Amazing director and one of my personal faves, Tim Burton has taken the enormous task of re-doing Lewis Carroll’s hit novel, Alice In Wonderland.  With an all-star cast consisting of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway, Burton has everything he needs to make an amazing and captivating film.

Now, your first look at the three main characters: Alice, The Mad Hatter, and The Queen of Hearts.

Enjoy!

Posted: June 26th, 2009 under Johnny Depp, Movies.
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This was clearly coming….Amy Lee from rock band, Evanescence has left the group to pursue her own feats.  To replace her, the band has recruited American Idol alum, Carly Smithson.  I wonder how Amy feels about this?

More importantly, I wonder what their new music is going to sound like?  Well, we don’t have to wait for long.  They are releasing their new single, FREE, on their website starting this upcoming Monday (June 22nd, 20o9).  Make sure you check it out, it’s free!

Image Courtesy:  PerezHilton.com

Posted: June 19th, 2009 under Evanescence.
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Every year, new celebrities (of a mucho caliber) are inducted onto Hollywood’s Walk of Fame from all different genres of media.  Actors, actresses, singers, musicians, comedians and more are all honored.  Check out this year’s next honored list:

Film: Russell Crowe, Adam Sandler, James Cameron, John Cusack, Colin Firth, Alan Menken, Randy Newman, Emma Thompson and Mark Wahlberg and producer Gale Anne Hurd.

TV: Bill Maher, Chris Berman, Jon Cryer, Peter Graves, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sam Waterston.

Recording artists: Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, the Funk Brothers, Alan Jackson, Chaka Khan, Van Morrison, Marco Antonio Solis, ZZ Top and the late Roy Orbison.

Live Performance: Andrea Bocelli, Cirque du Soleil’s Guy Liberte

Posted: June 19th, 2009 under Random.
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So here we are again!  The new remix to Obsessed has dropped featuring up & coming amazing new rapper, Gucci Mane.  No more needed, just check it out…only adds amazing-ness to the song!

Download:

Mariah Carey ft. Gucci Mane - Obsessed (Remix)

Posted: June 19th, 2009 under Mariah Carey, Mu$ic Download.
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BEFORE (that’s right, look at the clock) Mariah Carey’s official site premieres Obsessed, we have a HQ version of the song and it is hot hot hot.  The album cover was also released today and it’s like Christmas for us Mariah fans.  The scheduled release date for her new album is August 25th.  Check out the press release sent out today:

Mariah Carey Puts Finishing Touches on Her New Album, MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL, for August 25th Release

“OBSESSED,” FIRST NEW SINGLE PICK - GOES TO RADIO ON JUNE 16th - WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY MARIAH, THE-DREAM AND TRICKY STEWART

“The 1st single from my new album MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL is called ‘Obsessed’ and will be at radio next Tuesday. I’m a lil’ exc … Seriously, this is one of my favorite songs ever. I love the whole album. I’m completely immersed in it. I can’t wait for you to hear it. LY” - Mariah Carey, on Twitter

First came the emancipation, then came energy and power, and now comes MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL, the new album by international superstar Mariah Carey, scheduled to arrive on August 25th. The first new single pick from MEMOIRS is “Obsessed,” which blasts out to radio today, Tuesday, June 16th. The video for “Obsessed” will be directed by Brett Ratner. “Obsessed” was written and produced by Mariah, The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, who are responsible for the majority of tracks on the new album. MEMOIRS was executive-produced by Antonio “L.A.” Reid.

MEMOIRS OF AN IMPERFECT ANGEL, the 12th studio album of Mariah’s career, is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her RIAA platinum-selling album E=MC² (released April 15, 2008), and her worldwide 10 million selling The Emancipation Of Mimi (released April 12, 2005). Both were Soundscan #1 debut albums that made chart history for Mariah in the U.S. and numerous territories around the globe.

The Emancipation Of Mimi generated three Grammy awards (including Best Contemporary R&B Album), two #1 singles, and countless more honors during its 18-month chart stay. The album debuted at #1 on first week sales of 404,000 copies, Mariah’s highest first week sales total (until E=MC²). Soundscan’s biggest-selling album of 2005, Mimi featured “We Belong Together” (Grammy winner for Best Female R&B Vocal and Best R&B Song) and “Don’t Forget About Us,” Mariah’s 16th and 17th #1 career singles respectively. They tied one of the most enduring chart records in Billboard Hot 100 history, Elvis Presley’s 17 #1’s.

Three years later, E=MC² debuted at #1 on first week sales of 463,000 copies, which now stands as the highest first week sales total of Mariah’s career. The album’s success brought total sales of Mariah’s albums, singles and videos to more than 160 million worldwide, distancing her even further from the pack as the top-selling female recording artist in history.

E=MC² spun off four singles: “Touch My Body,” “Bye Bye,” “I’ll Be Lovin’ U Long Time,” and “I Stay In Love.” Of these, “Touch My Body” made history when it became Mariah’s 18th #1 Hot 100 hit, thus surpassing Elvis Presley. “Touch My Body”’s two weeks at the top also marked Mariah’s 78th and 79th cumulative career weeks at #1, which tied Elvis’ long-standing all-time high of 79 weeks at #1, as calculated in Billboard.com. At the same time, Mariah is now positioned as the only active recording artist in the 50 years of the Hot 100 (which began in 1958) with the potential to surpass the Beatles’ all-time high of 20 #1 hits.

Download:

Mariah Carey - Obsessed

Posted: June 16th, 2009 under Mariah Carey, Mu$ic Download.
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The boy sensation that is The Jonas Brothers are releasing their upcoming album, Lies, Vines & Trying Times in the next couple of weeks but we have it for you here, first!

While I am not the hugest fan, I am able to recognize talent and give proper credit when needed.  These boys have dominated the pop music scene when many people thought that the “pop” genre was dead!  Sure proves them wrong.

Download:

Jonas Brothers - Lies, Vines & Trying Times

Posted: June 13th, 2009 under Mu$ic Download, The Jonas Brothers.
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Joanne Levasquez aka JoJo has released a mini-album sampler containing 3 30-second clips from her upcoming album.  The file also contains 2 possible versions of the upcoming album cover.

JoJo has said the album is finished and is waiting for the approval from her record company to go further with promotion and sales!

Can’t wait to hear the entire thing!

Click here to download:

JoJo - Mini-Album Sampler

Posted: June 13th, 2009 under JoJo, Mu$ic Download.
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Well, pieces of it!  I told ya’ll awhile back that Adam Lambert was going to be on the cover of Rolling Stone this upcoming issue declaring his homosexuality (like, duh).  Well, the cover has arrived and I also have some of the interview for you to read as well….

On his early attempts at songwriting, “My songs were like campy, sexy electro, like Peaches and Goldfrapp. I can look back now and realize I wasn’t very good at it. I was trying to put in way too many words. I was trying to be way too melodramatic and serious, you know? It’s like what a junior high student does with poetry. But over the course of a couple years, I started really trying to listen to what worked out there in music, like hooks — and realized that less is more. The simple idea is better in a song.”

On where he wants to go musically, “I want to do something that has theatricality, a nod to the glam rockers that I love, but is also contemporary. It’s not all going to be happy-go-lucky because I think it’s important to explore other emotional parts of yourself as an artist, but there’s a time and place for it. I would love to work with Madonna. I’m a big fan. I just want to play dress up and be fabulous. When you’re a kid, you do the make-believe thing — you play dress-up and pretend. That’s the child mentality, and I feel like if you’re an adult and you can adopt the child mentality to something cool, that’s what being a “rock star” is. It’s just playing. It’s Halloween. It’s make-believe. It’s fun. And who doesn’t want to do that? That’s the kind of music that I want to make — music that encourages people to play make-believe, escape and have fun.”

On experiencing discrimination, “A few years ago, I did a musical with Val Kilmer, The Ten Commandments at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. I was finally personally awakened, wearing nail-polish, feeling attractive and comfortable in my own skin for the first time. We’d go out sometimes with Val, and it was the first time I’d ever been around a celebrity — it felt really fabulous. One night, we hung out at his house and Sean Lennon came over to jam with us. I was like, John Lennon’s son? This is the coolest thing I’ve done in my life. But I had a lot of problems with the people putting on the show. One day, the director pulled me aside and said, “Can you turn it down? The producers are a little uncomfortable. It’s a little too … gay.” I was like, “Um, are we doing a musical here? I’m sorry, there are fags all over the place, dude.” It was very upsetting.”

On making his sexuality public, “There are so many old-fashioned ways of looking at things, and if we want to be a progressive society, we have to start thinking in a different way. There’s the old industry idea that you should just make sexuality a non-issue, just say your private life’s your private life, and not talk about it. But that’s bullshit, because private lives don’t exist anymore for celebrities: they just don’t. I don’t want to be looking over my shoulder all the time, thinking I have to hide, being scared of being found out, putting on a front, having a beard, going down the red carpet with some chick who is posing as my girlfriend. That’s not cool, that’s not being a rock star. I can’t do that.”

So, there ya have it.  Does this change your opinion on Adam?

Posted: June 12th, 2009 under American Idol.
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Surprisingly, Mrs. Carey-Cannon has been predominately under the radar as of lately.  Why, you ask?  She was hard at work on her new album, the follow up to the highly-successful E=MC2.  Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel will arrive this fall but Mariah wants her new stuff heard now!

Mariah’s first single from her upcoming disc, Obsessed, is slated to premiere this upcoming Tuesday, June 16th via Chicago’s B96 website.  Instantly afterwards, check back here for the official download of the song.

Apart from music, Mariah currenly has 3 movies coming out this year…yep, three!  And actually, she has garnered rave reviews in all of the films, even at big events such as the Cannes and Sundance film festivals.  First on deck?  Tennessee is currently released to limited theaters (very, very limited) and will be available on DVD September 1st!

Next?  The Oprah & Tyler Perry backed film, Precious, in which Mariah plays a social worker that works throughout the movie with the film’s star, an abused rape victim named Precious.

Can’t wait for what’s to come!

Posted: June 12th, 2009 under Mariah Carey.
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I haven’t been updating a lot on Britney and all because, duh, she’s on a massive world tour.  Today, on the other hand, I have decided to a double update!

Some video stills have leaked from Britney’s 2007 video, Gimme More, and they are risqueeeeeee.  Nip-slip’s and all!  (which means you can find these pics in the Operation: Gossip! Gallery > under nip-slips as well, haha)  As you can see, she was clearly out of her mind.  (click the image to the right to see full-scale version.)

Speaking of out of her mind, Britney her camp has decided to add ANOTHER U.S. leg of the uber-successful Circus tour.  The dates?  Look below:

AUGUST 2009

* 20 - Hamilton, ON - Copps Coliseum
* 21 - Ottawa, ON - Scotiabank Place
* 24 - New York, NY - MSG
* 25 - New York, NY - MSG
* 29 - Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden
* 30 - Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center

SEPTEMBER, 2009

* 1 - Orlando, FL - Amway Arena
* 2 - Miami, FL - AA Arena
* 4 - Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
* 5 - Greensboro, NC - Coliseum (I WILL be attending this show!)
* 8 - Detroit, MI - The Palace of Auburn Hills
* 9 - Chicago, IL - Allstate Center
* 11 - Des Moines, IA - Wells Fargo Arena
* 12 - Grand Forks, IA - Alerus Center
* 15 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center
* 16 - Houston, TX - Toyota Center
* 18 - Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
* 19 - Bossier City, LA - CenturyTel Center
* 21 - El Paso, TX - Don Haskins Center
* 23 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center
* 26 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay
* 27 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay

Tickets go on sale, this next Friday, June 19th!  Get your tickets fast (they’ve even declined in price, so I’m sure they are going to sell out even faster this time!)

Posted: June 12th, 2009 under Britney Spears.
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