Saturday it was rollergirls with plastic bats; Sunday it’s speed-walking waiters racing through the French Quarter with beverage trays. With apologies to fans of the Wiggles, that tops the list of must-do events in the New Orleans area Sunday.
Contestants fast walk down Decatur Street from St. Ann towards the finish line at the Gazebo Restaurant during the 2010 French Market Waiters Race. Read more…
FORGET the usual stories about fad diets and nappy prices, A Current Affair will take a different turn next Monday night.
In a major coup for Channel Nine, pop megastar Lady Gaga will sit down to be interviewed by Tracy Grimshaw in front of a live studio audience. She will also perform.
The controversial singer will be in Australia for a promotional tour for her album Born This Way. In many of her recent public appearances Lady Gaga has worn barely-there sheer catsuits, that would not be suitable for primetime television.
Last week Grimshaw celebrated 30 years at Channel Nine, and this is likely to be one of the most memorable interviews she has conducted.
“Lady Gaga is one of the most exciting performance artists in the world right now,” said Grimshaw.
NEW YORK – The first minute of k.d. langs new album is meant to throw you, to rattle expectations youre bound to have. Her voice, famous for its scope and richness, coos a familiar sentiment.
I confess/ I need you badly/ Hold me in your arms/ And love me madly, lang sings over a polite piano. Shes been here before.
But then theres this: I confess/ Ill be your daddy/ Ask for anything/ Ill do it gladly.
Cue the clap of thunder. Drums pummel like theyve been lifted from a heavy-metal band. Electric guitars ramp up. And suddenly lang is in full-on seduction mode, with Roy Orbisons bombast and Johnny Cashs swagger rolled into one.
I Confess is the initial indication that lang is not up to her usual tricks on Sing It Loud, her latest album, which she recorded with a new band called the Siss Boom Bang.
have released their cover of ‘s multi-million-selling hit ‘Rolling In The Deep’.
The band’s rendition of the track has been made available to download exclusively on iTunes, along with an EP of their iTunes Festival live set’s highlights.
Linkin Park played to a crowd of 3,000 at London’s Roundhouse on Monday, performing a range of their hits including ‘Numb’, ‘In The End’ and ‘Crawling’, as well as Adele’s song.
The group’s current single ‘Iridescent’ features in the box office smash Transformers: Dark Of The Moon and marks the third time they have worked with director Michael Bay.
Linkin Park rapper Mike Shinoda recently confirmed that the band have started work on their fifth studio album, saying that fans can expect it sooner rather than later.
Watch Linkin Park perform Adele’s ‘Rolling In The Deep’ below:
Hartford band Sunspots describes its sound as an amalgam of “the rusting factories, odd urban centers and dairy farms of Connecticut.” We also would have accepted “catchy pop-rock with a touch of soul.”
The band formed in 2009 when singer Kevin Scott recruited musicians (by knocking on lesson-room doors in the local music store where he worked) to play in what started as a country-folk act in the style of M. Ward or Dr. Dog. Sunspot Read more…