Monday, April 27, 2009

Unstoppable

Rascal Flatts picked a fitting name for their new album: Unstoppable is projected to sell over 300,000 copies in its first week, likely making it the number one album on the Billboard 200 chart, and Rascal Flatts fourth chart-topping album. [Billboard.com] R.I.P. gospel patriarch David Pop Winans, who died Wednesday in Nashville, TN at age 74. Along with his wife Delores (a.k.a. Mom Winans), Pop helped establish the Winans family gospel legacy in Detroit, which includes the Winans and Bebe and Cece Winans. [DetNews.com] Britney Spears Vancouver tour date was stopped mid-concert when the audiences cigarette and marijuana smoke became too dense for the performers and crew to continue. The show continued once the air was clearer and Spears thanked the audience after the final encore, saying, Thanks Vancouver. You were wonderful. Drive safe. Don’t smoke weed! Rock out with your cocks out! [RollingStone.com] Riceboy Sleeps, the project of Sigur Ros vocalist/guitarist Jon Thor Birgisson and Alex Somers, will release their self-titled debut album this summer. [NME.com] South Park target Kanye West is creating an energy drink for the organic brand Guru. Next up for Kanye: His own fragrance. [Pitchfork.com] Check out Silversun Pickups hotly anticipated second album Swoon at MTV.coms The Leak. [MTV.com] And then there were seven: American Idol sent visually impaired contestant Scott MacIntyre home this week. [Idolator.com]

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