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Michael Jackson’s Guitar Goddess Orianthi Readies Debut Album
Posted in Debut Album, Michael Jackson, Music, album on the October 2, 2009
Introducing Orianthi, the guitar phenomenon who is featured prominently in the upcoming Michael Jackson concert documentary, This Is It. Already a renowned musician, Orianthi has been playing guitar since the age of eleven and was discovered by legend Carlos Santana. After playing with artists like Carrie Underwood, ZZ Top, and Prince, she received a MySpace message from Michael Jackson’s musical director asking her to audition for his comeback tour. Following a test run with the King of Pop himself, she was selected as his lead guitarist for his O2 arena dates in London - a crowning acheivement for the 24 year old from Adelaide, Australia.
Now Orianthi is preparing to release her solo debut album, Believe, on October 27th. In addition to her talent at guitar, Orianthi has a gorgeous voice and even sang at Michael Jackson’s Staples Center memorial service. Even before starting rehearsals for his tour though, she was hard at work writing and recording the album with her band. Believe is full of anthemic rock tracks with a sound reminiscent of Paramore or Evanescence, but entirely Orianthi thanks to her signature shreds and thunderous hooks. Her first single, “According to You” is a catchy tale of an ungrateful boyfriend, featuring a killer guitar solo.
To hear the story in her own words, watch Orianthi in this segment from Australia’s Today show. Visit Orianthi.com for updates on this rising star, and be sure to check her out in This Is It out on October 28th.
Orianthi Panagaris Interview On Today Show:
Honor Society Debut At #18 On Billboard Top 200
Posted in Billboard's Top Music, Concert, Debut Album, Honor Society, album on the September 29, 2009
Pop-rockers Honor Society debuted at #18 on the Billboard Top 200 this week, moving over 22,000 units of their debut album, Fashionably Late. The band kicked off their second headlining tour on Monday, September 21 in Minneapolis, MN and will continue a run of nearly 40 dates with shows across the United States and Canada including an appearance on The Today Show on Friday, September 25.
The release of Fashionably Late caps off a busy summer for Honor Society as they joined the Jonas Brothers on their World Tour 2009 performing to nearly 1 million fans throughout North America. Honor Society simultaneously headlined their own club tour called The Full Moon Crazy Tour where they brought their high-energy live shows to sold out venues including the Blender Theater in New York City and over 1,500 fans at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.
See below for what the press is saying about Honor Society and Fashionably Late and visit HonorSocietyMusic.com for more info and a full list of tour dates.
Rolling Stone
“Over You” (3 stars) — delivers “shiny heartbreak that splits the difference between *NSYNC and Maroon 5 - all riffing synths… and tunefulness.”
Entertainment Weekly
Honor Society are “crafty pop rock dudes” with songs that “shimmer with freeze-dried funk licks…”
People Magazine
“…fans will likely swoon over …” whose “strongest tracks include the power ballads ‘Where Are You Now’ and ‘Goodnight My Love’ both showcasing Bruno’s emotive tenor. ‘My Own Way’ is an infectious pop-rocker.”
Dallas Morning News
Honor Society are “purveyors of that frenetic catchy-crunchy pop sound of the day…”
Adam Lambert Album to be Released This Summer
Posted in Adam Lambert, Album Release, American Idol, Debut Album, album on the June 29, 2009
Adam Lambert has a new single out from his upcoming debut album called ‘On With the Show’ which is expected to be released later this summer. The song is called ‘Want’. It’s a mid-tempo song and is more pop than it is rock. Something is sketchy though as some reports say that this album will be released this summer, which is pretty quick. However, the songs on it were recorded in 2007 and 2008, before Adam was on American Idol. It is also being released by a label other than the one the singer signed on to after coming in 2nd on the show.
Ashlee Simpson’s new album Bittersweet World
Posted in Ashlee Simpson, Debut Album, Plain White Ts on the May 5, 2008
Want to hear Ashlee Simpson’s new album Bittersweet World? Head over to her imeem page to listen to the album in its entirety! Bittersweet World is in stores everywhere which includes the single “Little Miss Obsessive†featuring Tom Higgenson of Plain White Ts.
Bittersweet World on iTunes:
Leona Lewis is Still on Top
Posted in Alicia Keys, Amy Winehouse, Debut Album, Girls Aloud, Hip-Hop, Jodie Aysha, Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey, Music Bands, Music Chart, Music People, Music Review, New Single, R&B, Rap Music, Rock, Shayne Ward, Singers, Soulja Boy, Take That, Timbaland on the December 11, 2007
Leona Lewis’ ‘Bleeding Love’ continues to reign over the UK singles’ charts. The list was announced on Sunday and it marks the seventh week that Leona has been on top. The X-Factor winner’s debut CD ‘Spirit’ is also at the top spot of the albums’ chart and it’s been there for the last four weeks.
But ‘Bleeding Love’ is facing some stiff competition this holiday season. The rest of the singles chart, in order, is made up of T2 featuring Jodie Aysha with ‘Heartbroken’, Girls Aloud with ‘Call the Shots’, Timbaland with ‘Apologize’, Take That with ‘Rule the World’, Alicia Keys with ‘No One’, Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse with ‘Valerie’, Mariah Carey with ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’, Shayne Ward with ‘Breathless’ and Soulja Boy with ‘Crank That (Soulja Boy)’.
Lily still bitchy
Posted in Album Release, Celebs, Debut Album, Lily Allen, Music, Music People, Photography, Pop Music on the December 5, 2007
Only yesterday did I write about how Lily Allen’s bitchiness ought to be cured due to a sudden gain in self confidence. Well I take it all back, because now the singer has gone one step further and has snubbed the very man who helped make her a popstar in the first place. Oh. My. God.
The word idiot comes to mind.
Mark Ronson was one of the producers behind Lily’s smash hit debut album Alright, Still. But he has since revealed Lily has been ignoring him, saying “Lily has been working on her new album, but I’m probably not going to be on it as she hasn’t been returning any of my calls.
It has been 18 months since Lily’s last release so it is about time we heard from her again. But snubbing her friends and the people who made her is not going to help. And she thinks she’s not a bitch…
Let’s Head to the Top
Posted in Album Release, Alicia Keys, Celine Dion, Debut Album, Divas, Josh Groban, Music, Music People, Music Review, Performance, Pop Music, Records Sale, Rock, Singers on the November 28, 2007
When you make predictions, there’s always this chance that it won’t come true. But in the case of Alicia Keys, it did come true and was even better than we thought.
The Soundscan numbers are in and Alicia’s new album ‘As I Am’ sold 742,426 copies in the US since it debuted last week. That’s amazing! What’s even more amazing is that it sold three times as many copies as the #2 disc sold.
Josh Groban took the second spot with his Christmas album ‘Noel’ which sold 223,306 copies even though it’s been out for a few weeks already. Celine Dion’s ‘Taking Chances’ took 3rd by selling 214,381 copies.
Jay-Z Hits No. 1 on Billboards 200
Posted in Billboard's Top Music, Debut Album, Hip-Hop, Hit Song, Music Bands, Music People, R&B, Rap Music, Records Sale, Singers, Song, Top List on the November 15, 2007
Jay-Z scores his 10th No. 1 album on The Billboard 200, as “American Gangster” (Def Jam) debuts on top this week after selling 425,000 copies in the United States. The rapper thus ties Elvis Presley in second place for the most No. 1 albums on the chart; only the Beatles have had more, with 19.
Since 1998, all eight of Jay-Z’s solo studio albums have hit No. 1, in addition to his “Collision Course” project with Linkin Park and his “Unfinished Business” collaboration with R. Kelly.
After bowing at No. 1 last week, the Eagles’ “Long Road Out of Eden” (Eagles Recording Co.) slips to No. 2 with 359,000, a 49% sales decrease. Garth Brooks’ “The Ultimate Hits” (Pearl) debuts at No. 3 after shifting 352,000 units. Brooks’ last studio set, 2001’s “Scarecrow,” debuted at No. 1 with 466,000. His only releases since then have been Wal-Mart exclusives and were thus not eligible to appear on The Billboard 200.
Leona Has More Spice
Posted in Album Release, Debut Album, Hit Song, Leona Lewis, Music, Music People, New LP, New Single, Pop Music, Records Sale, Rock, Top List on the November 14, 2007
Looks like another musical head-to-head is about to go on, but this time, it’s between British babes. Leona Lewis’ debut album comes out next week in the UK, the same time that the Spice Girls are releasing their Greatest Hits CD. And wouldn’t you know it? The X-Factor winner is pretty much guaranteed the top spot!
Leona’s ‘Spirit’ is outselling the Spice Girls’ Greatest Hits by 6 to 1 in pre-sales. Her album is even expected to surpass the Artic Monkeys’ ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’ are the biggest-selling pre-release of the year. A projected 500,000 albums for her first effort is on for next week.
Not bad who used to work at a Pizza Hut not long ago.
Backstreet Lives
Posted in Backstreet Boys, Celebs, Debut Album, Live Music, Music, Music Bands, Music People, New LP, New Single, News, Performance, Pop Music, Records Sale, Singers, Song, TV Show on the November 4, 2007
If there’s still doubt about it, this should erase them all. The Backstreet Boys are most definitely back!
Nick Carter, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough and AJ McLean made their first live TV debut performance as the newly reformed group of four on the Wednesday edition of Regis & Kelly Halloween special.
The foursome performed their new single ‘Inconsolable’ off their latest album ‘Unbreakable’ which has already hit the stores this week.
I still think it’s odd to not see a boy band with five people in it. There’s the former Backstreet Boys, the former 5ive, the former NSYNC. But hey, whatever.
Rihanna achieves chart landmark
Posted in Celebs, Debut Album, Music, Music Award, Music People, Photography, R&B, Rihanna, Song, TV Show, Video on the July 25, 2007
R&B singer Rihanna has scored the longest-running number one single in a decade after claiming a 10th week at the top of the UK chart.
Umbrella becomes the first song since Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around in 1994 to spend more than nine weeks in pole position on the countdown.
Frankie Laine’s I Believe holds the record, with 18 weeks on top in 1953.
Tenor and Britain’s Got Talent Winner Paul Potts entered the album chart at number one with his debut One Chance.
The 36-year-old former mobile phone salesman, who was signed by Simon Cowell after winning the ITV1 show, displaced rock band The Enemy from the top of the charts.
Behind Rihanna - only the seventh artist in the history of the chart to reach a 10th week - was Kate Nash, Timbaland, Fergie and Enrique Iglesias.
Mark Ronson’s cover of Kaiser Chiefs’ hit Oh My God - with vocals by Lily Allen, climbed into the top 10 at number eight.
Amy McDonald, Mika and Biffy Clyro all climbed up the chart into the top 20, while the cast of High School Musical 2 scored a new entry with What Time Is It at 20.
Rilo Kiley regroups under “Blacklight”
Posted in Celebs, Debut Album, Music, Music People, New LP, News, Song on the July 20, 2007
After a year-plus hiatus during which Rilo Kiley’s two principal members pursued solo careers, the Los Angeles-based indie pop quartet is returning to business August 21 with its major-label debut, “Under the Blacklight.” Well, sort of.
“People keep calling it our ‘major-label debut,’ but I think (2004’s) ‘More Adventurous’ was that,” front woman Jenny Lewis says. And in some respects, she’s right. “Blacklight” marks Rilo Kiley’s first effort on Warner Bros. proper, whereas “More Adventurous” was released on the band’s own Brute/Beaute imprint before the major “upstreamed” it.
However you tag it, “More Adventurous,” the band’s third full-length release, is its biggest to date. It has sold 177,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen Sound Scan, and cracked the Billboard 200 at No. 161.
Guitarist Blake Sennett’s work with his side band the Elected also has stoked awareness of Rilo Kiley, even while the band was not working together.
On “Blacklight,” there are hints of what Rilo Kiley excelled at in the past, but fans will find a few surprises as well.
The album touches on everything from glistening disco (”Breakin’ Up”) to Spanish-sung choruses (”Dejalo”) and ’60s-inspired surf vibes (”Smoke Detector”). Lyrically, much of the material is devoted to Hollywood’s dark underworld, with Lewis referencing topics like the porn industry and cyber dating.
Sennett says, “We’d done a lot of crying for a long time, and it was time to dance.”
The Strokes Have a Writer in the Band
Posted in Debut Album, Music, Music People, New LP, Singers, Solo, Song on the June 5, 2007
Albert Hammond Jr., guitarist of band The Strokes, is all set up to write a screenplay. The band will take a year off entertainment but this member (who already launched a debut solo album called “Yours to Keep”) will not take it easy. His writing effort is a set play adapted after “Pulp” by Charles Bukowski. It is a book that revolves around a private investigator and is characterized by Albert Hammond Jr. as “an adult comedy-dark”.
The guitarist got the thumbs up from the author’s widow and everything should be finalized after a studio is contracted. Other details have not been released. The only thing that is known is what he told press:
“I wouldn’t want someone to ruin my script. I don’t think they’d let me direct but I’d want to be somewhere in the picture like that.”
Maybe we will see him as a director, who knows? I read the book and it is pretty interesting. I just hope the screenplay will be good as well.