New iPod touch to become “iTouch” and feature a camera? Hard Candy says yes

The day before Apple is expected to introduce the new fourth generation iPod touch, one company is taking pre-orders for cases for the not-yet-officially-existent new iPod already. We’re not typically inclined to believe such claims, as they often turn out to be fabricated for publicity purposes. However, the vendor, Hard Candy, did get it right last time when it put its fourth generation iPhone cases up for sale before the iPhone 4 was announced, so in this instance we’re inclined to believe that this new 4G iPod touch case does in fact represent what tomorrow’s actual iPod touch will look like. The kicker? The image of the new case shows a cut-out for what appears to be a camera or a video camcorder – along with a tiny “mystery dot” next to it which, if we didn’t know better, would appear to be some kind of micro-projector.

The addition of a camera to the iPod touch would be consistent with external rumors we’ve been hearing going all the way back to a year ago, when many observers expected the third generation iPod touch to sport a camera or camcorder, but it turned out the then-new iPod nano was the one sporting the video camera instead.

With the Apple Event now less than twenty-four hours away, you might do well at this point to wait until Apple’s official announcements happen tomorrow morning before ordering any cases. But Hard Candy’s “Street Skin for iTouch 4G” are in fact already available for pre-order in black, clear, and pink, which itself begs the question of whether the “iPod touch” is in fact about to officially become the “iTouch” or whether that’s merely shorthand on the vendor’s part.

Beatweek Magazine issue #82: Goo Goo Dolls interview, Apple Event, Auburn, Hey Monday, Zoe Scott and more

New in the 82nd issue of Beatweek Magazine:

• Goo Goo Dolls cover story interview: Johnny Rzeznik and Robby Takac discuss their new album Something For The Rest Of Us and reflect on twenty-five years of Goo

• a look at Apple’s September 1st media event

• interviews with Auburn, Hey Monday, and Zoe Scott

• reviews of new iPad cases, iPhone docks and more

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Goo Goo Dolls interview

With their new record, Goo Goo Dolls want to take you home. “That’s the thing that’s most important right now,” says lead singer Johnny Rzeznik of the theme which carries through more than one song on Something For The Rest Of Us, due out today. It’s a long road to have traveled for a band who fifteen years ago were of a mindset to use a title like “A Boy Named Goo” for their breakthrough album. But that was a different era, for the world at large and for the band. Or as co-founding member Robby Takac puts it, “I think a lot of it i it s just sort of growing up as people.” The band spent a decade toiling anonymously before being rocketed to fame in the mid nineties, only to then be told by critics that they were all but guaranteed to be a one hit wonder. A dozen hit songs later, and Goo Goo Dolls are doing just fine – but the same can’t be said for the world around them.

“We’re in some pretty intense times right now,” says Robby of the public state of affairs in 2010. “There’s a lot of crazy stuff going on out there, and I think it’s had a pretty dramatic effect on a lot of people.”

But the end of the world as we know it may not be a bad thing, says Johnny. “I think America is going through a serious paradigm shift where they’re starting to realize that having three cars and a half a million dollar house is not the most important thing in life, and a new TV every year and every gizmo and gadget you can think of. I think that people are starting to realize we don’t have what we used to have. What do we have? We have each other. And I think that’s extremely important. I think it’s actually gonna wind up being a good thing, that people are relying on each other more, rather than machines.”

And who better to deliver that message than a band from Buffalo, New York, a city that’s been all too familiar with recession since back before recession was cool.

“I think that they really got to understand the value and the importance of having a secure situation,” Robby says of the band’s long-struggling hometown, “and having a job and having a family and people around you who are going to take care and watch out for you when you might be in one of those valleys of the peaks and valleys of life in a once-booming town. I think that that might be part of the reason why twenty-five years later, we’re still here right now, doing what we’re doing.”

Although Johnny says that Something For The Rest Of Us is an emotional but “not a very sentimental” album, he nonetheless references It’s A Wonderful Life to help explain the album’s title. ;I know it sounds strange, but George Bailey said it best. People are like “Who’s the rest of us?’ It’s like well, George Bailey said it’s the people who do the living and working and paying and dying. I always thought that was a really powerful statement.”

The theme of home shines through not only in the title of the album’s lead single, but also in its centerpiece ballad Johnny wrote entitled Notbroken, after hearing from a real-life soldier’s wife. “I was writing that song as a loveletter from a woman to her husband who was injured in the war. He didn’t want to come home because he was worried that he wasn’t the man that she loved, and so he didn’t want to come home. And what she’s saying is it doesn’t matter how long I have to wait for you, I’ll be here.”

Like all bands who have radio fans and real fans, Goo Goo Dolls exist on two levels. But in this case what you get from the radio and what you get from the full fan experience differ in ways casual listeners may not have been expecting. The most pronounced is the fact that while guitarist Johnny Rzeznik sings the Goo Goo Dolls hits you’ve heard on the radio, and most of what you’ll hear on one of their albums, the band in fact has two lead singers. True to form, Something For The Rest Of Us features a pair of songs with lead vocalist duties handled by bassist Robby Takac, entitled “Now I Hear” and “Say You’re Free.”

It’s a trick up the band’s sleeve that’s been known to catch first time concert-goers off guard. “I sing, and the first thing they’re like ‘What the hell, this guy sings too?’ and so they’re sort of intrigued by it,” Robby says of the handful of songs that he sings during a typical Goo Goo Dolls show. “And by the second song, there’s a parting of the crowd, man. It’s hilarious. A portion of them are like rock on, alright, they’re having a great time.” And, he jokes, “the other ones are discussing what they’re gonna drink next.”

Giving audiences a little more than they bargained for is one of the things that’s kept the band commercially relevant over the years. Another is that they’ve avoided burning themselves out by consistently pacing their albums four years apart – although that may be more out of circumstance than by any design. After spending a year putting an album together and then another two years touring on it, Johnny says that during the fourth year in the cycle “we try to take some time off and get a life for awhile, or go back to some sort of normalcy. And then we’ll get back together again.”

“Do that a few times,” Robby says of that cycle, ”and all the sudden your band’s been together for twenty-five years.”

That longevity now sees the band just a couple of years away from Rock and Roll Hall of Fame eligibility, “I think there’s about a hundred and fifty bands, or a hundred and fifty thousand bands maybe, who need to get in there way before we do,” Robby says of the debates springing up on the internet already regarding whether Goo Goo Dolls should be inducted. “But the fact that we’ve actually managed to in some capacity of relevance stay here, those first ten years may not have been commercially relevant, but I think they were pretty relevant in a lot of ways because there was a scene that was kind of coming up. And without that scene, none of this post punk, none of this alternative radio stuff probably ever would have happened.”

“I’m starting to see really young people at a lot of our shows right now, a lot of the time accompanied by an older person,” he says of the faces he sees in the crowd at concerts these days. And when he was recently caught off guard by the fact that an old friend’s teenage kids wanted to pose with the band for a picture, it was his friend who put the now generation-spanning career of the Goo Goo Dolls into perspective for him: “You’ve got to remember man, to these kids, you guys have just always been.”

Learn more at GooGooDolls.com • iTunes • Twitter • Facebook

Auburn interview: La La La, Beluga Heights and more

Auburn is her first name, but it hasn’t always been – don’t bother asking her what it used to be. And her hit song “La La La” only paints half a picture of who she is a musician. But as the first female artist to join the ranks of the Beluga Heights label (Sean Kingston, Jason Derulo, Iyaz), the Minnesota native finds herself garnering plenty of attention even as she grapples with just what direction she wants her debut album to take in our Beatweek interview…

So just who is Auburn? For one thing, she’s the rare artist who, even after we’ve blown though our allotted time, all but insisted that we keep going until I’d had the opportunity to ask her about every topic in my notes. But any conversation about Auburn’s music has to start (but certainly not end) with her breakthrough hit single La La La. “I told everybody, that I wouldn’t sing anyone else’s lyrics,” she says of the fact that this is the only one of her songs which was originally penned by someone else. But after hearing La La La (which was penned by friend and labelmate Iyaz) and falling in love with it, she recorded it that same night. “It’s about a clingy guy, all in your face, in your space, and I just felt like it was just Auburn.”

The urban-pop song has enough of a meaty backbeat to it that it’s already been heard over the PA systems at NFL Football games. But if you’re expecting La La La to give you a full picture about what else you might be hearing from Auburn, those assumptions erased the minute you hear a song called Perfect Two, a gentle upbeat ballad which sees her vocals backed by nothing but acoustic guitar. And that’s before you even get to her rap videos on YouTube.

“We were in the studio one day and I heard those chords, and I just fell in love with it and I just started writing to it,” she says of Perfect Two, which could “possibly” end up being her next single, with the other candidate being of a different style altogether.

So why is Auburn’s music all over the map? “That’s because of what I listen to. I listen to a lot of different music. I don’t just listen to one sound or one genre. I’d say the only style that I don’t listen to is heavy metal. So in my iPod, you can see me walking around listening to Rascal Flatts or Nickelback, and people are surprised by it. But that’s what I’m interested in, is just music. Music is music. I don’t think that you should be confined to one sound, you know? So I think that all holds some type of effect on my way of writing.”

The genre-jumping nature of her music has left something of a quandary for Auburn and Beluga Heights label boss J.R. Rotem. “We have more than enough songs to make about two albums,” she says of her impending debut album. “But we’re both really picky. And because my sound is everywhere, I don’t want to confuse you or your ears, so we’re still working on figuring out what the album will be, figuring out the right sound. It’ll be done probably, if not late this year, early next year for sure.”

The partnership with Rotem dates back to 2007, when his brother spotted her MySpace page and wanted to know why she’d already racked up more than four million song plays on the site. That led to a trip from Minnesota to Los Angeles, and after they hit it off, “I did a song with JR that night. I’ve just been making music with him ever since then.”

The pairing has her in the position of being the first and so far only female artist signed to Beluga, a label whose early success has been otherwise dominated by male artists. But of Kingston, Derülo, Iyaz and the gang, she says “They treat me like I’m a little sister or a big sister. It’s more of a family at Beluga. It’s never felt like work when you walk in there. It’s always felt like a family. So I don’t feel any pressure or anything like that.”

Her newfound position in the spotlight is a big jump from the “painfully shy” child who was tagged with the nickname Wednesday by her family growing up because she rarely ever spoke.

“Back then it was just an issue with me feeling like I couldn’t trust anybody, I didn’t want to waste my words on people I felt didn’t deserve it. I was young. I just thought I knew a lot,” she says of a stage of her childhood which abruptly ended when her mother sat her down one day and explained that “she didn’t want me to grow up to be this rude kid.”

The adult Auburn is a far cry from that, spending significant time on Twitter interacting with her newfound fans and of course giving interviewers more time than they’re supposed to have with her. But despite her forthcoming nature, there’s one topic she has no intention of dishing on: the first name she was originally given. “My mom didn’t even name me. My cousin named me. I would tell you my original first name, but I’m not gonna do that. We changed it when I was a baby. It was back and forth, they argued about my name. It was horrible. I’m not even gonna put it out there.” Asked if she’s concerned that fans will begin a guessing game now that they know that Auburn wasn’t her originally her first name, she jokes “They won’t even guess it. It was really bad.”

Twitter bios are often posted in jest (Emmy host Jimmy Fallon lists himself as “astrophysicist”), but when Auburn lists herself as being a singer, songwriter, and graphic designer, she means it. “Before I even linked up with Warner and Beluga, I was making all my profiles and pages,” she says of her own internet presence. ”I’m so hands on, it’s ridiculous. I’m hands on with everything that has to do with visual and anything that has to do with design. So let’s say we’re trying to work out a MySpace layout, it’ll all come from ideas they’ll pull from me and see what I want.”

Although she’s already amassed a war chest of studio material, her impending tour dates opening for Derülo won’t interfere with her ability to continue generating new demos. “I have a mic that I carry around that connects directly to my MacBook, so any time I get an idea I’ll just record it in GarageBand and probably send it through to J.R. and ask him what he thinks. I’ll still get a lot done while I’m on the road.” While the silence of a hotel room is her preferred recording locale on the road, “I can record in the car and it still works out.”

Auburn’s live shows have thus far consisted of little more than her own live voice along with backing music coming from an iPod connected to the venue’s sound system. But asked if she plans to keep it that simple forever, she says “Heck no, I’m gonna bring in a band, I’m gonna bring in fireworks. I’ll bring in as much as I can to be as entertaining as I can.”

So is Auburn surprised to see her debut single blowing up already? “Of course,” she says of the fact that the song has carved out a spot in the top fifteen on the iTunes pop chart. “Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I didn’t have faith in the song. But I didn’t think it would do that well so soon. So of course I feel overwhelmed by it. That’s kind of freakish.”

How does she keep it all in balance? “I’m really spiritual. I pray before I do a show. I pray after I do a show. I pray before I even do an interview.”

And about that debut record, whose release date, release year, and even its next single are not yet set in stone? “Because I have so many different songs, I feel like I’ll give you a little bit of everything.”

Learn more at CallMeAuburn.com • iTunes • Twitter • Facebook

iPad case review: OtterBox Defender Series

Holy iPad! It’s the Batman of all iPad cases! That’s right, the OtterBox Defender Series iPad case has arrived. It’s super strong and tough, and has three layers of protection. Try to get through this case evil doers!

But with all silliness aside, this case is the most protective case I’ve seen yet. It looks very stylish and is quite multi-functional too. There’s enough layers of protection to impress even your iPad!

The first and inner-most layer is the slide and snap-on polycarbonate shell. Remove the upper piece and slide your iPad in. This polycarbonate piece is lined with a velvety material to keep your iPad scratch-free within the case. The bottom half of this case is removable so you can use your iPad Keyboard (or stand) with the case on. The removable piece also makes it easy to charge the iPad without removing the entire case. Simply slide the lower piece on and off when needed. Another nifty feature of this layer is the clear round plastic around the Apple logo, making it visible, yet keeping it scratch-free.

The next layer of protection is a durable silicone skin that wraps around the entire case. Every part around the edge of the iPad is covered by silicone, including the buttons and ports. If you need to use the headphone jack, simply pull out the silicone covering to use. This feature keeps the port dust-free when not in use. The orientation lock button is also covered in a similar way. Simply pull out to access the toggle switch. As for the volume and on/off buttons, you can simply press on them to access the features. There are cutouts where the speakers are, so the audio of the iPad is not compromised in the case.

The last layer of protection is a fun one. It’s the shield that you snap on top of the case to protect the display area when not in use. It makes a nice travel case if you need to toss it in a backpack or suitcase. But when you are using the iPad, this shield can convert into an iPad stand! On the interior of the shield are two slanted pieces that pull up to create a stand. Slide in your iPad (with case) on and viola, you have yourself a nice little iPad TV set. It’s very convenient when you need the iPad to be in a viewing position. The iPad will only fit in landscape mode, and the angle cannot be adjusted (~45 degree angle). And when you don’t want to use the stand, you can snap the shield onto the back of the case for more heavy-duty protection.

The one downside to this case is that it’s very heavy. It adds an additional 1.3 pounds to the iPad (with the shield on), but you can’t expect less from an indestructible case! Because of the weight, it’s not ideal for reading in long periods of time. The other downside is that it costs about 1/5 of the device. It’s a bit steep for an accessory, but the materials used are high quality if you can look pass these drawbacks. So prepare to put your iPad in the toughest case available on the market today!

In addition to the case and front shield, the package also comes with a cleaning cloth, squeegee, and screen protector, which is at least an additional $15 value.

The Otterbox iPad Defender Series Case is available in black for $89.95. You can purchase it at OtterBox.com.

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars · $89.95 · OtterBox.com

Zoe Scott interview

She’s a world-traveled British rocker invading America, but she arrives fully influenced by the American rock that came before. Zoe Scott’s new single “Hard Habit” hits airwaves today, with an album soon to follow – and she gives Beatweek the early scoop on what we can expect, along with why her album is called Woman On Top.

You’ve had such an interesting background. You’ve lived everywhere.

Yeah, I have. I love travel. I quite enjoy being an outsider, actually, because I think it gives you space to kind of grow into who you want to become. I love Italy. I lived there for four years. I speak fluent Italian. Love the States. Love American people. Love the enthusiasm and the creativity of this country. And this has kind of become my home. But I have. I’ve spent time in New York. I’ve spent time in Spain. Obviously Los Angeles. So I’m a bit of a nomad. I feel really free when I’m traveling it’s really inspiring.

And yet listening to your music, it seems to be pretty heavily influenced by American rock.

Yeah, it is. That’s my passion. Love American rock, especially I love the sixties stuff. I love all the rock that came out of the west coast in the sixties. I really got into music cause I was really into The Doors and really into Jim [Morrison] and his poetry and his whole thing. That was my vision and my dream to come out west and make music. I now live in Laurel Canyon, where all that music came out of in the sixties, and I find it really inspiring. Being British, we’re into history. So even if The Doors aren’t living in the canyon now, I still feel the spirit of everything that happened there.

You started in music when you were very young, then at some point there was maybe a rebellious stage where it was like “I’m going to go be an actress.” Were you trying to get away from the music when you went to the acting?

I actually think going back to the music was more of the rebellious streak. I grew up in England, and it seemed like more of the right thing for a middle class British girl to do, to go and be an actress. And then I realized that it wasn’t really what I wanted to do. So I think really, going back to the music was more of “Hey, I’m just gonna do what my soul wants to do.” I worked in Europe as an actress and I worked in Italy, and I worked in England, and I think people thought I was crazy when I said I was going to the west coast of America to make my kind of music (laughs). It was a big adventure. My sister and I lived in a cave out west when we first got there. And I remember my mum, my poor mum who’s wonderful, she flew out west and we showed her our cave and she was crying, and she said “Well, whatever makes you happy.” So I think that was pretty rebellious.

Some of your songs like “Eight Lovers and a One Night Stand” and “Hard Habit” are obviously about relationships, but then you’ve taken it a step further by blogging about your dating life.

Relationships are a big part of who we are, right? And also because I’m such a fish out of water here in America. Well, not a total fish out of water, but I grew up dating in Europe, and the dating scene in Europe is very different, maybe not all over America but in LA. So I find it so amusing, LA, in terms of dating, that’s why I feel like writing about it in terms of blogs.

I’ve been more single over the past, let’s say, three years than I was in the past. But there were some love stories of the heart while I was writing this record. I guess as a writer, whatever comes up for you, your life is like a canvas. And while you’re making that passage of writing a record, whoever or whatever comes in your aim of fire (laughs). I write about my life, the people around me. A lot of my songs are born out of passionate emails. I’ll write letters.

I had a brief fling when I was first writing the record. The guy actually moved to Italy, and we were sending a lot of emails. Some of my songs came out of the emails that I wrote to him.

I’ve actually found that’s quite a good technique. If I have a feeling about somebody, I’ll write a letter, a passionate letter. I won’t necessarily send it, but then I’ll start parsing it out and putting it on guitar chords.

It’s fun music.

Yeah, it’s supposed to be fun. It’s supposed to be sexy and fun. It’s called Woman On Top, and even that’s supposed to be fun. You can take it literally. I heard Katy Perry’s song “I kissed a girl and I liked it” and I thought well I don’t really want to go around kissing girls right now. What do I want to be? I think I want to be on top. So let’s write Woman On Top. But I think it’s also pretty significant where we’re at as women. Women have done it all at this point. They’ve had careers. They’ve raised kids. They’ve done just about everything, swum the channel. I kind of think it’s time to have fun being a woman. It’s a great thing being a woman.

“Hard Habit” is your new single.The song “Hard Habit” is basically about addiction to a certain type of bad boy.

Learn more at ZoeScott.com • iTunes • Twitter • Facebook

Calypso Crystal Dock for iPhone: review

I have to admit, it took me awhile to wrap my head around this product. The question I first posed was whether any iPhone dock could be worth two hundred bucks. But as it turns out, it’s up to each individual reader as to whether they want to sink that kind of money into hand crafted crystal. The relevant question here is how the Calypso CrystalDock functions as a dock for iPhone and iPod. And from that standpoint, after having used this dock on my desk, it’s mostly thumbs up.

A dock this beautiful would be ruined visually if it employed Apple’s standard universal docking system of plastic inserts, so it turns out Calypso’s decision to instead go with a simple lean-back docking system was the correct one, both in the sense that it avoids uglying things up with plastic, and in that it allows your iPhone or iPod to be fully on display instead of partially sunk into a docking well.

My only quibble, and it’s merely a visual one and not a functional one, is that it would have been nice if the rear docking port were recessed or somehow bottom-based instead of flush with the rear surface, as it leaves the fat end of the dock connector cable sticking out the back instead of just the cable itself running out. But that’s just being picky, and only because with a price tag like this, it feels like I should be. Don’t ask me to put a star rating on a $199 piece of crystal. But if that’s your thing, rest assured that it works well as an iPhone+iPod dock.

Learn more at CalypsoCrystal.com

Griffin AutoPilot for iPhone and iPod: first look

The search for the perfect car connection product for iPhone and iPod continues, and Griffin’s latest entry comes in the form of a car charger along with a line cable designed for those users with stereos that have an aux-in port. The new wrinkle comes in the form of playback controls built into the front face of the charging unit itself, including play/pause and previous/next track.

There’s already a vaguely similar product on the market from Monster, so the two will have to be placed head to head in order to see which works best and for whom. A few immediately noticeable differentiators are the fact that Griffin’s AutoPilot has a high-low gain switch for the line-out port, aimed at helping to account for the different built-in line settings of various car stereos, along with the fact that the line cable is fully detachable from the charging unit. The latter means that users who don’t have a line-in port on their stereo could instead potentially use their cassette adapter instead, but that’ll have to be tested.

Fifty bucks is no small amount of money for a car charger, so this one will have to shine in hands-on testing.

Learn more at GriffinTechnology.com

Verizon iPhone: top eight reasons why it should (but won’t) happen in 2010

It’s 2010, and Apple is still refusing to take the money that Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile customers have been attempting to stuff into the company’s pockets, unless those users are willing to switch to AT&T. Textbook business strategy says you find a way to take their money before they give it to your competitor. But while it’s difficult to argue with Apple’s overwhelming success over the past decade, it’s never been one to do anything by the book. So here are the top reasons why a Verizon iPhone (and for good measure, a Sprint iPhone and a T-Mobile iPhone) really should be announced this week and brought to market in time for the 2010 holiday shopping season – but likely won’t…

1. These aren’t the Droids you’re looking for. What, you thought anyone (outside of hardcore geeks) actually cares about the Verizon Droid for the geeks-only Android platform? Of course not. The only reason Verizon customers are paying attention to the Droid at all is because they want an iPhone but aren’t willing to switch to AT&T just to make it happen, and from a distance, if you squint real hard, Verizon’s Droid sorta kinda starts to look like a suitable fake iPhone. It’s bad business for Apple to refuse to take Verizon customers’ money, forcing them to buy a Droid instead. It’s also cruel.

2. Why it won’t happen: Apple is betting (correctly, in many documented cases) that Verizon customers will finally get tired of waiting and go ahead and switch to AT&T. Apple is also apparently betting (again, correctly, in a plenty of cases) that those Verizon customers who do buy the Droid will be able to see first-hand that it’s not a suitable iPhone alternative unless you’re a hard-core technology geek, making them all the more motivated to buy a Verizon iPhone when it finally happens in 2011 or whenever.

3. Stress relief: AT&T’s network is overburdened by the tens of millions of iPhone users in the U.S., and is either unwilling, unable, or legally prohibited from being able to keep up in terms of building out that network further to accommodate the iPhone’s ever-growing ranks. Offering the iPhone on Verizon’s network, rather than continuing to ask Verizon’s customers to switch to AT&T, would slow down the rate at which AT&T’s network is melting down.

4. Why it won’t happen: Apple knows that bringing the iPhone to Verizon would (in addition to immediately bringing Verizon Droid sales down to right about zero) result in such a massive uptick in voice and data usage on the Verizon network that it would be unlikely to be a better experience than what iPhone users are getting on AT&T now. Also, the AT&T iPhone experience, while mediocre, isn’t nearly as bad as most Verizon customers inexplicably seem to think it is.

5. Message calendar: When’s the last time Apple controlled the iPhone storyline? Ever since the iPhone 4 rollout, the geek media has tried to make the story be all about the non-existent antenna controversy, users have seen the story as being all about inventory shortages, lack of a white model, proximity sensor bugs, and the inevitable class action suit (which Apple will lose) brought by iPhone 3G users who’ve seen their iPhone turned into a useless pile of goop by iOS 4, which they were told to install. One could even argue that Apple lost control of the iPhone message the day that iPhone 4 prototype surfaced on Gizmodo, long before the product was even introduced.

Apple hasn’t had two consecutive positive days of iPhone-related press in months. And there’s only one story that could change all that, a story that would be bigger than all other iPhone related headlines of 2010 combined: bringing the iPhone to other U.S. carriers.

6. Why it won’t happen: When was the last time you saw Steve Jobs bullied into releasing a product he wasn’t ready to release?

7. Can’t we all just get along? Offering a Verizon-compatible iPhone 4 in 2010 would be as simple as building in different antenna and receiver technology designed to work with the Verizon network instead of the AT&T network. Apple’s all-based-covered history suggests that the company may have already built such a product and has been keeping it under lock and key in Cupertino. If so, just release the damn thing already.

8. Why is won’t happen: Have you tried to find an iPhone 4 in a store lately? Have you seen the wait times for it online? The overriding factor here is that Apple is unlikely to open the iPhone 4 up to additional customers so long as it can barely keep up with existing demand. What are the odds that Apple finds a magic wand to fix all of the iPhone 4′s inventory, component, and production issues in time for the 2010 holiday season?

iPod touch and iPod nano could become iPad mini and iPad nano

With Apple just a few days away from introducing new iPods, here’s a thought: could the iPod be done for instead? The “iPod” brand name, while wildly successful in its time, is nine years old – and no one thinks of the iPod as being a hot or trendy product anymore, as Apple’s own iPhone and iPad have sucked all the excitement out of a product that five years ago was about as cutting edge as you could get. So how is it that the “iPod” might suddenly go away? Take a look at the current iPod lineup for clues.

The awkwardly named “iPod touch” isn’t even really an iPod in the traditional sense. Depending on ones viewpoint, it’s either an iPhone without any phone or mobile networking abilities, or it’s a three inch iPad. So why does it even bear the iPod brand name, when it bears almost nothing in common with the classic iPod beyond the fact that it plays music? So let’s say the “new iPod touch” ends up instead carrying a name like iPad mini.

The latest rumors from CBS have the iPod nano as we know it being replaced by something that looks like a half-size iPod touch, touch screen and all. There’s still a plenty of life left in the “iPod nano” brand name, but if you’re going to rebrand things, might as well go all the way. So would a “touchscreen iPod nano” instead become an iPad micro?

An then there’s the iPod classic, which still more or less sports the same click-wheel interface which surfaced back in 2004 and is an embarrassingly outdated product by Apple’s standards. Many (including us) expect the sole remaining hard drive-based Apple mobile product to go away entirely once the flash-based iPod touch (ahem, iPad mini?) finally reaches similar capacity levels – which could happen this week.

The iPod shuffle? Here’s the one iPod model that seems unlikely to be either canceled or rebranded. For one thing, it’s Apple’s only sub-$100 music player, and it would only likely go away if the iPod nano were about to drop to the $99 price point itself – which seems doubtful if the nano is indeed about to go touchscreen. And it would be difficult to find a way to rope the iPod shuffle into the iPad lineup (iPad invisa?) without really stretching for it.

But you never know. Apple intentionally took the iPod’s buzz factor away when it launched the iPhone in 2007, and the iPod has become even more of an afterthought in a year in which the iPad feels like the future while the iPod sounds like something you’d buy for your kid. Maybe now is too soon to pull the trigger. And perhaps throwing away altogether the cache still remaining in the iPod brand name would be foolish anyway. But it is interesting that the most exciting talk about this week’s possible new “iPod” products generally involves them becoming less like the iPod we once knew, and more like Apple’s other, hipper product lines whose brand name still sounds current.

Top fourteen bargain iPhone and iPad apps

Here are 14 bargain iPhone and iPad apps that will surely add some fun to your devices!

Scrabble – word game addicts, get this before the price goes up! It’s Hasbro’s classic word game right on your iPhone. Play against the computer, your friend next to you, or even your Facebook friends. Add up points and aim to get the triple letters and triple words all across the board. The person with the most points at the end wins! But hurry, this sale won’t last long! You can play the free version as a Facebook app. iPhone Version (99 cents)

Where’s Waldo – This app brings me back to my childhood when Where’s Waldo books were all the craze. The iPhone version is just as much fun! Search for Waldo and his friends in various scenes. You’ll find them in the funniest places!
iPhone Version (99 cents) | iPad Version ($2.99)

Diner Dash: Grilling Green is the first time management game made specifically for the iPad. If you enjoy the Diner Dash series, this one is a must-have. Many new features have been added for the new multi-touch options. Not only are we waiting tables, you have to keep the customers happy and also help grandma with the cooking. Talk about multi-tasking! The game is normally $4.99, but is on sale for a limited time for $2.99. iPad Version ($2.99)

Hexalex – Another word game that will keep you on the edge of your seat. This board is a bit different though. Instead or square pieces, you’re putting pieces down on a hexagon board. Words can go down, sideways, or even diagonally. Play against the computer, or up to four people. iPhone Version ($1.99)

Jojo’s Fashion Show 2 – This one is for the fashion addicts! Create various outfits for your models and send them out on the runway. Be sure to dress them up in the style asked by the judges. Do it quickly to progress to the next round! Full game is free for a limited time.
iPhone Version (Free) | iPhone Lite Version (Free)

Fotopedia Heritage – Travel around the world and back in this wonderful little app. It’s an amazingly beautiful way to navigate, explore, and discover the 890 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Swipe to see a new photo from around the world. Tap on the ‘i’ icon to read more about the location. It really is like a Wikipedia with photos! It’s also universal and absolutely free! Universal Version (Free)

Pinball HD – If you’re an avid pinball fan, this is a must-have! The game features 3 pinball tables — Wild West, The Deep. and Jungle Style. Each table has its unique gameplay. Plays in both landscape or portrait mode. The graphics on the iPad version could be more clearer, but it’s definitely worth the sale price for this week! Normally $2.99, both the iPhone and iPad versions are 99 cents. iPad Version (99 cents) | iPhone 4 Version (99 cents)

Color Stream – If you’re a designer, you may be interested in this app. It’s a nifty color palette tool. You can take photos in the app and it’ll pick out 5 colors from the photo for you and give its hex numbers. Very simple to use and no need to pull out Photoshop to take a screenshot. This app was $2.99, but is currently on sale for free! I also linked a lite version in case the price goes up when you read this article. iPhone Version (Free) | iPhone Lite Version (Free)

The Crystals of Atlantis Deluxe – It’s similar to other match-3 games that you played before. Goal is to make crystal matches so your historical artifact pieces fall down to the lower level. Special power-ups are given for matches of 4 or more. Gorgeous graphics; a definite must-download! iPhone/iPod Touch Version (99 cents)

Paperless Lite: Lists + Checklists – here’s a beautiful way of keeping lists and checking them off. Add a cute little icon for each type of list. Very simple and. Straight-forward. Free version allows up to 15 items in a list, paid version allows more. Try it out for free!
iPhone Lite Version (Free) | iPhone Version ($1.99)

Price is Right – Never been a contestant on Price is Right? But now you can with this app! See how well your know your prices and play various games to get to the showcase showdown! New in this version is customization of your player’s avatar. It was $4.99 but is currently on sale for 99 cents! iPhone Version (99 cents)

Pocket Creatures – Here’s a virtual pet you can carry around with your on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or even iPad! Teach, play, and explore the world with your new virtual pet. Normally $2.99, now on sale for 99 cents.
Universal Version (99 cents)

Zombie Infection – Action-adventure game where you fight your way through hordes zombies. Amazingly realistic graphics that’s a must for zombie lovers. Be aware of realistic violence. Game is available on both iPhone and iPad platforms. Normally $6.99, this is a sale too hot to miss! iPad Version (99 cents) | iPhone Version (99 cents) | iPhone Lite Version (Free)

Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition – Your favorite monkeys are on the loose again! Keep your monkeys rolling in orbs as you collect bananas and race to the finish line. Mini-games include Monkey Base, Monkey Target, Monkey Golf, and Monkey Bowling. Have an endless fun time with this accelerometer game! This iPad game was $14.99 but is now on sale for $3.99. iPad Version ($3.99) | iPhone Version ($2.99)

Glee cast, Conan O’Brien, Betty White, Tina Fey help Fallon open Emmys

In the kind of semi-randomly star studded Emmy opening viewers have come to expect over the years, host Jimmy Fallon tapped the cast of Glee for a musical sketch based on the idea of raising enough money for the Glee actors to afford tickets to the Emmys. Along the way, Betty White surfaced as a dance instructor, while 30 Rock’s Tina Fey was along for the ride – and when the sketch broke into a performance of Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run, American Idol judge Randy Jackson joined a guitar-clad Fallon on stage to provide bass duties. But the first real laugh of the night came when Fallon quipped “NBC asking the host of Late Night to come to Los Angeles to host a different show. What could possibly go wrong?” to nervous laughter, until the camera cut to a bearded Conan O’Brien in the audience, who saluted the camera. Fallon then quipped “Too soon?”

Jewel performs new song “The Shape of You” In Memoriam on Emmys

Jewel will perform a song on the Emmys tonight, and it won’t be one of her hits. The song, entitled The Shape Of You, will performed during the “In Memoriam” segment of the broadcast and is a unrecorded song she wrote for a friend. “It’s a song I wrote for a friend that passed away,” Jewel told NBC during the Emmy pre-show. “It’s a personal song an it’s not recorded.” She went on to say that the performance will be just her and her guitar with no band, and that it’s not an easy song for her to sing, due to its personal nature. The Shape Of You was released released a few days ago in iTunes.

Jewel Kilcher has sold more than twenty million albums in her career, with hit songs including Who Will Save Your Soul, You Were Meant For Me, and Foolish Games. She has no Emmy history, but she’s been Grammy-nominated three times over the years.

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NBC oops: Conan O’Brien could win Emmy tonight for canceled Tonight Show

Remember Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show? It was announced by NBC five years in advance, and then canceled after a mere seven month airing. Even more embarrassing, since Jay Leno retook the helm of the Tonight Show, Leno has failed to even generate the same ratings that Conan was seeing this time last year – ratings which NBC considered bad enough at the time to give Conan the boot. But just when it seemed everyone involved in NBC’s latest late night fiasco had moved on, with Conan’s “Late Night” replacement Jimmy Fallon hosting the Emmys tonight on NBC, here comes trouble. As it turns out, Conan’s turn on the Tonight Show managed to become Emmy-nominated during its brief stint on the air. Let the fun begin.

On a night meant to serve as the triumphant coming out party for Fallon, who has up until now been all but lost in the shuffle amid the Leno-Conan controversy, tonight’s Emmys might instead be best remembered as the night Conan O’Brien finally gets his public revenge on NBC – not only by winning an Emmy for a Tonight Show run that NBC couldn’t wait to bring a halt to, but by delivering an on-air acceptance speech for the award. Not only would Conan be upstaging host Fallon (who, in fairness, has done nothing wrong in all of this), he’d be doing so live on NBC. This might be one year in which NBC ends up wishing some other network were airing the Emmys.

Jimmy Fallon Emmy hosting gig: more Conan or Letterman

Tonight Jimmy Fallon heads down path that’s long been a proving ground (or in some cases the opposite) for late night talk show hosts over the years: hosting a major awards show, in this case the Primetime Emmys. We’ve seen Conan O’Brien do it, and we’ve seen David Letterman do it, and now the titular host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon gets his shot at the 2010 Emmys. Fallon finally gets his chance to sink or swim on his own, after having found himself unexpectedly caught in the crossfire for nearly all of his late night tenure, as his 12:35am show was supposed to follow Conan, then ended up following Leno and Conan, and now follows just Leno. For his part, Fallon’s show has largely been considered an afterthought in the newly reignited (and uglier than ever) late night talk show wars. The former SNL cast member has seen mixed reviews of his show thus far, with Jimmy offering extended love-em-or-hate-em skits, struggling to figure out how to take advantage of the talented house band The Roots, and often delivering monologue jokes that would have been funny if he hadn’t visibly given up on them halfway to the punchline – something he’s only recently begun to overcome. Fair enough, considering it took Conan three years of hosting Late Night before he figured out how to make his material work.

But sink or swim, tonight it all about Fallon, Fallon, and more Fallon. There’s no Jay Leno involved tonight (thankfully), so it’s Jimmy’s chance to finally get out from under the shadow of the much-missed Conan O’Brien (then again, Conan’s canceled Tonight Show may will win one or more Emmys tonight, which would be a dagger in the heart of NBC, which just happens to be the network airing the Emmys tonight). If anything, David Letterman might be the name bearing the most weight on Fallon’s mind tonight. Fifteen years ago, Letterman hosted another awards show, the Oscars, and bombed to the point that his “Oprah, Uma” joke still lives in infamy – and no one has invited Letterman to host anything since. Still, even as Leno and Conan have continued to play musical chairs at NBC, Letterman still has his 11:35pm job at CBS all these years later, so perhaps bombing as an awards show host isn’t a late night career killer after all. But then again, Jimmy Fallon’s late night hosting career is still getting off the ground.

iPad inventory issues solved, new second generation iPad this week?

Apple’s iPad, which has been seen inventory constraints for as long as it’s been on the market, has finally turned the tide. The tablet computer, which had long been back ordered by seven to ten days on apple.com, saw that constraint ease last week to a mere three to five day wait. And now all six iPad models are listed as shipping within twenty-four hours. This includes all three capacities of both the iPad 3G and the wifi-only iPad. The iPad 3G had been in particularly tight supply early on in its existence.

Meanwhile, iPad sales have apparently continued to remain steady, with Apple having announced a million units sold before it had been on the market for a month, two million units in less than two months, and three million iPads within three. Assuming the iPad has maintained the same sales velocity, the improved shipping times mean that iPad inventory shortages have finally been solved.

Interestingly, the milestone (coincidental or not) comes a mere four days before Apple is set to hold its annual September press event. While the event has traditionally been used to showcase the new fall lineup of iPods each year, the sudden and drastic improvement in iPad inventory could be a result of Apple having ceased sending inventory of the existing iPad to retail stores, instead opting to blow out remaining iPad inventory via its website, in advance of newly revved iPad model. While the word “iPad” has all but disappeared from the Apple-related headlines of late, this week’s event could see the introduction of a second-generation iPad with higher storage capacity, a faster processor, or even a camera. All such speculation should be taken with a grain of salt, as we’ll find out in four days whether the sudden easy availability of the iPad is because Apple has finally managed to start manufacturing them by the bucketload, or because they’re being burned off in advance of the next generation. Either way, we’ll have full coverage of Apple’s impending new product lineup all week here on Beatweek.com.

Paris Hilton drug bust, Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods divorce: who cares?

The biggest headlines of the week in the entertainment industry is that Paris Hilton was arrested for alleged possession of cocaine and Lindsay Lohan has been released from rehab. The big headline of the week in the sports world is that Tiger Woods saw his divorce from Elin Nordegren finalized. My question is this: how can these be the biggest entertainment and sports headlines? The Tiger Woods thing I almost get. He’s the most successful golfer of his generation, he was dominating the sport like no other until his infidelities surfaced, his game has stunk ever since, and now that his divorce has gone through, will his golf game bounce back or sink further into a funk? It’s a bit of a cheat, a way to drag a tabloid-level headline onto the sports pages, but it’s almost understandable.

The Paris Hilton thing, however, is another story. How many movies does she have coming out right now? When’s her next album? Is her old TV show The Simple Life coming back to the air, and I somehow missed it? In other words, her recent bust has no impact on any functional aspect of the entertainment industry. If her bust were interfering with the filming, release, or promotion of a new movie, then it would be a relevant headline for the movie industry news pages. Same goes for Lindsay Lohan, whose rehab stint had no impact on the entertainment industry one way or the other.

Maybe it’s just because these are the dog days of summer and there’s a lack of actual news coming out of the entertainment and sports universes. After all, the fall television lineup hasn’t begun yet, the biggest new albums don’t start rolling out until next month, football is still in the preseason, and baseball hasn’t yet gotten serious about the pennant races. But my gut says that even if there were real news coming out of these industries, the drug busts of actresses whose careers are no longer active and the private lives of golfers would still be dominating the headlines. Oh well.

Rihanna is on Twitter for real: “no more corny label tweets”

Rihanna’s presence in social media is nothing short of massive, with nearly eight million Facebook fans and more than a million Twitter followers. But the singer hasn’t really been on Twitter – until now. Earlier today, Rihanna used her Twitter account, which had until now essentially been just a series of promotional posts, to announce that’s she “finally took over my Twitter page” and that we can expect, in her words, “no more corny label tweets.” Her announcement tweet was promptly retweeted by, at last count, more than four hundred followers, with her name currently being mentioned on Twitter more than once per second. The singer is enjoying chart success with her new collaboration “Love The Way You Lie” with Eminem.

New iPod touch, nano, shuffle, and classic: what to expect Wednesday

Next week’s Apple event likely means updates to some of all of the current iPod lineup. Here’s a common-sense look at what’s likely to change, and what’s likely to stay the same…

iPod touch: there will be a new iPod touch, the question is just how new it’s going to be. It’s well past time they get a camera into the thing, if for no reason other than the fact that there are so many photography apps that Apple is losing potential revenue on, because touch users can’t buy those apps. I’ve thought since 2007 that the iPod touch would only really make sense as a mobile communications device if it came with an optional cellular data plan, because what is the point of owning a pocket device that can do email and internet and Twitter and Facebook and Weather and Maps and all this other cool stuff, but only when you’re at home and you have your computer there anyway, or only at starbucks, a place you’re at just long enough to get the wifi code, type it in, fix the typo you just made, finally get onto the wifi, and by then you’re done with your coffee. And now the iPad has exactly that, an optional 3G chip with a nice little $15 a month data plan, I can’t help but wonder when Apple is going to get around to doing the same with the iPod touch.

iPod nano: is there anything the nano can’t do? But then again, Apple could sell the iPod touch at a loss and still make a big profit through app store sales. But the nano is a different beast. People buy music for it, but the lack of App Store sales for the nano makes me wonder at what point Apple gets tired of the nano not much money after the fact a blows the nano in favor of some kind of iPod touch mini. But then again, of all the apps your iPod touch, how many of them would you want to use at half size on a tiny nano touchscreen?

iPod shuffle: it’s just gonna keep getting smaller. The funny thing about the shuffle is it now has, what, eight times the capacity of the original shuffle, this time maybe it goes to sixteen times the capacity, and yet it still has that same interface motif of hearing one random song after another. But then again, if they put a screen and a click-wheel on it, then it becomes an iPod nano.

iPod classic: the iPod classic used to be 160 GB, and now it tops out at 120 GB, gee, I wonder why? The minute the iPod touch goes to 128 GB, the classic is gone, and for two reasons. One is that it’s still sporting an interface from 2004, which is to a company like Apple is embarrassing. And other other reason is that sales of the classic contribute nothing to App Store sales.

Hey Monday interview

With a top ten album and the current iTunes Single of the Week, singer Cassadee Pope and her South Florida rock band Hey Monday have it all right now – except a bass player, but we’ll get to that in a minute. As Cassadee gets set to celebrate her 21st birthday this week, she fills us in on writing songs about her relationships, and how she feels like she’s still living something of a normal life despite hanging out with the likes of Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson…

Hey Monday seems to be able to get away with breaking all the tried and true rules of rock star success. In an age where bands whose members are a mere twenty years old almost have to be emo to fit in, these guys make music that’s way too upbeat to fit the profile. For their second record they released a six song EP instead of the expected full length album. They’re from South Florida, a region which produces nationally popular musical acts about as often as it produces snowstorms. They’ve not only named themselves after one of the days of the week, they’ve chosen the least popular of the seven.

And to their immense credit, lead singer Cassadee Pope even broken the unspoken rule that says you don’t get on the phone with a music journalist a few hours after one of your fellow band members just announced he was quitting the group. Even with the departure of bassist Jersey Moriarty and the newfound need to find a replacement, Cassadee has plenty to celebrate this week. Not only did the band get away with the short runtime of Beneath It All, its release last Tuesday saw it climb all the way to the number one spot on the Alternative Rock chart in iTunes. “It was kind of a bummer at first,” she says of the fact that the rest of the music from the Beneath It All sessions won’t arrive until March of 2011 in the form of a deluxe re-release. “I guess that’s the way the industry is heading, more products in a shorter amount of time. It’s actually a better thing for the fans because they get more music overall than they were expecting.”

The strong debut apparently got the attention of someone at Apple, as the company tapped the band’s song “I Don’t Wanna Dance” for this week’s free single of the week in iTunes. “That’s something that I actually found out about three days ago. It’s kind of been a whirlwind,” she says of the last minute nature of how things seem to be suddenly coming together for the band commercially, after grinding away at it since they were fresh out of high school.

Of course bands only rise this quickly if the songs are there to make it happen, and that’s left Cassadee parsing over her own personal history – and in one case, that of a friend – for lyrical inspiration. “These are definitely real life experiences for me. Actually there’s one song on the record called Mr. Pushover that’s not actually about me, but it’s about someone that I know. All the other songs on there are relationship based, and they’re from my point of view. It’s definitely something that I’ve been through, and something that I’ve experienced. It’s easy for me to write from my own experiences, and it’s something I have to sing every night, so I feel like I really have to get into it.”

When one of those experiences led to a song whose most obvious choice for a title just happened to be the same title once used by both Pink Floyd and Incubus for different songs in different eras, Hey Monday wasn’t intimidated by the seemingly daunting challenge of releasing a single entitled Wish You Were Here. “We didn’t really go into it thinking that it was going to be this big, timeless song. We just loved the message that it put across. It’s a song about missing people and wishing they were there, and the hook is ‘wish you were here’ so we didn’t want to just kind of ignore that.”

Michael “Jersey” Moriarty was, when the week began, Hey Monday’s bass player. But then, as a sign of the times, he posted a Twitter link to his Tumblr page announcing his departure from the band. As it turns out, he had made up his mind to quit before the band’s Warped Tour stint had even ended, but he’d agreed to finish the tour and the band had decided to keep it quiet. “We didn’t really want to let it out yet,” Cassadee says of the announcement, having initially planned to keep wraps on the news until the completion of their current three-piece acoustic mini-tour, just in case Moriarty changed his mind about leaving.

“We really do wish Jersey the best of luck. This lifestyle isn’t for everyone. The three of us are extremely happy with our lives and what we’re doing. The fans don’t have to worry about the rest of us,” she says of the band’s quickly growing audience, which includes more than three hundred thousand Facebook fans alone. She then goes on to address a topic head-on that hadn’t even been raised in our conversation: “I know some fans are saying it’s leaning towards me becoming a solo artist, and that is not the case at all. If that were the case, then they would hear about me kicking out members, not band members quitting on us. Trust me, I don’t want band members quitting. It’s out of my hands, and we respect his decision.”

With the last of the acoustic dates wrapping up this week, Hey Monday has about two months to find a new bass player before the start of a fall headlining tour which kicks off at the end of October, appropriately enough, in the band’s native Florida. Although there are a few candidates for the job already, “We’re not gonna make anyone a permanent member yet. It’s risky to make someone a permanent member and then touring with them and it not working out, and then having to make another announcement. That’s just something that we don’t need. We’re just gonna take it slow. Mike and I started this band and we’re still in it together, and Alex has been here since the beginning.”

But that doesn’t mean the band won’t officially be a foursome again by the start of the tour: “It’s looking like [touring drummer Patrick MacKenzie] is going to be a permanent member.“

As if there weren’t enough going on this week in Hey Monday’s world, it turns out Cassadee Pope turns twenty-one this Friday. As is so often the case for bands who tour for a living, she’ll be on the road that day, at a shopping mall in Delaware where the band is set to perform its final live acoustic gig. That won’t stop her from flying home to West Palm Beach that night to spend the last two hours of her birthday with her family – but another one full day at home, it’ll be straight back up north to New York City for one last acoustic performance. This time, rather than being an in-person concert, it’s a live-streaming show for Facebook.

It’s not exactly the way most people spend their late teens and early twenties. But having been in bands non-stop since high school, it’s the only form of adult life Cassadee has ever known. Even as some of her old friends are nearing the end of college, a path she never took, she’s on the one she says she’s wanted to be on since she was five years old. “I’ve been working for this my whole life. It would be weird to actually have a normal adult life, I think.”

Despite the decidedly non-rock-star choice of still living with her parents when she’s not on the road, there’s no escaping the small fact Cassadee’s band is signed to a record label run by Fall Out Boy co-founder Pete Wentz, which has put her in close quarters with not only Wentz but his wife Ashlee Simpson. But the starstruck-ness has since worn off, at least with Wentz. “We talk all the time. Whenever I see him it’s exciting because he’s like my brother and he’s an awesome guy, and not because he’s Pete Wentz.”

With the chart topping EP now under their belt and the full album due in the spring, Hey Monday is almost certain to be one of the hottest bands of 2011. But they’re already the most successful rock band of their generation to emerge from South Florida – a scene that a generation ago barely existed. But as the de facto spokesperson of that new scene, Cassadee says “It’s small, but it’s there for sure.”

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