The Jonas Brothers are up for three orange blimps at the Kids' Choice Awards next month, and Nick Jonas recently admitted to MTV News that the guys are certainly ready to take home one of the trophies come awards night.
"We're really blessed to be nominated for favorite band again this year," he dished. "We'd love [...]
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New Spider-Man Musical Aims To Premiere Before 'Turn Off The Dark'
Okay, so this is awesome. A new, off-Broadway Spider-Man musical is aiming to beat ?Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark? to its current release date (currently March 15).
Set to premiere at the People?s Improv Theater in New York?a day before the thoroughly critiqued Julie Taymor production?is a satirical song and dance entitled ?The Spidey Project: [...]
Set to premiere at the People?s Improv Theater in New York?a day before the thoroughly critiqued Julie Taymor production?is a satirical song and dance entitled ?The Spidey Project: [...]
Justin Bieber 'Real Hairstyle' Dolls Keep Swoop Alive
We hit a New York toy fair for scoop on the latest dolls, including a first look at an mp3-equipped, purple Bieber tour bus.
By Aly Semigran, with reporting by Brian Jacks
Justin Bieber figure
Photo: MTV News
If you're still mourning the loss of Justin Bieber's luscious locks, there's some news that could very well perk you up (and, no, it hasn't grown back yet). Just days before the "Never Say Never" star chopped off his trademark coif, toy company Bridge Direct debuted Justin Bieber "Real Hairstyle" dolls at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
MTV News caught up with George Vorkas of Bridge Direct, who give us the rundown on everything fans can expect from the doll, whose retail price is set at $17.99 and is slated to hit shelves this August.
After the company received complaints about their first Bieber model, which featured plastic hair, Vorkas and his associates gave the 2011 model "real" hair.
"This year, we have Justin with hair. Every girl at home can now play with his hair and style it the way they want," Vorkas explained.
In addition to styling their toy Biebs — like the original, it "sings," only this time newer hits like "U Smile" and "Never Say Never" have been added — fans can also put him on the road. The company has created a purple (naturally) Bieber tour bus, complete with a functioning mp3 player dock and a stage setup that includes guitar, drums, keyboard and the heart-shaped cage he featured on his most recent tour.
"As Justin does new things with his stage sets, we'll be coming out with matching toys," Vorkas assured us. (The stage sets and tour bus will go for a whopping $79.99.)
And that's not the only way the company plans to evolve with the ever-changing pop phenom. While the 2011 doll features a variety of Bieber-inspired accessories and outfits, collectors and/or purse string-opening parents can also expect ever-changing fashions from the "Baby" singer. As Vorkas told MTV News, "When Justin changes into a new outfit, we'll also be coming out with that outfit."
Will you buy the "real hairstyle" Justin Bieber doll? Tell us in the comments!
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If you thought you knew what to expect from tonight's "Vampire Diaries" after watching the preview, then think again.
"The teaser doesn?t give any information," Candice Accola told Hollywood Crush yesterday when we jumped on the phone with the actress. "So whatever you see on the teaser, that is just like the smallest amount [...]
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'American Idol' Says Goodbye To Chris Medina, Other Early Faves
Weepy Ashley Sullivan and White House intern Molly DeWolf Swensen were also sent packing.
By Eric Ditzian
Contestants performs Beatles songs on "American Idol" on Wednesday
Photo: FOX
On Wednesday, "American Idol" promised all night long to reveal its top 24 contestants, but we ultimately found out the identity of only five semi-finalists. On a Beatles-themed evening, we said hello to the likes of karaoke host (and onetime tormenter of fellow singer Jacee Badeaux) Clint Jun Gamboa, little featured but very soulful singer/songwriter Paul McDonald, and sweet-voiced Naima Adedapo, who left behind a life of scrubbing toilets at a Milwaukee concert venue for life crooning in Idol Land.
Yet we also said goodbye to a bunch of reality show hopefuls we'd come to know well. As we await word on Thursday (February 24) of the rest of the top 24, let's take a moment to remember some of season 10's most memorable singers who got the boot on Wednesday.
Ashley Sullivan
We can wonder why producers ever invited the alarmingly fragile 25-year-old to Hollywood — only falling onto her knees and bursting into riotous tears at the New Jersey audition earned her a golden ticket — but there's no doubting that Sullivan became one of the season's most recognizable faces (even if that face was most often contorted in tears). While she wanted to be the first show-tune pop star, Sullivan instead became another contestant who melted in the spotlight. She attempted to quit during group week, forgot her lyrics during a subsequent solo performance, and then got married, seemingly on a whim, to her boyfriend when the show made a Vegas stopover. Her wedding present from "Idol" producers? A one-way ticket back home.
Chris Medina
Most "Idol" observers believed Medina was a lock to make the top 24. Not only did he possess an above-average instrument, but he arrived on the scene with a heartbreaking backstory. His fiancée suffered a traumatic brain injury following a car accident and Medina became her caretaker. Wheelchair-bound, she was ushered into the audition room in Milwaukee and made to clutch Medina's golden ticket after his admirable take on Script's "Breakeven." He went on to be featured often in Hollywood Week but left judge Jennifer Lopez in tears when she said by way of booting him off on Wednesday, "It honestly breaks my heart to say this. ..."
Molly DeWolf Swensen
We were seriously kind of surprised this White House intern was still in the competition. After being heavily featured during her Milwaukee audition — and judge Steven Tyler exclaiming of the high-heeled, blond-haired singer, "Who knew what was goin' on at the White House?" — the 22-year-old virtually disappeared from the screen. When she popped back up on Wednesday, we were reminded of her killer audition of "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay." Alas, she'll be heading back east to help President Obama run the country rather than assisting Randy Jackson's attempt to rescue "Idol" ratings.
Get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.
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Junior Sanchez Cuts Right To The 'Raging' On Seize The Fewcha
'I tend to borrow from a lot of different genres, because my palette is really pretty wide with music,' DJ/producer tells MTV News of mix CD.
By Adam Stewart
Junior Sanchez
Photo: MTV News
Hip-hop heavyweights aren't the only ones making waves with mixtapes these days. Dance music has taken the States by storm, and world-class DJs are having a field day with the seemingly endless supply of fresh beats and distinctly unique sounds.
One of the best in the biz is veteran DJ/producer Junior Sanchez. After the massive success of "Where You Are," his collaboration with Harry "Choo Choo" Romero and Alexander Technique, and the forthcoming release "I Believe In," slated for Miami in March (both released on Steve Angello's Size Records), Sanchez has positioned himself to be one of the biggest names of 2011, starting with his powerful new mix CD, Seize the Fewcha.
"A lot of people build a CD and build it up, but I was like, 'Let's just go for the gusto and play all of these amazing tracks that people really don't get to hear,' " Sanchez told MTV News. "I don't have seven hours to build to that moment. So you just want to get to that moment and get to the moment where everyone is just kind of raging."
Junior dives headfirst into the meat of Seize the Fewcha, hitting heavy right out of the gate with the Armand Van Helden and Steve Aoki collaboration "BRRRAT!" and moving swiftly into a dubstep homage to dot-com dating with a remix of Christopher Just's "You Looked Much Cuter (On My Computer)."
"There's a lot of dubstep influence," he said. "I love cats like Rusko, and when I make dance music in general, I tend to borrow from a lot of different genres, because my palette is really pretty wide with music."
Sanchez dabbles in some of the freshest floor-fillers ever thrown on to one disc. From the digitally distorted and mind-bending "Attack Muzik" by Sanchez and DJ Reza to "Select Start," a techno-laden, infectiously hooked monster pumped out by up-and-coming Russians Hard Rock Sofa and Swanky Tunes, the level of intensity and off-kilter variety of Sanchez's track selection never ceases to amaze.
Garnished intermittently with Cirez-D "Total Departure"-esque infinite builds throughout "Elevator," featuring Joel and Benji from Good Charlotte, and "nEthang!," a classic electro groove that only Felix Da Housecat and Junior Sanchez could conjure up, Seize the Fewcha is a dazzling commentary on what is and what will be huge in dance music over the next year.
Having produced Katy Perry's "Ur So gay" and, most recently, Mya's upcoming album, Sanchez is a true renaissance man whose talents are sought after by some of the biggest names in the game.
"I'm working on her album; it's kind of like a rediscovery of Mya, a reinvention of Mya. We are doing some really interesting sounds," he said. "It's a lot of dance-influenced stuff, but there are some tracks that are really dark pop, like really industrial; kind of Depeche Mode-influenced, but it's still really dance-y. It's a gambit of creativity, but the main thing at the end of it is like the songs are there. The songs are amazing."
Sanchez is also poised to release an R&B /dance record with newcomer O'Neil McKnight entitled "Crazy."
"It's amazing. He's an amazing artist. And he's the future of R&B right there, for sure," Sanchez said.
"It's a dance track. It's kind of like what [Sanchez] does best: Dance music meets '80s," McKnight said. "Everybody who has heard it thus far has been going crazy. I was at Puffy's house a couple weeks ago, and he was playing it, like, 30 times just dancing around. He was like, 'This is so refreshing,' so it's a good feel!"
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