Pink Does The Big Screen

P!nk is making her feature film debut today. According to NME.com, the movie is called Catacombs and in it, the singer plays a young woman who, while visiting Paris, realizes she’s part of a deadly game.

The flick premieres today on FEARnet.com, as well as on the FEARnet digital television channel. If you’re looking at the credits and miss P!nk’s name, fear not. She’s billed by her real name, Alecia Moore.

She filmed the movie last year in Paris and when she was in town told me that she loved shooting it an that she is a very bad person on this movie :-)

U2 Goes 3D

According to NME.com, U2 will be releasing a 3D concert film early next year. The film is titled U2 3D and was produced by 3ality Digital and directed by Catherine Owens and Mark Pellington, who directed the video for “One.” U2 3D was shot in South America during the band’s Vertigo tour. It is set for release in late January.

Hinder Boys Honored At Home

Hinder is getting honored tomorrow night. The 11th Annual Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame Induction & Concert Ceremonies are taking place and the band will not only be on hand to perform an acoustic set, they’re also receiving the 2007 Rising Star Award.

Pete Wentz Breaks Foot

Pete Wentz won’t be jumping around on stage anytime soon. The Fall Out Boy bassist broke his foot on Sunday night during at performance at the Voodoo Music Experience Festival in New Orleans.

Wentz had this to say... “For anyone who was at the Voodoo Fest in New Orleans, you got to see me jump around. Ended up breaking the bone that connects my shin to my foot; no shows will be cancelled. I am currently trying to get a 'rocker' boot so I can have a walking cast. Currently, my foot is the size of a small car. If you see me at a show, come sign my cast."

Like Fall Out Boy?

Fall Out Boy think their album Infinity on High can live up to its name and that the success of the platinum-selling disc can continue forever and ever. They plan to re-release the album before Christmas with five bonus tracks, including three live recordings.

First Dodge and Now Allstate

Lifehouse have recorded a new song that will be sold through I-Tunes starting next Tuesday. But fans can hear it first in a new ad for insurance giant Allstate. Frontman Jason Wade wrote "From Where You Are" specifically for the ad, which promotes the company's new Teen Safe Driving campaign.

The full track, as well as behind-the-scenes footage of its recording and an interview with Wade, can be streamed through Allstate's website.

Still Down To Earth

Despite all the glossy magazine covers she's appeared on, Carrie Underwood doesn't consider herself a sex symbol. Carrie tells People-dot-com, "If I didn't do what I do, nobody would ever look twice at me. I'm a blender -- and the only reason anybody, if they do think of me in that way, it's just because I do what I do. I'm okay. But I'm not like anything special."

Tonight In San Diego

Gwen Stefani hasn't forgotten her roots -- as she's proven by donating the proceeds from tonight's show in San Diego to charities serving people displaced by the fires that ravaged the town this month.

Gwen, who grew up just a few miles from the affected area, issued a statement saying, "San Diego has always been so supportive of me throughout my entire career -- it has always been like a second home to me. When I heard about the devastation of the fires at first I felt I should cancel my show out of respect but then it occurred to me there might be a more useful solution."

Avril on The Late, Late Show

Avril Lavigne’s performance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson had been postponed. The original air date was the 17th, but instead, fans can see the singer perform “Hot” tonight. Check it out at 12:35 AM on Local 12.

Jon Bon Jovi Cuts A Deal With Paparazzi

Like many celebrities these days, Jon Bon Jovi has to deal with the paparazzi. And having four kids makes it even worse. So, the Bon Jovi frontman shared with USA Today how he handles the photogs. Jon says he’s cut a deal with them where they can shoot him as much as they want, so long as they keep the children out of it.

Bon Jovi’s kids, however, wouldn’t mind appearing in the tabloids, but Jon’s wife has her own philosophy on the matter, “… when you do something that is worthy of your picture being in the magazine, you can have your picture in the magazine.” JBJ also reveals that his kids aren’t all that impressed with his celebrity status anymore. He says, “My kids think I’m really cool because they’re going to meet My Chemical Romance.”

U2 = HUGE $$

from Sun-Sentinal.com

U2 Ltd., the Irish band's music publishing company, raked in $30 million-plus last year -- and $25.8 million of it went to five unidentified "employees," according to documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press.

Those "employees" are suspected to be the band members and their longtime manager, Paul McGuinness. But U2's public relations firms in Dublin and London refused to confirm that.

While Bono has won accolades worldwide for raising awareness of Third World poverty, he has been criticized for moving U2's corporate offices out of Ireland to avoid paying taxes. The U2 Ltd. documents show the band moved its corporate base last year from Ireland to the Netherlands, where royalties on music incur virtually no tax.

Bitter Party Of One

from Contact
MELANIE CHISHOLM has denounced her SPICE GIRLS bandmates for planning to bring their children on tour. The 33-year-old singer is the only member of the group who has not become a mother since the group split in 2001.

Chisholm disapproves of her fellow stars taking their offspring with them on their forthcoming world tour. She says, "Travelling around the world and living out of a suitcase is no place for a baby. If I'm blessed with a kid I'd want to be at home taking them to school and being there full-time. "I wouldn't want to be travelling the world with them strapped to my back." The Spice Girls kick off their global tour on 2 December in Vancouver, Canada.

Adam Sandler Would Be Proud

Lifehouse's "You and Me" is the kind of romantic hit that gets played at proms and dances -- and now singer-guitarist Jason Wade has performed it at a wedding. Wade was in Philadelphia recently for a friend's nuptials and sang the song for the couple's first dance.

Wade jokes that he needed to pick out the perfect "wedding singer" costume for the reception, just like Adam Sandler in the film of the same name.

Movies Rock!

Carrie Underwood, Beyonce, Elton John and others will be among the performers at the first-ever Movies Rock concert, an event that celebrates the relationship between music and film. According to the Associated Press, Underwood will perform the title song from The Sound of Music, Beyonce will sing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz and Elton will pay tribute to music from animated films.

Mary J. Blige and John Legend will sing "As Time Goes By" from Casablanca, Fergie and Jennifer Hudson will perform "Live and Let Die" and "Goldfinger" from the “James Bond” movies, and John Williams will lead an orchestra in a medley of his original film scores. The Movies Rock concert will be held December 2nd in Los Angeles and will air December 7th in a two-hour special on CBS.

New Santana Video

Carlos Santana has posted the video for his latest single on his Web site, Santana.com. The clip for “Into the Night” featuring Chad Kroeger boasts the actors Freddy Rodriguez and Dania Ramirez, who is a new star on NBC's Heroes. The guitar legend’s latest album, Ultimate Santana, is out now.

Ever Wonder Where Songs Come From?

Tunes like matchbox twenty’s song “How Far We’ve Come” have to come from somewhere. Guitarist Paul Doucette said their track all started with one phrase that wouldn’t leave the band members’ heads “‘Let's See How Far We’ve Come’ came first and we were just like, what is that? What are we going to do with this? And we worked backwards from there.” So, after all the backwards work the band was left with the single “How Far We’ve Come.”

Matchbox Twenty frontman Rob Thomas on what the finished product is about. “Well, it is a fun upbeat song about the world ending.” Matchbox twenty’s new album Exile on Mainstream is in stores now.

Q102 Lifehouse Listener Lunch @ Bar Louie

Best Soundtrack Ever

from Contact:

Prince's Purple Rain has been named the greatest soundtrack of all time, seeing off competition from the Beatles and Bee Gees.

The soundtrack headed a list of 50 in a one-off publication called Movies Rock, compiled by the editors of Vanity Fair.

Prince's album was judged the best ever accompanying music and praised for its combination of "funk, r 'n' b, metal and even psychedelic into a sound that defined the 80s".

However, the magazine writers were less kind about the 1984 film itself, calling it "perhaps the most badly-acted ever".

The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night was named in second place, while Jimmy Cliff's acclaimed reggae soundtrack for The Harder They Come rounded off the top three.

Renowned for his off-kilter soundtrack choices, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction album- responsible for reviving Dick Dale's Miserlou and Chuck Berry's You Never Can Tell - finished in fourth place, ahead of Simon and Garfunkel's music for The Graduate.

The iconic soundtrack to 1996's Trainspotting was named in seventh, while Saturday Night Fever, in eighth place, was labeled "required listening for anyone looking to heat up the dance floor".

American Graffiti and The Big Chill finished the top ten, with the latter famed for its climactic use of the Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want

Buckcherry Fan Contest

Buckcherry is challenging their fans to make their own video for “Sorry.” The clip that gets the most views on YouTube by November 30th will win four-thousand bucks.

For more info on the contest, check out the blog section at MySpace.com/Buckcherry.

The band plays Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada on Thursday.

Fall Out Boy Going Folk?

What will the next Fall Out Boy album sound like? Frontman Patrick Stump tells Billboard.com that the record will not be coming out anytime soon, but that so far, the new album has “bizarre ideas on there.”

Stump says they have already written an album’s worth of material and it is “everything from folk to ... actually, I was experimenting with piano phases, like Steve Reich, the composer. There'll be some weird stuff, but at the end of the day, it's probably just gonna be a pop record.”

Fall Out Boy play Austin, Texas tonight.

Pat Monahan Rides Solo Train

Pat Monahan has been part of Train for more than 13 years. This past September, though, he put out his first solo album, Last of Seven. For him, the creative control he was allowed during his solo venture was something new. (

“There is no other reason for a song to make an album other than one person feeling passionate about it, instead of a group of different reasons and so I guess the process for me did become really freeing.”

Pat Monahan’s Last of Seven is in stores now; he plays Milwaukee, Wisconsin tonight.

California Fires Cause Lifehouse To Take A Detour

Lifehouse performed at the House of Blues in San Diego on Sunday and hit the road yesterday to make last night’s gig in Tempe, Arizona, but things did not exactly go according to plan. The band had to make a detour because the roads were closed due to high winds escalating the fires in California.

The boys had to drive back up to Los Angeles and take the northern route to get to Arizona. Lifehouse plays Albuquerque, New Mexico tonight.

Tuesday's Random Photo

Amy Winehouse in Berlin

Wanna Meet Pat Monahan This Sunday?

Pat Monahan is playing the Madison Theater this Sunday night. In Honor of Pat's new cd "The Last Of Seven", You and 6 friends can have dinner and hang with Pat Monahan before the show.

Our grand prize winner will get dinner for seven, tickets to the show and the meet and greet with Pat Monahan.

Just email Brian and Laura and tell us why you want to have dinner with Pat.

Send your email to BrianandLaura@wkrq.com. Deadline to enter is this Thursday at 5pm.

The Show Must Go On

Amy Winehouse played a show Saturday night in Norway despite her arrest for marijuana possession on Thursday. Winehouse, who was arrested with husband Blake Fielder-Civil and a friend after Norwegian cops found seven grams of pot in their hotel room, paid a fine of approximately 700 dollars and was released Friday morning.

She is scheduled to play the Netherlands tonight.

Carrie Underwood + Romo = Best Friends

Carrie Underwood says that contrary to much media speculation, she and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo were never a couple -- even though he attended the A-C-M Awards with her this spring. She tells Nashville's Tennessean, "Right now, the place we are at, he is my best friend. He'll call me after games... Either I'm flying high with him or making him feel better.

It took a little while to get to this point. It seemed like maybe for a bit we were headed there. We never got there." And Carrie tells Entertainment Weekly, "Point blank, he is about football. I don't know if it's that I'm not quite his type or whatever, but I don't think he's at the point in his life where he would be willing to sacrifice football."

More recently, the reigning C-M-A Female Vocalist has been tied to Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford. She tells People magazine, "He's really cute... He's got cool hair, he's a nice height and he just has beautiful blue eyes." The two have been spotted at a couple of New York hotspots, including the Marquee nightclub and the Gramercy Park Hotel's Rose Bar.

First and foremost on Carrie's mind these days is her new album, Carnival Ride, which hits stores Tuesday

Cobain Movie

Plans are in the works for a bio-pic about the life of Nirvana rocker Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994.

Troy and Wolverine scribe David Benioff is adapting the script from Charles Cross's book Heavier Than Heaven. A Cobain documentary, About a Son, is in theaters now.

Kid Rock Adds To His Collection Of Mug Shots

Kid Rock has been arrested in Atlanta in connection with a fight at a waffle house, the city's FOX 5 News is reporting.

Rock played a sold-out show Saturday night in Atlanta, and five members of his entourage were taken into custody facing a misdemeanor charge of simple battery.

Police say Kid Rock stopped by a restaurant early Sunday after their show, and a male customer recognized a female in Rock's entourage. Words were exchanged, and a fight ensued, the station reports.

After police were called, the singer's tour bus was pulled over, and he and the members of his entourage were arrested. In addition to Rock's arrest, the male customer also has been charged with a felony for allegedly smashing a window of the restaurant.

According to FOX, Kid Rock posted bail and was released Sunday evening from DeKalb County jail, signing autographs on his way out.

Sara Bareilles On Stage @ Q102 Bosom Ball

photo by Doug Baker / iMediafx

Q102 Bosom Ball For Breast Cancer

photo by Doug Baker / iMediafx

Laura and Holly w/ Kristen Key @ Q102 Bosom Ball

photo by Doug Baker / iMediafx

Q102 Bosom Ball For Breast Cancer

Jeff and Fritsch with friends

photo by Doug Baker / iMediafx

Posh' 15 Seconds of Fame

Victoria Beckham has been given just four lines to sing on the Spice Girls' comeback track.

According to a report in the Daily Star today, Posh's solo spot in 'Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)' lasts for just fifteen seconds, and she has to share one of her lines with Mel B.

Emma Bunton, who wrote the song with Geri Halliwell, sings a whole verse at the beginning of the track. Halliwell and Mel C also feature heavily.

However, a spokesman for the band insisted: "The verses have all been shared out equally among the five members and they all sing together on the chorus."

No Secret

Carrie Underwood remembered how fame can sometimes have a downside during a recent shopping trip to Victoria's Secret.

She tells Entertainment Weekly, "It's creepy! But these girls followed me the whole time, and I'm like, 'Man, they see every single pair of underwear I'm putting in my little shopping bag!' Just say something. Say hey, I'll say hey, it'll be good and then we can both continue shopping."

Carrie admits that she doesn't like to share a lot about herself with people. She says, "There's got to be some things for me."

Cry For Help

Amy Winehouse was busted for marijuana possession in Norway yesterday.

The singer and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, and an unnamed third person were arrested late yesterday in Bergen, which is in southwestern Norway, after police were tipped off. "They were found with seven grams (about a quarter-ounce) of marijuana," said prosecutor Lars Morten Lothe. "She's paid the fine, so this thing is over for us now."

Amy was scheduled to perform in Oslo tomorrow night and then on to the Netherlands.

Tough Dude

Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington is one tough cookie. The singer broke his arm while performing a show in Melbourne, Australia a few days ago, but he didn’t call the gig off, rather, he wrapped it up and continued singing.

The band has not called off any shows as of press time and they are scheduled to play Perth, Australia tonight.

Fairly Popular Band ;-)

Nickelback can claim another notch in their record sales belt. The band’s last album, All the Right Reasons, has now sold more than six-million copies. According to USA Today, it’s the only album from 2005 and beyond to move that many units.

Since 2000, only 15 other albums have cracked the barrier. Nickelback now joins the likes of ‘NSYNC, Eminem, Britney Spears, Alicia Keys, 50 Cent, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Avril Lavigne, Nelly, Creed, Norah Jones and Usher.

Daughtry T-Shirt Design

Daughtry frontman Chris Daughtry is teaming up with the likes of Ben Affleck, Gwyneth Paltrow and Liv Tyler for the ONE Campaign to fight global poverty and AIDS. The singer has designed a t-shirt and you can bid on it now until the 30th.

Proceeds from the auction will go to ONE. Find a link to the bidding at DaughtryOfficial.com. The band plays Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday

Lifehouse Unplugged

Jason Wade just blogged about Lifehouse’s recent acoustic gig at Niagara Falls, and now, you can see the band play sans electric instruments. The boys unplugged their equipment for Vh1 on the likes of “First Time,” “Hanging by a Moment,” “You and Me” and more.

Just find the link to the set in the news section at LifehouseMusic.com. The group plays Las Vegas on Saturday

My Favorite Band

To mark 20 years since the release of U2’s classic album The Joshua Tree, the band is re-issuing the record. Billboard.com reports that four different releases will come out on November 20th. You will be able to get a re-mastered CD copy, a two-CD set, a two-CD/one-DVD collectible box and a double vinyl package. The band has contributed new liner notes for the release.

So what can fans expect from the expanded edition? Details have yet to be released, but B-sides, demos, alternate versions and more are expected to appear. The Joshua Tree features “With or Without You,” “Where the Streets Have No Name” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”

Yeah Right...

Rihanna and actor Josh Hartnett are playing down reports that they are dating. Rumors that the two were an item began to spread last week when they were photographed together at a New York night club.

Starpulse.com reports sources insist the pair were just enjoying a night out with friends after meeting for the first time earlier in the day. And according to the site, a spokesman for Rihanna commented on her relationship status with Hartnett, "They're not a couple."

Look Like Matchbox Twenty

If you’ve caught the video for matchbox twenty’s latest single “How Far We’ve Come,” you may have said to yourself, “The guys look real good in this clip. How can I look like them?” Well, the twenty has you covered.

If you visit matchboxtwenty.com now, you can purchase items that will give you the look of the video. The band’s latest album, Exile on Mainstream, sits at number three on the Billboard album chart.

Vanessa Carlton On Q102 Today @ 5:05p

Vanessa will check in with Laura and I today during Q102 on Demand @ 5:05pm.

Vanessa is in town tomorrow night for the Q102 Bosom Ball for Breast Cancer along with Mat Kearney, Colbie Caillat, Sara Bareilles and Kristen Key.

Thats A Whole Lotta Cash

NME.com reports that Madonna officially announced her deal with Live Nation yesterday, where she’ll get her own stake in her albums, tours, merchandising and more. The financial details concerning the ten-year agreement were not divulged, but they are rumored to be worth 120-million dollars.

Madge said in a statement, “The paradigm in the music business has shifted and as an artist and a business woman, I have to move with that shift… For the first time in my career, the way that my music can reach my fans is unlimited. I’ve never wanted to think in a limited way and with this new partnership, the possibilities are endless.”

An insider told the Associated Press that Madonna would receive an 18-million dollar signing bonus and a bonus of 17-million dollars for each of her next three albums. The singer is still contracted to make one more studio record and a greatest hits for Warner Bros. Records.

Mr and Mrs Bon Jovi

There are those who'd say that Jon Bon Jovi is one of rock's true nice guys -- but the singer insists it wasn't always that way.

Jon tells Best Life magazine, "I've been in one of the biggest rock bands in the world for 25 years, and I'm not a saint, and I have never been a saint. I missed tons of birthdays and school plays. But it's not like [my wife] Dorothea came in halfway through the movie and didn't know who she got."

For what it's worth, the singer has been married to Dorothea, his childhood sweetheart, for more than 18 years.

Happy Birthday John Mayer

John Mayer celebrates his 30th birthday today. He has shot to fame since his major-label debut, Room for Squares, was released six years ago. He's won five Grammys and two American Music Awards, but there's one honor he considers the most important -- his Dundie.

The Dundies were part of 2005 episode of the N-B-C sitcom The Office. The show's producers asked Mayer for permission to use "Your Body is a Wonderland" as a key part of a Christmas episode in 2006. Mayer at first turned them down, but then reconsidered and said he wanted a Dundie in exchange. So they had a trophy made up that named Mayer Tallest Music Dude. Mayer posted a picture of the award on his blog and called it "the only award that matters in this business."

John Reznick Is Searching For The Next Great Band

The Next Great American Band premieres this Friday on FOX and one of the celebrity judges is Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik. He gave us the lowdown on what the evaluators saw during auditions.“There was some putrid god awful stuff, but there was also some really cool stuff. I wish we could have picked more bands to be in the final part of it, you know?”

The quest for The Next Great American Band begins this Friday on FOX at 8 PM Eastern.

Lifehouse Spending Thanksgiving in NYC

Everyone loves a parade, and as the holidays near, they'll be a good handful of them. Nothing is larger during the holidays than the Macy's Thankgiving Day Parade. And this year, Lifehouse will be in it.

Join in on Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd and watch Lifehouse on the US Postal Service Float and perform their single, "First Time". Tune your channels to NBC and CBS to watch the coverage of the annual parade.

Pete And Ash Return To The 80's

Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz celebrated his girlfriend Ashlee Simpson’s 23rd birthday at her parent’s house this past weekend.

MTV News reports that 200 guests turned out for the ‘80s themed party, including her sister Jessica, Wilmer Valderrama and more. Ashlee and Pete slow danced to Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do.”

Bono Not So Spicey

Rumors have been flying that Bono plans on working with the Spice Girls on some new tracks. Turns out that the U2 frontman will not be trading in his credibility card altogether. His manager Paul McGuinness tells U-K paper The Sun that’s not gonna happen.

He said, QUOTE, “We’re great fans of the Spice Girls. But rumors that Bono is to join them as a sixth member are sadly not true.” U2 are currently working on a follow-up to 2004’s How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb