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The youngest Jonas Brother is returning to his solo act days—he’s hitting the road sans his older siblings to try out his “heart and soul” music on the people. Nick Jonas and the Administration (including three members of Prince’s New Power Generation!) announced their upcoming North American tour dates on their MySpace blog. Let’s see how many teens and adults unaccompanied by children flock to see just one (funky?) Jonas instead of the trifecta. More »
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Nick Jonas Announces Solo Tour, Kevin and Joe Most Likely Miss Him Already
Tue Dec 1 2009 by Becky Bain
Nick Jonas Obviously Sees Himself as the Justin Timberlake of The Jonas Brothers
Mon Nov 16 2009 by Becky Bain
What are we to make of Nick Jonas’ solo adventure? Is “Who I Am” the start of a Nicole Scherzinger-style detour? Or is it his “Like I Love You“? The brothers have tried to quell fan freakouts by describing his new Nashville-rooted album (with new band The Administration) as a side project, but can a real live solo career really be ruled out?
Based on the bright but ham-fisted sample released today, Joe and Kevin probably aren’t worrying. Would you be? Preview “Who I Am”—presumably an example of what Nick has called “heart and soul” music—on the other side: More »
This Isn’t It After All: Michael Jackson Will Be At Your Movie House For Thanksgiving
Mon Nov 2 2009 by Maura
Michael Jackson’s posthumous concert-rehearsal documentary This Is It had an OK opening weekend here in the United States—it was the highest-grossing movie from Friday to Sunday, although the $21.3 million it pulled in was below expectations. (It’s raked in $32.5 million here since opening on Wednesday—way lower than the $250-million-in-five-days figure that concert promoter AEG Live had touted in the run-up to the movie.) Over the weekend, This Is It distributor Sony Pictures announced that it had decided to keep the movie in theaters for longer than its initial two-week run, spinning the move as such: More »
The Jonas Brothers’ Non-Breakup: A Comment Section Reacts
Wed Oct 28 2009 by Maura
Rumors that the Jonas Brothers were breaking up, fueled by the boys going in different directions during some recent downtime, were summarily squashed by the brothers via a MySpace blog post last night. The post did note that Nick Jonas is going to release a Nashville-recorded solo album, Nick Jonas & The Administration, early next year. (”If I was to describe the sound to someone,” wrote Nick, “I would say its [sic] ‘heart & soul’, because the music that I make is from my heart, and the lyrics I write are from my soul.” Thanks for clearing that up!) And as such, it garnered pages and pages of heart- and support-filled comments from the JoBro faithful, who apparently wanted to live up to the “best fans in the world” tag that was bestowed upon them in the blog post: More »
“Rolling Stone” Holds Senior Portrait Day For Bono And The Edge
Wed Sep 30 2009 by Maura
Handicapping The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Nominations: Don’t Get Ready To Pucker Up Just Yet
Wed Sep 23 2009 by Maura
Kiss, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and LL Cool J lead this year’s roster of first-time nominees for Jann Wenner’s shrine to his concept of “rock and roll,” the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. This year’s nominations total 12, with returnees like the Stooges, ABBA, and Donna Summer competing with the aforementioned newbies. Which nominees are the most likely to pass muster with the shadowy group who decides these sorts of things? Our odds after the jump. More »
MTV Gets Ready To Honor “Single Ladies” One More Time
Mon Sep 21 2009 by Maura
Beyoncé, Kings of Leon, and Shakira have each scooped up multiple nominations for MTV’s European Music Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Nov. 5 and feature performances by Green Day, X Factor-winning warbler Leona Lewis, and “popular on the Internet” mope-rock act Tokio Hotel. The winners in most of the categories—save Best Video Of The Year, which inexplicably includes Eminem’s stale-on-arrival “We Made You” as the lone male-fronted video in its ranks—will be determined by fan voting, which probably explains the Jonas Brothers vs. Tokio Hotel matchup in the “Best Group” category. (Gimme an S! Gimme an E! Gimme an O!) Full list of non-regional nominations after the jump. More »
Jay-Z’s First-Week Sales: Not Quite Eminem-Level, But Not Bad By Any Stretch
Wed Sep 16 2009 by Maura
Unsurprisingly, Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 debuted atop today’s Billboard 200, thanks to sales of 476,000 copies in the time that elapsed between its release last Tuesday and Sunday night. But how did Jay’s first-week numbers fare in the more rarefied arena of No. 1 debuts? I crunched a few numbers to figure out just how all of the albums that topped the charts in their first week of sales fared, and came away slightly surprised! More »
Kara DioGuardi’s Pretty Great, If Unsurprisingly Ego-Inspired, Reality-Show Idea
Wed Sep 16 2009 by Maura
American Idol judge/songwriter-for-hire Kara DioGuardi is taking her televisual success to a new place—she told New York’s Diana Scholl that she’s developing a TV show of her own. And it actually sounds like something that I would not only watch, but document kind of obsessively. Behold: Dropped! More »
MTV Reportedly Giving Up Its Times Square Studio Space
Tue Aug 11 2009 by Maura
The giant studio at 1515 Broadway that hosted many of MTV’s biggest televised moments—from the run of TRL to, uh, the end of TRL—is going on the market because Viacom is tired of paying $11.6 million in yearly rent, according to the landlord. Also up for grabs: the corner space on 44th and Broadway that houses the MTV Store, which apparently will be rented to whatever company is eager to pay $1,000 a square foot. Where are all the teenage Jonas Brothers fans going to congregate when they’re cutting school now, huh? More »
