MUSIC NEWS: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
DAVE GROHL PUSHES RECORD STORE DAY
Dave Grohl has been named the ambassador for this year's Record Store Day. Grohl says as a kid in Springfield, Virginia, local independent record stores were ``my churches, my libraries, my schools.'' He says he doesn't know where he'd be today without them. Record Store Day is April 18. It's a day when musicians offer special releases only through independent record stores to drive traffic there.
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NICK JONAS WILL HOST KIDS' CHOICE AWARDS
Nick Jonas better hope he looks good in green, as in green slime. He's the host of the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. They're set for March 28 in Los Angeles.
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AZEALIA BANKS WILL BE IN PLAYBOY
Azealia Banks will be the cover model for Playboy's music issue. The magazine comes out March 20. Banks will release her ``Broke With Expensive Taste'' album on C-D on March 3.
It had come out digitally in November.
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LADY GAGA WILL PERFORM AT THE OSCARS
Lady Gaga will perform a tribute at the Oscars, but who it's a tribute to remains to be seen. The producers of the show will only say Lady Gaga is a ``once-in-a-lifetime artist whose musical evolution keeps growing.'' The Oscars will be February 22 in Los Angeles.
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JENNIFER LOPEZ GOES BACK TO THE 'HOOD
Jennifer Lopez's kids are not too impressed with where she used to hang out. She took them to the boys and girls club in the Bronx and told them it was the best place in the world to her when she was a kid. They told her, ``Really? This place?'' Lopez returns to her old neighbourhood the T-V special, ``Neighborhood Sessions with Jennifer Lopez.'' She also performs a concert at Orchard Beach. She says her mother has photos of her on that beach when she was a year old and she has great memories of being there.
The special will air Saturday on T-N-T.
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MAN PLEADS NO CONTEST IN MILEY CYRUS BURGLARY
A convicted burglar has pleaded no contest into breaking into Miley Cyrus' home in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles district attorney's office says 22-year-old Rusty Edward Sellner entered the plea Wednesday. Prosecutors say Sellner broke into Cyrus' house on December 16 and stole a large amount of property belonging to Cyrus and her brother. Sellner has previous convictions for burglary and evading arrest. Cyrus has listed the house for sale.
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WILL SMITH WANTS TO GET BACK INTO MUSIC
Will Smith thinks maybe he's got one more album in him. Smith says he is always recording, but he hasn't released anything because he doesn't like any of the songs. Smith says recording will be part of his life forever, whether or not he feels it's ``of the quality for public consumption.'' Still, he says rapping with Jimmy Fallon last week made him realize he's still got the bug. Smith hasn't released a solo album in nine years. He was photographed with Kanye West in a Brazil recording studio last February. In the meantime, Smith appears in the film ``Focus,'' out February 27.
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A GREAT BIG WORLD'S IAN AXEL RUNS INTO OPRAH A SECOND TIME
Ian Axel of A Great Big World once had the pleasure of reminding Oprah Winfrey and her pal, Gayle King, that they had met before. Axel used to work at the Apple Store in New York, and he reminded King that he had been the one to help them when they had come in asking for iPod Nanos loaded with Beyonce's music. Axel says he was ``so stupid'' about it, though. He says Winfrey had chosen every colour except purple, so he asked if she wanted ``the colour purple.'' He says she thought it was a joke but he just wasn't thinking.
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KANYE WEST SHOWS SHOE LINE
Kanye West has rolled out his Yeezy Boost shoe line for Adidas. Baby North fussed in mama Kim Kardashian's arms during the New York fashion show. Beyonce, Rihanna and Diddy were among the front-row celebrities. Beyonce says she thinks the show was very innovative. Only nine-thousand pairs of the 750 Boosts will be sold in New York tomorrow, at 350-dollars a pop, with more available later this month worldwide.
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JON ANDERSON NEEDS SURGERY FOR SINUS PROBLEMS
Former Yes singer Jon Anderson is putting off concert appearances until late spring while he deals with sinus problems. Anderson writes on his Facebook page he's had issues with his sinuses for a couple of months and he has difficulty singing as a result. He says he will have surgery for his problems, but he did not specify when.
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LOVE AND THEFT START ALL OVER
Love and Theft have an album that's sitting on a shelf at R-C-A Nashville that you're not allowed to hear. Love and Theft's Stephen Barker Liles tells Rolling Stone Country R-C-A dropped them in September. He says because of legal issues, Love and Theft would have to pay 13-thousand dollars a song to get the album back or even to re-record the tracks, even if they wrote the songs.
He says they have to wait five years. Liles and bandmate Eric Gunderson started from scratch and recorded a new batch of songs for an album called ``Whiskey on My Breath'' that they're releasing through Red Distribution. It comes out on Tuesday.
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KENNY G WANTS TO MAKE MOVIE MUSIC
Kenny G is looking to score. Kenny G says he'd love to compose for movies but he can't break into the business. He says there's a door that says, ``You can do movie scores,'' and he knocks on the door and nobody answers. He's hoping someone like Quentin Tarantino will think of him. He says he can picture Tarantino thinking, ``Oh yeah, one of his songs would sound really out of place there. That's perfect.'' In the meantime, Kenny G has just released a traditional jazz album called ``Brazilian Nights.''
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BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN INVOLVED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT DAYS BEFORE TUB INCIDENT
The daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown was involved in a traffic accident with injuries just days before she was hospitalized. Police in Roswell, Georgia, say Bobbi Kristina Brown was driving a Jeep Liberty on January 27 when she lost control and collided with another vehicle. A passenger in the Jeep and the driver of the other car were taken to a hospital. Officers found a nail in the rear tire of the Jeep. Bobbi Kristina Brown was found unresponsive in her bathtub four days later and has been hospitalized ever since.
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LITTLE BIG TOWN'S KIMBERLY SCHLAPMAN PLANS COOKBOOK
Kimberly Schlapman of Little Big Town wants to get into your kitchen. She's releasing her first cookbook, titled ``Oh Gussie! Cooking and Visiting in Kimberly's Southern Kitchen.''
Schlapman will share recipes and stories about her roots in north Georgia, travelling with the band and her life in Nashville.
Schlapman is promising the recipes will be ``fresh, accessible, nutritious, quick and fun.'' ''Oh Gussie!`` comes out April 14.
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AMERICAN IDOL
The kid stays in -- at least for now on ``American Idol.'' Fifteen-year-old Daniel Seavey makes it through solo night on Idol. He's the youngest contestant to make it this far in the current season. Daniel and J-Lo have something in common.
They each think the other is ``so cute.'' When Daniel told Jennifer Lopez that she was cute too, it got a big laugh from the other judges. Next week, Idol moves to the House of Blues, where the remaining contestants will perform before a live audience. But the shows will be taped and the judges will cut the field to the Top 24.