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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Cee Lo & Nicki Minaj to Perform at Billboard Music Awards
A new lineup of chart-topping artists will take the stage when the Billboard Music Awards return next month.
Nominees Nicki Minaj and Pitbull, plus The Voice coach Cee Lo Green, will perform at the show, which airs live from Las Vegas on May 22 on ABC, the network confirms.
Previously announced performers include Jennifer Lopez, the Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna and Keith Urban, among others.
Hangover 2 star Ken Jeong will serve as host of the newly revived show, which returns after a five-year hiatus.
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Amy Lee Talks Evanescence's Comeback LP
The key word for goth-pop outfit Evanescence's long-awaited comeback album, due this fall, is a bit unexpected. It's not "angsty" or "ominous" or "heavy."
"The record is fun — and that's a totally new thing for us," singer Amy Lee, 29, tells SPIN. "When I listen to our old music I see that's where I was in my life at that time. This has been a long trip and parts have been hard. But it's about not taking everything so seriously this time."
Modest Mouse and Big Boi Working Together
Here's a combination nobody expected: According to his Twitter, OutKast rapper Big Boi is in the studio, working with Portland indie big dogs Modest Mouse. Go ahead, close your eyes. Think. Imagine how a Modest Mouse song with Big Boi on it will sound. You can't. It's impossible.
Details are scarce right now, but Big Boi sent a couple of Tweets out yesterday on the subject. First: "Me and @mouche1 [OutKast producer Chris Carmouche] in the studio workin with Modest Mouse on their new album Turnt up ! Shout out to Issac and the crew!" This probably doesn't mean that the new Modest Mouse album will be called Turnt Up, but we can't rule it out.
Then: "Been camped out in the Lab with Modest Mouse all week, workin on the new mouse LP, coolest cats ever. Long Live The Funk". This is almost certainly the first time anyone has ever said "long live the funk" about Modest Mouse. We'd like to think these guys all met at last year's Pitchfork Music Festival, but then again, maybe someone handed Big Boi a copy of The Lonesome Crowded West when he was touring behind ATLiens or something.
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Ja Rule Apologizes for Leading the Singing Rap Movement
Thirteen years after he broke onto the scene with his gruff, sing-song rap style on Jay-Z's 1998 hit 'Can I Get a...' and his own ubiquitous debut single 'Holla Holla' a year later, Ja Rule has finally apologized for making it "cool" for rappers to sing.
While his style may have paved the way for rival 50 Cent, who perfected the rap-singer chorus on his 2003 masterpiece 'Get Rich or Die Tryin',' Rule recently revealed to MTV that he's sorry for having lead the monotone singing charge before it was supplanted by T-Pain's equally questionable Auto-Tune takeover in 2005.
"I always admit it. I'm a shallow singer. I think that's what attracted people to what I was doing, because I made you feel like you too could do this," Ja Rule admitted. "I'm not blowing Luther Vandross notes over here! You could do what I'm doing."
The Queens MC went on to contend that his actual lack of ability opened the lane for the rest of hip-hop's questionable voices.
"I think that's what made it popular," he continued. "I think for the people, that's what made it popular, that they were able to sing along with it and they weren't intimidated by singing along to it because it was a guy that can't sing."
While most popular rappers today employ the sung hook that Rule made his signature on hits like 'I'm Real (Murder Remix)' with Jennifer Lopez, he said that he bears no ill-will towards artists like Kanye West, Drake and Diddy.
"Those are the biggest names in music," he explained, proudly. "Drake can sing, man."
"I'm sorry, by the way!" he laughed, ultimately revealing a sense of humor about his legacy in hip-hop, as he prepares to serve out a two-year prison sentence for attempted weapon possession in June. No hard feelings, pal.
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All-Star tribute to THE RUNAWAYS coming in June
On June 7, Main Man Records will release TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT - A TRIBUTE TO THE QUEENS OF NOISE: THE RUNAWAYS. This mammoth 2-CD collection features 36 tracks clocking in at over two hours worth of music. In addition to boasting an impressive lineup of talent which includes KITTIE, THE DONNAS, THE DANDY WARHOLS, and members of the BEASTIE BOYS, a portion of the proceeds from the album will be donated to the American Institute For Cancer Research. Check out the official announcement, along with the full tracklisting below.
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