Day in Pop Report for 04/01/2015
According to Variety (per TMZ), Mitchell regained consciousness and was alert en route to the hospital. Details regarding what exactly caused the singer/songwriter to be hospitalized have yet to be released. Mitchell has endured a series of health issues throughout her life, including scarlet fever and polio as a child. More recently, she was diagnosed with Morgellons disease, "a rare condition that causes people to experience a crawling and biting sensation to the skin," reports New York Daily News. Read more here.
The new leg is scheduled to kick off on September 3rd in Houston, TX at the BBVA Compass Stadium and will conclude with a two-night-stand at the Verizon Center in Washington DC on September 22nd and 23rd. The initial leg, which includes headline dates and festival appearances, will be kicking off on May 2nd in New Orleans at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and wrapping up on July 3rd at this year's Summerfest in Milwaukee. Sheeran will also be appearing at this year's Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis on May 3rd as well as the Rock in Rio USA festival in Las Vegas on May 15th. See the tour dates here.
While promoting his Roast, Bieber revealed in an interview with USA Today that he scrapped what he had recorded and is headed in a new direction with help from Kanye West and Rick Rubin, which the latter teased in January. Bieber's new album is all "about growing, being in touch with yourself." "My whole direction has changed," he said. "What you are thinking about all the time is what you write, and now that I'm thinking about more positive things, it completely changes my music. "I had to redo my whole (new) album. It was done but it didn't match up to where I am now and where my head's at. I want to tell my story, but I also want to give people hope. I lost hope for a while, I was in a dark place, but it's about getting out of that rut. It's about knowing there's sunshine on the other side." Read more here.
The month-long spring tour is scheduled to kick off on May 1st in Milwaukee, WI at The Rave and will be concluding on May 28th in San Francisco, CA at the Regency. Migos are hitting the road in support of their forthcoming debut album "YRN Tha Album" which is scheduled to be released on June 16th and OG Maco will be supporting his recently release '15' EP. See the dates here.
Musgraves opened up about her writing process for the second album, admitting, "I didn't really find it hard to find much to say. That's probably just the nature of me." She told Cosmo that the driving force for songwriting inspiration tends to be what she's currently going through. "A lot of times, I'll be having an argument or a conversation with someone, and I'm like, 'Oh, that's a lyric!' Then I think, 'Focus back on the conversation,'" she admitted. "Or it's stuff my parents, sister, or friends have gone through. I could see a sign and think, 'Oh, that's an interesting perspective.'" Read more here.
So, on the latest installment, titled "The Phone Call," Seinfeld and Wale call Rick Ross to announce the completion of The Album About Nothing, with Seinfeld playing up the awkwardness of his discomfort with Rick Ross. Throughout, a Seinfeld-like laugh track is inserted to play up the absurdity of it all, and there's plenty to play up. Everyone finally breaks character near the end of the video, laughing at Wale and the general ridiculousness. Check out the video here.
The X-Files star David Duchovny has delivered details on his debut full-length album, sharing the album's title--Hell or Highwater--as well as a May 12 release date on Thinksay Records. "Making this record is a dream come true, but I never had this dream - it's still a shock when I think about how all this music happened," Duchovny in a press release. "What I do know is that I feel these songs represent the truest expression that I've ever been able to achieve and I look forward to sharing it with everyone." Hell or Highwater will come on the heels of Duchovny's recent book Holy Cow, and ahead of a new TV show Aquarius and the highly anticipated reboot of the series that made him famous, The X-Files, which begins shooting in Vancouver this summer. Read more here.
The 11-track release comes laden with high-profile guest appearances from the likes of Migos, Gucci Mane, Rich the Kid, Fredo Santana and Rome Fortune. Drink More Water 5 comes just just weeks before iLoveMakonnen is set to hit the road on an American tour, which launches in New York City on April 28 before wrapping on May 16 with a date in San Francisco. Listen to Drink More Water 5 here.
'Homegrown Honey" is the lead single off Rucker's fourth solo album, Southern Style, due for release today (March 31). "I remember my first No. 1. I remember how moved I was. It was really exciting. It was such a cool moment," he recalls. "Yesterday when I got the text that we were probably going to be No. 1 again, it was the same feeling of, 'This is awesome!' To know that you're the most played record in country music is pretty awesome. "When I texted Charles [Kelley] to say congratulations he said it perfectly. He said, 'It just never gets old.' It's still awesome." 'I was playing golf with Charles Kelley one day," Rucker explained to us in an earlier interview. 'Charles is probably my best friend in the business. He said, 'Man, we've been in Nashville seven years and have never written a song.' I hadn't really thought about it, but he was right. We had never written a song together. When I got to the session he had this great idea he had started with the opening line, 'Sitting in a bar in New York City everyone here looking New York pretty.'" Rucker explained that Kelley had the idea to write about a girl who lives in New York and is from the South and is different from everybody else. Nathan Chapman also had a hand in writing the track and is someone Rucker credits as 'a genius with melodies." '[When] we finished it, we were sitting around and I said, 'This is my single.' There was no doubt in my mind that that was my first single." Read more here.
And Hanson are not alone. Also performing is a strong bill of The Polyphonic Spree, Black Joe Lewis, Jamestown Revival, Horse Thief and a contest winner yet to be determined. These acts will perform in an all-ages performance space, allowing younger concertgoers an activity while the over-21 crowd bounces back and forth between the many beer tastings. Read more here.
Among the many things festival goers are not allowed to bring to Coachella, added to the list this year is the notation "no selfie sticks/narcissists" (directly followed by "no stuffed animals"). Lollapalooza is a bit more specific, saying that "GoPro attachments like sticks, selfie sticks & monopods" will not be allowed. Looks like the hoards will have to take their selfless the old-fashioned way: with arms wide open. Read more here.
The clip, which stars Evan Rachel Wood alongside Flowers, as well as the Psychedelic Furs' Richard Butler, finds them in a frontier town, though things get supernatural fairly quickly as day turns to night. The Killers frontman tells Radio.com that the video is based off Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Young Goodman Brown, and that a high profile director was originally attached to the project. "There's a great short story from Nathaniel Hawthorne called Young Goodman Brown," Flowers explains. "I read it recently. I got a book of classic American short stories. Just when we finished 'Can't Deny My Love,' I had just read it. I thought it would be great to just adapt it with the music. And the idea was to have it be more true to the story and have it be in the woods in the Northeast, but that did not work out. M. Night Shyamalan was supposed to do it, but it just didn't work out. "So in the last second we had to turn it around because we were running out of time. Robert Schober, who has worked with Disturbed and the Killers (the band's 2013 video 'Shot in the Night'), did it in the Mojave desert in-between Las Vegas and L.A., a small ghost town called Calico, right outside of Barstow, Calif." Read more and watch the video here.
'I never met him, never shook his hand, but he found out the name I stayed in hotels under, so it didn't matter where I was, he'd ring up do this kind of thing, like you did when you were 10, you know," Crowe explained. According to Crowe, Jackson would call and say things like, "Is Mr Wall there? Is Mrs Wall there? Are there any Walls there? Then what's holding the roof up? Ha ha." Read more here.
On Sunday, (March 29) Underwood posted a photo of her son on Instagram. The baby was shown wrapped on a blanket while holding onto a miniature Nashville Predators hockey stick. She captioned the photo showing her excitement that the Predators will be playing in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs. She tweeted "The Predators are in the playoffs! Just waiting to get called up! #PutMeInCoach." See the photo here.
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