Music on TV this week
Monday, October 6ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Solange KnowlesCBS: Late Show With David Letterman: The PretendersNBC: The Today Show: Alicia KeysNBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Katy PerryNBC: Late Night With Conan O'Brien: Jenny LewisFUSE: Steven's Untitled Rock Show: Hollywood UndeadVH1:  2008 VH1's Hip Hop Honors: Estelle, Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Slick Rick, Naughty By Nature, Too Short, Lil Wayne, Kid Rock, MC Lyte, Big Boi, Q-Tip, Wyclef Jean, Lil Jon, Ghostface Killah, Biz Markie, Gym Class Heroe

T.I. & Ludacris Team Up W/ Carson Daly For "New Year's Eve" Show
Grammy winning rappers Ludacris and T.I. have joined forces to perform on "NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly" special later this month. According to All Headline News, the Atlanta-bred emcees will help headline Carson Daly's annual ceremony alongside performers like "I Kissed A Girl" singer Katy Perry as they welcome in 2009. "The addition of T.I. is huge," Daly said in a statement. "Since the end of June, either T.I. or Katy Perry has predominantly held the numb

Big Boi, Ludacris, Others Unite For Urban Ball Inaugural Celebration
Ludacris and Big Boi are teaming up. The Atlanta duo is reportedly putting together a show for President-elect Barack Obama. According to a variety of reports, Ludacris and Big Boi have joined forces to host the Urban Ball, part of the American Music Inaugural Balls, an event set to take place in Washington, D.C. on January 20. T-Pain, David Banner, Cedric the Entertainer, Bobby Valentino, Lil Jon, The Cheetah Girls, Monica and Fantasia Barrino are confirmed to perform, according to various news outlets.

Idol Headlines for 12/09/08
American Idol NewsWhether it’s season five, six, or seven, exciting things are happening for some of our AI alums. On the heels of a huge win at the AMA’s, Chris Daughtry will performing at one of the historical 44th Inaugural Balls to be held for President-Elect Obama on January 21, 2009.Season six finalist Melinda Doolittle will join Michael W. Smith for the 2008 “It’s a Wonderful Christmas” Tour. The tour started Dec. 2 in Dallas, TX, and ends Dec. 19 in Peoria, AZ.The sea

LIL JON SIGNS WITH UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC: Deal calls for producer to run own imprint, produce, consult on A&R decisions and more.
*Crunk king Lil' Jon has signed a multi-faceted deal with Universal Republic Records that calls for him to serve as an artist, as well as run his own label imprint and production company.               His title also involves being an A&R consultant and overseeing the company's digital presence. The Grammy winner's first project under the new partnership will be the release of his upcoming album early next year.    &n

George Clooney helps raise $14.57 million for the victims of Darfur
George organized the bash for 100 guests which helped to raise funds to help the two million people displaced by the ongoing war in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Cindy Crawford were among guests who paid up to $14,575 to attend the party in Mayfair, London. Kid Rock provided the evening’s entertainment. Image via WENN Related Post Which celebrities are most likely to give you an autograph?!?! Beyonce is the richest star under 30

News Teams Improvise for Hurricane Gustav
With a major hurricane moving toward New Orleans and the Louisiana Gulf Coast, CBS News anchor Katie Couric is departing the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn., while other TV and cable networks shuffle anchors and correspondents to cover the storm. The changes reflect the demands placed on news networks that are scrambling to cover back-to-back presidential conventions and a looming natural disaster that could rival Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005. The long-planned schedule

After the Honeymoon, Lean Times for President Obama
The take-away line from Barack Obama’s Sunday appearance on “Meet the Press” was the president-elect’s declaration that “the economy is going to get worse before it gets better.” Obviously, no one would argue with that, and it’s certainly smart politics for Obama to talk in such terms, as a way of tempering the public’s outsized expectations for his presidency. But, as the rest of the interview made clear, the country’s dire economic conditions – which have worsened significantly since

Your Grievance For the Next Four Years: "Voter Fraud" [Predictions]
If the Democrats pull this off and win the presidential election, the Republican "noise machine" will not simply give up and devote themselves to charity. They will need to undermine and delegitimize President Obama as much and as loudly as possible, non-stop, for the entirety of his term. Early predecessors of this strategy include claims that John Kennedy stole the 1960 election with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's corrupt machine and reminding everyone that Bill Clinton didn't win a majority of the vote i

Will Renovations Stave Off Doom for Bungalow 8?
Bungalow 8, the hot nightclub that was, underwent a makeover last month, and photos of the new Bungalow 8 are posted on Guest of Guest. But can anyone tell what's different?And does anyone care? Once upon a time Bungalow was at the epicenter of the city's nightlife. But in these new photos, there's nary a boldfaced name to be found--let alone the A-list crowd of habitues like Jude Law, Sienna Miller, Kate Moss, Bill Clinton, P. Diddy, and George Clooney, who used to frequent the club. In Page Six Magazin

New Rules for Bill Clinton
So much for keeping Bill Clinton in check. Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel says that the new restrictions slapped on the Big Dog—a condition of his wife accepting the State Department post—leave him quite a bit of room to operate. Clinton can still give six-figure foreign speeches; can still bag huge checks from foreign governments on behalf of the Clinton Foundation. (Oddly, the Obama administration will only prohibit Clinton from soliciting contributions for the Clinton Global Initiati

Critics call for more donor transparency
Barack Obama’s transition has set a high standard for transparency, putting the details of its contributors online sooner than required, and even demanding that former President Bill Clinton reveal the 200,000-plus donors to his personal foundation. But the transition’s commitment to publicizing the names of donors has an exception: The transition is closely tied to a Democratic think tank that keeps many of its donors secret. The think tank, the Center for American Progr

Be Prepared For “The End”
The Black Eyed Peas took a little bit of a break for Fergie Ferg to get all Fergalicious on us, but the Los Angeles based hip hop group are ready to get the party started once again. March of this coming year, you can expect a brand spankin’ new album for the Peas…woot, woot!…but let me be clear. This isn’t going to be JUST your average conventional album. Will.I.AM sat down with Billboard to dish on the new plethora of jams, calling ‘The End’ more of a “music diary�

FORGET BEYONCE; DR DRE HAS RECORDED 400 SONGS FOR NEW ALBUM!
West Coast producer DJ Quik who recently did the mixing for Snoop Dogg’s Ego Trippin and Murs Murs for President.  DJ Quik spoke about working with West Coast legend Dr. Dre in a recent Loud.com interview. “Nobody gets to say this, I’m gonna snitch. The man is getting piano lessons from Burt Bacharach and he’s reinterpreting [Frederic] Chopin symphony stuff. It’s crazy, he’s lost his mind. He’s got like 400 records. As a matter of a fact I was there for like four hours, and I think I only

ITTY BITTY BITS: Barclay for Obama; Snoop Dogg blazes in Holland.
*The wedding of TV exec Paris Barclay and his longtime partner Christopher Mason last week in Los Angeles doubled as a fundraiser for the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, as well as a benefit for Equality California, which fights an anti-same-sex initiative on the November ballot. In lieu of gifts, wedding guests made financial contributions, with several thousand dollars going toward the production of TV spots supporting Obama's campaign. "Whatever else they need, I'm there," Barclay said. &nbs

The Jonas Brothers are in an outdoor billboard campaign for MySpace
The Jonas Brothers are one of three artists featured in an outdoor billboard campaign for MySpace Music in New York City’s Times Square. MIA and Lil Wayne are the other two featured artists. It’s all publicity for MySpace’s taste of the pie for digital media with their new venture. Considering that they’ve done a lot for artists like Colbie Caillat for one, I think they’d be greatly received. iTunes is about to get some competition. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Monopoly is an evil thing

Anderson Cooper's Thanksgiving Nightmare [Family Matters]
newVideoPlayer("/anderson_momthanksgiving_gawker.flv", 480, 360,""); Gloria Vanderbilt's youngest son has been using his mother as a foil since he appeared on the Tonight Show with her at age three. Anderson Cooper more recently brought his mother onto CNN to passive-aggressively scold him on Mother's Day and to provide the silver fox some sensible, embarrassing advice on the occasion of his 40th birthday. So when Cooper recently declined to invite his mother on a holiday trip to Egypt — "No! I wasn'