It was only slightly more than a year ago that Apes & Androids started playing live shows, but one of their earliest gigs put the New York-based band in center court of Marc Ecko's office—a literal basketball court—for one of the designer's private parties. Even with stars like Lil Kim and Sean "Diddy" Combs walking through the crowd, the band was a spectacle unto itself, costumed head to toe, donning makeup and bursting with its schizophrenic blend of psych rock, glam, hip-hop, funk and dance.
"Marc's just really into art. He freaked out as he watched us," says Brian Jacobs, who sings opposite the group's other core songwriter David Tobias. The pair split songwriting and singing duties 50/50, a product of their friendship since third grade. |
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"Exactly!" Sugarland lead singer Jennifer Nettles exclaims when asked if "Beyoncé to Bill Anderson" is a fair assessment of the duo's music. Not only has it performed the former's "Irreplaceable" in concert (a YouTube favorite), the pair co-wrote with country legend Anderson for its third Mercury Nashville album, "Love on the Inside," due July 22 (deluxe edition) and July 29 (regular).
Producer Byron Gallimore says the duo has an innate ability to blend its influences in a way that country fans find attractive. "Their experiences are pretty vast as far as the types of material that they know and can do, but the interesting thing about it is how country these guys are," he says. "It seems like whatever they do comes out country."
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When My Getaway came by the Billboard studios late last year to record an acoustic version of its track "Heart Attack," the five-piece was also prepping for its BMI Artist of the Month showcase at New York's Annex. Earlier in the year, the band had hit the road with the Vans Warped tour, its second stint with the roving punk/rock festival. The group scored the honors the year before by tallying the most votes at Ernie Ball's online battle of the bands contest.
The videos posted on My Getaway's MySpace site are full of dick jokes, physical torture, a spoof on "Permanent Ink," semi-nudity and hijinks at Burger King. They're laugh-out-loud hilarious, fit for just about any other 18- to 21-year-old's social networking repertoire, if only the band's outstandin |
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Chana Tavarez first landed in a recording studio seven years ago as a winner of the WB network girl-group competition "Pop Stars." It's a gig quite different from her current one as a rising Latin alternative singer/songwriter, but Tavarez's engaging live performances owe something to her TV experience.
Signed as a songwriter to SESAC and Warner/Chappell, the Los Angeles-based Tavarez self-released her debut EP, "Manos Arriba," in March. The Dominican-American artist has been promoting it on such outlets as mun2 and Telemundo, and has been performing at clubs with producer Marthin Chan, a veteran of Latin rock act Volumen Cero.
"We were never thinking, 'We're going to go platinum, and it'll go on all the radio stations,' |
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Petra Marklund's single "Cry for You" describes a woman scorned, but U.S. audiences are feeling just the opposite about the Swedish dance songstress, aka September. Marklund has already released albums in Europe, but released her first album in the 'States, "September," this February.
Thanks to plays on Top 40 U.S. Radio stations, "Cry for You" has reached No. 42 on the Billboard Pop 100, previously at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay in 2007 for two weeks. What her audience might not know is that her breakthrough song "La la la (Never give it up)" off her Swedish debut album "In Orbit," paved the way for the singer at the age of 18 in Sweden – six years ago.
With a musical family at her side, Marklund |
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Let's get it out of the way. That Vanity Fair photo shoot? For a teen idol that's suddenly been turned into glossy rag mag fodder, Miley Cyrus is remarkably sanguine when asked about the bare-shoulder, bedsheet-entwined photo.
"I was embarrassed," she says in her rapid, self-assured clip, "but also it's like, every career thing that I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong. I think that just makes me even more relatable. I don't think people will look at me any differently because they're like, 'You know what, I'm going to do stupid stuff too, and I'm going to make mistakes, and that's fine.' It still hurts when I think about it—but you know what, it doesn |
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