Producer/songwriter Danja revealed he’s in the works on a new Britney Spears’ album.

The pop princess took a break from singing after wrapping up her “Circus” Tour last year, but Danja told Rap-UP TV,

“[He and Spears] are getting things together. I’ve actually been doing tracks that I love, and I can’t wait to go into full production mode, but we’re in pre-production more than anything.”

The producer, who has previously worked with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Fertado, said fans can expect a “hard-hitting” album from Spears.

“I’m definitely gonna do my part and try to make it hard-hitting, up tempo, high energy. That’s what I think we need and that’s what I’m gonna shoot for.”

Beach Boys member Mike Love said the band’s reclusive songwriter Brian Wilson will join the other surviving members for a 50th anniversary tour next year.

“We’re gearing up for the 50th anniversary and Brian Wilson, who has been working on some unfinished Gershwin music project, will rejoin us,”

Love said. Love has toured regularly with veteran Beach Boys members and other musicians under the Beach Boys name, while Wilson has performed sporadically since 2002 after spending years outside the spotlight.

Wilson will join Love and Al Jardine, the other surviving original member of the band, for the anniversary tour. Wilson’s brothers and bandmates, Dennis and Carl Wilson, died in 1983 and 1998, respectively. The surviving Beach Boys last appeared together in public at a press conference in 2006 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the group’s landmark album “Pet Sounds.”

Singer-actress Idina Menzel has kicked off her 2010 tour and it’s not to be missed!

Menzel won a Tony award for her role as Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West, in the original production of “Wicked” and currently plays Shelby Corcoran on FOX’s “Glee.”

Check out her upcoming tour dates:

Jun 17, Dallas, TX
Jun 24, Philadelphia, PA
Jun 29, Pittsburgh, PA
Jul 02, Lenox, MA
Jul 09, San Francisco, CA
Jul 17, Washington DC, DC
Jul 31, Bethel, NY
Aug 01, Hyannis, MA
Oct 02, Brookville, Long Island, NY
Nov 05, Denver, CO
Nov 07, Costa Mesa, CA
Nov 19, Minneapolis, MN

For more tour information or to purchase tickets visit IdinaMenzel.com.

I love Idina! Great singer and a class act.

Rocker Juliette Lewis constantly battles pre-conceived notions she is a “diva” after shooting to fame as an actress – but insists she was never pampered on movie sets.

The star has racked up more than 40 film credits since making her acting debut at 14, and had to tackle music critics’ bias when she decided to form her own rock band, Juliette and the Licks.

But Lewis is adamant acting is hard work, citing one particularly harrowing stunt she completed in a field of rattlesnakes while shooting Oliver Stone’s 1994 action movie Natural Born Killers.

Speaking on Britain’s Live from Studio Five, she recalls,

“That movie was a blast to do. It was very strange. It’s funny because people have all these pre-conceived notions ’cause I come from film so they think I’m gonna be pampered and precious and a diva coming into music. It couldn’t be more opposite because the kinds of movies I’ve done have all been really interesting, rough shoots. Very long hours, very strange environments.

“For instance (in Natural Born Killers), I remember walking through rattlesnakes. They were live rattlesnakes, and me and Woody (Harrelson) walked through them. The camera guy, just to put it in perspective, he said he wasn’t going to do it. He told Oliver, ‘I’m out, I’m out!’ Me and Woody were like, ‘Oh no.’

“There’s a rattlesnake wrangler, he’s like, ‘Don’t worry. They’re cold. When they’re cold they won’t attack you ’cause they’re curled up!’ But me and Woody, we were up for it.”

Pop singer Christina Aguilera on Monday canceled plans for a summer concert tour blaming work on a new film and an upcoming album that squeezed rehearsal time, according to a statement from her spokeswoman.

The singer will appear in new movie “Burlesque,” due in theaters later this year, and she is currently promoting a new album “Bionic,” which is set for release on June 8.

“The singer felt she needed more time to rehearse the show and with less than a month between the album release and tour date this wasn’t possible,” the statement said.

The North American tour had been set to start in July. New dates will be announced later this year, the statement said.

The first single from “Bionic,” a tune called “Not Myself Tonight,” debuted in March on Aguilera’s official website and became available on iTunes in April.

But after peaking at No. 23 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the singer has also released a second single off her upcoming album, “Woohoo,” featuring rapper Nicki Minaj.

“Bionic” will be her first album of new music since 2006′s “Back to Basics.”

Translation: No interest poor ticket sales!

Paul Gray, the bassist for Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was found dead Monday in an Iowa hotel room, police said.

A hotel employee found Gray, 38, dead in a room at the Town Plaza Hotel in Urbandale, a suburb of Des Moines, police said in a statement. Foul play isn’t suspected, and an autopsy is planned for Tuesday.

Amy Sciarretto, a publicist at the band’s record company, Roadrunner Records, confirmed Gray’s death but declined further comment. Most of the band’s members grew up in the Des Moines area.

Slipknot’s self-titled debut in 1999 sold more than a million copies.

Known for its grotesque masks, trashing sound and aggressive lyrics, the band won a Grammy in 2006 for best metal performance for the song “Before I Forget.” Concert industry trade publication Pollstar ranked Slipknot 18th in its Top 20 Concert Tours list in 2009.

Andy Hall, music director of Des Moines rock station Lazer 103.3, said he’d known Gray for 10 years. He described him as a talented bass player who was also one of the friendliest, most caring people he knew.

“This is a big blow, not only to the community of Des Moines but fans of metal at large, worldwide,” Hall said. “It’s a devastating loss. Paul was a wonderful human being.”

The station was planning to broadcast an hour-long tribute to Gray on Monday night.

Last night on Twitter Paramore’s Hayley Williams opened up the cyberspace to some questions. One came from fan Teylah

@yelyahwilliams were you guys pissed that drake played 45 min into your set at bamboozle? that shitt sucked btw please wish me happy bday!!?

to which Williams responded:

@Teylah i thought it was pretty disrespectful. we’ve had bands cut us off for going 30 seconds over… so yeah, i wasn’t stoked on Drake.

Have to go Team Hayley on this one. On a tight festival schedule Drake shouldn’t have cut a second into their time let alone 45 minutes. That’s some downright Kanye shit right there. Props to Paramore for not making a bigger stink out of this.

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Tokio Hotel guitarist Tom Kaulitz told a German newspaper on Friday he fell ill after taking too many Viagra tablets and could not see straight for days.

Kaulitz, 20, told Bild newspaper that someone offered him a Viagra tablet during a concert tour of Asia. After first turning down the offer, Kaulitz said he decided to try one. He said a little later he took a second one and fell ill.

“I first asked the seller ‘Do I look like someone who needs help with that?’” said Kaulitz, whose brother Bill is the group’s lead singer. “He said ‘no’ — but that I should nevertheless try it out. I popped one in.”

Kaulitz, a member of the German rock band that has sold millions of albums around the world, said he took a few more tablets used to treat impotence when he got back to his hotel.

“I popped a few more pills, probably too many,” he said. “The next morning my head was pounding and everything in front of my eyes was blurry. It wasn’t fun any more. It was pretty bad.”

Kaulitz said it took two days for the effects to wear off. “Unfortunately there were situations where it just wasn’t appropriate,” Kaulitz said.

What a stupid MORON!!!

Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton, two of country music’s hottest singles, are off the market.

People.com is reporting that Shelton asked Lambert to marry him on Sunday. Kathy Best, Lambert’s publicist, confirmed the news Tuesday.

Lambert tells People the proposal came as a surprise. She says Shelton proposed to her in the woods near her Tishomingo, Okla., home.

She answered yes.

Shelton went old-fashioned, calling Lambert’s father, Rick, to ask permission.

It’s been quite the year for Lambert. She scored her first No. 1 with “White Liar,” won three Academy of Country Music Awards, including album of the year, and now she’s marrying her boyfriend of five years.

There’s no word on when the wedding will be

Sara Bareilles is back with another angst-ridden message about love. In ‘King of Anything,’ the first single off her forthcoming sophomore album, Bareilles vents her frustration about unsolicited love advice in a peppy, pop song.

“‘King of Anything’ is sort of a ‘f**k you’ song,”

jokes Bareilles.

“I’ve had more unsolicited advice on my life than I care to mention, and this was how I dealt with it. It felt empowering to turn that frustration into music, especially a song that doesn’t even sound angry. That’s sort of what ‘Love Song’ was as well. Apparently, I don’t get over things very quickly.”

Bareilles wrote and recorded ‘King Of Anything’ in Los Angeles. The pop track, produced by Neal Avron, hits airwaves May 10 and will kick off the official countdown to the as-yet untitled album’s September release.

Bareilles’ debut album, ‘Little Voice,’ received two Grammy nominations for her triple platinum-selling hit single, ‘Love Song.’