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- Paramore, Panic! At The Disco Celebrate Label's 15th Anniversary
- Demi Lovato Teases Tour Plans
- David Guetta Raves About 'Beautiful' Jennifer Hudson
- Elizabeth Olsen Talks 'Martha Marcy,' Oscar Buzz
| Paramore, Panic! At The Disco Celebrate Label's 15th Anniversary Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:53 AM PDT Fueled by Ramen will mark the occasion with two nights of concerts in New York, and MTV.com will stream Wednesday's show live!
Fifteen years ago, Fueled by Ramen began life in the dorm room of John Janick, a student at the University of Florida. These days, thanks to a catalog that includes releases by Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! at the Disco, Jimmy Eat World and Yellowcard (to name just a few), an unusually strong commitment to their roster of artists and a harnessing of social media that borders on masterful, FBR headquarters is now located many stories above Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, in a space shared with the very major Atlantic Records.
Needless to say, things have improved slightly since those dorm-room days. And on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, the label will celebrate both their journey and their birthday with a two-night stand at New York's Terminal 5, a double bill that will include the likes of Paramore, Cobra Starship and Gym Class Heroes. Wednesday night's show will stream live on MTV.com, beginning at 6:30 p.m. ET, but to kick off the celebration, we asked some of Fueled by Ramen's biggest acts to think back to the day they inked their deals with the label — starting with Wednesday night's headliners, Paramore. "We were playing a lot of local shows, it was around 2004. The guy we were working with in Franklin [Tennessee], he was kind of our manager at the time, and he was like, 'This guy, he has this label,' " frontwoman Hayley Williams laughed. "A couple people from [FBR] came down and watched us play older songs and newer ones — I think we played 'Hallelujah' for them, 'Here We Go Again,' I don't know, like a total of five songs — and thank God they liked it. We were really excited. From then on, I was like, 'OK, what are we going to do?' and we recorded most of those songs, and they showed up on our album, which was on Fueled by Ramen!" The signing story of another of the label's breakout stars, Panic! at the Disco, is a little less traditional. Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz discovered the band online and rushed to their hometown of Las Vegas to add them to FBR's roster. Of course, given the label's strong Web-based presence, it would become the blueprint for the way they'd do business moving forward. "We started doing demos ourselves, just on our laptop, and posting to our personal websites, like MySpace or PureVolume, and just tried to send out links to anybody that was in a band that we were fans of in hopes they would listen. And somehow, we got lucky enough, and Pete contacted us, so that was our first introduction to Fueled by Ramen," Panic! drummer Spencer Smith explained. "Pete drove out and bought us Del Taco and listened to the songs and said that he wanted to sign us as we were driving him back to his hotel. So it all just happened within two weeks, I think, from him listening to the songs." Help MTV celebrate Fueled by Ramen's 15th anniversary this Wednesday, September 7, as we present a live party featuring some of your favorite FBR acts, including Paramore. Check out MTV.com at 6:30 p.m. ET Wednesday to catch all the action! |
| Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:53 AM PDT Following two shows slated for September and the release of her album Unbroken, Lovato says a bigger tour may be in the works.
When fans heard that Demi Lovato would be playing two intimate shows in mid-September, they promptly bought up the tickets. Lovato's concerts, slated for the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on September 17 and Club Nokia in Los Angeles on September 23, sold out in minutes — 30 minutes, to be exact.
When MTV News caught up with Lovato last week in Los Angeles, the singer explained that the gigs are meant to serve as a "thank-you" to her fans, who have been so supportive of her and her new music, including the chart-topping "Skyscraper." "It definitely is [a preview]. I wanted to say thank you to my fans," she said. "I wanted to show them how thankful I am for the support they gave me for 'Skyscraper.' At this point, 'Skyscraper' has done so well because of them, and I want to show them how thankful I am. "And hopefully when I perform the concerts, Unbroken will be coming out. I'll be really nervous to get back onstage for the first time since then, but I'll be really excited," Lovato said of her new album, which drops September 20. Does this mean that Lovato is planning a bigger tour for her Lovatics? "It could be a tease for a bigger tour. I don't know," she said. In addition to "Skyscraper," Unbroken will feature songs with Iyaz, Missy Elliott and Timbaland, Jason Derülo and Dev. It's her first studio album release since 2009's chart-topping Here We Go Again. |
| David Guetta Raves About 'Beautiful' Jennifer Hudson Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:53 AM PDT 'She delivered like crazy,' DJ/producer tells MTV News of their collabo, 'Night of Your Life.
After performing on "America's Got Talent" — alongside "Where Them Girls At" collaborators Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj — David Guetta is continuing his U.S. album promotion.
The French DJ/producer has a new double-album out called Nothing but the Beat, an effort that continues to forge his crossover path, with one disc bearing blockbuster vocals (Lil Wayne and Chris Brown, Usher, Minaj and Flo, will.i.am and Akon) and another with a selection of dance-music instrumentals meant for his core fanbase and to introduce Guetta's staple sound to his pop fans. While Kelly Rowland was Guetta's female powerhouse on One Love's "When Love Takes Over," Nothing but the Beat boasts three divas: Minaj belts on "Turn Me On," Australian singer/songwriter Sia mesmerizes on "Titanium," and then there is Jennifer Hudson. On "Night of Your Life," which recalls the vibe of Rihanna's "Only Girl (In the World)," Hudson sings, "Love me, baby, treat me right/ Make it eternity and not only one night/ If you love me till the end of time/ Then I will promise you the night of your life." For the French hitmaker, "Night of Your Life" occupies a special place in his catalog, and he revealed to MTV News recently that working with Hudson was a particularly rewarding endeavor. "I was in the studio with her," Guetta said. "To be honest, I didn't know her so well, but I had heard her voice and I fell in love with it. It's a difficult song. You need a really big voice to be able to perform that song. I was like, 'Whoa!' She obviously has an amazing voice, and I think it was a really interesting exercise for her and for me. "I always love to take singers and take them out of their boxes, and to come with a dance song with her was really exciting. She is beautiful in every way: as a person, as a singer, as a human being. She delivered like crazy." Nothing but the Beat is out now. Have you heard Guetta's latest album? Share your reviews in the comments! |
| Elizabeth Olsen Talks 'Martha Marcy,' Oscar Buzz Posted: 06 Sep 2011 03:53 AM PDT Actress opens up about her troubled character, growing up Olsen and sitting next to Kevin Bacon, in our Fall Movie Preview.
Eight months after her breakout debut at the Sundance Film Festival — when her two films turned heads, dropped jaws and had the town asking, "Where'd this girl come from?" — Elizabeth Olsen is no more used to the spotlight than before her entrance into the movie world.
But then, the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen has spent a lifetime surrounded by the attention (and the aggression) of Hollywood. So if Elizabeth hadn't already become accustomed to hobnobbing with the celebrity set, hadn't inured herself to any limelight-induced nerves by last January, the upcoming release of "Martha Marcy May Marlene" and the accompanying Oscar buzz for her performance can hardly be expected to change any of that. She hasn't upgraded her modest home, hasn't signed onto a mega-budget franchise flick, hasn't quite gotten used to the fact that the media doesn't want to tear her down. And she hasn't gotten tired of talking about "Martha Marcy," which Fox Searchlight is releasing on October 21. Olsen stars as Martha, a young woman who escapes a cult, reunites with her family and finds even that though she's left behind her old life, that life has not left her. As part of our Fall Movie Preview, Olsen called up MTV News recently to chat about the film. By turns earnest, giggly, awestruck and grateful about the place she finds herself at the age of 22, Olsen spoke passionately about what it was like to work with writer/director Sean Durkin, the media lessons she learned from her sisters, and what it was like to be in the same room as Leonardo DiCaprio. MTV: The last time we talked was at Sundance, when you made a big splash with "Martha Marcy" and "Silent House." Has life changed at all since everyone dubbed you a Sundance breakout star? Elizabeth Olsen: Personally, it's all the same. I still live in a 300-square-foot apartment. I made some more friends along the way and I've been traveling a lot. But professionally, since Sundance, I've made two more movies and now I get to keep reading cool scripts that before Sundance I wouldn't have been even considered for. So that's cool. It's not about the size of the movie, it's just character and story. Even independent films have their fair share of more simplistic stories, and then there are studio films that are more psychologically exciting. For me, it's just figuring out if I like the character and seeing if I could be considered. MTV: Along those lines, your character in "Martha Marcy" is not your typical young female Hollywood role. Was that the initial appeal for you? Olsen: There were two things I immediately responded to in the script. The first was I really like being an audience, and when I finished, it was really thrilling from an audience perspective — the narrative and the way it was told. And from a character point of view, it was someone I could play with and be challenged by. It wasn't like I was thinking, "No one does characters like this and I want to do that!" MTV: How do you get to "play" with such a troubled character? Olsen: For me, the analogy is if a kid gets access to the full playground, rather than just the monkey bars. I had not just the story of this cult, but how to recover from it. Within that, there's anger, humiliation, embarrassment, inspiration, finding of a place and then being isolated from that place. There are so many things that fit into one person, which is so thrilling, as opposed to taking one part of the story. You get to fully create this circle, this cycle. MTV: There are a lot of layers there. And the story itself reveals itself in layers. Olsen: What's cool is the way Sean edited the past with the present. A lot of times at the beginning of a scene, you don't know where you are. You have to actively be on your toes. We filmed all of the cult stuff first, just because of location, and then we filmed everything after. That was lucky to have gone though the cult stuff first. Sean and I never talked about how he wanted everything to be perceived, whether things are flashbacks or if it's all imagined. Everything was real to me. It's exciting for the audience to have to figure out their own route to the story and how everything happened and where she came from and how she got there. Enough is in the context for them to make their own choices. I like seeing every romantic comedy in theater, but I also love having to be an active audience member. I don't like things being fed to me. There were some scenes that were cut that actually gave the audience more backstory information. People have been asking, "Where do you think your character was before, blah, blah, blah?" The funny thing is I know, because we actually filmed those scenes, but they didn't make it into the movie. MTV: There's Oscar talk about your performance on this one. Is that any easier to process or handle after the attention at Sundance? Olsen: That's really cool, but I can't take it seriously. That's where I am right now. I was a little girl speaking to my mirror and accepting awards when I was 8 as a joke. I was doing a movie with Frank Sinatra in my dream world. I can't even think about any of this being a reality. The Hollywood Foreign Press thing that I got to go to a couple weeks ago was really crazy. That was my first event getting to be around all these people who I look up to and admire. That was a smaller version of all these awards shows. It's all unreal in my mind. MTV: Who'd you get to hang out with? Olsen: I don't really approach people at all! I don't know why — I just don't! I got to sit next to Kevin Bacon. Growing up, one of our family-favorite movies was "Tremors." MTV: I thought you were going to say "Footloose" or something. Olsen: It was "Tremors"! I got so excited that I got to talk to him. He was totally nice. Also, having Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg in the room was pretty cool too. MTV: Does that sort of stuff make you nervous? The press and the events and the attention? Olsen: That sort of stuff does make me nervous. I'm very intimidated by that. Growing up, the press and the media to me were unfriendly people. So it's interesting to be in a place where it's not so unfriendly. MTV: Why do you think you're getting all this great press, but there was such a harsh spotlight on your sisters? Olsen: The only thing I can think of is everyone thinks they grew up with my sisters. People feel they're innately part of their business and personal lives, which they're not. It's because there's a more intimate relationship and they can make opinions about everything. I didn't have that situation. Check out everything we've got on "Martha Marcy May Marlene." For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com. Related Videos |
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