Red singer will premiere ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ on ‘MTV First: Taylor Swift.’ By Kara Warner Taylor Swift’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” artwork Photo: Big Machine Records / Universal Music Group
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Morello calls Republican VP pick ‘the embodiment of the Machine our music Rages against’ in a Rolling Stone op-ed piece. By James Montgomery Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello Photo: Noel Vasquez/ Getty Images
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Terry Richardson uses his star power to get decent looking hipster chicks topless in his studio probably before he makes them suck his dick as payment for allowing them to be in his presence…and that is the key to having any level of fame, success, fortune, especially when that fame, success and fortune is directly related to fashion, photography and top models and publications, cuz every cunt wants to be famous, and this fuckers camera is part of the machine, making them willing to work hard for his attention and even harder for his camera so that maybe it will help launch their career. I fully believe in and endorse casting couches….
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America’s Got Talent started off strong this week… then immediately disappointed. Until the second hour, there was only one standout performance, although at least we ended on a high note. Come along now and see if you agree with the grades we handed out: The Untouchables – Miami All-Stars Jr. had the advantage of being choreographed by a strong teacher that understood NBC’s production values. The background did a huge disservice for the dancers because it created visual chaos. There were tons of visuals going on that a solid background would have helped. I liked the use of levels and the amount of tricks. It was smart to keep only a handful of dancers front and center to prevent even more chaos. Grade: A- “Rock Star Juggler” Mike Price – I don’t think there is such a thing as a “rock star juggler,” even though Mike’s talented. He upped his game with the cheesy unicycle. The knives then went into fire clubs which he sucked at while he was on the unicycle. He then proceeded to drop a club. The next sequence involved him jugging over a girl, but with his wide stance you knew he wouldn’t drop anything. Grade: B- Inspire The Fire – Black Glee has a great story about the arts, but I hated the arrangement of “Firework.” The harmonization of voices were weak and heavy breathing didn’t help. The one guy did a flip and failed. The moment where the girl hit the high note was awful. The ending was weak and if this was supposed to be uplifting, I was confused. Grade: D Cristin Sandu – Cristin has a legacy of circus performers on his father’s side. He started with unnecessary cube twirling. His act takes too long to prep for a 90 second routine, but when Cristin got on his pile he knew that it was over. That one tube dangled on the edge and he fell over immediately. He didn’t even get to the fire. Grade: F Elusive – It was smart that Elusive had random background people to make his performance look like it could fit a larger stage. I appreciated his level variations and his tricks were pretty strong. Elusive wasted too much time between tricks and I don’t understand why he didn’t end on the top of the staircase. Grade: B Jake Wesley Rogers – Jake’s 15, awkward, and believes in his awkwardness. His choice of “Toxic” matched the whole “awkward” storyline, but why was he even in front of the piano when you could barely hear it? The way the cameras covered up his hands, he could have been miming piano for all we know. Then he wandered around the stage and claimed that he was “ready.” Nope. Sorry. Not tonight. Grade: C All Wheel Sports – The emergence of the bicyclist from the sky was interesting. I normally complain about groups being too busy, but the longer ramp helped with the problem. I compare All Wheel Sports as an edgier, rock star Cirque du Solei. In a very weak group of performers they stood out as a clean and dynamic group. Grade: A Wordspit and the Illest! – The hip-hop fusion group decided to go with an original performance and it didn’t work. The opening sounded like noise until the rapper started. The volume of all the instruments didn’t help the performance at all, the electric guitar was too loud where it was competing with the rapper and main singer. I didn’t like their song, instead of the phrase “Lights, Camera, Flashin'” being a catchy pop hook, it was annoying. Grade: C+ Jacob Williams – Jacob’s voice in his interview was so monotone, it was sleep-inducing. He decided to go with his life-story with more of an awkward angle. The vomit jokes were great, the party of one jokes worked well. I appreciated the tempo of Jacob’s routine especially after Tom Cotter was a little too rapid fire. He got to evolve his story in one nice swoop. Grade: A- All Beef Patty – If you love camp, you’d live All Beef Patty. The vocals for “Let’s hear it for the boy” were actually pretty strong. Having all the backup dancers covered up the fact that All Beef Patty didn’t move. For a drag act, All Beef Patty did everything she could have, but I’m just hoping that there was enough of a voting block. Grade: B Spencer Horseman – The performance had Spencer suspended with a really cool looking straightjacket and a bank bag. He upped his game that the performance was visually appealing. We couldn’t see exactly what was happening which was disappointing; watching Spencer almost-drown the last time was exhilarating. He didn’t need the full 45 seconds because he ended with 13 seconds to spare. Grade: B+ Lightwire Theater – There was a lot of time spent constructing new puppet/costumes and I’m happy to see that we got some new figurines. I appreciated the fact that the camera predominantly stayed in a wide shot. While the act was really similar to their dinosaur segment, the birds provided a lot of cute motions and with the naive bird it worked really well. Grade: A
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You might wanna turn away, Katy Perry… Multiple sources confirm that the blue-haired singer’s ex-husband has started up a relationship with Isabella Brewster, as the sister of actress Jordana was spotted strolling through West Hollywood with Russell Brand over the weekend. “It’s been going on for a few weeks,” an insider tells Us Weekly of Brand and Brewster , who has also dated Bradley Cooper and Milo Ventimiglia. “He really likes her.” The actor/comedian recently split from Perry after 14 months of marriage, with the singer admitting it was difficult for the pair to maintain their initial romance. She’s been linked to musician Robert Ackroyd of Florence + the Machine, but it appears as if Brand’s fling with Brewster may be a bit more serious. “She’s cute,” added the tabloid source. “She is all over him and Russell loves it.”
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Isabella Brewster: Dating Russell Brand!
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I’m hugely fond of the headline accompanying this Expendables 2 “Comic-Con poster” (just what the movie needed, seriously, because surely none of the thousands of culture obsessives in San Diego will know anything about it ) on Ain’t it Cool News: “This EXPENDABLES 2 Comic-Con Poster Has Enough Booms, Badasses, Barrels To Humble Even The Most Uppity Of Geeks!!” Yes, it certainly does. You know what else it has? Hilarity. Somehow this all makes me envision Sylvester Stallone wolfing down a testosterone taco a few years past its sell-by date and then racing to the nearest Kinko’s and evacuating every last granule of his meal inside a color copier whose lid comes crashing down and short circuits and sputters and churns out a boomtastic accident likely intended for an imminent Chinatown bootleg DVD sleeve yet is just tasteless enough to qualify for Comic-Con signage. The man is good! Or at least he will be once his stomach settles. Better, anyway. [ Ain’t it Cool News ]
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Expendables 2 Comic-Con Poster: Testosterone Tsunami
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This iconic image from Star Trek ‘s “Amok Time” (Season 2, Episode 1) represents a moment of great internal conflict. When two of our heroes are battling to the death, for whom do we cheer? Luckily, in this case, Bones was on hand with a neuroparalyzer, allowing Kirk to feign death until the mind-altering effect of pon farr drained away from Spock, thus ending the koon-ut-kal-if-fee ritual. But who will be on hand with the hydrospray this week in San Diego? Whoooooo? The 2012 edition of nerd prom brings not one but two feature length documentaries that ought to be of interest to convention-going, costume-wearin’, social anxiety-havin’ fans – specifically, two documentaries about Star Trek enthusiasts. From Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s son, Rod Roddenberry, comes the long-in-development Trek Nation . The film is a mixture of talking head interviews from Trek notables (and others like George Lucas), behind-the-scenes footage and gawking at fans who create their own Andorian antennae. Its hook is the “son in search of his father” schtick, making it something of an interplanetary My Architect . Trek Nation will have a fan screening Thursday night, and “Roddenberry Presents” has a panel on Saturday. There is also an official Roddenberry booth on the showroom floor. Trek Nation trailer: In the other corner is Captain Kirk himself. William Shatner, whose directorial skill is very much of a piece with his Elton John covers, is presenting his latest work, Get A Life . Whereas poor Rod Roddenberry has been schlepping bits of footage of Trek Nation to Cons for years, Shatner’s first person film about “encountering the fans” is another of his dashed-off productions made with the EPIX cable network. (Note: EPIX isn’t really a network, it’s more like Hulu except you watch it on your TV and not your laptop. I don’t really know how to describe EPIX and it isn’t available in New York, which is why no one I know watches EPIX.) Get a Life trailer: Last year Shatner delivered an EPIX production called The Captains . While ostensibly a string of interviews with all who sat in Star Trek ‘s center seat, it ended up being a remarkable piece of outsider art. The sequence of Shatner and Avery Brooks scat-singing about death and “listening to the Universe” just a few months before the Deep Space Nine star got hit with a DUI is like something from Cassavetes’ Love Streams . But, you know, awful. Avery Brooks/William Shatner mash-up: Get A Life will show footage at a panel on Saturday. Mr. Shatner will share the stage with Roger Corman and Kevin Smith. Of the two films, I’m sure Trek Nation is the more polished and the more positive. Get A Life (whose title is a riff of Shatner’s old Saturday Night Live sketch admonishing obsessed fans) is no doubt the more entertaining. The joke is, of course, that both of these films are far too late. Obsessed fandom is hardly news anymore. (I mean, there was a documentary ABOUT Comic-Con that came out this year.) While one could argue that Star Trek fans dwarf all other fans, we shouldn’t forget that there was a theatrically released film in 1997 called Trekkies . It was successful enough that in 2003 there was a Trekkies 2 . What this means, of course, is that it is only a matter of time until a documentary is made about people obsessed with Star Trek documentaries. I’ll be furiously refreshing Kickstarter and will inform you as soon as I hear anything. Saturday Night Live “Get a Life” sketch:
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It may seem like an unlikely pairing, the academic and author Douglas Brinkley teaming up with one of the world’s biggest movie stars to edit a little-known unpublished novel by the late folk singer/songwriter Woody Guthrie titled House of Earth . But that is in fact in the works. Johnny Depp is partnering with Brinkley whose writings eventually informed documentaries including Spike Lee’s Hurricane Katrina work When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts as well as the 2004 doc Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry . Brinkley stumbled upon the work, which Guthrie finished in 1947, while researching an article about Bob Dylan for Rolling Stone. Brinkley happened upon the manuscript and told the New York Times he did not know of its existence. He cited two biographies about the late folk singer, who would have turned 100 this coming Saturday (July 14th), but neither mention Guthrie’s manuscript, which he completed in 1947. The story revolves around a West Texas couple are confronted by banks and lumber companies as they work to build adobe homes as protection against harsh weather. Brinkley and Depp wrote an essay for the New York Times Book Review about Guthrie’s work, describing it as a “portrait” of life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Pitched somewhere between rural realism and proletarian protest, somewhat static in terms of narrative drive, “House of Earth” nonetheless offers a searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalized Great Depression residents. Guthrie successfully mixes Steinbeck’s narrative verve with D. H. Lawrence’s openness to erotic exploration… Guthrie was born in Oklahoma and eventually traveled with migrant workers to California during during the era and was frequently linked to left-wing groups at the time. His guitar often had the slogan “This Machine Kills Fascists.” Exactly how the Douglas Brinkley/Johnny Depp tie-in has been left vague, though one can’t help but think there is a possible movie in the works longterm. The two have known each other since the mid ’90s through Hunter S. Thompson. The two partnered in writing the liner notes on a soundtrack for Alex Gibney’s recent doc Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson . Brinkley said House of Earth will be released in the Spring of 2013 by a “major New York publisher.” Check out the Gonzo trailer with a brief intro by Depp: [Source: NYT ]
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Artists on Big Machine Records will now receive payment every time their songs are played on Clear Channel radio stations. By Jocelyn Vena Taylor Swift Photo: Getty Images Taylor Swift is in a brand-new relationship. No, she isn’t dating some hot Hollywood star. Instead, Swift’s label, Big Machine Records, has just inked a deal with Clear Channel that will allow artists on the label to get paid for songs played on their radio stations. The label, as well as the performers on it — including heavy hitters like Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts and Reba McEntire — will share the revenue with Clear Channel. Before this deal, the label and its performers did not collect royalties when their songs were played on terrestrial radio; only songwriters and publishers did. Internet radio stations, however, already do pay performers and labels when their songs are played. Under the new deal, Clear Channel will be able to limit payments for songs streamed online, which will enable the growth of digital radio. “Not only does this partnership enable Big Machine to participate in terrestrial broadcast revenues, but we are also helping to grow digital radio,” Scott Borchetta, the label’s president and CEO, said. “[It’s] a great opportunity for all of us and a breakthrough opportunity for Big Machine artists.” But reportedly, it won’t end there. Aceshowbiz.com further reports that Clear Channel will approach more labels for similar deals and Big Machine may ink more of these with other radio conglomerates. “Today, 98 percent of our listening is terrestrial broadcast and 2 percent digital — with record labels and artists only paid for the 2 percent,” John Hogan, chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, added in a statement about the landmark deal. “This new agreement expands label and artist participation from just digital to terrestrial broadcast radio revenue in one comprehensive framework that will give all of us a great incentive to drive the growth of the digital radio industry and allow everyone to participate financially in its growth.” This coup for Swift comes just months after she was named the top earner of 2012 by Billboard magazine on their “Music’s Top 40 Money Makers” list . Swift sits at #1 thanks to reported earnings of $35.7 million in the 2011 calendar year. She ranks so high due to quadruple-platinum-plus sales of Speak Now and its accompanying tour, which grossed $88.5 million in the U.S. alone. But she’s hardly resting on her laurels. She is currently hard at work on her follow-up to the release . There is no word yet on when it might drop. Related Videos MTV First: Taylor Swift Related Artists Taylor Swift
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Taylor Swift’s Label Inks Groundbreaking Deal With Clear Channel
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Katy Perry is once again a single lady after breaking up with her rebound rocker beau, Florence + the Machine guitarist Robert Ackroyd. The pair weren’t a pair long, only going public with their coupling last month, kissing at Coachella . Guess things went south shortly after. “It wasn’t serious,” a source said. “She likes him a lot, but it was just a distraction. It was short-lived, she’s still dealing with getting over her marriage and it’s going to take her a while to truly be able to trust anyone again.” “She’s still friends with Rob, but they were never serious … she had doubts from the start. There are no hard feelings, they are both just very busy and had no expectations. Rob is a good guy, but she just wants to focus on her work.” Speaking of her marriage, she revealed why she decided to include her split from Russell Brand in her upcoming movie, Katy Perry: Part of Me . “I thought it was important to show everything in between,” the star said on Ellen today. “Sometimes people think that we’re perfect, and we know we’re not perfect, at all.” Just last week, Russell himself stopped by to talk to Ellen about Perry, who he had nothing but love for . Watch a clip from Katy’s visit below: Katy Perry on Ellen
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Katy Perry and Robert Ackroyd Break Up
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