Johnny Depp is planning to direct a new documentary about Rolling Stones rock star Keith Richards. This will be the actor’s first project behind the camera in over ten years! The two are reportedly friends and Johnny famously claimed that the rock icon’s behavior was his inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow in the ‘Pirates of Caribbean’ films, which was enough to warrant Keith’s appearance in the last film as Sparrow’s dad. The documentary might be interesting so I’d probably check it out. I’m a fan of both their works anyway and it should be interesting to see how good Johnny would be behind the camera as he is in front of it.

In case you missed it, Lady Gaga made her SNL debut! Besides performing “Paparazzi” and a “Poker Face” / “LoveGame” / “Bad Romance” medley, she was featured in two sketches with Andy Samberg, Kenan Thompson, and surprise guest Madonna! Check out all of Lady Gaga’s show-stealing moments below!

“Paparazzi” Live on SNL:

“Poker Face/LoveGame/Bad Romance Medley” Live on SNL:

Lady Gaga & Madonna Catfight Sketch:

Bubble Suit Sketch:

Ellen DeGeneres fans love the dance-over segment of her show. Record companies don’t.

Large record companies are suing The Ellen DeGeneres Show claiming producers are breaching copyright by playing more than 1,000 songs without permission.

DeGeneres does the nerdy dance routine up and down the stairs between her audience’s seating rows on every show to upbeat numbers such as those by Stevie Wonder.

Defendants in the suit were said to reply to the question of why they didn’t get licences to use the songs, that they didn’t “roll that way”.

The representatives of recording companies in the lawsuit filed in the US District Court in Nashville said: “As sophisticated consumers of music, [the] Defendants knew full well that, regardless of the way they rolled, under the Copyright Act, and under state law for the pre-1972 recordings, they needed a licence to use the sound recordings lawfully.”

The suit claims the daytime talk show has used copyrighted music without permission since its inception, including “recordings by virtually every major current artist of popular music”.

Plaintiffs include Arista Music, Atlantic Recording Corp, Capitol Records, Motown Record Company, Sony Music Entertainment, Virgin Records America and Warner Bros Records.

Source: Splash News

The Danish band has reportedly been using twitter to the best of their advantage in regards to promoting their music. Unlike some musicians such as John Mayer who seems to like using twitter only to waste his personal life while bouncing on and off the idea of self-ruin, the Raveonettes have been posting demos of their as of yet unreleased material on their twitter account. Instead of pointless facts about themselves or their lives, the band are actually making some useful material available to their fans and encouraging them to offer as much feedback on the music as possible. It seems it still takes a bunch of Europeans to teach the experienced guys and gals over there in Hollywood how it’s done.

The music of Lady Gaga is now an app on the iPhone, and “LoveGame” is your game. ‘Lady Gaga Revenge’ is the latest version of ‘Tap Tap Revenge’, the wildly popular, most-downloaded app in Apple’s iTunes store. Tap the targets and shake your iPhone to the beats of 14 Lady Gaga album tracks and smash remixes, including “Poker Face”, “Just Dance”, and “Paparazzi”. With graphics and themes inspired by the videos and style of ‘The Fame’, ‘Tap Tap Revenge’ shows they know how to treat a Lady……

Download ‘Tap Tap Revenge’ from the iTunes store:

Want to MEET Lady Gaga? Download and play ‘Lady Gaga Revenge’ for a chance at 4 tickets to see Lady Gaga live & meet her after the show! To win this once-in-a-lifetime prize, grab your iPhone or iTouch and BEAT ‘Lady Gaga Revenge’. Submit a high score on each track in the game INCLUDING the locked boss tracks. Once you submit a score on every track, you’ve got an entry into the contest.

As if that wasn’t enough – we’re giving away 30 copies of ‘The Fame’ autographed by Lady Gaga! Every day for the next 30 days you can win one of these autographed albums just by submitting a high score in ‘Lady Gaga Revenge’. If you don’t get the game, you can’t win… Click here to download it now. For more info about ‘Lady Gaga Revenge’ and how to win these prizes, check out the Tapulous Blog.

“Paparazzi” Music Video:

Burlesque star Dita Von Teese reveals she wasn’t impressed with the Eurovision Song Contest results.

The 36-year-old performed a burlesque routine with Germany’s entry, Alex Swings Oscar Sings, on track Miss Kiss Kiss Bang at the contest but it failed to grab enough votes to make the top ten and was placed at number 20.

Dita posted a message on her Twitter page that said: "stunned&amazed that the best performances were no where near the top rankings!"

She added: "Denmark, Ukraine, Estonia? All great shows and songs.Shocking!"

But the star soon got over her disappointment at Germany’s performance and revealed she was off to Cannes.

She said: Off to Cannes for the film festival!I’m doing a show at vip room monday night, & then it’s a bit of a holiday for the most part.I’m ready!"

Vanessa Hudgen’s is on the cover of the May 2009 issue of Self Magazine. She also has a starring role in a new film named, Bandslam.

Here’s just five of the 25 things in the May 2009 issue of Self Magazine that she shares with her fans.

On one of her fave celebs: “I’m in love with Angelina Jolie. Everything she does, I adore.”

On her favorite animal: “I love snakes. I think they’re sexy. Not in the wild, of course, but pet snakes.”

On where she wants to take her acting career: “I’d like to do an action film where I could kick someone’s ass. I want to be strong and empowered. I want to shock everybody.”

On the craziest she’s ever eaten: “A fruit bat — specialty in the Seychelles islands. They cooked it in red wine. It was really, really dark, grainy meat. It was quite frightening.”

On what her dad passed down to her: “I have really strong legs. I inherited them from my dad, who has tree stumps for legs, basically. I’ve got big calves that look good. When I wear heels, it looks like I’ve worked out my legs a lot, which is why I love them. I also have a big, big big toe. I call it my goat toe. I can climb anything.”

It’s not profound stuff, then again, what can a 20 year old from California that’s grown up doing Disney movies have to say? She’s young, and I don’t think she has any profound political views yet, though as she matures, it will be interesting to read more of what she has to say. I’m looking forward to her doing action film, I think that would be a great direction for her to go in, especially with her big ‘goat toe’ enabling her to climb anything !!

Vanessa’s on-and-off-screen boyfriend, Zac Efron, is on the May 2009 cover of GQ.

Another American Idol contestant has a new record deal!

Last year’s 4th placed winner Jason Castro, has signed on with Atlantic Records. He’s due to release his debut album later this year.

Castro reached #1 on iTunes last spring with his cover of Over The Rainbow after performing the tune on Idol’s stage.

The album will feature songs written by current AI judge Kara DioGuardi and Grammy award-winning songwriter John Fields as well as several other song writers in the industry.

Congratulations. I love that he is working with such talented writers and producers, and look forward to hearing the collaborative efforts of his new team.

Here is a clip from one of his past performances:

Motley Crue bandmate Nikki Sixx was out and about with LA Ink’s Kat Von D. The couple have been together for a year now and still seem crazy in love. This picture snapped by the paparazzi was taken when they were having coffee together the other day in Malibu.

Just this past February, Nikki apologized for making a female fan cry at one of the band’s concerts, after admitting that the bottle the fan threw back at him was the very same one he threw to the audience.

He introduced the band’s next song on stage and then tossed a plastic water bottle out to the fans. The same bottle was then thrown back at the stage, almost hitting him.

Nikki might be the subject of a cold case that may be re-opened thanks to a recent interview by another of his bandmates.

In a new Hustler magazine interview, drummer Tommy Lee talked about the band’s early days – when they used to hang out at the club Whisky a Go Go. He opened up a 25-year-old mystery that left a police officer’s car soaked with urine.

Lee said:

“There was this unmanned cop car parked in the alley behind the Whisky, and Nikki picked up this stick and smashed in the f—ing window. He took a piss inside the f—ing cop car.”

A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department told WENN:

“It’s not clear whether this is still an open case or whether the officer involved closed it out. If it’s still open, it will be investigated.”

UsWeekly asked Stevie Nicks frontwoman for the band Fleetwood Mac what her thoughts were about Lindsay Lohan playing her in a movie, Stevie said:

“Over my dead body. She needs to stop doing drugs and get a grip. Then maybe we’ll talk.”

Stevie struggled hard to get clean and went through two stays in Betty Ford to kick coke and Klonopin so it makes sense to me why wouldn’t want Lindsay whose behaviour lately has been way too erratic to play her. In fact, the “…Then maybe we’ll talk” is more than reasonable to me.