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Evanescence singer Amy Lee has revealed that the band are heading toward a synth-pop direction for their upcoming album. The album, which is a followup to their 2006 album, The Open Door, will see a “non-angry” direction.

Amy said, “It’s going in an electro-pop direction — there are no organic instruments. It’s a Portishead or Massive Attack direction, and lyrically it’s about moving on, but in a very non-confrontational, non-angry way.”

She said that there will also be elements of the turmoil she faced as she enlisted new band members for the album. She said, “There’s a lot of bullsh*t related to that band name for me, but I’m ready to move past it. I’ve realized that Evanescence is who I am. There are moments of, ‘Hey, I’m over it and I’m good’ and others of fun sarcasm like, ‘Hey, everything’s not the most dramatic thing in the world’ on the new record. But it gets really, really, really deep in places, too. That’s probably why it’s been really hard to pick an album title. Lyrically, it’s a more real version of myself. I’m saying things that I would’ve been afraid to say before.”

The upcoming album is slated for a fall 2010 release and is yet to be titled.

Ice Cube is planning on working on a collaboration with Dr. Dre for his new album, “I Am The West.”

The album is due out this summer, but Ice Cube is trying to get his former NWA buddy in on the effort. He said, “I wanna answer a few questions you have for ya’ boy – Beats by Dre? Not yet. Haven’t asked him, but I will. Any collabos? Not yet.”

Of the concept for the album, Cube said, “I would give you guys the concept but I’mma save that and let you see it for yourself. Now I know it seems like my record is West Coast crazy – Yeah it is. But I got a lot of real shit to say on this record just like I always do. So my political fans won’t be disappointed. But sometime the Big Dog gotta piss on a few trees to let these puppies know what it is. They can’t fuck wit me lyrically or physically. They all talks shit from a distance cause they know, I may do comedies but I aint no joke.”

Mariah Carey doesn’t care about her LAMBS, apparently. The singer reportedly left them all waiting for two hours at a Las Vegas concert after demanding that a doctor check out her throat before performing.

She was set to perform for the finale date of her Angels Advocate tour at The Colosseum on Saturday night, but delayed her performance until a doctor gave her the all-clear.

A source said, “Ciara was performing as Mariah arrived, so she waited in the car, saying she didn’t want to upstage her.”

Isn’t that just so nice of her?

According to Contact Music, Janet Jackson has agreed to fill in for her late brother Michael as the Jackson Five go on tour later this year.

Jermaine said that his sister has already agreed to do the tour. He said, “We had a conference call and Janet has agreed to join us on tour.”

We’ll see how true that is, but for now it remains a rumor.

Rumor has it that Shirley Manson is getting Garbage back together to release a new album soon.

Shirley has hinted at a new album for fans after hinting on Facebook that she and her Garbage bandmates spent some time in the studio recently.

She said, “Guess who I just spent a week in the studio with? Would you be pleased if I said one of them was called Steve and one of them was called Duke and another was a Grammy-winning producer?”

The new album will be a followup to 2005’s “Bleed Like Me”. I’m excited! Are you?

According to USA Today, T-Pain is keeping Carrie Underwood in his sights for a possible collaboration effort in the future.

So what would that sound like? Probably like poorly autotuned rapper singing “Shor-tay” while she’s singing something about a guy who cheats and his dog or some crap. You know how country music can be, if you play their records backwards, you get all your stuff back.

As far as T-Pain’s thoughts on the country star, he said, “Next on my list is Carrie Underwood. I swear to God. Everybody else can suck it until I get to Carrie Underwood.”

I want to see her do a duet with T-Pain and the guys from The Lonely Island. Their hit single could, “Before he cheats, I’ll buy you a drank on a boat.”

Apparently there are some people saying that Pink lip-synced her song “Glitter In The Air” at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, but she’s debunking the rumors.

She tweeted, “I hear there’s a debate over whether or not I sang live on grammies. I have never lip synched in my entire life. I’m 100% against it.”

And there you have it! Not that we believed the rumors anyways.

In weird news, Hole rocker Courtney Love almost landed a duet with diva Mariah Carey.

The two met while at Brett Ratner’s Hollywood home. Courtney was playing her new song “Samantha” for Brett, when she griped that no one wanted to appear on the track with her.

She said, “I’m at his house and I sing the part, ‘People like you fuck people like me,’ and this little voice goes, ‘I’ll sing it.’ I’m like, ‘Who’s that?’ The voice goes, ‘It’s Mariah.’”

The collaboration never happened, but we can wonder what it would have sounded like. Perhaps glittery butterflies thrown into a blender and shredded to pieces?

Courtney added, “We sat on Brett’s couch and we watched on a screen these five Mariah Carey videos he made. It was hysterical. I never met Mariah for more than a minute in my life, but we sort of canceled each other out. We had nothing negative about each other to say. I’m not in her universe and she’s not in mine.”

Rihanna talked to Miss Info in a new interview about the Grammys and a possible collaboration in the future with pop star Lady Gaga.

It was rumored previously that Rihanna and Gaga collaborated on a song called, “Silly Boy“, but it was never confirmed. Now, that dream just might come to fruition, if the ladies can find the time.

Check out the video after the jump! (continue reading…)

For her Grammys performance, Lady Gaga is rumored to be singing her song “Telephone” with none other than Beyonce!

It’s only a rumor at this point, but we’ll take that any way we can get it. I absolutely love this song. I have to wonder what kind of craziness Gaga will do this time. She should totally dress as the Statue Of Liberty wearing a bagel on her head with shoes made from Pepsi bottles. Then I’d definitely watch. Wouldn’t you?

No matter, whatever she does will be equally as crazy. Are you excited?!???

The Grammys air on Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 8PM EST.

Despite the rumors that there is tension between Avril Lavigne and soon-to-be ex-husband Deryck Whibley, causing a delay in her album’s release, she says it’s quite the opposite.

Her new album, “Pink Crust” was already pushed back once and is likely to be released in the summer. It was rumored that because Whibley was producing the album, he was causing some tension with its release.

She said, “We still work together all the time. He’s one of my best friends. We’ve been friends for a really long time, and we always will be. We’re family and we have a connection. We work really well together.”

Then why the delays?

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According to Demi Lovato’s Twitter account, she’s anxious over a duet that she’s doing with Joe Jonas.

She took to her official Twitter earlier today to say, “@joejonas Yayyy I can’t wait to sing our new duet together! :D”

To which he responded, “@ddlovato you mean our new hip hop duet?”

Interesting! Are you excited??

There’s a rumor floating around that in addition to canceling last night’s show at Purdue University, Lady Gaga has also canceled her show for tomorrow night at the Borgata.

The show is scheduled for January 16, 2010 in Atlantic City, NJ at The Borgata. It’s been said that her illness is once again preventing her from playing.

Just a rumor??

Jessica Simpson just posted this photo on her Twitter account, with this caption, “going over a song w @billy and the boxer @JessicaSimpson”.

Work? So that’s what they’re calling it now? Can you imagine what the sound of a Billy Corgan/Jessica Simpson duet would sound like???

Any guesses?

The new rumored single cover for Rihanna’s song “Rude Boy” has just hit the internet and you can check it out here.

After checking her official website, there is no confirmation that this is the official cover for the song. But it looks real to me.

What do you think?

Or is she just messy? Or both?

Britney Spears was shopping up a storm in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, when we noticed that she’s got her bag draped over her belly. Think she’s got another bun in the oven?

Oh yeah, notice the stains on her shirt. Lovely. Girl, I’ll stop nitpicking when you give us a new album. One can only listen to “Circus” so much, right?