Rihanna + Ashton Kutcher Have Been Hooking Up Since December
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Rihanna sure is a active woman. On best of functioning and partying, apparently the ‘Birthday Cake‘ singer has been juggling gentlemen as well. Rumor has it she and Ashton Kutcher are not only at the moment hooking up, but that their trysts have been going on for two months.The pair 1st became friendly at a mutual pal’s celebration in December. “The flirting began as soon as Rihanna and Ashton met and swapped numbers,” a supply informed the Sun. That moved on to texts and arranging to meet. They snuck off to a Santa Monica hotel a couple of weeks ago.” Ow ow!
So is it severe? Not so considerably, but close friends say they wouldn’t rule it out in the future.”They are two single folks having a fling, so believed it would be very best to meet in secret,” the supply mentioned. “Rihanna has told buddies he’s humorous and cute. The two of them love a good time and assume they are also busy for something serious just but.”
However, RiRi is start off to examine up on Kutcher’s beloved Kabbalah just in case issues do take a a lot more committed turn. “She’s commencing to inquire about Kabbalah sessions with his rabbi,” the spy said. “She is curious about Kabbalah so has started asking queries. She’s open to new factors and has usually been a quite spiritual woman. If she and Ashton are acquiring really shut, she would like to be capable to comprehend it.”
CoS at SXSW: Jack White, The Shins, South by South Mess, The Drums…
Welcome to our report on South By Southwest from Austin, TX, where sleep is nominal and foot pain is exponential. We’re giving you the run on bands we really enjoyed every day this week, so check out our blurbs and pictures below for coverage of Friday at SXSW, including a review of Jack White’s much talked about performance.
We Listen For You Acoustic Showcase – 10:30 a.m. @ Diverse Arts lot (Bro Stephens, Conveyer, Arms, Henry Clay People, Dent May, Miracles of Modern Science, and Kevin Barnes)
Me personally? I don’t really like hearing bands at a club at 1:30 in the afternoon. If there were be a rule against playing early afternoon sets, all bands’ moods would increase by 100%. So, 10:30 a.m. is obviously an absolute nightmare, but under a overcast sky with a cool breeze in a quiet lot away from the din of downtown, seven bands played seven acoustic sets for about 60 or so people and it was — and this is one of the highest compliments in the context of SXSW — worth it.
Conveyor // Photo by Jeremy D. Larson
Judge decides Chris Brown should stay under supervised probation
On Thursday, nearly three years to the day following Chris Brown was charged with assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna, leaving her bloodied, bruised and unable to perform at the Grammys, a judge has made a decision that Brown must continue serving his five-12 months probation sentence.
Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos asked that the Grammy-nominated R&B singer, who was not in court attendance, be permitted to finish his supervised probation early, due to great behavior. But Superior Court Judge George Lomeli agreed with prosecutors that Brown should continue to report to a probation officer in his property state in Virginia.
His lawyer’s request came immediately after the singer received good marks from his probation officer, who wrote in a report that Brown has been truthful with officers, passed all essential drug tests and “has produced great strides” even though under probation supervision.
Best Songs of 2011: Hip-Hop and R&B — Continued
It’s hard to believe, but 2011 is almost out the door. This year has been a great one for hip-hop and R&B music, with a host of talented newcomers serving up anthemic songs and taking spots usually held by lauded veterans. However, respected heavy hitters in both genres also reminded us why we shouldn’t count them out with the release of tracks that climbed to the top of the charts.
In June, The BoomBox showcased 10 tunes that grabbed a hold of listeners’ eardrums for the first half of the year. Now, here’s a list of the best songs that ruled the latter half. From Jill Scott to Drake, Chris Brown to Meek Mill, their respective tracks ruled airwaves and iPods everywhere.
11. ‘So in Love,’ Jill Scott Feat. Anthony Hamilton
‘So in Love,’ a single off Jill Scott’s ‘The Light of the Sun’ LP, had one of the quickest rises on the charts this year, debuting at No. 43 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart, and then peaking at No. 10, making it the highest debut of her career on that chart. The song finds the soul singer boasting about how she loves her man, played by the part of crooner Anthony Hamilton. After a four-year hiatus from recording, the track’s heartfelt lyrics and accompanying success reminded fans she hadn’t lost her groove.
10. ‘She Ain’t You,’ Chris Brown
Top 50 Songs of 2011
I promised the staff I would not go all Masterpiece Theater with this intro, so I’ll be brief. Our Annual Report has reached its halfway point with our Top 50 Songs of the Year. The many flags of our staff are hoisted high — and we couldn’t be happier with what we’re saluting. From Cults’ very first song to Tom Waits’ thousandth song, we put up the tracks that left us with more thoughts, feelings, and impressions than any other. We think we done good.
But just to make sure the world still spins on its axis,
Additionally, we’ve got the de rigueur Top 50 Songs of the Year Spotify playlist for you, a quick link to purchase the song on Amazon, and an easy ctrl-c +ctrl-v list for you at the very end immediately following our #1 song of the year.
As always, our profuse thanks for reading, enjoy these tunes, and we’ll see you again next week for the second half of our 2011 Annual Report.
-Jeremy D. Larson
Content Director
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Critic’s Notebook: With Spotify, the future of music is here
Unlimited access to a large chunk of the world’s recorded music library (15 million songs and counting) — shareable and searchable — has become reality.
On a current afternoon whilst driving down Beverly Boulevard, I had 15 million songs sitting in the tiny tray amongst the driver and passenger seat. If they have been on LP or compact disc, the whole assortment — accessible through the Spotify application I’d set up on my phone earlier in the day — would fill dozens of tractor trailers and weigh 1000′s of tons. Sitting subsequent to my morning coffee, the collection jiggled as I hit a bump, but the music coming out of my stereo didn’t skip a beat.
Assuming an common of 4 minutes per song, I figure that is roughly 114 many years of continuous music at my fingertips. It includes music as diverse as baroque composer H.I. Biber, pop star Justin Bieber, Emmett Miller, Ma Rainey, Eminem, Sun Ra, and Tyler, the Creator. It is more than anyone could possibly want or need to listen to, but that’s not the point. It’s that it’s all there, a millisecond away.
This year might not be remembered for a revolution in pop music — so far the most sonically surprising factor on the charts has been Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now.” But we’re at present in the middle of something huge, a basic shift in the ways in which we experience and interact with recorded music. A notion barely fathomable a decade ago — unlimited access to a massive chunk of the world’s recorded music library — has turn out to be reality. With this innovation, not only is the whole knowledge of hearing and finding out about music altering, but the ways in which we share our passion is, as properly. And if background is any indication, the way in which artists make music will evolve along with it.
With the arrival of Swedish-born, London-primarily based cloud service Spotify on American shores July 14, along with the progress of Google Music, and the impending launch of Apple’s iCloud music service, this year will be remembered as the year in which maintaining our personal copies of music, be it physically on CDs and LPs, or digitally as MP3s on our challenging drives, became a choice, not a necessity, for the two casual fans and music obsessives.
Live review: Rihanna at Staples Center
Is Rihanna out for blood or not?
Early in her Tuesday night headlining set at Staples Center supporting her new album, “Loud,” the Barbados-born singer took gleeful pleasure in her new single, “Man Down,” a traditional dub reggae tune that inverts the genre’s narrative staple of the gun-toting “badman.” Here it is a lady with an itchy trigger finger. Her stage set was filled with nods to female vengeance -– a giant pink cannon, dancers in military fatigues and elaborate bondage outfits. When she pulled a hapless audience member, a middle-aged man, onstage for a slow grind mid-set, she looked as if she’d identified the best murder weapon: death by intentional enormous coronary.
Yet while significantly of her career of late has emphsized her bad-girl bona fides, she created confident to balance them with truly earnest pop. In “California King Bed,” she pleaded for domestic joy and high-finish furniture on the slow piano burn “Unfaithful,” she even admitted, “I do not want to be a murderer.” Lots of girls in pop swap between playing a destroyer of the dance floor and a heartbroken balladeer. But true-life events have created Rihanna’s artistic intentions really feel specifically revealing of a moment in music, feminism and the media.
At Staples, nonetheless, she played these intentions awfully close to her bulletproof vest.
It’s virtually not possible for an audience to unpack Rihanna’s newer, rougher music devoid of also recalling her horrific 2009 assault at the hands of then-boyfriend Chris Brown. It was hard to read her bleak, techno-Gothic 2009 release “Rated R” as anything but a idea album about the fallout from it.
But the 1 individual who seems to have no issue moving on is, properly, Rihanna. Tuesday night’s set was a lengthy reminder that, of all your preferred songs on pop radio in the final 5 years, she probably had a hand in many of them.