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It sounds like something out of “Portlandia”: a group of classically trained cellists playing elaborate, earnest covers of Britney Spears, Talib Kweli, Pantera and Kanye West. Probably with organic soy bows and fair-trade sheet music, am I right? At first blush it might seem silly, and the Portland Cello Project isn’t the first to try it, but when it comes to rap-covering cello collectives, Portland residents will tell you it’s always best to buy local. The Portland Cello Project (PCP for short) was formed in 2007 when a group of cellists gathered to rehearse classical music for a bar gig. “Cellists just all really get along well. It’s kind of a weird stereotype,” said Douglas Jenkins, artistic director and founder of PCP. Jenkins also said that forming a cello group is easy because of the instrument’s versatile range. PCP was playing classical music at a few bars in Portland but didn’t receive much attention until they started playing pop covers. “O...

By Jozen Cummings NBC Christina Aguilera on “The Voice.” Judges have their final two singers, both of whom sing one song each. For the contestants, the only competition is their fellow teammate. Who moves on is determined Tuesday evening. Tonight, each performer sang exactly like you would expect them to: like they only had one shot left, and they had to make it count. Singer: Tony Lucca Team: Adam Song: “How You Like Me Now” by The Heavy This is the second week in a row Lucca has made an impression on judges, and likely, the viewers at home. Last week’s cover of Britney Spears’s “Hit Me Baby One More Time” brought down the house, and this week’s cover of the lesser known hit by The Heavy proved no different. Wearing a natty dark suit, with a skinny tie, Tony Lucca came out guns blazing, with fancy footwork and a voice that set a very serious tone for the semifinals. Singer: Erin Willett Team: Blake Song: “Without You” by David Gu...

Image Credit: Jo Hale/Getty Images Sorry, but: Oops, they did it again! (Again, so sorry.) After calling Voice popster Christina Aguilera “a total bitch” in a radio interview last week and semi-apologizing for it , the British boy band the Wanted are now gossiping about Britney Spears behind her back â€" literally. The group showed up on New York’s Fresh 102.7 this morning to talk about their experiences with Spears, whom they opened for in Manchester last fall. “We signed a confidentiality thing that we should never say anything about what happened, but let’s tell it anyway,” said the Wanted’s Tom Parker, the same dude who lobbed the b-word at Xtina. Fellow member Siva Kaneswaran took the baton from there: ”I was in the hallway with me tour manager. Basically we were looking with a laptop, trying to get wifi… facing the middle of the hallway. [Britney's] bouncers came down with her and told us to face the wall.” “As Miss Spears is wal...

Britney Spears has reportedly sold her Beverly Hills home for $4.25 million. The pop-princess has been trying to sell the mansion since 2008.Though the price of the sale is quite high, it's nothing compared to the value of other celebrity homes. According to Zap2It , Spears actually paid $6.8 million for the lavish home, which she barely lived in. After purchasing the mansion in 2007, Spears was in an out of psychiatric institutions and suffered from from a mental breakdown. Perhaps she was so anxious to sell the plush pad because it holds too many bad memories. This past year, a number of pricey celebrity mansions entered the housing maket while others were purchased by the likes of Justin Bieber or Tom Brady. Here are the most expensive recent rents/buys and asking prices of celebrity homes!

Jason Gets This Kiss Britney's kisses belong to future-husband Jason Trawick. Read More » Britney's 30th Birthday A look back at Britney's life in photos. Read More » Britney Does The Twist Pics of the icon playing the iconic game. 4 Photos » For every Britney Spears album released, there seem to have been at least handful of recorded tunes that didn’t make the cut. The latest such shelved mystery is “This Kiss”, which is doing the rounds online and is said to be an unreleased track from the Circus era (i.e. it was recorded sometime around 2008). It’s a cutesy little number with squeaky, blipping synths, laser gun noises and vocal effects that makes Spears sound as if she’s singing underwater. Lyrically, “This Kiss” is pretty basic (“Right when I saw the door, you walked in an I fell to the floor” is just one sampling.) But the tune should give Brit’s fans something to buzz about during her latest be...

A previously unreleased Britney Spears track called This Kiss , apparently recorded during the Circus sessions in 2008, has made its way onto the internet, and although the production is more reminiscent of her more recent direction with Femme Fatale , the track is pure old school for the pop star! Give it a listen (above)! Would fit like a glove onto her earlier albums, right? But we certainly can understand why it didn't make it make it onto the album! Happy to have it now, though! How about U?? Ya dig? Tags: britney spears , circus , leak , music , old school , pretty , sessions , this kiss , unreleased Posted: Apr 30, 2012 at 9:10 am / Email this   »

A previously unheard Britney Spears song has appeared online. The track, titled 'The Kiss', was originally recorded as part of the sessions for Spears's sixth studio album Circus , which was released in 2008. Lyrics include: "This kiss, this kiss, this kiss, just wants you again. This kiss, this kiss, this kiss, just loves you my friend." The song missed out on making the final Circus album, which went on to reach number one on the US Billboard 200 and number four on the UK chart. Meanwhile, Spears's fiancé Jason Trawick was recently approved as her co-conservator ahead of her alleged $15m (£9.4m) fee to appear as a judge on the next series of The X Factor USA. > Should Britney Spears join 'The X Factor' USA? Listen to Britney Spears's 'The Kiss' below:

In my ninth grade confirmation class, the very first thing we learned was that “Britney Spears” is an anagram for “Presbyterians.” Saturday night, I was treated to another undeniable link between two of history’s biggest celebritiesâ€"Britney and Jesusâ€"with the production, “ SPEARS : The Gospel According to Britney.” Given all the hype surrounding the show, which sold out the limited space in the Glicker-Milstein Theater in under a minute, it was hard to know what to expect and how high my hopes should be. However, “Spears” delivered in high fashion. The tone of the show was incredibly appropriate for a story which has so much potential to go wrongâ€"plenty of fun, as befits the music, but surprisingly reverent in places. And yes, the music worked. In fact, part of the fun was how absolutely jaw-droppingly perfect some of the numbers were. Never in my life did I think I would hear the song “Lucky” sang about Our Lord and Savior and feel ge...

Kevin Mazur/WireImage Robin Williams ain't gonna be hunting for goodwill from Britney Spears anytime soon. We caught up with the legendary funnyman at the Comedy Awards on Saturday in New York City and noticed that the Oscar winner seems to have a matrimonial streak running through his life at the moment: He recently got hitched to graphic designer Susan Schneider , and he's currently set to star in the ensemble comedy The Big Wedding , about a divorced couple pretending to be married en route to their son's wedding day. Natch, this prompted us to pose a pop quiz to the quick-witted comedian about the biggest spouse-themed, hot-button topic currently boggling all of pop culture: that Britney Spears ' fiancé, Jason Trawick , was recently named her co-conservator . Is this the matrimonial wave of the future? Or a sign of the apocalypse? MORE: Jason Trawick Not Just Britney Spears' Fiancéâ€"Now He's Co-Conservator! "One of the signs of...

Kevin Mazur/WireImage Robin Williams ain't gonna be hunting for goodwill from Britney Spears anytime soon. We caught up with the legendary funnyman at the Comedy Awards on Saturday in New York City and noticed that the Oscar winner seems to have a matrimonial streak running through his life at the moment: He recently got hitched to graphic designer Susan Schneider , and he's currently set to star in the ensemble comedy The Big Wedding , about a divorced couple pretending to be married en route to their son's wedding day. Natch, this prompted us to pose a pop quiz to the quick-witted comedian about the biggest spouse-themed, hot-button topic currently boggling all of pop culture: that Britney Spears ' fiancé, Jason Trawick , was recently named her co-conservator . Is this the matrimonial wave of the future? Or a sign of the apocalypse? MORE: Jason Trawick Not Just Britney Spears' Fiancéâ€"Now He's Co-Conservator! "One of the signs of...

-( E Online ) Kaley Cuoco tweeted pictures of herself (along with hair-stylist pal Jen Atkin ) on a boat trip covered in neon body paint that highlighted every curve of her banging bikini bod. The 26-year-old Big Bang Theory star has been sharing her Caribbean holiday adventures in Anguilla with fans via Twitter , -( LA Times ) Britney Spears   is taking a multimillion-dollar loss by selling her Beverly Hills-area home, but she’ll be shedding some bad memories along with that square footage. The mansion â€" purchased in a big rush in December 2006 after the pop star filed for divorce and left the Malibu home she’d shared with Kevin Federline â€" is the same joint she was embarrassingly hauled out of more than once on her way to mental health-related hospitalizations in 2008. -I need to say that I was actually the one who asked the Sixers’ Evan Turner about the upcoming series with the Bulls first, and my query was the one that led to his respons...

-( E Online ) Kaley Cuoco tweeted pictures of herself (along with hair-stylist pal Jen Atkin ) on a boat trip covered in neon body paint that highlighted every curve of her banging bikini bod. The 26-year-old Big Bang Theory star has been sharing her Caribbean holiday adventures in Anguilla with fans via Twitter , -( LA Times ) Britney Spears   is taking a multimillion-dollar loss by selling her Beverly Hills-area home, but she’ll be shedding some bad memories along with that square footage. The mansion â€" purchased in a big rush in December 2006 after the pop star filed for divorce and left the Malibu home she’d shared with Kevin Federline â€" is the same joint she was embarrassingly hauled out of more than once on her way to mental health-related hospitalizations in 2008. -I need to say that I was actually the one who asked the Sixers’ Evan Turner about the upcoming series with the Bulls first, and my query was the one that led to his respons...

By Erika Riggs, Zillow This week in celebrity real estate Yankees' star Derek Jeter relisted his bachelor pad penthouse for $18 million, Meg Ryan is hoping for a buyer for her Bel-Air home and Britney Spears' estate may have finally sold. Derek Jeter relists New York City bachelor pad for $17.95 million Zillow Derek Jeter's bachelor pad includes a full-size pool table. Want to live like Derek Jeter? For close to $18 million you can. The Yankees shortstop has recently listed his enormous bachelor pad in the Trump World Tower for sale â€" $2 million less than when he listed the home previously in 2010. Talk about connections; Jeter bought the Manhattan home directly from Donald Trump in 2001 for $12.72 million. Reportedly the superstar is looking to downsize from the 5,425-square-foot penthouse. With a 30,000 custom estate on the waterfront in Tampa, Fla. , listing agent Carrie Chiang , of the Corcoran Group told the NY Post that Jeter just wa...

By Erika Riggs, Zillow This week in celebrity real estate Yankees' star Derek Jeter relisted his bachelor pad penthouse for $18 million, Meg Ryan is hoping for a buyer for her Bel-Air home and Britney Spears' estate may have finally sold. Derek Jeter relists New York City bachelor pad for $17.95 million Zillow Derek Jeter's bachelor pad includes a full-size pool table. Want to live like Derek Jeter? For close to $18 million you can. The Yankees shortstop has recently listed his enormous bachelor pad in the Trump World Tower for sale â€" $2 million less than when he listed the home previously in 2010. Talk about connections; Jeter bought the Manhattan home directly from Donald Trump in 2001 for $12.72 million. Reportedly the superstar is looking to downsize from the 5,425-square-foot penthouse. With a 30,000 custom estate on the waterfront in Tampa, Fla. , listing agent Carrie Chiang , of the Corcoran Group told the NY Post that Jeter just wa...

By Erika Riggs, Zillow This week in celebrity real estate Yankees' star Derek Jeter relisted his bachelor pad penthouse for $18 million, Meg Ryan is hoping for a buyer for her Bel-Air home and Britney Spears' estate may have finally sold. Derek Jeter relists New York City bachelor pad for $17.95 million Zillow Derek Jeter's bachelor pad includes a full-size pool table. Want to live like Derek Jeter? For close to $18 million you can. The Yankees shortstop has recently listed his enormous bachelor pad in the Trump World Tower for sale â€" $2 million less than when he listed the home previously in 2010. Talk about connections; Jeter bought the Manhattan home directly from Donald Trump in 2001 for $12.72 million. Reportedly the superstar is looking to downsize from the 5,425-square-foot penthouse. With a 30,000 custom estate on the waterfront in Tampa, Fla. , listing agent Carrie Chiang , of the Corcoran Group told the NY Post that Jeter just wa...