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Ben Barna
May 07, 2008
Two hips and a hurray for Madonna Ciccone, whose album Hard Candy was the top-selling record its first week out with 280,273 units sold, beating Mariah Carey and her Empire State-tampering tactics.
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May Music Releases
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April 21, 2008
Scarlett Johansson
Anywhere I Lay My Head (ATCO)
We know what you are thinking: Don Johnson, Heartbeat. But you are wrong, oh, so wrong. Scarlett Johansson’s first album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, is one of the happiest surprises in years. On this inspired collection of Tom Waits covers, Johansson’s famously oak-smoked voice is a natural cousin of the Roches, John Cale, and Sinead O’Connor. David Bowie, who sings backup on two tracks—“Falling Down” and “Fannin Street”—adds splashes of cream to this perfect cup of hot, dark New Orleans coffee. —Alison Powell
Prince at Coachella: Art or Commercial?
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Vanita Salisbury
April 11, 2008
Perfumer, musician, and world's sexiest vegetarian Prince will headline the second day of the Coachella music festival (April 25-27) in Indio, California. Reportedly paid $4.8 million for the performance, his last-minute addition to the lineup has fueled speculation that he was only brought in to boost ticket sales. We're not so much buying that argument, though. It's not like Portishead, the Raconteurs, Death Cab for Cutie, Aphex Twin, the Breeders, Fatboy Slim, M.I.A., the National, Hot Chip, Animal Collective, Kate Nash, Vampire Weekend, etc., etc, are nobodies, especially for the typical Coachella audience. Did they even need Prince? But maybe we're just being naïve. Deja-vu: In 2006, Madonna was added a few weeks before the festival -- and they did offer Morrissey $5 million (which he turned down) for a reunion of The Smiths. Whatever the reason Prince arrives, it's his first U.S. festival appearance ever. And if his show-stealing 2007 Super Bowl performance is any indication, it should prove spectacular.
Palazzo Chupi: The Pink Elephant
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Vanita Salisbury
April 10, 2008
Julian Schnabel is trying to convince Manhattanites that pink is the new granite, but nobody's buying it. Literally. The Schnabel-designed Palazzo Chupi -- a Malibu Barbie tower which turns living on the Hudson into a vacation in Venice -- is having problems attracting residents. It was recently revealed that Richard Gere has been secretly selling his customized 4 bedroom, 4-bathroom pad for $17,995,000 (with a celebrity-style $4 million markup), and he's never even moved in. There was gossip about Bono looking at a place, but nothing came of that. Madonna opted out because it wasn't "child-friendly." For all the publicity and associations with stars, the only resident we can positively identify is some guy from Credit Suisse. We'll gladly be friends with him though, especially if he ever decides to throw a house party.
Madge on ‘The City That Dozes Off From Time to Time’
By
Ben Barna
March 31, 2008
Here are some lyrics to the Madonna song “I Love New York” off her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor: “Other cities always make me mad/ Other places always make me sad/ No other city ever made me glad except New York/ I love New York.” Well, apparently not as much as she used to. Here is Madonna on the city she once loved in an upcoming interview for Vanity Fair’s “Green Issue”: “It’s not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn’t feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the ‘80s. A lot of people died.”
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