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Why MTV's 'The Hills' is the Show You Love to Hate - or Hate to Love • Video: Behind the scenes at the cover shoot • Photos: Behind the scenes at the cover shoot • The Hills Universe: A guide to who's who on TV's hottest show It's a chilly spring night in Los Angeles when I arrive at Don Antonio's Mexican restaurant to join the End of Western Civilization for nachos and chicken enchiladas. The EOWC, of course, is Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, a.k.a. Speidi, the fabulously toxic power couple of...
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:44:18 PDT
The series' music gurus talk breaking bands, that inescapable theme song and whether Heidi's tunes will make the show Though The Hills is synonymous with Lauren and Heidi, it's Joe Cuello and Jon Ernst who really make the show worth watching. Cuello, MTV's Vice President of Music Integration, and Ernst, the series' Music Supervisor, spend each week expertly pairing songs with footage in order to convey love, loss and cheerful vacancy. Here, they talk to Rolling Stone about the show's patron saint Natasha Bedingfield, breaking new bands on the program and whether we can expect a Heidi Montag tune to pop up in an...
Fri, 02 May 2008 11:12:50 PDT
LC and Heidi's breakup (set to "Apologize"), plus Frente, Sara Bareilles, James Blunt and more The Hills may be the show you love to hate (or hate to love), but there's nothing detestable about the show's soundtrack, which is meticulously selected by Joe Cuello and Jon Ernst, the music gurus who painstakingly combine footage of Lauren, Heidi and Co. with tracks from Carolina Liar, Ashlee Simpson and a thousand other bands you’ve probably never even heard of yet. Here's a countdown of the show's 15 most memorable music moments:
Fri, 02 May 2008 02:41:46 PDT
DO YOU WANT MORE?!!!??! [1995] As on their self-released 1993 debut, Organix, the Roots' first major-label album fuses jazzy live jams and rap. Original keyboardist Scott Storch's Rhodes organ and ?uestlove's funk drums blend seamlessly with verses from Black Thought and Malik B. [LISTEN] Key Track: "Swept Away" is a minor-key highlight, featuring silky vocals from Cassandra Wilson. ...
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:22:53 PDT
Mining his life as a child soldier in Sudan, the MC reveals his unique perspective on battle and 50 Cent In Issue 1052, Evan Serpick profiled Emmanuel Jal, an MC who grew up in Sudan and became a soldier in the country's vicious civil war at age seven. After escaping five years of battle and unimaginable atrocities, he trekked to Kenya, where he began to channel his emotions and experiences into rhymes. Jal, the subject of new documentary War Child, also spoke about African rap battles and his unique perspective on 50 Cent. Watch Jal's video for his album's title track "Warchild" and listen to two...
Tue, 06 May 2008 12:20:55 PDT
Hollywood Pulls Out All the Action and Comedy Stops for Summer, But Here's a Preview That Asks the Burning Question: Is Any of It Any Damn Good? By Peter Travers That bullwhip Indiana Jones cracks looks like a limp noodle in the face of the summer's higher-tech hulks. Yet the smart money says that Harrison Ford's aging Indy will be king of the box office. I'm not so sure. Christian Bale's Dark Knight and Heath Ledger's Joker could give the old boy a run for it. Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is killer good. And don't mess with Will Smith's Hancock, Pixar's animated Wall-E or the posters on my movie blog who so want...
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:45:54 PDT