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Exclusive: Polly Scattergood Interview

24 June 2009 11:46 AM, PDT | From PopStar | See recent PopStar news

A true diamond in the rough whose talent and charisma is perfectly placed on each track of her new album titled Polly Scattergood. The fun loving eccentric musician is not afraid to take chances and throughout her new CD you will hear and feel things that you never knew existed. Go for a ride as Polly takes you on a rollercoaster of thoughts through the darkest and the brightest of human emotion. It's bold, it's powerful, it's beautiful, and it's all courtesy of Britain's rising star, Polly Scattergood. Mute Records teamed up with the song bird and created a masterpiece of sound filled with adventurous emotions and raw heartfelt lyrics that make this album a must have. Round out your collection with this beautiful eclectic masterpiece from Polly Scattergood. Mute Records has generously donated some of Polly's CDs to our Auction System, so round up your MyStar Points and begin bidding,

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cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)

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Band of the Week: Clint Michigan

22 June 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news

Hometown: New York City


Album: Hawthorne to Hennepin


Band Members: Clint Asay (vocals, guitar, banjo), Amy Bezunartea (vocals, guitar, banjo)

For Fans Of: Ida, Low, Sufjan Stevens

Amy Bezunartea and Clint Asay comprise the duo Clint Michigan, but the band's unsung hero is the mutual friend who first pushed them to listen to each others' music. “He was convinced we would hit it off musically,” says Bezunartea, a Brooklyn singer/songwriter who grew up idolizing Joni Mitchell. “I kept ignoring his pleas. I finally listened to [Asay's] song, and I absolutely loved it.” Asay, a veteran of an all-gay comedy pop group called The Isotoners, was similarly reluctant, but when he finally broke down and listened to Bezunartea's demo, he says, “I knew that this would be the female voice of the band.” 

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Dave Matthews Band’s Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King: Wackiest #1 Album Title Ever?

10 June 2009 1:35 PM, PDT | From MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news

I know that Dave Matthews Band’s new #1 album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King, is a tribute to their late saxophonist LeRoi Moore, so I feel weird making fun of it. I applaud the band’s devotion to the guy, and his death is genuinely tragic. But seriously: Is that title not the biggest “Wtf?” in the history of top-of-the-chart records?

I was curious, so I did a little digging. As it happens, there are a number of other titles that looked a little weird, or were hard to say, or otherwise just seemed ridiculous representing the most-bought album in this country. Before I get to the list, I want to make two points. First of all, it’s really interesting going back in time to look at the chart-topping albums through the years. This is especially true when you get into the ’80s and early ’90s, where single

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Kyle Anderson

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Sandra Bernhard is not into Lady Gaga and modern celebrity

5 June 2009 12:23 PM, PDT | From AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news

Not long after I came out, I was invited to a gay friend’s house to watch a movie that he said would have me laughing so hard that I’d pee my pants. How could I resist an invitation like that? The movie was Without You I’m Nothing, based on out comedian Sandra Bernhard’s much acclaimed one-woman-show of the same name.

I didn’t get it.

Bernhard ranted and raved and did odd non-impressions of celebrities and fake interviews with people I didn’t recognize, being a shiny new lesbian and all.

The tape ended with Bernhard draped in an American flag wearing nothing but a patriotic g-string and pasties, dancing to Prince’s Little Red Corvette. Not only were my pants dry, but I also felt totally stupid surrounded by gay men doubled over in laughter tears.

All these years later, Bernhard still confounds me much of the time.

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Mandy Moore Always Knew She Was Different From Britney, Christina

3 June 2009 2:57 AM, PDT | From MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news

Singer/actress calls Amanda Leigh 'the record I've always wanted to make.'

By Jocelyn Vena

Mandy Moore

Photo: MTV News

More than 10 years ago, a slew of young stars hit the pop charts. Although the queen bees were Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, back then, Mandy Moore held her own with hits like "Candy" and "I Wanna Be With You."

With Spears and Aguilera continually reinventing themselves but staying true to what Moore considers their "formula," the singer/actress has moved on with a throwback to a " '70s sort of Southern California pop sound" on her new album, Amanda Leigh.

"I kind of always knew we would all differentiate ourselves from one another," she told MTV News. "Musically, they've stuck to a formula that works for them and, obviously, has always proven successful. I don't think I found that same success singing music that really, at the end of the day,

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Hennessy Keen To Get Back To Busking

11 April 2009 7:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Former Law & Order star Jill Hennessy has developed a career as a New York street busker if her acting career ever ends - because she already knows where the best places to play Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell hits are.

The star performed on the city's subway and at Big Apple landmarks as she struggled to become an actress - and she made a good living doing it.

Hennessy still performs - she recently played a concert at her son's pre-school - and now she's hungry to hit the streets again and play her favourite places.

She tells WENN, "When I was playing the subways I would stay in the station and the acoustics were really good on the 1-and-9 line by 79th and Broadway. You’d always get someone coming up and saying, 'Can you play Joni Mitchell's Circle Game because last time I heard that my wife and I were still together?' and they would tell me their whole life story.

"I would play Circle Game and somebody would cry or I would do Dylan or Springsteen covers and Patti Griffin, Green Day, Katy Perry’s I Kissed A Girl. I would also play in Washington Square Park and Central Park around the John Lennon memorial.

"If you averaged it to salary, by the hour I took home around 15 bucks. And near a holiday I made well over 20 dollars an hour.

"My dream is to play at Grand Central Station because the acoustics are amazing."

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HuffPost Reviews: Leonard Cohen - Live In London / Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! / Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins - Sara Watkins

30 March 2009 2:28 PM, PDT | From Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news

Leonard Cohen - Live In London "About fourteen or fifteen years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream," cracks Cohen on his sensational live album that casts him alongside Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Simon as an intelligent, sophisticated music elder statesmen. He then says, "I've also studied deeply in the philosophies, but cheerfulness kept breaking through," and if you know absolutely any of Leonard Cohen's songs (everybody's covered them) or heard any of his recordings, then you get that "cheerful" makes his vocabulary by way of accident or miracle. With a voice as bottomless as a pit (like Chris Rea's, Jon Mark's, kind of Neil Diamond's, and sometimes Robbie Robertson's), Leonard Cohen emotes from an even deeper source as he gets real personal with the listener and his characters like "Suzanne" ("...and you...

Mike Ragogna

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On This Day: Frank Sinatra founds Image Comics

13 February 2009 7:50 AM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news

Well, not quite. But consider:

He was a young hot-shot, insanely popular with the kids. But he was tired of buckling under for the suits who controlled his career and had nearly scuttled it in the past, he wanted more artistic freedom for his own recordings. So he founded Reprise Records, and on this day in 1961, released the first album, Ring-a-Ding-Ding!

One of the label's founding principles under Sinatra's leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom, and at some point complete ownership of their work; including publishing rights. As a result, a lot of other talented creators came on board with Frank, including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Redd Foxx, Bing Crosby, and Rosemary Clooney. Later on, Reprise would also sign a lot of new talent including The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

And Frank? He became "The Chairman of the Board" and went

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Glenn Hauman

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Ruthie Foster: The Truth According to Ruthie Foster

4 February 2009 6:00 AM, PST | From Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news

Soul singer mixes it up a bit too much on sixth disc

Almost exactly two years after the well-received The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster, the soulster is back, if somewhat less prodigious. There’s no denying the power of Foster’s monstrous voice, and while it’s tempting to say her smooth vibrato can do no wrong, the genre-bending singer bends a bit too much here. This disc too often veers away from her musical palette of folk, Americana, soul and blues, creating an overcooked confection of tunes. See the reggae-tinged “I Really Love You” or the Foster-penned “Dues Paid in Full” for examples of jaunty experiments gone awry. With a voice this strong, Foster’s music is most enjoyable on embattled scorchers with hard-nosed lyrics like title track “Truth!”, which features a rollicking guitar intro by Robben Ford (Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell) and a straight-for-the-gut message. Its unassuming intensity is Foster at her bravest.

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May Means More Mandy Moore!

3 February 2009 12:40 PM, PST | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

Mandy Moore doesn't have a new beau (that we know of), but she does have a new baby. Her latest album, Amanda Leigh, is set to hit stores on May 26. The sweet-like-candy starlet titled the album after her given name and was inspired by such artists as Joni Mitchell and Todd Rundgren. "We're trying to do a '70s Southern California/Laurel Canyon vibe," she told E! News in December. She also joked that a coffeehouse tour was in the works. Amanda Leigh, whose tracks include "Everblue," "Nothing Everything" and  "Song About Home," marks the debut release for Storefront Recordings, founded by Moore's long-time manager, Jon Leshay, and Red...

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Barb Jungr Comes To Cafe Carlyle With The Men I Love 3/11-28

26 January 2009 10:32 AM, PST | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news

The British singing sensation Barb Jungr, who just earned Time Out NY's Best of the Year honors for her two Metropolitan Room shows in 2008, is moving uptown to the Caf? Carlyle at the Carlyle Hotel where she premieres a brand new act from March 11 to 28. In "The Men I Love" Jungr promises to reach beyond our common assumptions about the male species to appreciate the surprises of men and manhood while marveling at the astonishing topographic variety of what she calls "the male terrain." The composers and songwriters she's drawing her inspiration from are a diverse lot. She and her New York music director Charlie Giordano are constructing a show with songs by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon and Harry Nilsson among others. All the songs in the show Jungr has not heretofore performed in New York. Playing for three weeks "The Men I Love" is Ms.

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