a mystery why Amerie hasn’t been more successful. With tunes like One Thing, Gotta Work, and Take Control, she’s an R&B artist who should be swimming in record sales right now.
Good times might be on the horizon though - after splitting with her former label, Columbia, earlier in the year, Amerie has recently signed with Def Jam.
Further proof (if you need it) of Natasha Bedingfield’s conquering of America comes in the news that she’s been chosen as the opening act for the New Kids On The Block reunion tour this autumn.
The tour will run for just over two months, beginning on 18 September and ending on 26 November.
Big fat celebrity pundit Perez Hilton has been taking swipes at Lily Allen lately. However, he’s obviously picked on the wrong gal, as our Lily has a direct line to the public via her MySpace page.
Lily blogged today about being upset by Perez’s latest blog post in which he claims she’s fallen out of favour at Capitol Records, and alleges that she smoked during her pregnancy and that her miscarriage was suspicious.
While she admits that she’s been partying and working hard recently, Lily claims much of what Hilton has written is completely made up and hurtful. She even goes so far as to point out the hypocrisy of Perez running anti-bullying campaigns on his blog as he paints the words “Has Been” over the top of a picture of her:
Idolator ran this little nugget today about an ongoing battle between the RIAA (boo) and the NAB (er…yay). Basically, the RIAA are trying to squeeze the radio broadcasters for more royalties for playing their records. And yes, the common sense response is “But doesn’t that airplay help promote the records? Isn’t that why music videos were referred to as ‘promos’?”
Well, yes dear reader, it does. And a little study by the NAB (OK, might be a tiny bit biased) suggests that basically the two industries need each other. The recording industry needs radio to beam their songs into the heads of the populace, the broadcasters need music to entertain their listeners with. Capiche?
If hints dropped by Floyd’s Dave Gilmour recently are anything to go by, the band’s brief Live 8 reunion might not be the last time the Pink Floyd OAPs club performs on stage.
Only joking about the OAPs thing, serious fans - we love Pink Floyd here!
Apparently Gilmour told BBC 6Music “Who knows? Who knows the future? I haven’t absolutely said ‘no’ to the possibility, but I think that in reality any sort of long-term thing together is not going to happen. At my incredibly advantaged age - having achieved this - I’ve earned the right to sit on my ass for a little while and consider what to do next.”
What the crap? According to Blabbermouth, Dave Grohl has penned an open letter to Metallica, urging them not to release their new album until it’s ready.
I have to say - I don’t understand it. I keep thinking “What’s Dave’s motivation for writing an open letter to Metallica?” I mean, baiting Metallica is huge. And Foo Fighters don’t have anything new coming out at the moment, do they?
Madonna has just announced her summer tour, the dubiously titled “Sticky & Sweet” tour. The tour will begin in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium on 23 August 2008 and will travel across the UK and Europe through to the end of September.
The will be further dates in North America in October and November, finishing up in South America and Mexico toward the end of the year.
Do you think Kanye West takes himself too seriously? He’s well known for blowing up at award shows when he gets stiffed by the establishment in favour of other acts.
Anyway, he took exception to a review of his Seattle gig by Entertainment Weekly where they rated the show a B+.
The review is actually full of praise for Kanye’s performance, but calls into question the ‘conceptual hokeyness’ of the show, evidenced by a talking spaceship:
Ever find yourself longing for the days when Def Leppard released albums with titles that didn’t stretch beyond one word? Pyromania, Hysteria, Adrenalize. OK, forget Adrenalize, but you know what I mean.
But Songs From The Sparkle Lounge? How rock and roll is that for an album title? And take a look at that album cover - I see what you did there, Leppard, you ripped off the Sgt Pepper’s cover. Highly original. Bet no-one’s done that before.
Misery-rockers Coldplay are to release their new single Violet Hill as a free download which will be available from their website from 12:15pm today. Presumably the timing is to coincide with the radio premiere of the song on Jo Whiley’s radio show this morning.
Jo’s show runs until 12:45, so I’d imagine you can expect to hear Violet Hill some time around 12:00. Maybe just listen to the whole show to be sure, though - I don’t want you blaming me if you miss it!
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