Jonas Brothers take bite out of Apple Store

Perform in store in SoHo for 450 screaming fans




NEW YORK -- It was Jonas Brothers mania once again in New York on Tuesday night, as the blocks surrounding the Apple Store in SoHo filled up with hundreds of screaming fans in anticipation of a special performance.

Fresh off a sold-out three-night stand at Madison Square Garden, the triad of Nick, Kevin and Joe Jonas played an hourlong in store set to coincide with yesterday's release of their latest Hollywood effort, "A Little Bit Longer."

As many as 450 people were allowed inside the store, some of whom had camped out outside to ensure a spot in the performance area up the stairs. "Truly, you are super-fans," eldest brother Kevin aforementioned after asking who had stuck it out through the night.

Despite the album being out less than a day, the crowd sang along to every word as the group rolled through and through such newfangled cuts as the power-pop anthem "BB Good," "Pushin' Me Away," and "Lovebug."

Deafening screams and flashes from camera phones rarely ceased, and were particularly heavy as the Jonas Brothers played popular hits "SOS," "Burnin' Up," "Tonight," which currently sits at No. 8 on the Hot 100, and "Year 3000," which brought one small girl to tears.

Among those in attendance was Harry Connick Jr., who brought his daughter to the performance. The full set was filmed and will be available on iTunes at a later date.

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Adam Sandler tries new genre

Teens protest suicide label

About 100 teenagers have marched on the offices of British newspaper the Daily Mail to protest at its suggestion that their favourite emo band, My Chemical Romance, encouraged suicide. They objected to the Daily Mail's description of the US group as a "suicide cult band" after a 13-year-old south London student hanged herself two weeks after she started listening to their music.

Ashton Kutcher - The Things They Say 8489

"When I was single, half of my day was blocked out for chasing ass. It's unbelievable how much you can get done when you're not chasing ass." Actor ASHTON KUTCHER obviously didn't get a lot done before meeting wife DEMI MOORE.

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Looks like Shania Twain didn't make it

Last week's announcement that Shania Twain and hubby-producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange are splitting up is sad, if not utterly a shock. After all, if anything is part and parcel of country music tradition, it's D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Nevertheless, it's always hard to hear about a marriage that's failed, doubly so when there are kids involved. Of course, celebrity splits are practically a daily occurrence, the baggage that comes with fame and fortune astronomically amplifying the challenges every couple faces in trying to nurture love over the long term.Yet what immediately went through my mind when I heard the news was her 1998 hit "You're Still the One."



Look how far we've come my babyWe mighta took the long wayWe knew we'd get there somedayThey said, "I bet they'll never make it"But just look at us holding onWe're still together still going strong When it went to No. 1 on the country chart, it was a quintessential crystallization of country's shift away from songs that rapple with life's struggles to those that are eager -- perhaps overeager -- to revel in its victories.No doubt country radio stations will continue to play "You're Still the One" when programmers are waxing nostalgic over those halcyon days of the late-'90s, and it probably won't lose its appeal to country fans marking golden wedding anniversaries. But I always marveled that this ode to romantic stability topped the chart shortly after she and Lange celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary. Twain's song doesn't simply highlight country's forsaking of reality for fantasy, but the wish to treat fantasy as reality. It's not as if anyone would care that Twain hadn't been in this relationship long enough even to outlast one of the toasters they surely received as a wedding gift.Contrast this cut-to-the-happy-ending tune with the time-weathered love songs June Carter and Johnny Cash sang to each other in the final years of their lives, after nearly half a century of marital ups and downs.When George Jones sang about "living and dying with the choices I've made" at Stagecoach this month, there wasn't an ounce of calculation or wish fulfillment at work. It's why real people shed real tears as they listened.Music, of course, needn't always be 100% factual any more than all film should be cinéma vérité. But it needs to be rooted in truth, and country music especially thrives on believability. "You're Still the One" might have worked coming from someone like Loretta Lynn, who married Oliver "Mooney" Lynn in 1948 and put her career on hold while caring for him before his 1996 death, despite the considerable shortcomings as a husband and father he'd displayed during their marriage. As Twain moves on with her life and career, here's hoping that the fizzling of the fantasy might just open the door to an honest song about failure.randy.lewis@latimes.com

Pete Doherty admits cheating drugs tests

Rocker Pete Doherty has confessed to cheating drugs tests before he was locked up in prison.

The ‘Babyshambles’ frontman — who was recently released from London’s Wormwood Scrubs Prison after serving 29 days of his 14 week sentence for breaching probation — said he used to submit other people’s urines for testing before his jail stint, but insists that he legitimately received a certificate indicating he was free of drugs upon his release.

He told the NME: “I was pretty much back into the [heroin] cycle. I was banging it. The only time I tested clean was when I used someone else’s piss. It was a fair cop [going to jail for breaching probation], really.”

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David Lynch Talks About Transcendental Meditation, Red Ants In Space, By Kurt Loder

FAIRFIELD, Iowa — You know you've arrived in Fairfield, a town of some 9,000 souls situated amid the flat corn and soy fields of southeastern Iowa, when you see two great golden domes swelling up into the sky. These mark the site of the Maharishi University of Management, the educational center of the Transcendental Meditation movement founded by the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, an Indian spiritual entrepreneur who died in the Netherlands in February. Beneath the domes, separated into contingents of men and women, hundreds of TM adherents arrayed themselves around the floors, practicing group meditation. A TM veteran told me that the domes were also once said to offer vertical maneuvering room for those adepts who achieved a state of levitation, although the possibility of actually rising up into the air, which is still as improbable as ever, is something that's downplayed nowadays.

We arrived in Fairfield just in time for David Lynch Weekend, a tribute to TM's highest-profile exponent. "Transcendental Meditation" (like "TM," a trademarked term) became famous in the 1960s when it attracted such celebrity spiritual seekers as the Beatles and Donovan, both of whom traveled to India to meet the Maharishi in person. The Beatles soon fell out with him, and moved on in a huff; Donovan stuck with it, but today his vintage hits, like "Hurdy Gurdy Man" and "Sunshine Superman," are most widely heard on movie soundtracks. And so now it is Lynch, the director of such singular films as "Eraserhead" and "Blue Velvet," who is the movement's most energetic proselytizer, traveling the world to talk it up, and even publishing a book recently — "Catching the Big Fish" — about his 33 years of TM practice.

We spoke to Lynch on April 26 at the typically cheerful little bed-and-breakfast inn where we were staying. (There are no hotels in Fairfield, and as best we'd been able to ascertain the previous evening, there's only one bar.) The director arrived wearing his usual black suit, its lapels endearingly dotted with cigarette ash. Since he's lately become committed to the use of low-end video cameras in making his movies (the most recent being 2006's "Inland Empire"), one of our group had brought along a tiny new vid-cam in the hope that Lynch might shoot some footage for us. Which he did, bless him. And since one of the reasons he loves this new digital technology is because it allows him to get right in among his actors with performance suggestions and dialogue adjustments while he's shooting, we shot him, too, while conducting the interview. All pretty exciting, for us at least.

That night there was a concert in Lynch's honor in a gymnasium on the university campus that had been fitted out with very professional video, audio and stage-lighting rigs. The show opened with a brief set by a remarkable singer named Chrysta Bell, a sleek blond woman whose lushly atmospheric songs recall the whispery sound of an earlier Lynch collaborator, Julee Cruise. (Bell sang on an "Inland Empire" track called "Polish Poem.") Bell was followed by Moby, another TM practitioner, who did an acoustic set assisted by a second guitarist and a powerful female singer whose voice was reminiscent of Janis Joplin. (After the show, Moby and company headed over to the local high school's prom — which was being upstaged by the Lynch-fest — to perform some more, unannounced.) Topping the bill was Donovan, who has retained the extraordinary vocal vibrato that featured on his old hits, which he ran through at length, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar.

Earlier, Lynch himself had come out onstage to address the crowd — if "address" is the word. Actually, the director had no set speech to give; he only took questions from the audience. This brilliant stratagem allowed him to talk about whatever he wanted, pretty much, and he used his answers to the various inquiries to extol TM's usefulness in relieving stress and unleashing what would probably have to be called positive consciousness. ("Negativity blocks creativity," he said. And "Know everything within and you'll know everything without.") TM has its detractors — killjoys who call it an exploitative cult. (You can Google them.) Lynch, however, has clearly found the practice of meditating for 20 minutes, twice a day, to be valuable in his work, and he would like to see TM taught in schools — as it is, of course, at Maharishi University.

Unsurprisingly, he got no arguments from the students on hand for his address, who were uniformly adoring. A girl in the audience, an aspiring filmmaker, asked Lynch to free-associate some of his characteristic Lynchian imagery. He came right up with a bunch, including "a bowling ball in space filled with red ants" and "a Buick with 16 15-year-old girls." (Very D.L., that last one.) The girl was impressed. "Awesome," she said.






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