By Laura Ferreiro
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After enduring weeks of teasers about the release of Daft Punk's highly-anticipated forthcoming album, Random Access Memories, fans of the French dance duo don't have to wait any longer. The album leaked online Monday, a week before its official release date of May 21.
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Adele was six Grammy awards in 2012. (Dan MacMedan, WireImage)
No one knows yet if it will by PSY, Kenny Chesney or even Daft Punk that sweeps the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. The host of the event hasn’t even been announced let alone any of the nominees.
All anyone knows for sure, thanks to a press release that arrived Monday, is that the event will take place on January 26, 2014 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The event will air from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. EST on CBS.
Recording artists who released albums between October 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013 are eligible for awards.
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David Bowie's "Space Oddity" has been taken to new heights by a Canadian astronaut. Chris Hadfield has released a video of his rendition of Bowie's 1969 classic as his swan song as he prepares to return to Earth.
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A woman is escorted from an airplane for refusing to stop singing a Whitney Houston song.
As it turns out, it may be easier to get kicked off an airplane than you think. In addition to wearing improper attire, swearing loudly and fighting with fellow passengers, singing a famous song – badly – can have you escorted off by officers during an emergency landing.
This is what happened when a woman refused to stop singing Whitney Houston's rendition of "I Will Always Love You" on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to New York on Thursday.
According to the Daily Mail, the woman was escorted off the plane in handcuffs. Because of her disruption, officials diverted the six-hour flight and the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City.
Read More »from Singing Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” Gets Woman Kicked Off PlaneWhen it comes to wacky fashion, Ke$ha undoubtedly sets the bar admirably high: The singer has a headdress made from her fans' teeth, for heaven's sake. However, she managed to outdo even herself this week with her outfit for new video "Crazy Kids."
There's not really much that can be said about this ensemble...except that it leaves the casual viewer speechless. In addition to, well, everything you see here--Ke$ha additionally accessorized with denim Daisy Dukes, lacy thigh-high stockings, and super-thick platform sneakers. We suppose she has some method or purpose to this particular style; it's just that we can't figure it out for the life of us.
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Ke$ha's single "Crazy Girls" featuring will.i.am was released April 29; there's also a remix featuring Pitbull.
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Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Paul McCartney (Hulton Archive)
Back in the late '60s, a super group was bandied about that would have been bigger than the short-lived 1969 Blind Faith, the English blues band that featured Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood and Rick Grech.
That same year, Jimi Hendrix reached out to Beatles bassist and vocalist Paul McCartney about coming to the studio to join him and trumpet legend Miles Davis and virtuoso jazz drummer Tony Williams.
In a telegram Hendrix sent McCartney to the Beatles’ Apple Records building in London on October 21, Hendrix wrote, “We are recording and (sic) LP together this weekend in New York (sic). How about coming in to play bass. Stop. Call Alvan Douglas (sic) 212-5823323. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams."
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(Getty Images, WireImage)Countless pop songs have been called infectious or contagious. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong went one step further and called Korean superstar PSY an actual disease.
“The dude is the herpes of music. Once you think it’s gone, it comes back. #herpes #flareup #pleasegoaway," Armstrong wrote on Instagram Tuesday. He also posted a picture of PSY, whose international hit “Gangnam Style” remains an epidemic.
When Asked to reply to Armstrong’s dig during an interview with Fuse News, PSY said, “Herpes? What is herpes?” When told it’s a “sexually transmitted infection,” PSY, whose command of English is limited and who didn’t seem to understand the insult replied, “Oh, hmm. I kinda like it. It's cool.”
In addition to being unaware of the definition of herpes, PSY didn’t know who Armstrong was.
Vintage glamor, incalculable luxury, tragedy, and fleeting youth: Everything that is The Great Gatsby and everything that is Lana Del Rey. The polarizing chanteuse recently released the official music video for her original song "Young and Beautiful" for the highly anticipated Gatsby film that hits theaters today.
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(Kevin Mazur, WireImage)To mark Mother's Day this Sunday and pay tribute to moms around the world, celebrities including Beyoncé, John Legend, Ziggy Marley, Cameron Diaz, Blake Lively and Olivia Wilde released a video in which they discuss their mothers' greatest attributes.
In the video, Lively calls her mom "the greatest celebrity" she's ever met, Beyoncé praises her mother for "finding the best qualities in every human being" and Marley says his mom is a "strong woman who leads by example."
At the end of the video, the stars state their mothers' names and Diaz simply says, "My mother, my mommy."
The video is part of Gucci's Chime for Change campaign, which was cofounded by Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez and serves to raise funds and awareness for girls' and women's empowerment around the world.
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(JB Lacroix, WireImage)Rod Stewart is undoubtedly a true romantic. The 68-year-old British singer, who released his latest album, "Time," this week, revealed that a difficult split from his wife inspired him to cover Tom Waits' romantic ballad "Picture in a Frame" on his new record.
The "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" singer told Australia's Life Magazine that he and his wife of six years, Penny Lancaster, were apart for two weeks, and he kept a photo of the mother of two of his children near his bed during that time.
Read More »from Rod Stewart Reveals Split With Wife Inspired Song on New AlbumSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — It was the customer service disaster heard around the Internet.
CHICAGO (AP) — The attorney for an 87-year-old woman who accuses Donald Trump of cheating her in a skyscraper condo deal told Chicago jurors on Wednesday that he was personally repulsed by the "Apprentice" star whom he said lied on the witness stand.
SINGAPORE (AP) — Portraying USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu in the latest "Star Trek" movie comes with big shoes to fill, but the man who played the part in the TV series and six films has given his blessing to the actor currently playing the role.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In the new film "Behind the Candelabra," veteran entertainer Debbie Reynolds has just three major scenes to flesh out one of the most complicated figures in piano-playing showman Liberace's life: his loving but sometimes manipulative mother Frances.
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window.
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun.