While most of this summer’s popular music festivals will cost attendees upwards of several hundred dollars (tickets to Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza run at $240 and $205, respectively), music fans can look forward to a budget option thanks to leading media innovators Virgin Group. Earlier this week, the corporation announced the lineup for its annual Virgin Festival as well as the concert’s ticket price: completely free.
Landon Pigg, the Nashville singer-songwriter of “Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop” fame (you may recognize the single from ad campaigns for De Beers diamonds and AT&T), will release his sophomore album, The Boy Who Never, this fall. Due September 15, The Boy Who Never was produced by Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse) and features a new arrangement of the commercial-friendly “Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop” as well as a host of new tracks gathered throughout the years since Landon’s 2006 debut album, LP.
Post-modern indie rocker Beck has delivered the second installment of his newly-established online Record Club: “I’m Waiting for the Man” from The Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico. The Record Club features the musician and a host of friends recording single-session covers of entire classic albums, to be released song-by-song each week.
It seems that UK pop legend Rod Stewart really will be “Forever Young,” thanks to the upcoming release of newly uncovered tracks from the artist’s catalog.
The original material girl, Madonna Louise Ciccone, a.k.a. Her Madgesty (or Madonna, to us commoners) has found yet another way to capitalize on her decades-old-yet-still crazy-successful personal brand: A juniors clothing line, entitled (you guessed it) “Material Girl.”
Think you’ve had a crazy weeknight out? Unless yours included running through quicksand, sticking your hand in a box full of bugs, sword swallowers, contortionists, and the most interesting man in the world, last night’s Dos Equis Cargo Hunt Launch Party at Midtown venue Good Units has you beat.
Ciroc Vodka has just launched a new series of videos as a part of their “Perfectly Smooth” marketing campaign. The viral clips, starring P. Diddy, are titled “Smooth Talk With Diddy” and feature the hip-hop mogul’s advice for how to lead a “smooth” life.
According to “Smooth Talk With Diddy,” the rapper’s un-smooth pet peeves include:
– Big smiles
– Fist bumps with explosions
– Ladies: Shoes that are too small (they scare him)
– Drinks with straws
Earlier this summer, Diddy also starred in a Ciroc Vodka video short “Smooth-Off” versus comedian Aziz Ansari (arguably one of the least smooth actors in the industry).
[SPOILER ALERT: Diddy won the Smooth-Off by refusing to sneeze (sneezing is, apparently, not smooth)].
Multiple varieties of vermin are making themselves at home in our city and our skies. Below, the information you need to know to avoid being bitten by or biting into the pests that have been making news and making tracks all over (and above) New York.
Lindsay Lohan and Snooki may be roaming free once again, but another celebrity, rapper Lil’ Wayne, is still behind bars. However, that isn’t stopping him from giving interviews!
Avery Spofford 