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Gym Class Heroes
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Hip-hop now faces a generation that takes gangsta rap as just another mundane marker in the cultural scenery. "It's collapsing because they can no longer fool the white kids," says Nickels. "There's only so much redundancy anyone can take."
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Gym Class Heroes kicked off the Main Stage at the Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival at noon today (August 24). The hip-hop outfit greeted early revellers who arrived at Braham Park in sweltering conditions with an energetic performance. The rap collective, who are signed to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz's record label Decaydance, were the first to appear on a stage which has a predominantly hard rock line-up.
By NME.com
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After hitting the mainstream with last year's As Cruel As School Children, Gym Class Heroes are beginning to think about what to do for an encore. In addition to an unusual mash-up project combining their tracks with Hall & Oates hits, the group is starting to write new material while on tour.
Frontman Travis McCoy told MTV News that success will likely influence his new lyrics to some extent. "Yeah, in essence, I've always written about experiences, but lately, our surroundings have changed to say the least. So I'm picking up on things that are cool, and I'm picking up on things that I don't fully understand, People expect the same Travis, but with everything that's been going on around me, the subject matter is changing a bit. Don't get me wrong, though: I still take a lighthearted approach to things, try to make people laugh first and foremost, because that's how I've always gotten ass."
He continued, "But there's stuff about how people around you change when you get some success. Because that's been the hardest thing for me," he continued. "I think people take seeing someone on TV the wrong way. Even people I know. Going home to Geneva (New York) used to be this sanctuary for me, but last time I went home I had to stay in a hotel, and people were sliding sh-- under my door. I wanted to get on public-access TV and be like, 'Listen people of Geneva, I'm the same dumb, goofy guy that grew up here. Nothing's changed! Don't be scared to approach me, I'm still that dude.' "
McCoy said he will still keep things lighthearted in his new songs. "It's definitely going to be a little sarcastic, because we really can't help it. It'll have something for the critics, lemme just say that," he told MTV. "I have tons of sh-- written, so now it's all about us getting together and getting that Voltron thing happening. Oh wait, do five dudes make Voltron? Oh well, we'll be a headless Voltron, then."
Gym Class Heroes will also be hitting the road this fall with their pals in Fall Out Boy and Plain White T's and FOB's Pete Wentz told Rolling Stone the aesthetic for the trek will be inspired by the classic children's book Where The Wild Things Are. He also said that FOB fans should petition to get "Chocolate Rain" singer Tay Zonday to join the tour as well.
By FMQB.com
2007 is the year of the band reunion. From The Police to Van Halen to "The Smashing Pumpkins," everybody seems to be getting in on the act. But, who cares about those guys? Here are 25 that should actually get back together, with video goodness.
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Gym Class Heroes are working on a surprising collaboration for their next release. MTV reports that the group is having their tracks mashed up with the music of Hall & Oates. DJ J.J. Brown is handling the production, which will take vocal tracks from last year's As Cruel As School Children album and pair them up with music by the '80s hitmakers. Though no dates have been announced, Gym Class Heroes will be touring this fall alongside their pals Fall Out Boy and Plain White T's.
By FMQB.com
Pop princess Britney Spears is in talks for an impressive opening performance at VMA. The singer realizes that she can return to the big scene by making a boom in Las Vegas on 9th. Gossipers talk that Britney Spears's return would be the biggest hit in MTV Awards history.
MTV repporter said - "I cannot confirm or deny it." , There is no official information leek from MTV on this topic, they neither deny it nor confirm it.
Britney's famous performance at the VMA was in 2003 when she kissed Madonna and Christina Aguilera, which shifted the interest from all the events during the year to this outrageous act of hers.
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"AS CRUEL AS SCHOOL CHILDREN," the second album from Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen recording group Gym Class Heroes, has been certified gold by the RIAA, marking sales exceeding 500,000 units. The collection's breakthrough success is fuelled by a pair of hit singles, the #1 blockbuster, "Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America" and the current summer smash, "Clothes Off!!"
Earlier this week, Gym Class Heroes received nominations in two of the top categories for the upcoming 2007 MTV Video Music Awards. The hugely popular alternative hip-hop outfit received the nod as both "Best New Artist" and "Best Group," with the latter category placing them alongside such top-ranked bands as the White Stripes, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, and their good friends, Decaydance's own Fall Out Boy. The 2007 MTV VMAs will be handed out in ceremonies broadcast live on MTV from Las Vegas' Palms Casino Resort on Sunday, September 9th. (check local listings)
The "Clothes Off!!" companion video is already a sensation at MTV, where it has gone to #1 on the TRL Charts and is currently in "Big 10" rotation. The clip is scoring in major rotation across the MTV spectrum, including MTV2, mtvU, and MTV.com, where Gym Class Heroes were recently spotlighted as part of the "Best of Discover & Download '07" feature. Further, the video is receiving extensive rotation play on both Fuse and Music Choice.
In addition, the band recently received a pair of top nominations for the upcoming Teen Choice 2007 extravaganza -- "Choice Music Breakout (Group)" and "Choice Music Single" (for "Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America"). The awards will be presented in a live two-hour special airing Sunday, August 26th (8:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX.
A Featured Artist at Verizon Wireless' V Cast Music shop, Gym Class Heroes is currently on tour in Australia and New Zealand, supporting Gwen Stefani on a series of major arena dates. From there, the band will travel the world for a number of eagerly awaited festival performances, including Japan's Summer Sonic 2007 and England's legendary Carling Weekend at Reading and Leeds. Upon their return to the U.S., GCH will rock a pair of American festies: Seattle's annual Bumbershoot extravaganza on September 1st, and Del Mar, CA's Street Scene '07 on September 22nd and 23rd. A North American headlining tour is slated for this fall, with details to be unveiled in the coming weeks. The band will tour with Fall Out Boy to close the year.
"Clothes Off!!" has also exploded online, logging over half a million streams in the past week alone, with total streams nearing 2.5 million and counting. Gym Class Heroes maintains an active Internet presence at their official site, gymclassheroes.com, as well as at their MySpace (myspace.com/gymclassheroes) and PureVolume pages (purevolume.com/gymclassheroes).
The new single's success follows the triumphant achievement of "Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America," which stood tall at #1 on the CHR/Top 40 national airplay chart for five consecutive weeks earlier this year. The track -- which features the band's good friend, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy -- also reached the top 5 of Billboard's "Hot 100," as well as #1 on Billboard's "Hot Digital Tracks" chart. In addition, the song has proven a massive ringtone smash, hitting the top 5 on the weekly "Top Ringtones" ranking.
2007 has seen Gym Class Heroes all over MTV, with "Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America" spending time atop the network's playlist. The group was also featured on such programming as Spring Break '07 Live, TRL, and MTV Live, not to mention other MTV channels such as MTV2, mtvU, MTV Hits, and MTV Tr3s. "Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America" also proved a rotation favorite at VH1, Fuse, and Mun2.
Both "Cupid's Chokehold/Breakfast in America" and "Clothes Off!!" can currently be viewed online at FBR+, Fueled By Ramen's recently launched exclusive content site, located at www.fbrplus.com. The site also features three additional GCH videos, including clips for "New Friend Request," "The Queen and I," and "Shoot Down The Stars."
Recent months have seen Gym Class Heroes making a variety of TV appearances, including performances on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," DirecTV's "CD USA," and the syndicated "Fearless Music TV."
By HipHopPress.com
Some of the bands on this list never produced one note of audible music, others needed real musicians to give them voice, a couple served as alter egos and one band is made up of puppets. Regardless of their corporeal status, in one form or another, these bands embodied the ethos of rock and roll.
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Gym Class Heroes received 2 nominations at the MTV Music Awards. The group is up for Best New Artist and Best Group!! Vote for GCH on MTV.com
Superstar rappers Kanye West and 50 Cent will go head-to-head on September 11, the day both artists' sophomore albums land in stores. While fans of both rappers have relished in the friendly rivalry that seems to be brewing between the pair over the release date, 50 Cent has actually accepted a challenge to debate Kanye West on live TV.
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What follows is the list of all 100 songs selected, listed with the guitarist who played the solo, the band who released the album, and the album name. Clicking on the song will take you to the guitar tab for that specific solo, and in some cases, additional notes like how to get a similar guitar sound.
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With their blinged-out video for "Clothes Off" still riding high in the "TRL" top five a year after the group's latest album was released, you'd think Gym Class Heroes would finally be kicking back.
But instead, the group is prepping a most unusual remix album for later this year; touring Australia opening for Gwen Stefani for the next week; and then heading to Japan for some headlining shows. The guys will then make their way to Paris on August 21 and London the next night for the Decaydance Fest featuring their pals Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, the Academy Is ... and Cobra Starship. With barely a chance to breathe, they'll hit the road again in the U.S. in the fall with FOB and Plain White T's.
And though they're not expected to hit the studio before the end of the year for a new album that could drop by next summer, fans might get a holiday treat from lead rapper/singer Travis McCoy and the boys in the form of McCoy's dream project.
According to a management spokesperson, the Supertramp-sampling Heroes have just signed off on a mash-up album that mixes the group's 2006 album, As Cruel as School Children, with more than 40 tracks by '70s/'80s soft-rock superstars Hall & Oates.
The mix, done by DJ J.J. Brown — who released a similar free mash-up in May for Ludacris featuring Jackson 5 tracks called Re-Release Therapy — could be out before the end of this year if all the sample clearances go through soon.
Brown prefers the term "match-up" to mash-up for his process, which, in the case of Ludacris, involved taking the a capella version of the MC's Release Therapy album and matching it to whole Jackson 5 tracks.
"We've been making indie rap records since 1998, and Trav has always been a huge fan," Brown explained of the relationship, which began a few years ago when the Heroes opened up for Brown's crew. After the Luda album was released, McCoy called up and asked if Brown and his 5G Productions team could do the same with the Heroes' album.
"We asked him if he had any suggestions for catalogs — and he didn't know our camp were huge fans of Hall & Oates — and [McCoy] stuttered a bit and said, 'What about Daryl Hall and John Oates?' since [the Heroes' summer] tour was called 'Daryl Hall for President,' " Brown recalled. "The timing was crazy, because we almost did the Ludacris album with Hall & Oates, so we had the stack of records waiting for the next thing."
Since the Heroes didn't have an a capella version of their album, they went back in the studio in early summer and opened up the original session tapes to provide the tracks for the 5G team, who spent the next five weeks remixing the album. Not only did 5G not get a cease and desist from the Hall & Oates camp, Brown said, but in a remarkable coincidence, a company that bought the blue-eyed soul duo's catalog sent out an e-mail to the managers of several hot groups earlier this summer asking them if they had any ideas for new ways to market the tunes.
That led to a meeting with the new owners of the H&O catalog, which Brown said went better than he could have imagined. "We got past song number two, and everyone is on their Blackberries!" he said. "Hall & Oates' managers are on the phone, the original producers of the tracks are on the phone. When I imagine in my fantasy world what might happen with a great idea, it was happening. We're New York hip-hop producers, and we're used to sampling things and hoping the artists don't catch us. Now we're doing it with their blessing and they're impressed with what we're doing."
How impressed? Two weeks ago, Brown and his partner were given the VIP treatment at an H&O show in New York, (see "Hall & Oates: Ridiculously Awesome") where the duo were as excited to meet Brown as he was to meet them. "I was trying not to be star-struck, but whenever I paid them a compliment, they hit us back with five more."
No release date has been set for the Heroes match-up album so far, but Brown said he's been told it might be part of a package the group is planning to release before the end of this year.
By Gil Kaufman
We're used to seeing the pounds come off on magazine covers. But what if photoshop was used to do the reverse?
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Usher's wedding with Tameka Foster, his pregnant fiancee, was called off unexpectedly. Though they've canceled it they both claim that they are still together.
"As of right now we don't have a date but we will let you know when we do," the singer tells Usmagazine.com. "Everybody's fine. Tameka and the baby are fine."
The couple didn't say anything regarding the circumstances of the cancellation. They also said that they will not release any.
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