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Favorites is our recurring video series on the personal preferences of the pop artists who inspire us. Because the artists we love love stuff too.
Despite branching off from Backstreet Boys last year to release his solo album, Back to Me, Howie D is still very much a part of the superstar boy band, who kick off their 2012 tour in April with New Kids on the Block. "Somehow I got labeled the romantic one of the group," he admitted to us during his Favorites shoot. "Someone you want to take home to mom."
We caught up with the "Lie to Me" singer to tackle important topics ranging from culinary skills to his (surprising) favorite TV show. Watch the video below to learn what makes Howie D tick!
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Kelly Clarkson Listens To Ellie Goulding “Nonstop”: Favorites
Mon Oct 24 2011 by Idolator Staff
Favorites is our recurring video series on the personal preferences of the pop artists who inspire us. Because the artists we love love stuff too.
In spite of Kelly Clarkson's struggles with the misconceptions about her and the Internet leaks of her music over the past year, she's re-emerged more focused and driven — hence the title of her fifth studio album album, Stronger. The LP is out today, so we figured we'd celebrate by having her take part in our very first Favorites video.
Do you think you're "Mr. Know It All" when it comes to Ms. Kelly? Can you name the last great book she read? Her fave video game? The album she can't stop listening to? Jump below to learn all about this fierce Texan — and discover a few of her favorite things. More »
In spite of Kelly Clarkson's struggles with the misconceptions about her and the Internet leaks of her music over the past year, she's re-emerged more focused and driven — hence the title of her fifth studio album album, Stronger. The LP is out today, so we figured we'd celebrate by having her take part in our very first Favorites video.
Do you think you're "Mr. Know It All" when it comes to Ms. Kelly? Can you name the last great book she read? Her fave video game? The album she can't stop listening to? Jump below to learn all about this fierce Texan — and discover a few of her favorite things. More »
Chris Martin Plays “Wedding Bells” For Apple—No, Not His Daughter
Wed Sep 1 2010 by Erika Brooks Adickman
Today Apple's Steve Jobs unveiled some new, exciting gadgets and updates—iTunes 10!— that will no doubt revolutionize our lives yet again (and will hopefully not need a bumper case to work properly). Following the exciting tech news, Coldplay's Chris Martin did an unveiling of his own with a song called "Wedding Bells". Jump below for an intimate performance and a few very witty Apple jokes from the the "Clocks" singer.
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Brake The Drake? “Degrassi” Alum Scales Chart Despite Online Stumbling Blocks
Fri Jul 24 2009 by Chris Molanphy
When the music story of 2009 is written, the year’s debutante queen and king will be Lady GaGa and Drake, who have treated Billboard’s Hot 100 as their playground lately. Each is a lock for a Best New Artist Grammy nomination next winter, because each is exactly the sort of not-too-innovative, chart-friendly act the Recording Academy routinely rewards.
For both acts, however, the path to the Top 10 has been a bit of a slog. GaGa’s on a roll now, but she spent most of 2008 watching her debut “Just Dance” creep up the Hot 100 before its January 2009 triumph; each of her chart-toppers needed an abnormally long time to scale the list. Her latest, “LoveGame,” has had the easiest rise of all, even as it peaked below the top slot.
Drake is poised to join GaGa as a debutante chart-topper with “Best I Ever Had” (No. 2), if he can get past the Black Eyed Peas. Compared with the Lady, the former Degrassi: The Next Generation cast member has had an easier time, exploding into the Top 10 with “Best” and the Lil Wayne-backed Young Money single “Every Girl.”
But even Drake has had bumps along the way—in particular, a week in which “Best” took a one-week, Estelle-like swoon thanks to a dispute over who was allowed to release his songs on iTunes. He’s more than recovered, but the mix-up and the song’s temporary plummet show how critical digital sales are to the Hot 100.
I don’t normally talk here about technology or digital rights, but in the wake of Amazon’s disastrous recall of two George Orwell e-books last week, it’s worth exploring what happened to Drake’s hit and what it means for chart tabulation and the songs we buy. More »
BREAKING: Nerds With Disposable Income, Shiny Gadgets, And Lots Of Free Time More Likely To Buy Music Than Normal People
Tue Jun 23 2009 by Maura
Twitter! It’s the new thing. It’s cutting out old middlemen! And introducing new ones! And now it’s serving as a predictor of whether or not people will plunge in and actually buy music, according to a brand-new study from the market researchers over at the NPD group, who are probably NPDing their pants at the prospect of getting mainstream media attention because they managed to shoehorn today’s social-networking media darling into their research. More »
Jay-Z Falls Victim To Autotune
Thu Jun 18 2009 by Maura
The remix-happy outfit Wallpaper is having a kind of good stretch as the Internet’s rapid-ish response unit to musical events of note. Last week, they picked up Best New Music nod for their siren-blaring remix of “Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell”; today, they’re causing giggles by mashing together Jay-Z’s “Death Of Autotune” and “99 Problems” to make, you guessed it, a bleepy club-ready track that turns Jay’s voice into a shifting line of ones and zeroes. (I wonder if the Autotune-enhanced, Kanye-produced songs from Blueprint 3 that were ditched sound like this?) Embed after the jump. More »
Copyfighters: Yep, They’re Still Jerks, For The Most Part
Fri Feb 20 2009 by Maura
Nice to see that Joel Johnson at Boing Boing… More »
The Demise Of Indie 103.1: Now It Might Be The Demographics’ Fault
Fri Jan 16 2009 by Maura
The Daily Swarm spoke to Mark Sovel, the now-former program director of the recently shuttered Los Angeles freeform-lite radio outlet Indie 103.1. Sovel, first and foremost, wants people to know that as of right now, none of the station’s “primary DJs or music programmers” are going to be involved with the online-only version of Indie launching next month. And he had a few words to say about the whole Personal People Meter controversy, too:
iPhone Music Makers: iPhone Ocarina Takes Me To Hyrule
Fri Nov 7 2008 by Lucas Jensen
Developed by Smule, Ocarina is a new iPhone application that simulates the playing the ancient flute that features prominently in a few Legend of Zelda games. The Ocarina has been around 12,000 years or something and is made to be shaped like a bird, whose sound it mimics. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask are two of my all-time favorite video games, so I gladly sprang for the 99 cents to download this guy on my iPhone. I was very happy with what I discovered.
