Coming on like a teenage Joan Jett with a drum machine, all Pulp Fiction bangs and kaleidoscopic baton swinging, Zowie is a futuristic cheerleader from planet Wow. Headed back stateside for an appearance at SXSW, she will play the New Zealand Showcase on Wednesday March 16th at Brush Square Park in Austin, TX. A whip-smart [...]

British singer/songwriter Cosmo Jarvis created a buzz around his recent single “Gay Pirates.” Now available on iTunes, “Gay Pirates” is a touching look at the hardships of two lovers endured in another historical era. The video for “Gay Pirates” has received nearly 300,000 hits on YouTube, was endorsed by British television personality Stephen Fry on [...]

Designer Giuseppe Zanotti (L) and actress Lindsay Lohan attend the Giuseppe Zanotti Design Beverly Hills Store Opening dinner held at BOA Sunset on February 4, 2011 in West Hollywood, California.

Eighty-third Academy Awards telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer today announced the artists who will perform the nominated songs on the Kodak Theatre stage on Oscar Night®. Gwyneth Paltrow will perform “Coming Home” from the film “Country Strong.” Original Song nominee A.R. Rahman and Florence Welch, of Florence + the Machine, will perform “If [...]

Single Girls,” the emotionally loaded first single from ‘Bells,’ the US debut of LA-based Hotel Cafe mainstay Laura Jansen out March 22 on Decca Records, is a breathy, delicate pop metaphor for the devastation of getting your heart smashed to pieces. It also doubles as a list of remedies for broken hearted women and an [...]

Oscar®-winning actress Marisa Tomei will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday, February 12, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Tomei will present 11 awards to 23 individual recipients during the evening. Tomei won a Supporting Actress Academy Award® in 1992 for her performance in [...]

The principal footage for the ‘Pump Your Little Heart’ video was shot by Director Michael Humphrey using a macro lens. Using this method, the tiniest objects are transformed into full screen images, echoing the way the personal emotions behind the song’s lyrics have been magnified into an epic melodrama. Pump Your Little Heart was produced [...]

Academy Award®-nominated actress Annette Bening will be a presenter at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today. Bening, who is an Academy governor, recently received her fourth Oscar® nomination, for her leading role in “The Kids Are All Right.”  She received her first nomination for her supporting role [...]

Channeling the spirit of early Orange Juice with twist of The Style Council and the swagger of The Smiths,  San Francisco’s Magic Bullets envisage an era indebted to sardonic crooners yet craft the most joyous guitar pop you’ll hear this year,  or any year for that matter. Magic Bullets are a five piece hailing from San [...]

More and more details are leaking out about the new Britney Spears album, which we have now learned is titled Femme Fatale. Britney Spears’ new album, which is her seventh studio effort, while drop on March 15, and producer and songwriter Dr. Luke has just shared some new information on Femme Fatale, which is not yet finished.

Headed to SXSW this year? If so, be sure not to miss The Holidays! The Australian 4-piece recently won the highly coveted Best Debut Album in the Australian Music Prize’s Red Bull Award. Their much-lauded full length ”Post Paradise” features 10 freakishly good tracks, including this one - ”Broken Bones”. In the past couple of years The Holidays have quickly established themselves in [...]

Final ballots for the 83rd Academy Awards® were mailed today (February 2) to the 5,755 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) by 5 p.m. Tuesday, February 22.  Ballots received after the deadline will not be counted. Listed on the ballots are nominees [...]

Amazing. No words! He might be the next Susan Boyle for all we know.. Except he’s just saying random words, they don’t even mean anything. If he shapes up there he’s a gold mine. The original post reads I don’t know how many people out there are planning on taking a taxi in Minas Gerias, [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has launched an interactive Oscar-themed sidewalk display at 1333 Broadway in New York City.  The expansive window display in midtown Manhattan features nine linked 46-inch LCD screens that literally envelop passers-by in a virtual “red carpet experience.”  As people walk past the eight-foot high wall of LCD [...]

EMMY-winning and GRAMMY-nominated composer Jonathan Elias met Sting and Trudie Styler in 2006. Five years later they come together once again to support an urgent cause: bringing to light the intense social and moral implications of nuclear weapons. “Sting, Trudie and I produced Guide to Recognizing Your Saints together back in 2006 and remained friends [...]

Jon Fratelli, who has just finished recording his as yet untitled debut solo album in LA with producer Tony Hoffer (Beck, Air, Depeche Mode, The Fratellis!), is set to mark the album’s completion by giving away this new song ‘Rhythm Doesn’t Make You A Dancer’. If you’re based in Scotland, then let me know if [...]

For those of you that remember, Kid Cudi made an appearance on MTV a few months back saying that his passion was no longer with rap, and that he had shifted towards guitar playing (we discussed that right here). Furthermore, Kid Cudi revealed plans of a rock group called Wizards, which features Dot Da Genius, one of Cudi’s producers. Now, Cudi has more solid information about his plans with Wizards – an album is to be coming out soon. According to an announcement on Twitter, the Wizards album is due sometime in the summer of 2011.

The Academy Awards don’t take place until February 27, but we have a good feeling about the show already, with Robert Downey, Jr., tapped for presentation duties. The Academy Award-nominated actor will be a presenter at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today. Downey earned Oscar nominations for [...]

Scarlett looks great for the new Mango Spring 2011 advertising campaign. But we must admit, there’s a certain look here that resembles the 90s. Right?

Honored with individual awards were Christian Bale, Colin Firth, Melissa Leo and Natalie Portman for performances in motion pictures and Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Al Pacino, and Betty White for performances in television.

The stunt performers and coordinators from “Inception” and “True Blood” are recipients of this year’s Screen Actors Guild honors for Outstanding Performance by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles, it was announced today from the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® red carpet by Screen Actors Guild Awards Committee Chair JoBeth Williams and Screen Actors Guild [...]

Actor® nominees Amy Adams, Annette Bening, Helena Bonham Carter, Jesse Eisenberg, Colin Firth, Andrew Garfield, Armie Hammer, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Geoffrey Rush, Justin Timberlake and Mark Wahlberg will introduce their nominated films at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced today. They join a growing roster of [...]

Earlier in the week the media had widely reported negligence condemning the Global Fund, but the popularity of the story itself has twisted the facts, which has forced donors to suspend some payments. Global Fund Executive Director issues statement : “Two articles published by the Associated Press in recent days and picked up by a [...]

He’s best known for being a multi-platinum music artist, producer and front man for The Black Eyed Peas, but will.i.am is also an innovator, technology fan, entrepreneur and philanthropist. With today’s announcement at the Anaheim Convention Center, the seven-time Grammy winner has added another title to his multi-faceted resume: “director of creative innovation.” As an [...]

Actor Hugh Jackman has been set as a presenter for the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today. Jackman will be seen next in “Real Steel” and is attached to “Wolverine.”  His other film credits include “The Prestige,” “The Fountain,” the “X-Men” trilogy, “Van Helsing,” “Kate & Leopold,” “Swordfish” [...]