Screen Gems has teamed up with Entertainment Tonight to share the first look at upcoming “Burlesque” by airing a featurette. Beside containing interview with Cher and Stanley Tucci, the video also takes us behind the scenes of the making of the film, giving a glimpse of Christina Aguilera singing and performing seductive moves on stage.

“Burlesque” follows Ali, a small-town girl who tries to pursue her dreams in Los Angeles. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater, she lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club’s proprietor and headliner. Enraptured by Burlesque’s outrageous costumes and bold choreography, the young ingenue vows to perform there one day.

Ali soon befriends a featured dancer, finds an enemy in a troubled, jealous performer and garners the affection of bartender and fellow musician Jack. With the help of a sharp-witted stage manager and gender-bending host, she makes her way from the bar to the stage and restores The Burlesque Lounge to its former glory.

Christina Aguilera leads with Cher starring as the club’s owner while Cam Gigandet playing Jack. Additionally, Eric Dane, Kristen Bell and Julianne Hough are also cast in the film, which is directed by Steve Antin. This drama musical is slated for November 24 release in the U.S.

Electro-pop duo Goldfrapp wrapped work on their fifth album Head First (due March 9th) just a few weeks ago. “It’s so new we don’t even know what we think about it,” says lead synthesizer tweaker Will Gregory. The pair wrote and recorded the entire record in a six-month blur between March and December of 2009, only breaking to work on the score to the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy. “It was a bit mental,” says lead singer and co-songwriter Alison Goldfrapp. “The last month was a bit scary. But actually I quite like that we just did it, bam, done, next thing. Although a couple of things suffered for it. We’re doing another photo shoot because there wasn’t enough time to pick out what I wanted to wear.”

After skipping down a folkie, pastoral direction on last year’s Seventh Tree, the band has returned full-force to the expansive synth work that made them underground darlings. Absorbing the ethereal atmosphere of Giorgio Moroder’s Cat People soundtrack and the skeletal fuzz-bluster of Suicide’s 1977 melancholy synth-punk blueprint “Cheree,” Head First has an edge that’s softer, warmer and dreamier than Goldfrapp’s Dance Chart-topping club bangers like “Ooh La La.” As Gregory says, “It was more about the way the songs work melodically than it was about being a big electronic racket. We’re just trying to evolve, get closer to the essence of what a bloody good song is.”

Accordingly, the hooks on Head First are the group’s most optimistic and immediate to date. Alison equates a new positive outlook due to a series of life decisions that she won’t elaborate upon, but sums up with, “Yeah, I got happy.” Deliberately setting out to make an “up” record, the band has been listening to late period Abba and Gregory had been spinning Electric Light Orchestra. “It’s listening to things that miss in a particular way,” says Gregory. “ELO misses in a fantastic way, but it definitely isn’t cool.”

Beyond the sessions for Head First, the duo had spent a week in Los Angeles in 2009, blessing pop superstar Christina Aguilera with some retro-futuristic sounds for her upcoming, electro-heavy fourth album Bionic. Although whether the track will be included is anybody’s guess.

“We don’t know what’s happening with it,” says Goldfrapp. “We don’t know whether she’s having an album out and we don’t know if the track’s on the album. We know nothing.” “She was very sweet. Very professional, really on… She knew exactly what she wanted. She was really articulate about what she was trying to do. Just seemed really in control,” adds Gregory. “We got the track to a certain point. But we haven’t heard anything since. It kind of needs finishing.”

When asked what the Goldfrapp/Christina collaboration sounds like, Gregory exclaims, “I don’t remember!”

“Not that good as far as we’re concerned, because it needs some work,” adds Goldfrapp. “So we fucking hope it isn’t going on the record, because it ain’t finished!”

Hard at work on her new movie, Christina Aguilera was spotted filming a scene for the movie “Burlesque” in Los Angeles on Monday (February 1).

After such speculation, Le Tigre are eventually speech most their cooperation with imbibe grapheme extraordinaire Christina Aguilera. Though there’s ease a existence that the “couple of songs” Le Tigre prefabricated with Xtina won’t attain the belter’s sociable album– dubbed Bionic and reportedly cod in April– Le Tigre member Johanna Fateman had lots of constructive things to feature most the implausible pairing in a past journal post. “For a reformist adornment concerned with imbibe music, it was pretty such a imagine become true,” she wrote.

Apparently, Xtina desired to impact with the NYC reformist icons because their lean 1999 post-punk banger “Deceptacon” is her “jam.” (Amazing.) According to Fateman, the megawatt chamaeleon modify utilised LT vocaliser Kathleen Hanna’s “secret mode communicatory FX box” during their sessions, which went downbound terminal winter. Also: Aguilera ostensibly owns “a meg enthusiastic pens.”

Commenting on the eccentricity of the team-up, Fateman wrote, “[we] institute a ton of ordinary connector in our intend to attain upbeat danceable tracks celebrating someone friendship, strength, and of course, PARTYING,” and, “The songs impact a aggregation of elements we’re famous for same a garage bass sound, schoolyard chants, newborn wave-y synths, electro beats, and someways it every sounds madly correct with Christina’s unlikely voice.” We are convinced! Good lord are we convinced.

Le Tigre aren’t the exclusive P4k-friendly acts employed with Aguilera on her newborn LP– Goldfrapp, Ladytron, M.I.A., and Santigold impact clocked in flat instance with the singer for possibleness Bionic tracks, too. Gossip blogs claim the newborn medium is ordered for promulgation in Apr with prototypal azygos “Glam” to impact in the reaching weeks.

- ict magazine

I’ve added new photos of Christina Aguilera out at Wonderland Nightclub, January 29, 2010

CHRISTINA AGUILERA’s fans will have to wait another month to get their hands on her new album – BIONIC has been delayed until April (10).

The highly-anticipated follow-up to 2006’s Back to Basics was slated to hit shelves in March (10), but a statement from the singer’s record label RCA has confirmed the launch has been pushed back by four weeks.

Bionic is now slated for release in April (10), while Aguilera’s first single from the album, Glam, will debut next month (Feb10).

- contactmusic.com

Appearing together in a new public service announcement, the duo are teaming up to raise funds for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Haitian relief effort. Donations will go directly to WFP’s efforts to get food to survivors of Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

The PSA urges viewers to donate $5 by texting FRIENDS to 90999 or visit www.fromhungertohope.com. Your donation of $5 will feed 20 hungry children in the earthquake-ravaged country, according to the WFP.

Aguilera is also the spokesperson for Yum! Brands World Hunger Relief, the world’s largest private-sector, hunger-relief effort that is underwriting the PSA.

“I’m devastated by the toll that the earthquake has taken, and as a mom, I am especially heartbroken by the children and families affected,” Aguilera said. “My goal for the PSA is to inspire as many people as possible to donate to the World Food Programme so they can continue to feed the survivors in Haiti and move them from hunger to hope.”

“The earthquake and the aftershocks in Haiti are among the worst tragedies of our lifetime,” Muhammad Ali said of the tragedy. “I urge people from around the world to open their hearts and give anything they can to help the World Food Programme’s relief efforts in Haiti.”

To see the entire PSA featuring Ali, tune in to Wednesday night’s Entertainment Tonight.

After previewed through a 30-second snippet, Christina Aguilera’s new material recorded for her forthcoming movie “Burlesque” has finally hit the web in full. Titled “Spotlight”, the song is a toe-tapping tune.

This is not the only new song from Christina which has been embraced by music fans. Last week, the “Genie in a Bottle” hitmaker showcased a fresh ballad track entitled “Lift Me Up” during a live performance at the “Hope for Haiti” benefit concert.

Due for November 24 U.S. release, “Burlesque” will see Christina Aguilera playing opposite fellow musician Cher. Other people involved in the making of the soundtrack is top-notch producers Danja and Christopher “Tricky” Stewart as well as singer/songwriter Sia Furler.

I’ve added new pics of Christina at the Pee-Wee Herman Show in Los Angeles, January 23, 2010

Now here’s one album we’re sure Susan Boyle won’t mind taking a backseat to.

The “Hope For Haiti Now” benefit album, which features live recordings from the global telethon of the same name, will debut atop the Billboard 200 album chart, Billboard.com reports.

The digital-only set sold a whopping 150,000-plus downloads since becoming available Friday evening to Sunday evening when the chart numbers wrapped.

The album features music from Beyonce and Chris Martin, Christina Aguilera, Sting, Madonna, Jennifer Hudson, and a brand new song from Jay-Z, Bono, The Edge, and Rihanna called “Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour).”

Boyle, who is still selling strongly since the holiday shopping season ended, will come in at No. 2 with an estimated 80,000 copies of her album, I Dreamed A Dream, sold last week.