Randy Travis Celebrates 25 Years With Duet Album

Brad Paisley's not the only country singer turning out the duets on his upcoming album--Randy Travis will celebrate 25 years of music with Anniversary Celebration, a duets project due to be released on June 7. In the past two and a half decades, Randy has racked up 16 Billboard No. 1 singles, five Country Music Association awards, two People's Choice Awards, seven Grammys, 10 Academy of Country Music awards and more—including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a Grand Ole Opry membership.

The album offers a generous number of remakes of classic Randy songs along with several new tunes, and is chock-full of duets. Jamey Johnson appears on "A Few Ole Country Boys," Kenny Chesney sings on Randy's 1990 hit "He Walked on Water," John Anderson sings on "Diggin' Up Bones." Zac Brown Band joins in on Randy's signature No. 1 hit from 1987, "Forever and Ever, Amen," while Tim McGraw guests on a new song, "Can't Hurt a Man." Randy Travis and Carrie Underwood earned a Grammy nomination for their duet version of Randy's 1988 No. 1 single "I Told You So." On Anniversary Celebration, Carrie guests on another Randy classic, "Is It Still Over?" George Jones, Lorrie Morgan, Ray Price, Connie Smith, Joe Stampley and Gene Watson appear on the song "Didn't We Shine."

In addition, fans can view a collection of videos, photos and media clips throughout Randy's 25-year career by visiting his official website.
Full track listing for Anniversary Celebration

1. "Everything and All" featuring Brad Paisley
2. "A Few Ole Country Boys" featuring Jamey Johnson
3. "Forever and Ever, Amen" featuring Zac Brown Band
4. "He Walked on Water" featuring Kenny Chesney
5. "T.I.M.E." featuring Josh Turner
6. "Love Looks Good on You" featuring Kristin Chenoweth
7. "Better Class of Losers/She’s Got the Rhythm (and I Got the Blues)" medley featuring Alan Jackson
8. "More Life" featuring Don Henley
9. "Can’t Hurt a Man" featuring Tim McGraw
10. "Promises" featuring Shelby Lynne
11. "Is it Still Over?" featuring Carrie Underwood
12. "Road to Surrender" featuring Kris Kristofferson & Willie Nelson
13. "Diggin’ Up Bones" featuring John Anderson
14. "Someone You Never Knew" featuring Eamonn McCrystal
15. "Too Much" featuring James Otto
16. "Didn’t We Shine" featuring George Jones, Lorrie Morgan, Ray Price, Connie Smith, Joe Stampley & Gene Watson
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Britney Spears Busts Out Performing Songs From New Album 'Femme Fatale'

The comeback singer transformed herself into a pop vixen for a live performance in San Francisco on Saturday night.

Clad in a revealing leather basque, Britney's appearance was a far cry from the casually-dressed mother of two who frequently ventures out in saggy clothes and unkempt hair tied in a lazy bun.

Nailing a number of eye-watering dance moves, she made easy work of her three-song taping for TV show Good Morning America.

PHOTOS: More Britney in concert.

Britney performed three songs - "Hold It Against Me," "Big Fat Bass" and "Till The World Ends" - at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, just days after surprising fans with two shows in Las Vegas.

After her short show, Britney told fans: "I love my music. It's my world. It's my everything."

Presumably she'd temporarily forgotten about her sons Sean Preston and Jayden James.

The free gig - to an audience of 5,000 - is part of her promo campaign for new album "Femme Fatale."

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Soulja Boy Tell'em Talks About New Album, Battle With Ice-T

"Soulja Boy Tell'em wants to both scale down and upgrade his workload as producer. In the wake of his album souljaboytellem.com, the 17-year-old MC has helmed tracks for crew member V.I.C. (including "Get Silly") and recently finished a record he said will be on Bow Wow's upcoming album called Marco Polo. He's eager to make beats for more of his peers.

"I'm getting these producer checks," he said Tuesday on the red carpet of the BET Awards. "I'm sitting back in the cut. While I stop working, I'm still working."

The Atlanta native told MTV News that he's almost done with his second album but won't be producing the entire project like he did his debut.

"It's called iSouljaBoy," he revealed of the LP (which he'd previously said would be called Back to School). "The album is gonna be crazy. I got more features on there. The first album, I produced the whole album; second album I'm looking to work with different producers such as Polow Da Don. I might collab with artists such as Bow Wow and Sean Kingston."

Soulja Boy's set is due out this fall — but in the meantime, he hasn't been hurting for headlines. The youngster has been in a viral back-and-forth with Ice-T in recent days. After the rap legend said some very disparaging words on a mixtape about the teenager, Soulja Boy said he wasn't feeling the dis, and that a man of Ice's age shouldn't be shooting down a teenager via Internet video blogs. Ice responded with his own video blog, apologizing for his more explicit words (like inviting Soulja to eat a part of man's anatomy), but maintained that his young peer's music "sucks." Yesterday a cartoon appeared on the 'Net mocking Ice — and midway through the cartoon, showed footage of Ice breakdancing back in the day.

"I ain't sugar-coat nothing," Soulja said. "I ain't back down. I ain't scared of dude or nothing like that. I just told him how I felt when he spoke on me. This ain't no beef or drama. I'm 17 years old and he's I-don't-know-how-old. I was defending myself."

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1589961/soulja-boy-tellem-talks-about-new-album-battle-with-icet.jhtml (Original article credit)

50 Cent Talks Production On New Album "Black Magic"

50 Cent continues to work on his fifth solo album, to be called Black Magic.

In an interview with MTV he revealed what producers he'd worked with so far; Swizz Beatz, The Cataracs, Boi-1da, and Alex Da Kid. Also dropping hints that he may be in the studio with Kanye soon.

50 also spoke about G-Unit emcee Lloyd Banks, whose third album drops November 22. 50 played less of a role on this album than he did on Banks' previous, "this is his indepedence day, you know what I'm saying? Not just selling the CD independently because he's operating on my pocket, so it's not a traditional budget. But just him being on his own, I consciously stayed away from the record more to create a stronger distance so people would identify with his talent on this project."

In the summertime 50 revealed to Tim Westwood that he had something new up his sleeve for Black Magic. "I've got a joint that I did that was real uptempo," he explained. "It's still 50 Cent...[for] my Black Magic album, I've been listening to a lot of different kinds of music. I just want to create something that's out of the box, that ain't the same style of music or same kinds of music [that I normally make]. I'm using different song formats...it's still hip-hop music, it's still 50 Cent content, it's just written in a different way [from the traditional 16 bar format]."

That isn't all though, he's also changed how he's working with other artists. "I made collaborations [but] this time, I actually just wanted to create things and see if anything came out that I felt like other artists should get on," explained 50. "My previous albums, I went in the studio with them -- this time I'm making music and then trying to find ways to put them on the records. It's more me even when it's a collaboration. It's them fitting into what I felt was right now as opposed to us making a total compromise."

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Gucci Mane Talks New Album With Waka Flocka

Gucci Mane recently sat down to speak about his upcoming album with Waka Flocka Flame, squashing any rumors or reports about problems between the two rappers.

"Me and Waka were never not cool so I don’t know where you get that from," he explained. "There was a period of time I wasn’t speaking to him. But it wasn’t no bad thing about that. We just wasn’t talking at the time."

"We feeling each other right now. I’m feeling his swag. He’s feeling mine. I’m feeling his music right now and he’s feeling my music right now so we just came together and said let’s combine. We’ve been talking about putting this album out for the last two years. Since we formed Brick Squad, we been saying we’re gonna come out with a group album. So the perfect time is now. We’re gonna come out with our group album and then we’ll come back out with our solo albums."(Complex)

Gucci Mane went on to speak about the new album, which he says is already finished.

"[I]t’s already recorded," he said. "It’s completely done...you can expect it in the spring sometime. It’s got like 17 tracks. You got production from Drumma Boy, Southside, J. Cole, Shawty Redd. We got collaborations from Rocko, Tity Boi, and OJ Da Juiceman, and everybody in the Brick Squad camp. We just wrapped that up last week. So after I recorded The Return of Mr. Zone 6, me and Waka went to the Beatmakerz studio to record the whole album in Atlanta." (Complex)

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American Idol: Adam Lambert Talks About New Album And Natalie Portman

Recently we told you about Adam Lambert’s new album “Glam Nation” and even showed you the very cool looking album cover. Since then Adam Lambert has talked about his album and talked about his dream of staring in a movie with Natalie Portman. Why does he want to appear with Natalie? Keep reading to find out.

There is no release date yet for “Glam Nation”, but Adam Lambert is thinking positive stating at his recent Grammy appearance, “I can’t reveal much, but I’m crossing my fingers for a fall release date.” He continues to talk about his second album and labor of love. “I want this to be my album, and dive into it with what I’ve learned this year, and where I’m at personally with love and relationships,” he said. “Great music is personal and real. That’s what this album will be.”

Like many recording artists, Adam Lambert has his sights set high hoping to eventually break into a movie career and states that he would sign a movie contract “in a heartbeat” if his favorite actress Natalie Portman was staring in it. He says, “There is a lot of territory that has yet to be charted, so I’m taking it one day at a time. Who knows? Maybe you’ll be seeing my fashion designs hit the runway soon, too.”

Adam Lambert knows who is really to thank for his success. His fans. “If it weren’t for my loyal and dedicated fans, my career wouldn’t be what it is,” he said. “I have fans all over the world, some who don’t even speak English, and they’re still singing all my lyrics during my shows. It’s surreal, and such a beautiful thing.”

http://realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com/2011/02/15/american-idol-adam-lambert-talks-about-new-album-and-natalie-portman/ (Original article credit)

"Weird Al" Yankovic Talks New Album, ATP, Upcoming Children's Book

“Weird Al" Yankovic must be taken seriously. Sure, he’s spent his life penning popular-song parodies, but he is by no means a novelty. Consider the facts: His career has outlasted almost every artist he’s ever poked fun at, he’s had his own movie and television show, and he’s earned six platinum albums and three Grammy awards. Soon, Yankovic will publish a children’s book with HarperCollins, release a new album and appear at All Tomorrow’s Parties by request of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Yankovic recently spoke to Paste about these developments, and in the words of his character, George Newman, in the criminally underrated UHF: “This means something. This is important.”

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/07/weird-al-yankovic-talks-new-album-atp-and-his-upco.html (Original article credit)