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Day in Pop Report for 05/13/2015


Azealia Banks Breaks Up Fight At Concert
(Radio.com) Azealia Banks broke up a fight during her show in New York City. A video has surface which shows her stop her performance of 'Miss Amor" when she sees two people get into it.

"We're not gonna be fighting in the crowd," Banks instructs like a teacher calming unruly students. "Ya'll better figure it the f-k out or ya'll are getting kicked out."

The crowd loves this response from Banks and roars in approval. "I don't care who started it, but ya'll better stop touching. I'm gonna count to ten and then keep this show going," Banks says, going full teacher.

Watch the drama unfold in the NSFW video here.

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Kacey Musgraves Announces New Album 'Pageant Material'
(Radio.com) Kacey Musgraves announced on her Twitter that her sophomore effort will be titled Pageant Material, and it's out June 23. In addition to the release date and title reveals, the country singer also debuted the album cover, which includes a side portrait of Musgraves in a pageant crown in front of a glitzy red curtain.

The tracklist was made available, with 13 songs available on the record. Musgraves has already debuted lead single "Biscuits," which is climbing the U.S. Country Songs chart with a peak of No. 28 so far.

Same Trailer, Different Park earned Musgraves multiple awards and nominations, including a win for Best Country Album at the 2014 GRAMMYs and the honor of Best Country Song for "Merry Go Round."

See the Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material Tracklist here.

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Jennifer Lopez Reveals Las Vegas Residency Plans
(Radio.com) It's been rumored and rumored, and now it's official: Jennifer Lopez is going Vegas. Tuesday night (May 12) during American Idol, on which Lopez is a judge, the singer revealed that she'll begin a residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas starting in January 2016.

Details of the residency were uploaded soon after on Caesars' website. A commercial for the string of shows also aired as the show went to commercial break.

Lopez's AXIS Theater shows will kick off Jan. 20, with shows in January, February, May and June. The first string runs Jan. 20-Feb. 9, with the second going May 22-June 12. Read more including the dates here.

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Brandon Flowers Streaming New Solo Album 'The Desired Effect'
(Radio.com) It's been five years between solo albums from the Killers' frontman Brandon Flowers, with his last LP coming in 2010, and his latest now available for stream on iTunes.

The Desired Effect follows up Flamingo, and features production from Ariel Rechtshaid, best known for working with such artists as Charli XCX and Haim.

Flowers has offered up a parade of advance tasters from the LP in the roll-out, including single "Can't Deny My Love," the handsy video "Still Want You," and a clip for "Lonely Town." Read more here.

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Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz To Appear On 'Empire'
(Radio.com) Empire isn't slowing down anytime soon. On Monday, the Fox network announced that the second season of the breakout series will expand from 12 episodes to 18.

Fox has also announced a bumper crop of new celebrity guest stars, Billboard reports: Chris Rock, Lenny Kravitz and Alicia Keys are all confirmed for the new season, according to Fox TV Group's Gary Newman and Dana Walden, who made the big announcement at Fox's Upfront presentation.

Lee Daniels, the show's co-creator, said that running the first season was difficult at time. "It was a rough experience -- and I don't know [whether it's] one that I would repeat," Daniels explained during the at the Hollywood Radio and Television Society's Hitmakers event in April. "I lost my virginity. I don't know that I would want to lose it again." Read more here.

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Brad Paisley Animates Country Stars For His 'Crushin' It' Video
(Radio.com) If you've ever wondered what your favorite country artists looked like as superheroes, you're in luck. Brad Paisley's new video for "Crushin' It" invents each country singer's code name and super power as they try to save the world from being under attack from giant evil robot beer cans.

You can't make this stuff up, but Paisley sure can. The four-and-a-half-minute video was "completely and totally drawn, animated and created by Brad Paisley."

"OK, I drew this," Paisley wrote on Twitter. "Certainly the only video of its kind. Hope you get a kick out of it. Betcha can't watch just once." The video kicks off with "top secret classified footage" of an "elite team of weekend vigilantes undercover as country singers."

Their talent? The ability to crush aluminum. Then we're shown some of country's mightiest heroes which include Paisley as Steel Moonshiner, Keith Urban as Captain Australia, Carrie Underwood as Carrie Underwoman, Kenny Chesney as Agua Man, Zac Brown Band as The Zoro Brown Bandaleros, plus many, many more.

As the team of country singers go to battle the giant evil robot beer cans, an animated Blake Shelton is shown lounging and drinking beers as wife Miranda Lambert shoots each empty beer can.

Then we see a man who loves to fly, Dierks Bentley as Derx Skydrinker, Darius Rucker as The Hoot Owl, Jason Aldean as Jason All-green and Luke Bryan as Flash Smile showing off his pearly whites and dance moves. Watch it here.

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Justin Bieber Continues Apology Tour In 'Seventeen'
(Radio.com) Bad boy no more? That's what Justin Bieber says in the June/July issue of Seventeen, where the singer addresses his antics over the last year and what he's aiming for moving forward.

"I was rebelling a little bit. I was getting cockier and cockier. I didn't have people to check me. I looked back and I was disappointed in myself," Bieber said to the mag, but he doesn't go on to say who is "checking" him now.

The magazine cover is the latest in Bieber's ongoing apology tour, after some feedback from his fans they they weren't into the egging and other crazy antics.

'You have to own up to the mistakes. You have to say, I'm sorry if I've let you down," Bieber said of his public mea culpa. "I always want to be honest and let people know that those mistakes aren't who I am. Who I am is someone who really cares about people." Read more here.

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Kanye West Won't Be Starring In Spike Lee's 'Chiraq'
(Radio.com) Despite swirling rumors to the contrary, Kanye West won't be starring in Spike Lee's upcoming musical comedy Chiraq. There is still a chance that he'll have a hand in the movie's music, though.

"Contrary to published reports, Kanye West will not be starring in Chiraq," one of his press reps told Pitchfork. "However, there are discussions for West's possible involvement in the film's soundtrack, schedule permitting."

The movie, which will star Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack and Jennifer Hudson, is based on Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the story about Greek women refusing to have sex with their husbands until they end the Peloponnesian War. In Chiraq, the goal is to stop rampant violence on the streets of Chicago, specifically in the Englewood neighborhood. Read more here.

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Taylor Swift Posts Note To A Fan Whose Mother Just Died
(Radio.com) Taylor Swift's music helped a young fan deal with the death of her mother, but it's a new note that helped the fan get through Mother's Day, which has Swift sharing her own fears about her mother's illness.

On Sunday, a young fan named Kaileen wrote Swift on Tumblr, starting with the line "It's me, iced coffee girl, and I could really use a hug." In the note, Kaileen tells the 1989 singer that she lost her mother last year and that "a piece of my heart left with her," but it was Swift's music that helped her cope with her death.

"For a while, I felt empty. But as you've done many times before, you filled that hole. You took me out of my sad place and made me happy," she wrote. "And because of you, I got through something that was the hardest thing in the world for me. Today's going to be another hard day, but I know with you on my side I can get through anything."

Swift responded to the note with your own honest confession, "You've lived through my worst fear," writing, "I'm so sorry you can't spend today with her. It's not fair, and there's no reason why you should feel okay about it."

While Swift says "no one should ever expect you to feel normal today" she says she admires and respects her "ability to put forth such a sunny, sweet disposition when you've been through something so dark and tragic so recently."

Swift ends the note by "sending you a huge hug today. Gonna go get iced coffee and cheers to you." Swift recently revealed on her Tumblr that her mom was diagnosed with cancer, explaining that she was sharing the news so that her fans would be able to get their moms and dads to the doctor for a check-up. "Maybe you reminding them to go get checked for cancer could possibly lead to an early diagnosis and an easier battle," she wrote. "Or peace of mind in knowing that they're healthy and there's nothing to worry about."

Read Taylor's full letter to her fan here.

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Chris Young Releases New Ballad 'I'm Comin' Over'
(Radio.com) Chris Young has been teasing his new single "I'm Comin' Over" for quite some time on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and now it's here. A song about a former couple unable to move on from other, "I'm Comin' Over" was co-written by Young, Corey Crowder and Josh Hoge.

''I'm Comin' Over' describes that feeling when you can't get someone off your mind and you just have to be with them no matter the consequences," Young said in a press release. 'It's my first new music in almost three years and I'm really excited to share it with my fans."

It is the first single from Young's forthcoming fifth studio album due out this fall. In addition to the new song, Young is launching the Summer of "I'm Comin' Over" where fans can enter several contests for a chance to win round trip airfare and tickets to see him live in concert. Read more about that and check out the song here.

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Twenty One Pilots Release New Song 'Ride'
(Radio.com) Shape-shifting Ohio duo Twenty One Pilots take a reggae-tinged "Ride" with the latest single from from the band's upcoming fourth full-length, Blurryface.

The fifth song to be revealed from the new album (set for release on May 19) comes with a decidedly island-flavored skip as singer Tyler Joseph ponders existentially over the beat about life, death, friends and what it all means in the end: "All these questions they're for real/Like who would you live for?/Who would you die for?/And would you ever kill?"

The latest album track follows the release of "Fairly Local," "Tear in My Heart," "Stressed Out" and "Lane Boy." Blurryface will arrive with nine additional tracks when it hits retailers next week. Check out the new song here.

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Walk the Moon Announce Fall Tour
(Radio.com) Walk the Moon have been one of rock's biggest success stories of 2015, taking the alt rock chart first and then moving on to even greener pastures, now including pop radio.

With that success comes new fans, and those fans are in luck: the band is heading out on tour this fall. The Cincinnati, Ohio, rockers on Tuesday (May 12) announced their Talking Is Hard fall tour, kicking off in October with sets two straight weekends at Austin City Limits.

From there, the band will embark on a nine-city jaunt that includes stops in Miami, Nashville and Memphis, with an end date currently scheduled for Oct. 26 in San Francisco. See the dates here.

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'The Fugitive' May Be Getting A Sequel
(Radio.com) Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones made a compelling pair of leads in the 1993 film The Fugitive, the story of a federal marshall (played by Jones) chasing a man, Dr. Richard Kimble (Ford), who's been wrongly convicted of murdering his wife.

Now those characters may find themselves back on the big screen in a new sequel. According to Deadline, Warner Brothers will develop a new installment of The Fugitive, with Christina Hodson as writer and Arnold and Anne Kopelson producing. So far there's no word on whether Ford or Jones will sign onto the new project.

The 1993 film was a major box-office and critical success. It was nominated for four Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and earned Jones an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. Read more here.

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Mickey Guyton Reveals Self-Titled EP Details
(Radio.com) Mickey Guyton is joining Brad Paisley on his Crushin' It world tour, and she'll have some new songs to perform while there: her self-titled new EP is out later this month.

Mickey Guyton will be released May 26. The four-song EP includes two songs she wrote ("Pretty Little Mustang" and "Better Than You Left Me") plus two other tracks, "Why Baby Why" and "Someone Else Will."

Production was handled by a trio of well-regarded country producers: Dann Huff, Luke Laird and Nathan Chapman. The EP marks Guyton's second, following last year's Unbreakable, her first for Capitol Nashville.

Already, "Better Than You Left Me" has found the Country Airplay chart in the U.S., peaking at No. 35 so far. Read more here.

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Leonard Cohen Releases New Song 'Got a Little Secret'
(Radio.com) Leonard Cohen isn't slowing down any time soon: he's released two studio albums and one live album over the course of the last few years. After all that, he's still got a few unreleased songs on deck, many of which he plays out at his live shows.

On his forthcoming live album, Can't Forget: A Souvenir Of The Grand Tour, he highlights some of these rare gems. A few months ago we heard a new one called 'Nobody Gave Nobody Trouble" ; now we're getting the official release of 'Got a Little Secret."

Cohen's vocal is as gravelly as ever on the track. "I got a little secret," he warbles. "If you promise not to tell/ I made a date in heaven/ But I've keeping it in hell."

It's vintage Cohen: cryptic, poetic phrases, delivered in a voice like icebergs cracking. Check it out here.

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'Fear the Walking Dead' Early Look Video Released
(Radio.com) There's a lot to fear in Fear the Walking Dead. And, if a new 'early look' video that dropped this week is to be believed, a whole lot of backstory. According to the video, production is now in full swing on Fear the Walking Dead, the highly anticipated prequel to the AMC series The Walking Dead.

"Fear the Walking Dead is an entirely new, original concept," explains executive producer Gale Anne Hurd. "Because there are so many die-hard fans, you expect a certain thing from The Walking Dead," says showrunner Dave Erickson. But with this new series, he continues, "We want to give that sense�and then pull the rug out from under them."

In terms of visuals, the video doesn't offer up a whole lot, but you do get glimpses of a few different sets, a couple of actors getting make-up applied and some spooky music that very well could have been lifted from the soundtrack.

And don't worry if you haven't seen every Walking Dead episode yet--or any of them at all. As executive producer Robert Kirkman makes clear, this new series "tells its own story. You'd don't need to have watched The Walking Dead to understand Fear the Walking Dead." Read more and watch the video clip here.

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Kelsea Ballerini Streaming New Album 'The First Time' Online
(Radio.com) Kelsea Ballerini has country fans and Taylor Swift anxiously waiting for the release of her debut country album The First Time next week (May 19). But thanks to CMT, fans can get an early listen.

Starting today (May 12), Ballerini's album is available to stream on CMT. The album includes current single "Love Me Like You Mean It".

It also features personal songs like "Secondhand Smoke," a song she wrote after her parent's divorce, and title track "The First Time," where she realizes goodbye should mean goodbye the first time at the end of a relationship. Read more here.

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Rae Sremmurd Release 'This Could Be Us' Video
(Radio.com) Rae Sremmurd's "This Could Be Us" is one of the great examples of a meme inspiring a smash hit. In the video, Swae Lee and Slim Jimmy take a wild safari to Africa, rapping in front of safari jeeps and getting their hair braided by the locals.

These scenic vistas are interspersed with Skype conversations with their ladies back home, neither of whom are pleased with their international jaunts.

"Where are you?" asks Lee's peeved girlfriend, frustrated that he didn't tell her where he was. "Out in Africa," he replies with a grin. "I put it on Twitter."

"Twitter," she repeats, not pleased. "That's the only time I ever know what you're doing, when I check out your Twitter or your Instagram." Then she breaks up with him. Read more and watch the video here.

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Kanye West Surprises High School Students
(Radio.com) Kanye West seems to be surprising fans all over Chicago by just showing up unexpected. First, he showed up during halftime at the Chicago Bulls playoff game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. And Monday night (May 11) he showed up at a Chi-Town high school where Chance the Rapper was hosting his Open Mike series, which has him performing for local Chicago student.

Yeah, you can bet these teens were pretty excited to see 'Ye walk out in their high school auditorium and perform hours after he received his honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Kanye hit the stage at the first Southside Chicago Open Mike to perform his new track "All Day," along with "U Mad" and "We Don't Care," which featured Chance and fellow Chicagoan Vic Mensa. Of course, the teens could sing every word to Kanye's songs #ALLDAY.

After the show, Chance thanked Kanye, along with the volunteers who make these shows happen. "Thank you to DA STAFF. Just a group of my friends, no sponsors, no 501c3 NotProfit. Just friends that volunteer. We are for the people.- Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) May 12, 2015"

Watch clips from the surprise performance here.

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