DMX Performs For The First Time Since Being Released From Prison During Texas Concert
DMX Performs For The First Time Since Being Released From Prison During Texas Concert
Dark Man X gave his first live performance since being released from prison earlier this summer. DMX is what the game has been missing for quite some time, and after being locked up for over 7 months, X is backRead more
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DMX Performs For The First Time Since Being Released From Prison During Texas Concert
Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” Moves To #1, No Thanks To The VMAs
Though Maroon 5 was left out of this past weekend’s VMA festivities, it appears Adam Levine – who has made it perfectly clear how he feels about modern day MTV – doesn’t need a moon man to score a #1 hit. “Moves Like Jagger” has finally topped the Hot 100, making the whistle-happy tune the band’s first #1 since their 2007 single “Makes Me Wonder.” (This is the first time Christina Aguilera, who guests on the song, has seen the top of the charts since 2001’s “Lady Marmalade.”)
The Voice coaches’ groovy tune is currently at #3 on the iTunes charts, just six places above Levine’s collaboration with Gym Class Heroes’, “Stereo Hearts”. But before all the pop stars there start giving the middle finger to MTV, it’s undeniable to see the VMAs’ influence in the rest of the iTunes Top 10 — Adele’s “Someone Like You” (#1), Lady Gaga’s “You And I” (#3), Cobra Starship’s “You Make Me Feel…” (#5) and Beyonce’s “Love On Top” (#7) were no doubt aided by their inclusion in Sunday’s awards show.
Meanwhile, the 2011 MTV VMAs queen Katy Perry doesn’t fair quite so well this week – her single “Last Friday Night (TGIF)” falls from #1 to #5. Alas, nothing gold can stay, even with a rap verse from Missy Elliott.
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Maroon 5’s “Moves Like Jagger” Moves To #1, No Thanks To The VMAs
The Roots Schedule L.A. Show Date
Hip hop’s greatest live band The Roots will be coming to Los Angeles for a live performance that is not to be missed. They will be taking over the House of Blues in Hollywood on Saturday, September 17th in support of their latest album “Undone”.
Tickets for this show are available to purchase now through Live Nation for $42.50 plus any additional service fees. If you have yet to see The Roots perform live. we strongly encourage any hip hop fans to do so.
Purchase: Tickets for The Roots at HOB Sunset on 9/17
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Tortoise to Score Upcoming Film
Chicago instrumental/experimental band Tortoise have been very inactive recently — in the past 10 years they’ve released just two albums — but the musically diverse collective has reared its head once again.
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Keke Palmer: Hollywood ‘Is Not My Life’
Keke Palmer has had one busy summer. The multitalented teen star not only appeared in the season 11 premiere of TeenNick’s “Degrassi” and debuted two new songs, “Walls Come Down” and “The Greatest,” but she also wrapped filming on a one-hour True Jackson, VP movie “Mystery in Peru.” But Nickelodeon’s teen queen has even bigger things to worry about now–like celebrating her eighteenth birthday.
“I think my boyfriend and my best friend are putting something together, but they’re not telling me,” Palmer tells The Huffington Post. “I’m excited! I love surprises because I get stressed out easily, so if I don’t have to think about it, then it takes the stress off me.”
While every teenager across America recognizes Palmer as True Jackson from her hit Nickelodeon show, “True Jackson, VP,” the 18-year-old has been in the business for quite awhile now, starring in her first movie, “Barbershop 2: Back in Business” with Queen Latifah, at age 11. She landed her first starring role in the critically-acclaimed “Akeelah and the Bee,” alongside Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett, at just 13-years-old. But 2012 will be Palmer’s biggest year to date, starring in “Joyful Noise” with Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah, lending her voice to the anticipated “Ice Age: Continental Drift,” and producing her first ever film–”Ragz”–for Nickelodeon.
“When I first started out, everything was so fresh and so new and so fun,” says Palmer, “And I didn’t really pay attention to the business side of things, but as you get older, you start to notice things that you hadn’t really thought of before, like producing. It was hard at first; Being a producer gives your opinion a little bit more weight. I was almost uncomfortable having so much power. It was hard to let myself have an opinion on things.”
And when it comes to balancing her budding career with some sense of normalcy, Palmer says it’s all about distancing herself from Hollywood.
“I have a few celebrity friends, but I’m really not into the whole Hollywood scene,” says Palmer. “I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same. I can’t work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don’t want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that’s my career, but it’s not my life.”
The teenager also wants to make it big in the music industry, hoping to release her sophomore album next summer.
“The music industry is something that I’m still trying to understand,” admits the Nickelodeon star. “With acting, I’ve been doing it for so long, that I understand every aspect of it for the most part–there are obviously still more aspects that I need to learn–but I have a grasp on it. With music, I’m still learning. I’m still getting used to it.”
Palmer’s next big role will be in the 2012 family film, “Joyful Noise,” where Palmer plays a young teenage girl, butting heads with her mother, looking to grow up and find who she is–much like Palmer herself. In the midst of finishing school and staring a full-fledged movie career, Palmer’s had a lot of decisions to make this past year, but at least she had her two extremely successful co-stars to help guide her along the way–Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton.
“Filming with them was absolutely amazing,” says Palmer. “I had the pleasure of filming my first ever role with Queen Latifah, and she was just as kind this time as she was the first time. It just goes to show how great of a character she has. She was just so welcoming, and then Dolly Parton–oh, my God. I just expected her to be a little bit guarded, but she wasn’t at all. She’s like a mother. She made fudge bars for everyone on set. She doesn’t let the difficulties of her job stop her from being awesome. I learned so much from both of them.”
Even though she’s starred in film with powerhouse actors like Samuel L. Jackson, Queen Latifah, Tyler Perry and Angela Bassett, Palmer still considers herself to be a normal 18-year-old teen. She loves music, James Franco, catches “Freaks and Geeks” and “Doug” every night on TeenNick, still dreams of meeting Will Smith and Mariah Carey, and can spend all day talking about “Degrassi”–and gush about her good friend Drake.
“I’m totally normal,” says Palmer. “I love watching movies and hanging out with me friends at my house. I still go to the mall, I love to text and go on my computer. I’m totally normal–sounds kind of boring, right?”
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PHOTOS: Guess The Celebrity Body Part?
They may land killer parts on the big screen but we all know that itâs their own body parts that have us lining up at the box office. From ripped abs and toned arms to rhinoplasty-enhanced noses, these celebs prove that itâs the parts that make up their exceptional wholes.
Weâve compiled a slideshow of the hottest celebrity body parts for your viewing pleasure. Now all youâve got to do is guess who they belong to.
Good luck!
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Billboard Bits: Madonna’s ‘Sex’ Still Wanted, Lady Gaga’s Prosthetic VMA Surprise
Madonna’s “Sex” still wanted, Lady Gaga’s VMA prosthetic, and more.
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Alan Jackson to sing ‘Where Were You’ at Washington 9/11 concert
The country singer will perform his song at the Concert for Hope at the Washington National Cathedral on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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Tom Tom Club Plotting Fall Release for 30th Anniversary
In the midst of its 30th anniversary celebration, the Talking Heads spinoff the Tom Tom Club is working on new music.
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Taylor Swift Sparkles In Her “Wonderstruck” Fragrance Ad
Taylor Swift rocks her signature look — light, sparkly and silver — in the ad for her new (Owl City-inspired) fragrance Wonderstruck. The cover queen shared the ad on her Facebook wall today, but we’re really looking forward to judging the TV spot when it premieres.
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