Foo Fighters reveal greatest hits details
The upcoming Foo Fighters' greatest-hits compilation will be available as a 16-track standard edition and as a deluxe version that will include a DVD containing a select videography of the band's classic clips, as well as live performances from Wembley Stadium, Hyde Park and the intimate Skin + Bones theater tour, according to a press release.
The deluxe edition also will include a 28-page book featuring never-before-seen photos chronicling the band's 15-year history.
Both the standard and deluxe editions--as well as a collectors' 180 gram vinyl edition--will be released Nov. 3.
In addition to hits such as "Everlong" and "Times Like These," the set will include two newly recorded songs, "Wheels" and "Word Forward," both of which were recorded with Butch Vig especially for the collection. The deluxe DVD also will feature the soon-to-be-released video for "Wheels," which is the band's newest single.
Zellweger to wear 'Bridget' fatsuit?
Renee Zellweger won't be piling on the pounds to reprise her role as Bridget Jones - the actress is reportedly planning to don a fat suit for filming.
The petite star has signed on for a third film about the hapless diary-keeper, after the first two movies grossed more than $544 million worldwide.
But instead of embarking on a high-fat diet as she did for the 2001 and 2004 pictures, Zellweger will turn to the wardrobe department to make her appear larger.
A source tells Britain's Reveal magazine, "Renee will be wearing a fat suit in the third film as it took her a while to lose the weight last time. She's also thinking about the effect quickly putting on and then losing 30 pounds has on her body."
Colin Firth and Hugh Grant are also expected to return to the movie franchise - the upcoming film is rumoured to chart Jones' quest to have a baby in her 40s.
Miranda Lambert Starting A 'Revolution' This Fall
Miranda Lambert didn't draw the title of her third album, "Revolution," from a song or a lyric; instead, the country-rocker is a bit more philosophical about her new work. "To me, that's an exciting word, that something new is happening. I sort of reinvented myself musically on this record," Lambert tells Billboard.com. "It feels like there's change, that country music is more open-minded. To me, anyways."
Slated for release next Tuesday (Sept. 29) "Revolution" is one of the most hotly anticipated country releases of the fall. The fifteen song set was written and recorded earlier this year, with the first sessions taking place in January, and features 11 new originals and covers of Fred Eaglesmith's "Time To Get A Gun," John Prine's "That's The Way The World Goes 'Round" and Julie Miller's "Somewhere Trouble Don't Go."
Lambert first broke onto the scene after finishing third place on the first season of reality TV show, "Nashville Star." She has since gone on to release two albums, 2005's "Kerosene" and 2007's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." Both have been successful commercially and critically, with "Kerosene" selling 979,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan and "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" selling 804,000. "Kerosene" peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 and "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend peaked at No. 6. Both records spawned very successful singles like "Gunpowder & Lead," "Famous In A Small Town," "Me and Charlie," and "Kerosene." Ahead of "Revolution," Lambert released "Dead Flowers" in May, which has since sold 68,000 downloads. The second single, "White Liar," was released to radio this this past August and peaked at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs.
Even with this early roll out, Lambert is gearing up for a week of heavy, high-profile promotional gigs, starting this Thursday (Sept. 24) at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, where she'll play "Revolution" from start to finish. "I'm actually really nervous," she admits about this show. "I've never been this nervous, probably ever." Television performances are slated for next week, too, including an appearance on Good Morning America and The Late Show with David Letterman on September 29 and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on October 1. From there, she will fly to Los Angeles to tape the Ellen DeGeneres show on October 5 and the Bonnie Hunt show on October 6.
Lambert says "Revolution" expands on her songwriting "because there's more story to tell."
"Sonically, I think this record is a bit more out there in some parts than anything I've ever done," she says. Indeed, the songs on "Revolution" branch out from where her prior two left off- she takes on a driving, country-punk sound during "Only Prettier," is playful sounding during the acoustic swing of "Airstream Song" yet solemn and more reflective during "Makin' Plans." Lambert also expands on her bad-girl streak that lined "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," during the more rock and roll influences of "Heart Like Mine" and "Sin For A Sin."
While "Revolution" contains the most songs on a Lambert album so far, she concedes that it only clocks in at a little over three minutes longer than "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend," with many songs falling in the two or three minute range. "I never use any demos; I usually just play my stuff on the guitar. It's really a quick process," she says. ""I'm writing about more things and branching out in my way of thinking."
Here is the track list for "Revolution":
"White Liar"
"Only Prettier"
"Dead Flowers"
"Me & Your Cigarettes"
"Maintain The Pain"
"Airstream Song"
"Makin' Plans"
"Time To Get A Gun"
"Somewhere Trouble Don't Go"
"The House That Built Me"
"Love Song"
"Heart Like Mine"
"Sin For A Sin"
"That's The Way The World Goes 'Round"
"Virginia Bluebell"
New Dan Brown novel tops 2 million mark
NEW YORK — Dan Brown's new novel has passed the 2 million mark and bested Bill Clinton's My Life in the record books.
Doubleday announced Tuesday that hardcover, audio and e-book sales for The Lost Symbol topped 2 million copies for its first week of release in the United States, Britain and Canada. The total is "well over" 2 million for English-language editions worldwide, according to Doubleday spokeswoman Suzanne Herz, who declined to offer a specific number.
Herz did say that around 5%, or 100,000 copies, of The Lost Symbol were sold as e-books. Doubleday released the digital edition at the same time as the hardcover despite industry worries that e-sales might take away business from the more expensive paper text.
Amazon.com reported last week that first-day sales for The Lost Symbol were higher on its Kindle e-reader than in hard cover. E-books, a fast-growing portion of an otherwise slow market, have been estimated at anywhere between 1% to 5% of total sales.
The Lost Symbol didn't approach the more than 8 million copies that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold in the first 24 hours, but the weekly results were an all-time high in North America for Doubleday's parent company, Random House Inc. Herz said that the previous record holder was Clinton's memoir, published in 2004. The Lost Symbol came out Sept. 15 with an initial print run of 5 million books that was soon raised to 5.6 million.
The book is Brown's first since The Da Vinci Code, an international phenomenon published in 2003. The Da Vinci Code has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
Heather Locklear will join updated 'Melrose Place'
NEW YORK (AP) — Heather Locklear is reprising her signature role as scheming Amanda Woodward on its updated version of Melrose Place, the CW network announced Tuesday.
Locklear will make her debut appearance Nov. 17 on the prime-time soap. The revived Melrose Place premiered earlier this month.
The 48-year-old Locklear joined the original Melrose Place in 1993, at the end of the first season. She stayed throughout the series' seven-year run on the Fox network. As Amanda, she was the ruthless head of the D&D advertising agency.
Before Melrose, Locklear had been a regular on the cop show T.J. Hooker and the glamorous melodrama Dynasty. She later co-starred with Michael J. Fox on the sitcom Spin City.
She will now be joining original Melrose castmates Laura Leighton, Thomas Calabro, Josie Bisset and Daphne Zuniga in the CW's updated version.
No details were released on how many appearances Locklear will make on the series.