The organizers of the Tennessee music festival Bonnaroo are making us sweat it out sloooowly by revealing the lineup for this year’s fest one act at a time on their MySpace page. But they’ve finally dribbled out enough names to get us pumped: Jay-Z, Weezer, Kid Cudi, Kings of Leon, Wale, Dave Matthews Band and Norah Jones are a few of the big names on this year’s incredibly eclectic lineup. Check out the announced performers after the jump (and we’ll be updating as more and more acts are revealed):Also a headliner for this year’s Coachella, Jay-Z must have gotten a taste for festivals after fronting the bill at Glastonbury in 2008. Is Hova in danger of becoming the Jack Johnson of 2010?
Head out to Manchester, Tennessee from June 10-13 to check out all these acts at this year’s Bonnaroo.
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Grammy winner David Guetta slapped a behind the scenes video on his website featuring snippets of the French producer/DJ and Kid Cudi goofing around while making the “Memories” video. Know what’s even better than that? The “Memories” video is actually now online in full. And the offbeat clip features everything from sexy naked girls with the words “ooh” and “hey” covering their lady bits to a barber chugging that jar of blue junk they stick combs and scissors in. Look, it’s a post-Avatar world, and everyone’s feeling blue.
“Memories” has already proven to be a hit in France and Australia. Can it follow in the Top 10 footsteps of “Sexy Bitch” stateside? Hop below and see if you think the video can keep the One Love momentum rolling!
As for Kudi and all the other artists featured on David Guetta’s One Love album, he recently told Idolator: “What is really funny is that they came to me. I was really a nobody compared to them… People started to call me, and I was like, of course I’ll produce tracks for you, but can you feature on my album in return? That’s how it happened.”
“Memories” is the fourth single lifted from his latest LP.
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Our friends at Celebuzz just posted an exclusive clip of Rihanna riding a mechanical bull in a New York nightclub while Kings of Leon’s “Sex On Fire” blares from the speakers. Perhaps Rihanna figured that the time she spent riding a fake Zebra in her “Rude Boy” video (preview below) qualified her to ride a fake bull.
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:: Hollywood Week begins tonight, as does Ellen DeGeneres’ stint as an Idol judge! While Simon inevitably will make all the contestants cry with his critiques, we’re counting on Ellen to make ‘em laugh. [People]
:: Commenting on her first few days behind the judge’s table, Ellen says that Simon is “meaner than she thought.” He’s getting all the vitriol out now while he’s still on the show. [Huffington Post]
:: While Howard Stern himself clearly enjoys fueling the rumors that he may replace Simon Cowell, Richard Rushfield at The Daily Beast reports that it’s all just the shock jock playing games in the ongoing talks over renewing his contract at Sirius XM radio. Clever job, Stern. [The Daily Beast]
:: We’re seriously bummed one of our favorite Idol hopefuls, Danelle Hayes (the down-to-earth momma who plays in a cover band and who cried in front of the judges) scored a golden ticket, but never competed in Hollywood for unspecified reasons. [Seattle Times]
:: USA Today’s Brian Mansfield argues that this year’s audition rounds reveal even less about the show’s real competitors than usual. [USA Today]
After the jump, see Carrie Underwood—er, we mean Carrie Underworm—sing about the benefits of being an invertebrate on Sesame Street.
Adorable (and kind of gross), but more importantly, on key. Maybe Carrie Underworm should have sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl instead?
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A duet between Sean Kingston and Sugababes—well, that sounds good on paper, right? Er, not really. Alas, such a recording was made for the British trio’s delayed album Sweet 7. You can check out the original version of the ‘babes/Kingston collabo “Miss Everything,” featuring since-ousted member Keisha Buchanan, here.
So now that latest Sugababe Jade Ewen has successfully re-recorded all of Buchanan’s vocals for the LP’s March release (in Europe), perhaps there’s a chance “Miss Everything” has a bit more vim and a bit less Sean Kingston? Well, dare to dream—and check out the updated version below.
Sugababes feat. Sean Kingston - Miss Everything
We’re not sure what’s worse here—the rampant Auto-Tuning, the overuse of the word “shorty” or the recylced use of Flo Rida’s “Right Round” backing track.
Actually, the saddest factor is that Sean Kingston not only drowns out the girls on “Miss Everything,” the entire song manages to eradicate any semblance of the trademark “Sugababes sound.”
Chalk this one up to a big Miss Nothing.
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Nick Jonas immediately reminded us of older, more experienced musicians in his video for “Olive and an Arrow,” but his girlfriend Selena Gomez needs bit more work channeling artists who blazed the trail for her. The Disney princess tackled the Mexican pop legend Selena’s “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom” while performing at the San Antonio rodeo—but can her cover hold a candle to the original? Catch the vid below to see the Wizards of Waverly Place star sing her namesake’s hit song.
Selena Gomez – “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom”
Well… she looks cute? (Besides that superfluous black vest ruining the look of that adorable dress.) There’s really no way to compare the two, especially since Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was already a bonafide star when she recorded this song at the age of 23, and Selena Gomez, at 17, is still finding her voice. (Although she’s much more successful pretending to be the Mexican pop star than she is The White Stripes.)
Still, the teen singer’s version still drew cheers from the crowd—and one male fan in particular. Yes, we spy you, Nick Jonas! You think you can hide in the crowd during your girlfriend’s show by wearing a giant cowboy hat?

You can’t! The only time you’ve ever disappeared into a crowd was during the recording of “We Are The World.”
And for the record, here’s the original Selena performing “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.” Take note, teen pop wannabes out there, this is how it’s done.
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Damn you, Lil Wayne! We were all down over the somber occasion of Weezy’s impending sentencing to a one-year jail term today, but not even an hour after we posted our photo gallery of mug shots of other stars who’ve faced gun charges to mark the occasion comes the news that the pint-sized MC has gained almost another full month of freedom!
After arriving in a Manhattan courtroom around 2 p.m. today, Wayne’s lawyer Stacey Richman informed Judge Charles H. Solomon that the Cash Money honcho is suffering from a cracked tooth, and will require dental surgery, reports MTV. The judge then rescheduled the sentencing of Lil Wayne (real name: Dwayne Carter, Jr.) to March 2.
Dizz-amn! That’s, like, a full 60 or 70 more jams Weez will be able to crank out, given the breakneck pace he works at. Funny, though—he seemed fine in the hour-long “farewell” video he shot last night with Young Money rapper Lil Twist.
And, really, who knew there were any teeth left under those thousands of dollars of bling anymore?
In all seriousness, though, enjoy your jail-free February, Wayne. And don’t get into too much trouble with the ladies—or with guns—in the meantime.
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Joe Jackson went on Larry King Live last night to discuss the charges against Dr. Conrad Murray, now released on $75,000 bail. “I didn’t like those charges. He got off too easy,” the Jackson patriarch told King, adding that he believes his son’s death involved “other people” besides Murray, who he says is simply “the fall guy.” Is Michael Jackson the new JFK? Watch the vid below to hear Joe’s paranoid ramblings:According to Joe Jackson, Murray did not act alone. “There’s other people involved with this whole thing, but I think that [Murray is] interrogated, he would come clean and tell everything he knows.”
LaToya Jackson agrees with her father. In a statement read by King, LaToya claims, “Michael was murdered, and although he died at the hands of Dr. Conrad Murray, I believe Dr. Murray was a part of a much larger plan. I will continue to fight until all of the proper individuals are brought forth and justice is served.”
So what would motivate someone (or some people) to assassinate the King of Pop? Joe claims that Michael knew he would be murdered because others suspected he couldn’t finish all 50 dates of his This Is It concert at London’s 02 arena. “Michael said it himself that he would be killed, he told his mother that,” says Joe. “He was afraid to do all of these shows because he was afraid he wouldn’t have a chance because he couldn’t. You can’t do all those shows back to back. Even his kids said he had told them he would be murdered.”
We’re not sure of Joe’s logic here. So what he is implying is that AEG Live, the concert promoter that invested $30 million in production of the show, feared that Jackson would bail out on the dates and leave them holding the bag—so they conjured up a plot to kill him? You have to wonder if Joe Jackson is familiar with insurance. And even if AEG was concerned about Jackson’s ability and/or interest in playing all the shows, they had to be betting that any performance he did do would be endlessly marketable on, oh, we don’t know, DVD?
So who are the mysterious “other people” Joe believes were involved in his superstar son’s death? Joe has no idea, but he insists these culprits are real. King asks Jackson who to blame besides Murray, and he replies, “All those people that was involved with Michael. I don’t know exactly what all those names are, but there are a slew of them…All of those guys are no good guys as far as I’m concerned.”
Although he maintains that Murray is just the fall guy, he still isn’t satisfied with the charge of involuntary manslaughter. “Justice to me would be the murder charge.”
Could there be a conspiracy here? Nothing about Michael Jackson’s life or death would surprise us at this point. But Joe’s claims that there were more malicious forces at work besides Murray’s negligence would be more accountable if he had much more solid proof to back it up. Mostly, he’s going on hearsay and gut feelings. It looks to us that his incessant plea for “justice” is really a plea for attention.
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