“The song I released wasn't even supposed to be a
single. I guess after it came out… they were like,
'You've got to do a record now, it's kind of a big
deal.’”
-JC

7/7/04

More info on Stars Over Mississippi
(7/7/04) Stars Over Mississippi

October 1-2, 2004

1-877-330-STAR
(1-877-330-7827)

$30 Field Seating
$20 Stadium Seating

Wynonna to Headline "Stars Over Mississippi Concert"
Brad Paisley to Co-Headline
Tony Danza, Patricia Heaton, and Lance Bass to Host

Joining this spectacular array of stars will be Emmy award winning actress Doris Roberts, Emmy award winning actor Brad Garrett, Emmy award winning actor Sean Hayes, Emmy award winning actress Jean Smart, Emmy award winning actress Kirstie Alley, Grammy nominated Broadway legend Michael Feinstein, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour. In addition, regulars Emmy winner Debbie Allen, Emmy winner Gary Collins, former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley, former Miss Mississippi Mary Donnelly Haskell, singer Guy Hovis, and Broadway's Laurie Gayle Stephenson.

Complete schedule coming soon at StarsOverMississippi.org

 

JC New mag interview
(7/7/04) New Magazine UK (thanks satsuma for the scan and candy for transcribing!)

Mates with Justin Timberlake, *NSYNC singer and solo artist, JC Chasez, 27, is saucy and sexy - his next single is even called All Day Long I Dream About Sex - but is he silly, too?

What's the first record you ever bought?
Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love

If you had to have a tattoo done, right now, what would you have, and where?
I wouldn't. I won't, not ever. Not even at gunpoint. I hate needles, and a tattoo is basically a needle with an engine. That's my worst nightmare.

What size feet are you?
Eleven.

What's your favourite meal?
At the moment, it's sushi. Yellowtail, with jalapeno.

When did you last brush your teeth?
This morning, when I got out of the shower.

Have you ever ridden a horse?
Of course! It's been a while, though. Probably two years. It was on the beach in California.

What would you say if you met George Bush?
Ha! Pleased to meet you. Thanks for playing. Ha ha! [ laughs like a maniac ] I mean, what do you say to this guy? I have nothing to say to him.

If you could go onstage with any band ever, who would it be, and what instrument would you play?
Oh, man, that's impossible... One of my favourite experiences I've ever had was with *NSYNC when we played with Lenny one time.

Lenny from Motorhead?
Lenny Kravitz. We did the harmonies to all his tunes a couple of years back on stage. It was really exciting.

But this is a fantasy question. Don't you ever dream of playing the triangle for Jimi Hendrix?
No, man, like I say, I'm a vibe guy. If we get along, cool, but I could meet someone and they're an @#%$. And the thing is, you can't exactly sing with Jim Morrison (from the Doors). He's dead.

You can in this question.
Well, then, I'd like to eat a handful of mushrooms and sing with Jim Morrison. No, I'm just kidding.

Magic mushrooms are legal now.
No way!

They are. You can buy them in Bethnal Green.
Well, you know, they're not actually harmful, that's why. My uncle's a doctor and he told me that. They taste like hell though. But you didn't hear that from me.

 

Timberlake Pops in on Skid Row's New Seymour
(7/7/04) Broadway.com (thanks MissGAPeach!)

Only On Broadway.com! OK, teeny-boppers, this one's for you! Justin visited Joey at his new gig at Little Shop of Horrors on July 6. Wait a second, you need last names? We're sure you don't, but we're a quality website, so here you go... Ahem. Mr. Justin Timberlake, who spent much of his youth in the boy band 'NSYNC with Mr. Joey Fatone, took in a recent performance of Little Shop, in which Mr. Fatone stars. Take a look at the popstar reunion!

 

Champions Celebration at Skybar
(7/7/04) CFTC Fan Site

*NSYNC INVITES YOU TO JOIN THE CELEBRITY TEAMS FOR THE CHAMPION’S CELEBATION AT SKYBAR IN MIAMI BEACH TO SUPPORT 6TH ANNUAL CHALLENGE FOR THE CHILDREN® FOUNDATION EVENT ORLANDO

(July 6th, 2004)- Multi-Platinum Recording Artist *NSYNC will host their celebrity friends at Ian Schrager’s SKYBAR at THE SHORE CLUB in Miami Beach on Sunday, July 25th, 2004 during their annual Challenge For The Children charity event. This will be the first year that fans will have a chance to be part of The Champion’s Celebration where the Female and Male MVP prizes from the Basketball game are awarded.

Spread throughout walls of intense, cobalt blue, luscious tropical gardens, pools, fountains and pergolas, SKYBAR is a sensual nighttime destination for the A –List from the worlds of entertainment and sports and this amazing event will cap off a weekend that raises much needed money for children’s charities nationwide. Many of your favorite celebrities from film, television, sports and the recording industry will be participating in the weekend. Film Stars Gabrielle Union, Shannon Elizabeth along with NFL players Jason Talyor, Tony Gonzales, Roy Williams and OJ McDuffie will unite with Joey, Chris, JC, Lance and Justin in a series of high-charged sporting events during the weekend.

They will relax at SKYBAR for this final celebration after the signatory event, ‘The Celebrity Basketball Game’. Joining them from the recording industry will be superstar producer Jermaine Dupri, Benji and Joel of Good Charlotte along with sports stars Mike James of the World Champion Detroit Pistons, Luke Walton (Lakers), Richard Jefferson (Nets) and television actors Elisha Cuthbert (24) and Beverly Mitchell (Seventh Heaven).

LIMITED TICKETS to this incredible evening celebration are available at all Ticketmaster outlets, www.ticketmaster.com. There are still some tickets available for the ‘Celebrity Skills Challenge’ that will take place on Saturday July 24th on the beach at Collins Avenue and 21st. With a dramatic setting of sand and surf, fans will be able to see these great athletes, actors and recording artists in a series of fun battles on the beach. On Sunday, July 25th the action moves to The Office Depot Center for the weekend’s signatory event, the ‘Celebrity Basketball Game’, when the Daze will battle the Knights for locker room bragging rights. Tickets to both of these sporting events are available now at all Ticketmaster outlets.

For more information on the charity and CFTC VI, log onto *NSYNC’s official web site, www.nsync.com. Challenge For The Children was created by the members of *NSYNC in 1999 to offer financial support to children’s programs and charities throughout the country. The foundation’s focus includes funding for schools that have suffered educational cutbacks for sports and music education. Special attention is paid to children’s healthcare causes including, but not limited to, pediatric AIDS, adoption and foster care, alcohol/drug prevention programs and the fight against teen violence.

 

JC's Get Busy remix
(7/7/04) GamePro

JC Chasez is probably best known for his part as a member of boy-band *NSYNC, but the singer/songwriter is taking a different tack with his latest solo effort Schizophrenic. Having collaborated with the Basement Jaxx as well as contributing a track to the Drumline soundtrack, Chasez is breaking out from his boy-band past and exploring a variety of musical genres.

For this remix, Chasez took the MTV Music Generator 3 for a spin with Sean Paul's Get Busy. What does the result sound like and how did he do it? Check out the video to find out!

 

By Alan Spearman/The Commercial AppealRolling along
Stars help spin back time to big bang
(7/7/04) Bill Ellis The Commercial Appeal

Scotty Moore was nonchalantly cool when it came time.

"Hope the record doesn't skip!" he joked before pressing the play button on a vintage Ampex reel-to-reel tape machine at precisely 11 a.m. Monday inside Sun Studio.

The music that started up is, by now, a familiar strain of blues meeting country, rural meeting urban. Five decades ago that sound was something vibrantly new.

The song? Elvis Presley's debut, "That's All Right," recorded 50 years ago to the day with guitarist Moore, bassist Bill Black and Sun founder/producer Sam Phillips.

The celebration? The birth of rock and roll that got touted in high fashion at the 706 Union studio and National Historic Landmark.

Gathered in the white-tiled room for a "Global Moment in Time" broadcast of the tune was a latter-day Memphis Mafia - mayor-appointed Memphis music ambassadors Moore, Justin Timberlake, Isaac Hayes and Domingo 'Sam the Sham' Samudio along with Presley cohorts Jerry Schilling and George Klein and Sam Phillips's son Knox Phillips.

The song traveled via satellite around the world in a simultaneous spin of the two-minute rock and roll milestone. Between 1,200 and 1,500 radio stations took part, mostly in the United States and Europe, according to Kevin Kane, president of the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau, which has spearheaded the golden anniversary campaign.

About 150 members of the media showed up, according to Liane Ramirez of Goodman Media, which handled credentials for the event. Among those on site were the Today show, Us Weekly, the CBS Evening News and Access Hollywood.

Though rock's birthday is impossible to pinpoint, most experts agree the popular art form coalesced in a seminal way on July 5, 1954, with the arrival of Elvis Presley as an artist and an arbiter of musical taste: a hybrid musical vision that Sun founder/producer Sam Phillips heard and nurtured in the teen performer - whose tastes ran from blues to pop to gospel - and his two country and western-playing cohorts, Moore and Black. Rock was here to stay.

"Elvis was one of the first artists to mix so many different styles of music," said pop giant and Shelby Forest native Timberlake, whose significant other, actress Cameron Diaz, came along for the Sun festivities. "To a lot of people, he did black music. The truth of it is he liked everything and he found a way to put it all in the same package."

Timberlake was part of a pre-global moment panel moderated by Klein, when each celebrity was asked to weigh in on the impact of Elvis (whose many larger-than-life photos looked on from the studio's walls)...

Timberlake didn't perform, but, as if looking to the next 50 years of rock, he and Isaac Hayes revealed they will likely record together at some point, continuing the kind of musical merger that Memphis - and Elvis - are known for.

 

Sugar Ray's drummer likes JC's song
(7/6/04) SugarRay.com (thanks jmnowac!)

Stan Frazier, the drummer for Sugar Ray, answers the survey question "Backstreet Boys or NSYNC?" by circling NSYNC and adding that "JC has a cool song."

 

Justin ranks in teen survey
(7/7/04) PR Newswire

Thirty-three percent of more than 500 girls between the ages of eight and fourteen said that truth or dare is still the most popular sleepover activity, and fifty-seven percent said that boys are, as always, the number one topic of conversation.

This, according to a survey conducted by the makers of the STAR SISTERZ(TM) Collectable Charm Game, a hip, new game perfect for a sleepover, where girls do fun dares and crazy challenges to earn cool, collectable charms.

... Here are some other key findings:

...Aaron Carter (26%) and Orlando Bloom (25.7%) nearly tie as the top teen
heartthrobs, followed by Justin Timberlake (22.5%)...