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Christina Aguilera Unveils New Album Cover
Posted by Robin Paulson Categories: Artist News, Release Dates, Upcoming Releases, Pop,
Despite Christina Aguilera telling her record company that they're "working with a fat girl" from now on, the former Voice mentor looks as thin as any other pop starlet these days on her new album cover for Lotus.
The 31 year-old posted the sneak peek of the cover - which looks like it took inspiration from Botticelli's The Birth of Venus - through her Twitter account: "Conceptually I didn’t target one particular sound/genre. I made music that felt good."
Lotus is due to hit stores on November 19.
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Lily Allen to Write About Motherhood on New Album
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Upcoming Releases, Pop,
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Lily Allen will "definitely" write about motherhood on her new album.
The "Not Fair" hitmaker - who is expecting her second child with husband Sam Cooper - recently announced she was returning to music after a three-year break and says her experiences of family life will be an influence on her writing.
Asked if her new life will be a subject matter, Lily - who also has 11-month-old Ethel with Sam - said, "Yeah. It definitely will."
Although she has been working hard in the studio, Lily - who is working under her married name of Lily Rose Cooper - has warned fans they face a wait to hear her new material: "I'm just tinkering away. I'm not going to put anything out until I've got an end product which I think is amazing - or, you know, good. I don't think there's going to be anything out in the next few months. But hopefully in the next year."
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John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John’s Christmas Album
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Collaborations, Reunions, Upcoming Releases, Covers, Jazz,
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John releasing a Christmas album.
The former co-stars are in talks of recording the album - which will feature a follow-up to their famous Grease! track "You're The One That I Want" titled "I Think You Might Like It" - and plan to give it an "intimate" feel.
"My desire was to make this Christmas an intimate album, not something too ostentatious or showy. I wanted people to be able to play it around the house or in the car during the holidays, and make us part of your celebration," John, 58, said.
Olivia, 64, also enjoyed the experience of being back in the studio with her on-screen sweetheart as she feels the pair - who played lovers Sandy and Danny in the hit movie - have bonded since filming together back in 1978: "John and I have always connected. That's never gone away. When we're together, we have a good laugh and feel bonded to one another. We've been through some amazing experiences together."
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The Black Keys Confirm New Album
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Upcoming Releases, Rock,
The Black Keys are planning a new album for 2013.
The "Lonely Boy" group are planning to follow up 2011's El Camino with their eighth album early next year. Drummer Patrick Carney told KROQ, "We're going to start making a new album in January and we're going to tour a little more in the spring. Our plan is to have the new album done by the end of spring or earlier, then hopefully take a few months off to do normal things like go to bed early and wake up early, walk the dog, that kind of stuff. Then we'll probably be back on the road starting next fall."
While the band are known for how hard they work, Patrick - who recently married Emily Ward - is adamant they will have a break next year. "Whenever we try to build in breaks and time off, it doesn't work out. But next year, we're also committed to a vacation," he added.
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Bruno Mars’ Creative Freedom
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Upcoming Releases, Hip-Hop & Rap, Pop, R&B / Soul, Rock,
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Bruno Mars had "creative freedom" on Unorthodox Jukebox. The "Locked out of Heaven" singer is preparing the release of his second album, and enjoyed skipping between different genres on each track of the album.
"This is me going into the studio and recording and writing whatever I want. This album represents my freedom. I listen to a lot of music and I want to have the freedom and luxury to walk into a studio and say, 'Today I want to do a hip-hop, R&B, soul or rock record,'" he told Billboard.
The 26-year-old singer said his desire to keep changing his sound between songs wasn't popular with record executives at the beginning of his career, when he was dropped by the Universal Motown label: "I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us. That was disgusting to me, because I'm not trying to be a circus act."
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Lady Gaga Plans a Jazz Album
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Collaborations, Upcoming Releases, Jazz,
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Lady Gaga is planning a jazz album with Tony Bennett.
The "Judas" singer previously teamed with the crooner for a version of "The Lady is a Tramp" from his Duets II album and they enjoyed working together so much, they want to record a whole album.
"Of all things, she called me from New Zealand and said, 'I want to do a jazz album with you' and I said, 'You got it!' We're gonna do a jazz album with Marion Evans, a big swing band, and I'm looking forward to it because a lot of people don't know it, but she's a phenomenal jazz singer," Tony told Rolling Stone.
Tony has picked which songwriter they will record the compositions of, but isn't letting on who it is yet. "I can't mention the composer because I don't want anybody to do it before we do it, but there's a great composer that's very underrated, very famous, but not as famous as Gershwin or Porter. But he did as many hit songs as anybody, and so we're gonna do a big swinging album," he added.
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Christina Aguilera Shuns Commercial Success
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Gossip, Upcoming Releases, Pop,
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Christina Aguilera is not worried about Lotus being commercially successful.
The 31-year-old singer - whose last studio album Bionic flopped - doesn't care if the general public don't buy her seventh record as she finds it more important to take risks and push herself creatively.
"I've already put out a greatest hits record, so I've been in this business for a while, and I'm a risk taker, that's just who I am at heart. It's who I can't help but be. It's who I always am in nature, as a person and as an artist. With that comes hurdles and certain areas where people aren't going to get it and understand it artistically; sometimes it will go over their heads and it will not be as commercially successful," she told MTV News.
The "Candyman" singer reinvented herself as a mentor on TV show The Voice in 2011, and hopes Lotus will appeal to new fans who have been introduced to her music through that, as well as to those who have followed her since her self-titled 1999 debut album.
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Deadmau5 to Make a Concept Album?
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Gossip, Upcoming Releases, Dance, Electronic,
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Deadmau5 wants to write a concept album like Pink Floyd's The Wall.
The dance musician has just released his sixth album, >Album Title Goes Here<, made during a hectic period of DJ performances around the world, but he's hoping to take a year off and create something completely different, with a concept, like British psychedelic band's 1979 classic.
">Album Title Goes Here< is like a poster book of my year and the work I got done in the chaos kind of thing. Hopefully next time - and I know I say this every f***ing time - that I'll have this year off of touring and put together something that's like Pink Floyd's The Wall. Something that tells a story and has a big package thing [around it]," he told MTV.
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Spike Lee couldn't let people down with his Michael Jackson documentary. The filmmaker has been working on Bad 25 - which examines the making of the late King of Pop's classic 1987 album - and was excited by the challenge of living up to the "pressure" of fans' expectations.
"It's good pressure. You can't let people down. If this had been sub-par I'd have been torn limb from limb," he said.
Spike has admired the "Thriller" hitmaker - who died of acute Propofol intoxication in June 2009 - all his life and admits his passing left him "messed up" for some time. "I'm a filmmaker, I love what I do and I grew up admiring and loving Michael Jackson. I saw him in 1969 on TV. He had a big afro and I wanted to be him. Michael's life deeply affected people and they miss him. His death messed me up for a month or two. He touched so many people," he said when asked why he made the film.
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James Franco Releases Debut Album
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Upcoming Releases, R&B / Soul,
James Franco is hoping to carve out a new career as a rockstar. The actor will release his debut album MotorCity under the name "Daddy" on Tuesday.
"I know I do a lot of things. I'm very aware of that. I'm sure there are a lot of skeptical people, hearing about me doing music. To me, it all comes from a similar place. It's like using different tools to express things in different ways," he told Rolling Stone.
James has teamed up with his artistic college friend Tim O'Keefe for the album and it also features guest vocals by Motown singer Smokey Robinson who decided to collaborate with the actor after meeting him on a flight. The duo have just unveiled their romantic new music video for "Love in the Old Days," which was directed by James.
The 34-year-old star revealed he wrote and produced MotorCity while filming the Oz: The Great and Powerful in Detroit.
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