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Eddie Van Halen Explains Postponed Tour Dates

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‘We bit off more than we could chew,’ Van Halen guitarist tells USA Today. By Kara Warner Eddie Van Halen Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images So what’s the real story behind those canceled Van Halen concerts? Fans have been speculating about the band’s cryptic announcement about the postponed dates last month , and thanks to Eddie Van Halen’s recent interview with USA Today, we have an answer. “We bit off more than we could chew,” Eddie Van Halen told the newspaper frankly. “This record took a lot out of us. And we went on tour earlier than we wanted to so we could play Madison Square Garden [in March, before the venue’s scheduled renovation], and that threw the schedule out of whack.” Van Halen said a lot of the canceled dates on their A Different Kind of Truth Tour were in cities they’d already played. “So in November, we’ll hit Japan, and in the New Year, we’ll possibly do something special,” he teased. “But I can’t talk about it.” Something he could talk about were rumors that the band had to cancel their concert dates because their members, particularly fiery frontman David Lee Roth, were fighting again, which Van Halen straight-up denied. “Dave’s the same as he’s always been, funny, witty,” Van Halen said of Roth. “Sometimes I can only take that in small doses, because he just goes on and on,” he added with a laugh. “But Dave always lands on his feet.” The reunion tour with Roth and Van Halen’s 21-year-old son Wolfgang kicked off February 18 and will play a total of 40 shows on this leg. Related Artists Van Halen

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Katy Perry Brings ‘Wide Awake’ Video To MTV!

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Perry’s latest clip will premiere Tuesday, June 19, at 7:53 p.m. ET on MTV, with an exclusive interview to follow on MTV.com. By James Montgomery Katy Perry in “Wide Awake” Photo: John Shearer You’ve already seen the sneak peek … now, get ready to catch Katy Perry ‘s “Wide Awake” video in its entirety, when it premieres during “MTV First: Katy Perry.” The video will make its worldwide debut on MTV next Tuesday, June 19, at 7:53 p.m. ET, with an exclusive 30-minute interview with Katy and MTV’s Sway Calloway to follow on MTV.com. She’ll reveal all about the song, which she wrote for her upcoming 3-D concert film “Katy Perry: Part of Me.” The new clip — which not only closes the book on her incredible Teenage Dream run, but follows a fairy-tale story line — will also debut on VH1, Logo and TeenNick, in addition to MTV.com, VH1.com and LOGOtv.com. Katy’s fans around the globe will also be able to stream the video online at KatyPerry.MTV.com . But if you can’t wait for your Katy fix, fear not: Fans can also get another sneak peek at the “Wide Awake” video during Wednesday night’s (July 13) season finale of “Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew,” airing at 10 p.m. ET/PT on MTV. Yes, we’re pulling out all the stops for this one — with good reason. After all, it’s not often an artist has a run as successful as Katy has. Tune in for the world premiere of Katy’s “Wide Awake” video on Tuesday, June 19, at 7:53 p.m. ET on MTV and MTV.com as part of MTV First: Katy Perry. Related Videos Katy Perry Is ‘Wide Awake’

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Kanye West, Kim Kardashian Sport Matching Air Yeezy Sneakers

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Kardashian scores a pair of the Nike Air Yeezy 2s after buying her beau a $750,000 birthday Lamborghini. By Jocelyn Vena Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s his and hers Air Yeezys Photo: Kim Kardashian’s Instagram Ever since Kanye West ‘s limited edition Nike Air Yeezy 2s hit shelves Saturday, they have been nearly impossible to find. Though the high-end sneakers sell at retail for $245, fans have been buying them online for prices far above their retail value (as much as $89,000). But luckily for Kim Kardashian, she’s dating the designer. Yeezy’s girlfriend tweeted out a photo of her new pair, which just happen to match her rapper beau’s solid black sneaks with hot pink and neon blue detailing. Her message simply reads, “His & Hers! #AirYeezys.” Kanye’s gift to his reality star girlfriend comes just days after she gave the rapper a $750,000 Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4 for his 35th birthday . Kimye has certainly been making headlines since the pair started dating earlier this spring. The pair has been spotted all over the globe, hitting up the Cannes Film Festival in May , where the MC premiered his “Cruel Summer” film. TMZ reported that both Kanye and Kim put their Los Angeles-area homes up for sale, leaving some to wonder if it means that the reality star and the rapper will soon be cohabitating. Considering that “Cruel Summer” actor Aziz Ansari recently shared that Yeezy plans to premiere the artsy 30-minute short all over the U.S. in the near future, we imagine there will be more Kimye sightings soon. How much would you spend on a pair of Nike Air Yeezy 2s? Leave your comment below! Related Artists Kanye West

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Andy Samberg Lands New TV Gig

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‘SNL’ alum will play title character on BBC series ‘Cuckoo.’ By Jocelyn Vena Andy Samberg Photo: Jesse Grant/ WireImage It’s been less than two weeks since Andy Samberg announced his departure from “Saturday Night Live,” and he’s already got plans to return to the small screen. The “That’s My Boy” star will appear in a six-part comedy series on the BBC titled “Cuckoo,” the network announced. British funnyman and “The Inbetweeners” actor Greg Davies will also star in the show, filming this summer. The series will follow parents who are stunned to meet their daughter’s new husband, “a self-appointed spiritual ninja,” played by Samberg. Samberg’s Cuckoo is “a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas” who is taken in by the Thomas family as he embarks on newlywed life with his bride. Davies plays the father, Ken Thomas. The cast is filled out by Helen Baxendale, playing mom Lorna, and Tamla Kari, who plays their daughter. The series will air later this year on the network. “BBC Three continues to break new comedy. ‘Cuckoo’ is both original and unique,” BBC Three executive Zai Bennett said in a statement, also showing love to the show’s writers, Robin French and Kieron Quirke. “We’re delighted to be announcing this exciting new sitcom with such an illustrious cast from two of my favorite new writers.” Executive producer Ash Atalla added, “The best of British meets the toast of Hollywood. We hope ‘Cuckoo’ cements the special relationship between our two great countries. I imagine Obama and Cameron will be watching closely.” When MTV News caught up with Samberg shortly after he announced he was leaving “SNL,” he opened up about the things he’ll miss most about working on the series. “I’ve been saying it a lot — I’m going to miss all of my friends and the people I work with,” he said. “I love them all so much, and I’m hoping to stay in touch with them.”

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‘Spider-Man’ Suit Posed Some Challenges For Andrew Garfield

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‘They didn’t really consider the whole bodily-functions thing,’ actor tells MTV News. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Andrew Garfield in “The Amazing Spider-Man” Photo: Sony Pictures No matter how cool Andrew Garfield looks in that brand-new Spidey costume for Sony’s highly anticipated reboot, “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the fancy hi-tech outfit has a few kinks. Garfield recently revealed to MTV News that if he could make one change or improvement to the costume before suiting up again for the already scheduled sequel , he’d request an escape hatch, so to speak. “We’re going to make it easier for me to piss,” he joked. “That’s #1. “It’s like you have to body-shoehorn yourself out of it,” Garfield continued, explaining the difficulty of getting in and out of the suit for important tasks like using the restroom. “It looks good, but they didn’t really consider that, the whole bodily-functions thing. But next time we will remember that I am human.” We then suggested that an alternative would be to just have it be sewn up from the start and designed to absorb any, uh, emissions. “Ha! Just have a colostomy made, yeah, it would be just like a wet suit, I’d just keep warm. Oh boy, that’s disgusting,” Garfield said, adding that the only other big challenge in proper maneuvering in his Spidey suit was getting accustomed to seeing out of his mask, the design of which they can’t really adjust or change. “That was tough as well, but I don’t think we can readjust that because the eyes have to be the eyes,” he said. “That was hard, visibility was hard, especially for the bigger stunts because you need to know what you’re doing.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Amazing Spider-Man.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Related Photos The Amazing Spider-Man Spider-Man Movie Costumes: From Tobey Maguire To Andrew Garfield

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Usher Had Plans To Record With Amy Winehouse

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‘It could have been one of the most incredible records ever,’ he says of his attempt to record with Winehouse. By Gil Kaufman, with additional reporting by Christina Garibaldi Usher Photo: MTV News It’s one of the great R&B duets that never was. While Usher was working on his seventh studio album, Looking 4 Myself 
, he was determined to take fans on a musical journey and experiment with sounds 
 he’d never explored before. So, in addition to teaming up with Diplo for the seductive lead single, “Climax,” 
, as well as EDM giants Swedish House Mafia, Usher said he sought out producer Salaam Remi because he was very interested in doing a song with Remi protege, Amy Winehouse ,
 before the singer died unexpectedly died at age 27 in July 2011. “We met and we talked about it for a moment when I saw her,” Usher said of a brief sit-down with the troubled crooner to discuss the potential soul summit. “There was a few conversations that took place, but we never quite made it to it … I would have loved it.” One of those talks occurred while the unlikely duo were shopping at the ritzy London department store Selfridges. “I was shopping and she was doing some private shopping and she came out and we kind of crossed each other’s [paths] and, [I was like] ‘Is that Amy Winehouse?’ … And before you know it we talked and exchanged information and I invited her to a show … and she didn’t come.” Winehouse was out of the country at the time and sent a relative to the gig in her stead, but that missed connection has stuck with Usher to this day. “It could have been one of the most incredible records ever,” he said. “A voice like that comes once in a lifetime.” Usher still wanted to get in the studio with Remi, and though it was a hard time for the producer, the pair met in New York and worked it out. “The style and the sound that we worked, I felt would definitely compliment what he does as a producer and what I have to offer.” The story that the two explored on “Sins of My Father” was a new one for Usher, who had never spoken about his feelings for his dad in song before. “That was a hard one, but he gave me a palette that really worked.” Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Usher

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Usher Hopes ‘Scream’ Will Be the Song Of The Summer

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‘Let’s get going, summer is almost here!’ Usher tells MTV News. By Christina Garibaldi Usher Photo: Stuart Wilson On top of his club-banging hits and soulful voice, Usher has another impressive skill: creating the song of summer. Usher has ruled the airwaves in the summer for years, with hits like “You Make Me Wanna” and “U Remind Me” making fans roll down their windows and pump up their radios to his infectious tracks. Most recently, in 2010, Usher hit the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 during the summer months with his inescapable hit “OMG,” and now he’s looking to repeat that success with “Scream,” the second single from his seventh studio album. “Let’s get going, summer is almost here!” Usher told MTV News. “It’s intended to be that, but I don’t think that was the only thing. We thought about live performance, we thought about mixing and matching and also giving people an energy that only [producer Max Martin] would be able to create.” “Scream” is the latest single from Usher’s just-released album, Looking 4 Myself, which he hopes will not only get people on the dance floor, but also affect them in a more personal manner. “If I’m gonna move you, I want to move you. I hope that it could be something that could be life-changing,” the singer last month during “MTV First: Usher.” “You may be going through something real crazy, who knows, and just need to get out and just enjoy yourself. So I always think about the club, I always think about that song that will be able to let you out of that slump, if you’re in it.” Usher’s latest album, which he called an “evolution” of sound , is just the next step in his musical risk-taking. He credits longtime producer Jermaine Dupri with the opportunity to reach many different genres of music. “If I do track back to the first time I was about to take a risk, even though it wasn’t about my direction, it was more so by Jermaine Dupri’s direction with ‘You Make Me Wanna,’ ” Usher said. “You didn’t really hear that tone or that instrument on top of an R&B record, so it was an incredible collaboration or mixture of urban and classic R&B or pop… that really began to open up the conversation and allow people to understand, ‘Oh, wow, this is not just an artist that you could put in a box or put in a specific category.’ ” Are you excited for Usher’s album? Let us know in the comments! Related Videos MTV News Extended Play: Usher Justin Bieber: ‘I Can’t Not Dance Battle Usher’ Related Artists Usher

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‘Spider-Man’ Stars Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield Find ‘Joy’ In Each Other

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‘I was so happy that she got the role,’ Garfield tells MTV News of Stone’s casting. By Josh Wigler, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield in “The Amazing Spider-Man” Photo: Marvel / Columbia Pictures One would hope that “Spider-Man” stars Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone have “Amazing” chemistry, considering the two started dating after meeting each other on the set of Sony’s forthcoming superhero reboot. If the two are to be believed, that chemistry came to them very quickly, as early as Stone’s first screen test for the role of Peter Parker’s first girlfriend, Gwen Stacy. “I went and did a screen test that was very elaborate,” Stone recalled during a recent interview with MTV News. “It was full hair and makeup and with the [director of photography] and different angles, and Andrew was there. We read a couple of scenes together. We did that scene at Oscorp — ‘Why are you here?’ — and a sad one.” From there, the easygoing dynamic between Garfield and Stone came almost instantly, both on and off the set. “We got on really well as people, in between [takes],” Garfield remembered. “That was the fun stuff: In between, we’d just mess around, and I felt, ‘Ah, this is different.’ I wasn’t really aware what was happening in the screen test. She keeps you on your toes, and that wakes you up. That was the beginning. “Obviously I was so happy that she got the role and decided to do it,” he continued. “Those are the days I’d look forward to, you know? For Peter as well, because Peter goes through some horrible stuff in the movie. There’s some joy to be had when experiencing his first love.” Much has been made about Garfield and Stone’s relationship both in the film and outside of it, but the first MTV Trailblazer winner believes that screen tests are a crucial element not just for establishing a movie’s romantic leads, but any other numbers of relationships within a given fictional universe. “That has to do also with people playing your parents or friends, with anything,” she said. “You can sense it. It’s like life: You can sense if you guys have a kind of chemistry or rapport right away, no matter what the relationship is, whether it’s a love interest or not.” Tell us what you think of the dynamic between Garfield and Stone in the comments section below! Check out everything we’ve got on “The Amazing Spider-Man.” For breaking news and previews of the latest comic book movies — updated around the clock — visit SplashPage.MTV.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Related Photos ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ Trailer #2: Five Key Scenes

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WATCH: Katy Perry’s ‘Wide Awake’ Video Sneak Peek!

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Video premieres Tuesday, June 19, on MTV. By Kara Warner Katy Perry in her video for “Wide Awake” Photo: Capitol Attention, Katy Cats! Are you dying to see Katy Perry ‘s new video for her latest hit single, “Wide Awake”? We have some very good news for you in the form of a special sneak peek. Perry has just dropped a trailer for the clip, and we are happy to report that it is 82 seconds of expert teasery. The 1 minute, 22 second trailer opens in a “Secret Garden”-type setting, with a shot of the back of a young, dark-haired girl surrounded by foliage. She’s standing looking at an old table, which is covered by overgrown plants and vines. Suddenly, the debris is whisked away to reveal a dusty old book. The young girl begins turning the pages of the book, which reveal different chapters, with each one highlighted by a photo from a previous Perry video. Stills from “Teenage Dream,” “Firework,” “E.T.,” “Last Friday Night” and “The One That Got Away” all make for separate chapters in the book. When the girl turns the page to reveal “The Final Chapter,” we start to see pictures from “Wide Awake” that seem to indicate we’ll be whisked into a fairy tale of some sort that naturally has Perry playing our heroine and/or possible princess. The other characters and plot points involved in the tale involve a poisoned strawberry, a curious cat, Prince Charming and a young girl — the very one we’ve been watching turning the pages of the book. The teaser ends with the young girl waving at herself in the book, after which she closes it to reveal the tome’s title: “Wide Awake: The Final Chapter From Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection,” and the premiere date of the video, June 19, which we’re very happy to unveil on MTV. Katy Perry’s “Wide Awake” video premieres Tuesday, June 19, on MTV! Related Videos Katy Perry Is ‘Wide Awake’ Related Artists Katy Perry

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‘Rock Of Ages’ Star Recalls ‘Jamming’ With Tom Cruise

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‘It was pretty surreal jamming out with Tom singing ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn,’ ‘ Diego Boneta tells MTV News of their joint guitar lessons. By Amy Wilkinson Tom Cruise in “Rock of Ages” Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures For his breakout role in the movie adaptation of the Broadway hit ” Rock of Ages ,” Diego Boneta could not have asked for a bigger — or better — co-star than Hollywood vet Tom Cruise . “He’s the hardest-working guy we’ve ever met in our lives,” Boneta said, speaking for himself and co-star Julianne Hough. “He’s so humble. I think that combination is something that really stuck with me. This is my first movie; this is Tom’s, like, 50th movie. That is a rare and very special combination.” In the film, Boneta plays aspiring musician Drew Boley, a barback at the Sunset Strip’s Bourbon Room, where Cruise’s rock god Stacee Jaxx is set to perform his band’s final show before embarking on a solo career. The role took months of preparation for the 21-year-old and his seasoned co-star, and despite their varied experience in the industry, both had to start at the beginning when it came to mastering the fundamentals of rock and roll. “Tom and I were taking guitar classes together because we both had to learn how to play guitar, and it was pretty surreal jamming out with Tom singing ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn,’ ” Boneta recalled. “He was playing the solo, and I was playing all the chords and stuff.” Though this is Boneta’s first film role, he may be familiar to TV audiences from appearances on teen favorites “90210” and “Pretty Little Liars.” Next up, the actor will star in the new MTV series “Underemployed.” “Rock of Ages,” which also stars Russell Brand, Malin Akerman and Catherine Zeta-Jones, hits theaters June 15. Check out everything we’ve got on “Rock of Ages.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Rock Of Ages’ Related Photos ‘Rock Of Ages’ Hollywood Premiere ‘Rock Of Ages’

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