The lead Pussycat Doll is apparently the latest person to attach herself to Slash’s forthcoming solo album, which comes out next year and is set to feature a Love Boat-worthy cavalcade of cameos by the likes of Iggy Pop, Flea, Stacy “Fergie” Ferguson, Adam “Maroon 5″ Levine, and Jason Bonham. But why not just go all the way and re-record La Scherz’s forever-in-turnaround solo effort Her Name Is Nicole as a collaborative effort between the Pussycat Dolls’ chief vocalizer and the still-in-search-of-a-frontperson semi-supergroup Velvet Revolver? Let’s face it—both projects need a big shot in the arm, buzz-wise, and this could maybe almost do it in a “so crazy, you have to check out the MySpace page at least once” sort of way… [AceShowbiz / Photo: Getty] MORE »
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I Have An Idea: Let’s Make Nicole Scherzinger The New Lead Singer Of Velvet Revolver
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The Brandy Album Is Probably Going To Be A (Guilt-Fraught) Winner
R & B singer Brandy has been working on her comeback album, and so far all the Ne-Yo collaborations that have leaked indicate that the album is going to be a meditation on the ethics of the club—i.e., whether or not one should turn dance-floor chemistry into a fling with greater implications. “Good Night Good Morning,” which just appeared online, follows in the lyrical vein of the devil’s-advocating “Decisions,” only it’s much slinkier and heat-of-the-moment. Clip after the jump. MORE »
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Lady GaGa Solidifies Her Position As This Generation’s Pantsless Diane Warren
Michael Bolton, the adult-contemporary crooner who pretty much set the groundwork for a lot of yarling post-grungers with his semi-strangled style of belting, is on the comeback trail! He has a new album, One World One Love, coming out next month, and in order to get in with the “kids,” he’s enlisted the help of popular songwriters of now like Ne-Yo and Lady GaGa. The GaGa collaboration, “Murder My Heart,” leaked over the weekend, and, well… it certainly sounds like it was made in 2009, with its punch-ins and digitized-to-next-week backing track. Clip after the jump. MORE »
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Drake Invites The Big Guys Over For A Pickup Game
Drake’s all-star collaboration “Forever,” which will appear on the soundtrack to the forthcoming LeBron James documentary More Than A Game, made its way online last night, and as you might expect of a track where the Degrassi alum enlists the help of Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and Eminem, it’s a fairly spectacular collision of boasts. Eminem’s verse is probably the tour de force of the lengthy (six minutes!) track, thanks to him seemingly still feeling the flame that was lit under his butt by Mariah Carey all those weeks ago. (I guess we’ll have to wait for that Foreigner cover to come out in order to properly deduce who “won” the beef between the two of them.) Stream after the jump. MORE »
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Madonna Is Now Hung Up On Lil Wayne
The final track listing for Madonna’s forthcoming greatest-hits comp Celebration has been released, and apparently one of the new tracks on the album will be a collaboration between Madge and Lil Wayne. The song’s a “True Blue”-gone-dark ditty called “Revolver,” and a very low-quality rip of it apparently leaked all the way back in May, as evidenced by the YouTube above. Unless that track was all part of an elaborate fake-out, and the real collab will be on a song of Weezy’s called “Hot Revolver,” which was released to iTunes back in March as part of the rollout for the months-delayed rock album Rebirth? I embed, you decide, after the jump. MORE »
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Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler is scheduled to lay down some tracks for the solo record by his ex-bandmate Slash today, joining Izzy Stradlin in the group of Former Guns N’ Roses Members Who Will Be On This Album Alongside Fergie. [Twitter via GNRDaily] MORE »
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Carly Smithson: The New Amy Lee?
Carly Smithson–the 2008 American Idol contestant who was also the poster child for the record industry’s problems in a 2002 Wall Street Journal piece–is joining forces with all the dudes fired from Evanescence to form a new band called The Fallen, according to USA Today. (Any resemblance between the band’s name and the title of Evanescence’s 2003 breakthrough album is probably coincidental.) MORE »
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“Nine Inch Nails just invited Dillinger Escape Plan onstage to play ‘Wish,’” my former partner in powerblogging Christopher R. Weingarten texted me from Trent Reznor’s maybe-quitting-the-Internet-because-of-you farewell show at Bonnaroo late Saturday night. “Check YouTube every 30 seconds!” Alas, searches for said performance on the video-sharing have turned up dry for me so far–but all is not lost, since they engaged in this little bit of collaboration in March 2008, too. [Google Blog Search] MORE »
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Smashing Pumpkins’ (Alleged) New Drummer Was About A Year Old When “Gish” Came Out
Billy Corgan’s Internet-wide search for a new drummer has apparently ended, and according to Smashing Pumpkins fan blog Hipsters United a (pretty) young man has emerged victorious: Mike Byrne, the 19-year-old drummer/”demoralizer” for the Oregon band Moses, Smell The Roses. There’s been no formal announcement yet, but Byrne did say that he was “off for another couple of weeks at pumpkin camp” on his MySpace page yesterday, and Moses collaborator Ben Spees referred to him as the “drummer of the future” on Twitter. That’s practically a confirmation, right? MORE »
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Izzy Stradlin has been laying down tracks on the forthcoming solo album by his ex-bandmate Slash. “There is an unmistakable sound that me & Izzy’s guitars make when performed together,” the former Guns N’ Roses guitarist noted last night from the studio. Guys… what if Izzy became the new Velvet Revolver singer? That would be a way to actually make the project kind of interesting, you have to admit. [Twitter] MORE »
