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What to Download: New Music on iTunes
Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: Not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores, including iTunes. So I take a spin through each week's iTunes music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. In addition to my picks below, Jem's new album, Down to Earth, featuring her popular single "Crazy" is out today, though I can't locate it on iTunes.
Buzz News Roundup, 6/30
- American Idol's Kristy Lee Cook has signed a recording deal with Arista Nashville, USA Today reports.
- According to the Futon Critic, AMC has enlisted Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel to star in a six-part miniseries remake of the TV show The Prisoner.
- Variety reports that The Real World producers Bunim-Murray could be tapped to run Project Runway when the show moves to Lifetime.
- Ne-Yo has bumped Coldplay out of the No. 1 spot on the UK singles chart, Billboard reports.
- The Wackness and the documentary Man on Wire were audience favorites at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, Variety writes.
- Neal McDonough is the latest actor to join Desperate Housewives as a possible love interest for Edie, Zap2it reports.
- Billboard announces that Bon Jovi will play a free show in Central Park on July 12.
- Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Google are teaming up for an Internet-only animated series that will be released this Fall, writes the New York Times.
Music Video: Rihanna Feat. Ne-Yo, "Hate That I Love You"
Rihanna forayed her last big hit into a line of umbrellas, so maybe she can spin this duet with Ne-Yo into a brand of sexy lingerie. In the new video for "Hate That I Love You," off Rihanna's latest, Good Girl Gone Bad, the scantily clad singer rolls around in the sheets while pondering the irresistible pull of a fedora-clad Ne-Yo.
Idolator speculates that the video was shot when Rihanna had a broken foot, and gratuitous sexiness aside, the video perfectly suits the sultry, dreamy ballad.
Link Time! 1/18
- Idolator discovers Ne-Yo's version of "Irreplaceable," the hit he wrote for Beyonce.
- TV with MeeVee finds out what's next for some favorite TV characters.
- Stereogum points us to a new Kanye West track written for a Japanese hip-hop group.
- Speaking of Wests, I'm digging buzzworthy band the Broken West on You Ain't No Picasso.
- Popwatch ponders: Matthew McConaughey to play Magnum P.I.?
- Fans of "The State" will love "The Michael Showalter Showalter" on Best Week Ever.
- TVgasm isn't sure that NBC's new celebrity improv show is such a great idea.
- I Guess I'm Floating proves that The Ruby Suns are well-reviewed with good reason.
- Give Me My Remote feels awkward watching the bad "American Idol" auditions.
- Cinematical has the low-down on why Zach Braff's The Fast Track is delayed.
Movie Preview: Stomp the Yard
Because I can't resist a so-bad-it's-good movie and because I'm a sucker for tantalizing dance routines, I simply have to see Stomp the Yard, which opens this Friday, Jan. 12. Set at the fictional (and very subtly named) Truth University in Atlanta, the movie follows a troubled freshman who flees the street life of Los Angeles and finds himself in high demand by two fraternities who want him on their step quads.
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