Innholdsfortegnelse for 1/23/2016 i Billboard Magazine

Duke’s Malibu “The Poke tacos are flame. I passed this place all the time growing up but I actually only just went, and it’s fire.” 21150 Pacific Coast Highway Thornhill Broome Beach “There’s a gigantic sand dune across from the beach — I remember driving it as a little kid. My mom would pull over and we would race up the dunes. I love that!” 9000 W. Pacific Coast Highway Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Temple “I love this meditation spot. There are monks there. It’s away from the hustle and bustle. You get an opportunity to turn off your mind and go within. That’s so important, and there’s only a few times I’ve been able to do that. You can find that here and take it with you when you…

MUST-SEE MOVIE Music docs will make a splash: Aside from Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall (see story, page 24), there also is Thorsten Schutte’s Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, which spotlights the late iconoclast with rare live footage and interviews. Jan. 25, Prospector Square Theatre, 2200 Sidewinder Drive, sundance.org ALL-STAR EVENT Executive producers Jack White, T Bone Burnett and Sundance founder Robert Redford preview American Epic, their PBS series about early recorded music, followed by The Avett Brothers performing. Jan. 28, Eccles Theater, 1750 Kearns Blvd., sundance.org HOTTEST TICKET(S) IN TOWN Wiz Khalifa heats up Billboard’s second Winterfest, a four-day bash co-produced with Park City Live. Also on the bill: Cage the Elephant, The Chainsmokers, Kygo, Thomas Jack and more.…

In Pursuit Of Perry Orlando Bloom locked onto Katy Perry just minutes after her arrival at the Weinstein Company’s Golden Globes afterparty in Beverly Hills on Jan. 10. The actor was flirting with actress Rooney Mara at the soiree, until he saw Perry join movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s corner table, which was surrounded by bodyguards and black rope. Bloom, who was sipping Fiji water (which sponsored the event), made a beeline for the VIP enclosure and soon was exchanging digits with the “Firework” singer and puffing on her vapor cigarette. When Perry headed for the exit, the pop star — who was photographed with intermittent beau John Mayer on New Year’s Eve — kept looking back to make sure Bloom was following. He was. Madonna Misses Rocco At…

David Bowie: A Life JAN. 8, 1947 David Robert Jones is born in the Brixton section of London to Margaret “Peggy” Burns and Haywood “John” Jones. The couple marry eight months later. JUNE 5, 1964 Bowie’s first band, Davie Jones & The King Bees, puts out its first single, “Liza Jane,” but breaks up soon after. JULY 11, 1969 Four years after changing his stage name to David Bowie — to avoid confusion with actor and future Monkee Davy Jones — the 22-year-old releases his breakthrough single, “Space Oddity.” FEB. 5, 1970 In a BBC session, Bowie plays publicly for the first time with guitarist Mick Ronson, who would soon become the linchpin of backing band The Spiders From Mars. DAVID BOWIE was a theatrical production of David Jones, and…

PERFECT PAIRING 2008 Met Gala, New York “Her style influenced him,” says author and Vogue contributing editor André Leon Talley of Bowie’s 1992 marriage to model Iman, who already was a style icon in her own right. “He wore more classical or traditionally masculine looks to compliment one of the world’s great beauties. Vogue did a most astonishing shoot on the beach with Iman in Chanel haute couture and Bowie kissing her. It was the total sum of a moment and early in their marriage.” The couple both wore Dolce & Gabbana to attend the 2008 Met Gala. MOD ROOTS 1967, London “In some ways he seemed like an alien from the very beginning,” says Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz of Bowie, who moved away from London’s mod scene after…

DAVID BOWIE LEARNED ABOUT the music business the hard way — from a notoriously bad deal with early manager Tony Defries that reportedly gave him half the singer’s earnings. After they parted ways, in 1975, Bowie took control of his own career, managing himself with the same adventurous, even visionary, spirit that he brought to his music. Defries made one decision that helped Bowie: He negotiated Bowie’s RCA deal so the two would own his recording copyrights, a provision almost unheard of at the time. In 1989, Bowie licensed most of his albums — 1969’s Space Oddity though 1980’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) — to Rykodisc, then an independent label focused on CD reissues. “He wanted to control where and when his music was used,” Bill Zysblat, who has…

BRANDY “BEGGIN’ & PLEADIN’ ” SLAYANA RECORDS On this bluesy breakup anthem, the R&B vet soundtracks recent heartbreak (she split with her ex-fiance in 2014) — until she gets up off her knees and starts thinking rebound. “I got a couple n—s that I can call,” she sings, a sentiment any independent lady can appreciate. —ADELLE PLATON ST. LUCIA “LOVE SOMEBODY” COLUMBIA RECORDS Everyone’s doing new wave-y synth-pop nowadays, but Brooklyn’s St. Lucia, led by Jean-Philip Grobler, stands out by adding an R&Binflected human touch on this new single. It starts with minimalist finger snaps and then blossoms into a bouquet of flute swirls and harmonies, concluding with Patricia Beranek (Grobler’s wife) joining in to chant the titular mantra. —C.P. KANYE WEST “REAL FRIENDS” G.O.O.D. MUSIC West’s last…

‘Lose’ Wins Meghan Trainor already has revealed the name of her second full-length album, but her first record is still generating No. 1 hits. Trainor’s “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” (featuring John Legend) tops the Adult Top 40 airplay chart, where she peaked at No. 2 with her breakthrough hit, “All About That Bass.” Both songs are from her debut album, Title. Trainor’s forthcoming sophomore set has a similarly straightforward name: Thank You. “It kills me to hold these songs from the world,” she recently told E! News, explaining that the title track is “a song to my fans.” 41% THIS WEEK CHRIS LANE’S “FIX” AUDIENCE 5.2 MILLION 10% THIS WEEK G-EAZY X BEBE REXHA’S “ME, MYSELF & I” STREAMS 7 MILLION 13% THIS WEEK KIIARA’S “GOLD”…

During the third week of November, the No. 1 title on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart was The Cutting Edge, a two-CD set of 50-year-old recordings by Bob Dylan. It sold 14,000 copies (according to Nielsen Music), impressive for a catalog release in the age of streaming. Even more impressive: A six-CD version that cost more than $100 sold 6,000 units, and a gargantuan 18-CD Collector’s Edition, available on Dylan’s website for $600, sold 2,000. Some of today’s hottest new music is old music in elaborate new boxes. Even as labels focus increasingly on streaming, executives tell Billboard that box sets — many of which retail for $100 or more — are selling as well or better than they have in years. “There’s still a real, viable physical market for…

HOLLYWOOD EMERGED FROM ITS POSTHOLIDAY HAZE FOR A STARstudded party hosted by producer-musician Linda Perry. The cause for celebration? The film Freeheld, for which Perry penned the song “Hands of Love” (sung by Miley Cyrus). Among the attendees were Ian Astbury of The Cult, actress Juliette Lewis and Courtney Love, each of whom took the stage. Love, who arrived at private club Community clutching the arm of daughter Frances Bean Cobain, performed for an audience that included Freeheld star Ellen Page, Tobey Maguire, and Jessica and Ashlee Simpson. But Christina Aguilera’s pipes stole the show. Remarking that she had been suffering from the flu, Aguilera slayed on a sparse, powerful rendition of John Lennon’s “Mother,” which she called one of her “all-time favorites.”…

Sitting in Billboard’s New York offices and grinning like a kid who has got a secret, Panic at the Disco’s Brendon Urie can hardly contain his excitement. New album Death of a Bachelor (out Jan. 15 on DCD2/Fueled by Ramen) is the singer/songwriter/ multiinstrumentalist’s de facto first solo project — Panic’s other remaining co-founder, Spencer Smith, departed in 2014. “This album feels so much mine,” says Urie, wearing an uncharacteristically casual outfit (a nondescript hoodie and jeans). The 28-year-old fully taking the reins feels somewhat inevitable: Panic first started to evolve from a collaboration of teenaged friends into more and more of Urie’s vision with the 2009 departures of guitarist Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker. “That was my first chance to say, ‘I have two less people telling me…

OLD-SCHOOL R&B The Osbornes make laid-back country with wry tales of blue-collar life and jammy rock flourishes, but Pawn Shop is the product of much broader listening habits. “I love Toni Braxton and Babyface,” says T.J. “I didn’t even know what genres were until embarrassingly late in life. If it was good, I listened to it. And that’s how we tried to make the record: What makes it cool? It just feels good.” PAWN-SHOP FINDS “We go to pawn shops in almost every city we visit,” says John of their album title. “It’s a race to see who can find that one cool steal. They’re kind of sad places, actually. But every story’s sad until you find a bit of humor in it. Humor is the only thing you have…

Hip-hop’s new uniform? The Kanye West- and ASAP Rocky-approved bomber. Plus: The scoop on brother-sister duo Wild Belle’s vintage look (and sound).…

STEVE ANGELLO Wild Youth Size Records ‘ SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA, THE HUGELY popular Stockholm EDM trio that parted ways in 2013, was scorned by detractors as bombastic. It was an accurate description of the group’s music, of course, but an odd criticism, since SHM’s project was a kind of experiment in the science of bombast: a test to see how many dancers could be moved, how many arenas filled, how many festivals headlined, when a walloping four-on-the-floor beat was hitched to an outsized inspirational slogan. Their “message” was starry-eyed and inane: “Turn up the love,” “Don’t you worry, child/See, heaven’s got a plan for you,” “Feel the energy deep inside your system/And leave this world behind,” etc. Their music — based on time-tested tensionand-release configurations of chirpy keyboard…

NUMBERS: THE SWEET RISE OF ‘CAKE ’ The Joe Jonas-led band DNCE climbs the Billboard Hot 100 with debut single “Cake by the Ocean” (Republic). The cut sweetens up the chart’s top 40 for the first time, rising 41-26, and is making headway on top 40 radio as well. 18 % “Cake” steps 20-19 on the Mainstream Top 40 airplay chart with plays rising 18 percent in the week ending Jan. 10, according to Nielsen Music. As for allformat airplay, the song jumps by 24 percent, to 24 million in audience. 21 % “Cake” also scores the largest gain in streams among tracks in the top 30 of Streaming Songs, jumping 37-26 in its second chart week with 5.9 million clicks (up 21 percent), which were powered largely by Spotify…

DAVID BOWIE ACHIEVED MANY MILESTONES during his legendary five-decade career. But surprisingly, a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart wasn’t one of them — until now. His 25th album, Blackstar, could top the list dated Jan. 30, thanks to mourning fans. The rock icon, who died Jan. 10 after an 18-month battle with cancer, released his latest album through ISO/Columbia just two days earlier (on his 69th birthday). Industry forecasters suggest Blackstar — which addresses death and sickness in many of its lyrics — may launch with more than 130,000 copies sold in the week ending Jan. 14, with a higher total of equivalent-album units (the number that blends album sales with track-equivalent and streaming-equivalent units). Bowie will likely bump Adele from No. 1 after her seven-week run…

THE PULSE OF MUSIC RIGHT NOW ANASTY EL NINO-FUELED STORM HAS just made landfall in Malibu, and it’s washing red slurry across the Pacific Coast Highway as a sleek black BMW heads south. Anderson Paak is dry inside, sunk into a leather seat, but the drive reminds him of leaner times. It barely has been a year since he had to wake at 5 a.m. every Sunday and make the 60-mile drive back up this road so he could earn some rent money drumming at his hometown church in Oxnard. On the drive, he would daydream about a far-off time like now. “I put a list together,” he recalls. “It was like: Get health insurance, get a car, get a bigger apartment, travel more, get a record deal, get a…

“I think my new show is going to have stairs — I’m going to wear a harness if I fall off stage again, I’ll just fly.” —IGGY AZALEA The hip-hop star on Twitter, alluding to her 2014 onstage tumble. “Learn the difference between ‘you’re’ ‘your,’ dingbat.” —NICKI MINAJ The rapper gets the last word in a Twitter feud with Teen Mom Farrah Abraham. “We had originally planned to have an elephant in the video, but when it was time to use the elephant it had fallen asleep The trainer said, ‘If I wake him up, he will kill everyone.’” —DIPLO The producer, in a Facebook post, on filming the (elephant-less) “Lean On” video with Major Lazer and MØ, which recently hit 1 billion worldwide views on YouTube. “I have no…

WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR prized possessions, siblings Natalie and Elliot Bergman, better-known as the band Wild Belle, likely have lost them at some point. There was the opossum jacket that vocalist-guitarist Natalie, 26, believed to be gone for two years before finding it in their dad’s basement; and the bronzed-bell Nigerian necklace that keyboardist-bassist Elliot, 34, received from their mother (the late author Susan Bergman) and which had disappeared for months before resurfacing. “It wouldn’t be important if you didn’t lose it!” jokes Natalie. The Chicago natives, who cite Miles Davis and Fela Kuti as major musical influences, often acquire their earthy-meets-edgy clothes from antique markets and regard every item as symbolic of a journey. So far their journey has included a collaboration with Diplo, a spot on the…

PHIL COLLINS Everybody seemed to like David. You never knew what to expect, and that made him one of a kind. NILE RODGERS Had it not been for Bowie, I don’t know what would have happened to me. [In the early ’80s, before Bowie asked me to produce Let’s Dance and Black Tie White Noise], I’d had six flops in a row. He pulled a drowning man onto the boat. And not only did we row to shore, we rowed into Monaco. DOC HAMMER, CO-CREATOR OF THE VENTURE BROS. My Bowie never put on a goofy wig and sang with Muppets and babies. My Bowie sat in a frail heap in the back of a limo, dressed for his alien world — one that craved style and treated gender as…

CATCHY HOOK Canadians have overtaken the Billboard Hot 100’s top 10 of late, together claiming seven songs for six straight weeks around the new year. Now a new face from north of the border is making a play: Shawn Hook. The pop singer (from Nelson, British Columbia) is bubbling under Mainstream Top 40 with “Sound of Your Heart” (Hollywood), which hit the Canada CHR/Top 40 chart’s top 10 in August 2015. NASTY BOY North Carolina’s Luke Nasty makes his chart debut with “Might Be” (Othaz/Empire), which enters Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop at No. 36. The song, a rework of a 2014 Anderson Paak track (see story, page 21), bows with a 39 percent increase in airplay at the format, according to Nielsen Music; its main support is in North Carolina, South Carolina…