A back-and-forth between a Time Out Chicago reporter and the soon-to-open bar that calls itself Pitchfork, which is coincidentally located in the same city as the music site’s HQ: Q. Have you ever heard of the site Pitchfork.com? A. Nope. Q. Really? A. Yeah, why, what is it? Well hey, this should be a fun opening weekend chock-full of misdirected one-liners, now, shouldn’t it. [Time Out Chicago / Earlier] MORE »
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Obama Radio is off the air in Athens, Ga., and replacing it on the dial is “Power 100.1,” a top-40 station. (NB: At this moment, it’s playing an oddly pitch-shifted version of “Single Ladies” that makes the song sound kind of sad!) Now, let us never speak of this stupid stunt again, unless it’s to talk about how great Patrick Hernandez’s “Born To Be Alive” still remains to this day. [Radio-Info / Earlier] MORE »
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Following lead singer Hayley Williams’ throat-problem-occasioned early exit from Tuesday night’s show in Pomona, Calif., which resulted in the crowd filling in for the frontwoman on a song, Paramore has postponed tonight’s show at the Palladium in Hollywood until a future date. [Paramore] MORE »
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Omarion Still Accepting Your Prayers As He Denies Rumors Of Being Dropped
Last night, R & B singer Omarion took to Twitter in order to refute the rumors that he’d been dropped by Young Money for leaking his own song, saying that instead that he’d asked to be released from his deal amidst a string of dropped consonants: MORE »
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Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus—a film that features Tom Waits as the Devil, and the final performance by the late Heath Ledger—reportedly had some trouble finding a Stateside distributor after premiering at Cannes earlier this year, but good news: Variety is reporting that the flick will apparently come out via Sony Pictures Classics sometime this year. Yay! [Variety / Previously] MORE »
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“Stripper Radio” May Actually Be Slightly Preferable To The Format Replacing It
Last week, we noted that the Denver metropolitan area had a new radio format geared toward “stripper music,” the sort of stuff that one might hear in a gentleman’s club like “Crazy Bitch” and, uh, “Life Is A Highway.” As we figured, the format was basically a way for the station’s management to transition from the knowledge-worker-friendly Indie 101.5 to something a lot louder. And angrier. MORE »
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Miley Cyrus Thinks Jay-Z Is So Yesterday
Popjustice has an important update on the Miley Cyrus song that leaked yesterday, and that has a verse talking about hearing Jay-Z on the radio: “The version you have heard is the Demo and in the final cut [she] references ‘Kanye’ instead of ‘Jay-z.’ ” See, Jay? This is what happens when you talk about your songs not being made for pop radio! [Twitter / Popjustice] MORE »
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“Forever”watch continues: It’s holding steady at No. 3 on Amazon, and No. 7 on iTunes (behind a pair of Black Eyed Peas songs, Kings of Leon’s “Use Somebody,” Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me,” Sean Kingston’s “Fire Burning,” and Cobra Starship’s Leighton Meester-assisted “Good Girls Go Bad”). Why do I suspect that somewhere out there, crazed Mariah Carey fans are trying to convince some soon-to-be-married couple out there to shimmy down the aisle to “Obsessed,” and not really realizing why their pleas are falling on deaf ears? [Earlier] MORE »
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Chris Brown Still Getting Wedding Presents From Jill And Kevin
The wedding-procession-aided redemption of Chris Brown continued over the weekend, with newlyweds Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson appearing on Saturday’s edition of Today to recreate their dance down the aisle to the troubled singer’s 2008 hit “Forever.” And the publicity helped Brown’s single continue to scale the charts at iTunes and Amazon MP3; it’s currently No. 6 on the Apple-powered store’s singles chart, while at Amazon it’s No. 3, with only a pair of Black Eyed Peas singles in its way. MORE »
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Justin Timberlake Will Not Be Wearing The Green Lantern’s Ring
Oh well: “Ryan Reynolds has landed the coveted role of Green Lantern, getting the starring role in Warner Bros.’ live-action film based on the DC Comics hero.” Let’s just hope this doesn’t pave the way for Dick In A Box: The Movie, am I right? [Variety / Earlier] MORE »
