News Arhive: Coldplay, Fantasia, Ashlee Simpson, Justin And Cameron
Lindsay Lohan has finished recording her debut album, which she's calling Speak, according to her Web site. The actress/singer is currently deciding which tracks will make the final cut.
Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz got in a tangle with two paparazzi on Saturday night in Hollywood, and ended up snatching one of the photographers' camera. According to an attorney for the couple, Diaz and Timberlake acted in their own defense and only took the camera to identify the photographers later. The LAPD says the department has received a complaint from one of the photographers, claiming battery and grand theft. The matter is under investigation. No Doubt's Tom Dumont has posted his wedding pictures on his Web site. The three photos, which can be found at http://tomdumont.com/photos.asp, showcase his bride Mieke Binzer's wedding dress, which Dumont's bandmate Gwen Stefani designed.
Devastated to learn of Ashlee Simpson's "Saturday Night Live" lip-synch snafu? If you were planning on tossing your copy of her album into the trash, hold up. New York music venue the Knitting Factory, in conjunction with Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment (H.O.P.E.), are offering unhappy customers a bit of musical solace. Drop by the Knitting Factory box office between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and exchange Ashlee's disc for an album by Elvis Costello, the Ramones, the Grateful Dead, Ray Charles or Aretha Franklin, among others, courtesy of Rhino Records. Don't live in New York? Check out www.hopeinamerica.com for other exchange information. Fantasia is about to be Fantabulous. The "American Idol" winner will have two M.A.C. lipglass shades named after her, Fantabulous 1 (a smoldering copper) and Fantabulous 2 (a full-on reddened bronze). Fantasia will launch the lipglasses at M.A.C.'s Harlem, New York, location on November 22, the day before her debut album, Free Yourself, hits stores.
The KCRW annual benefit concert in Los Angeles, A Sounds Eclectic Evening, featuring Coldplay, Cafe Tacuba, Van Hunt, Nellie McKay and others, has been rescheduled for March 12.
The event, which was supposed to take place on November 20, was moved due to scheduling and logistical conflicts; Rilo Kiley and Ben Watt, originally slated to perform, will be unable to do so now. Tickets for the original sold-out show will be honored for the rescheduled date. In the three-against-one battle of the Beastie Boys versus jazz flutist James Newton, the rappers have emerged victorious. A U.S. appeals court decided on Tuesday that it would not reconsider its 2003 decision which allowed the group to use a six-second sample from Newton's 1978 composition "Choir," according to Reuters. The original decision said that the band paid a license fee to use the recording in their song "Pass the Mic" from 1992's Check Your Head, and therefore had abided by copyright protections and did not have to pay an additional fee.
American Hi-Fi's new album, Hearts on Parade, is available for streaming on the band's Web site, www.AmericanHi-Fi.com. The group's third studio album, the follow-up to last year's The Art of Losing, will be released March 1. Twenty-five years after the Cure released their first album, Three Imaginary Boys, in the U.K., the British version of the band's landmark debut will get its first domestic release December 7. The double-disc reissue, which includes a full disc of rarities, also marks the beginning of Rhino Records' reissue campaign of the band's entire catalog.
The Big Day Out Tour just got a little bigger with the addition of the Hives, Slipknot, the Polyphonic Spree, the Blues Explosion, Hatebreed and Le Tigre.
The new acts join an existing lineup of the Beastie Boys, the Donnas, System of a Down, the Chemical Brothers and the Streets, on the six-date trek of Australia and New Zealand that kicks off January 21. Though Justin Guarini announced only a week ago that he was joining the Broadway production of the Beach Boys musical "Good Vibrations," the former "American Idol" runner-up has already left the cast. In a statement issued Wednesday, the producers of the show announced that they've "parted company." His replacement will be announced soon. Meanwhile, the off-Broadway They Might Be Giants musical, which opened November 4, has extended its limited run through December 11. "People Are Wrong!" stars TMBG member John Flansburgh.
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