During an interview with Rolling Stone, the beauty explained that as she is maturing as a woman she is exposed to different behaviours and experiences that change her opinion on things:

"I did a song with Snoop Dogg called 'Ashtrays and Heartbreaks,' so people can put it together for themselves. I think alcohol is way more dangerous than marijuana – people can be mad at me for saying that, but I don't care. I've seen a lot of people spiral down with alcohol, but I've never seen that happen with weed."

Despite not admitting to using the drug herself, she did confess that she's glad it's not illegal in the state she currently lives in:

"As long as it isn't illegal, there are far more dangerous things. And it's legal in the state of California. So I'm happy to live in California, a place where you can be whoever you want to be."

The full interview will be available in the July 4 edition of the iconic music magazine. 

Check out her new single, 'We Can't Stop', below:

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Papa Roach Announce Headlining European Tour

Deluxe Edition of ‘The Connection’ Available Now

“The ‘Roach have a lethal combination of easy confidence, crunch and songs the whole room can join in with. Each song plasters gleeful grins across faces..” Kerrang 8/10

Thank Satan for Papa Roach.” Metal Hammer 9/10

“A career defining performance that will silence many a critic.” Rocksound

The Grammy-nominated, multiplatinum alternative rock band Papa Roach will be heading back to Europe in support of their latest album The Connection (Eleven Seven Music).  The band announced the tour just before their storming main stage appearance at Download Festival at the weekend.  This will be their first headlining tour since 2009 and kicks off in Portsmouth on December 1st, finishing at Brixton Academy on Dec 10th, bringing Middle Class Rut and Amercian Fangs along as support . After visiting the UK as part of the Taste of Chaos tour in 2010, co-headlining with Stone Sour last year, as well as Sonisphere and Download Festival appearances, one of this generation’s greatest live rock bands is now back headlining in their own right.

Papa Roach recently released a deluxe edition of The Connection in Europe, which features a bonus DVD of their live performance at Club Nokia in Los Angeles.  Fans can purchase this special package at www.paparoach.com.

More on Papa Roach:

Papa Roach released their sixth full-length studio album (second for label home Eleven Seven Music), The Connection on October 2012.  The album was produced by rock veteran James Michael (Sixx:A.M., Halestorm) and John Feldmann (Panic at the Disco, The Used) and has been receiving critical praise across the board.  In their 4K review Kerrang declared it was “the sound of a band who know their craft inside out, but who aren’t afraid to grow and try something new”, Metal Hammer said that the band “have defiantly proved their calibre once more” and Rocksound commented that the album was “as energetic and downright urgent as any Papa Roach have produced in the last 10 years”. Papa Roach has sold upwards of 10 million albums worldwide.  The band boasts two Grammy nominations, an MTV VMA nomination, as well as eleven Top 10 rock hits, seven Top 10 alternative hits and can claim the Most Played Alternative Song of the Decade (BDS) with their breakthrough single  Last Resort. .Known for their electrifying and explosive live shows, Papa Roach has become responsible for some of the most successful rock tours in recent years.

Papa Roach Tour Dates December 2013:

Sun 1st                    Portsmouth Pyramids

Mon 2nd                 Sheffield Academy

Tue 3rd                    Birmingham Academy

Thurs 5th                 Manchester Academy

Fri 6th                      Dublin Academy

Sun 8th                    Glasgow Barrowlands

Mon 9th                   Newcastle Academy

Tue 10th                 London Brixton Academy

Tickets are £20 except for Glasgow £18.50 and London £22.50

www.livenation.co.uk/artist/papa-roach-tickets

www.elevensevenmusic.com

www.paparoach.com

www.facebook.com/paparoach

@paparoach

For more information, please contact:

Kas Mercer 0208 3544111 or email kas@mercenarypublicity.com

Cameron Whiley is a rising star of the UK hip-hop scene and the 19-year-old has just released his new single, 'Reh Reh Reh'. The track's video has been viewed over 150,000 times on YouTube, so what better time for Pressparty to catch up with the Nottingham lad to find out more.

What's the story behind 'Reh Reh Reh?'

The story behind the song is actually quite a funny concept, to be honest. Me and a group of mates were walking out. It was snowing at the time, and someone thought it'd be funny at the time to stick a stone in a snowball and dash it at one of us lot. It actually missed us and hit the group of lads in front of us. To cut a long story short, they all got bit distempered and started causing arguments. Me being a young kid at the time, I was at the front of pack. I got hit over the head by them - next thing I know, black eye. We were in the studio all week, so the next day I went back there and got to the studio and my head opened up again and started bleeding.

The producer said 'What's happened to your head mate?' and said there's a track here, you should start writing about it. The actual track took about a week to make. It was never actually intended at all - it was one of those ideas we thought we'd just lay down. I then started relating to different things that had happened, like arguing with the missus, and obviously it says in the track that I woke up the next morning on the sofa. Next thing, I look in the fridge and there's no milk so that really pissed me off. I go to the shops to find that some geezer is trying to hold it up. Basically, it's a series of events that happened in a week, but we tried to cram it all in a day so that it would make a track.

So what does 'reh reh reh' exactly mean?

It's a common thing in Nottingham. Say I'm in an argument with my girlfriend and I can't quite think of what I'm trying to say - I'm still trying to put a point across. I've got to come up with something. It's just like cutting a long conversation down, if you know what I mean. It's like slang. It's a common saying round here.

How would you describe your sound?

I'd say it's ska-infused hip-hop, although I like to mix up a lot of different genres. If I'm doing a gig and there's people at the gig, not everybody likes the same music - I like to make a different track for different people so that everybody gets a piece of the cake. My own unique sound is definitely ska-infused hip-hop. Madness do a lot of ska stuff, so I thought 'Why can't we mix good old ska with a bit of up-to-date hip-hop?'.

Along with Madness, what sort of acts have influenced you?

Madness are a main influence. My mum and dad have always liked them but the person who loved Madness the most in my family was my grandad. He used to listen to it all the time. The things that kind of motivate me more today are the underground artists. My main inspiration are my family - I can't really put my inspiration down to anyone in the music industry; I listen to music but I don't vibe off anyone, if you know what I mean. My family push me. If it weren't for my family, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing. Going down the music side of things, the artists that kind of appeal to me at the minute are like Mumford & Sons. They've got a lot of stories to tell. I've really got a feel for that at the minute. Old UB40 too - some of their stuff was absolutely brilliant.

What plans do you have for the future? Is there an album in the works?

We've already got about 22 tracks, but we're just going to keep making more. We're not really looking at releasing an album yet - we're making tracks as follow-ups, if you know what I mean. And then we'll possibly think about putting out an album. But at the minute, we're just trying to build a name for ourselves, because this is a long-term project - we don't want to just come and go.

You have been writing since you were about 12 - do you feel like your hard work is now paying off?

Definitely. It's been about seven years now, but I'd happily do another seven years hard work. It's not fully paid off yet though, there's still a lot more work to do.

How far do you think you can go?

As far as life takes me really. You can't really put a limit on that kind of thing. You just gotta make what you can make and hope for the best.

Did you ever think about going on something like X Factor or Britain's Got Talent?

A lot of people said I should go on Britain's Got Talent, but I don't believe in the whole X Factor thing - that's purely for singing. If you've got this amazing voice and an amazing face then yeah, you can probably get through to the finals or whatever. I've never really watched it all, because I'm not really too sure about it.

Would you consider yourself to be like a poet?

I do actually. I thought to myself 'Right, there's only going to be one way about this - you either sing or you rap'. Obviously I do write tracks that are like poetry, but I work with them. It's poetry to start off with. I write down a lot of stuff, then alter the bits and bobs, just so the story makes sense. I don't like it when people just go on and waffle about nothing. There's no point. That's a money maker. I like things that people can relate with. I like to make sure everyone's happy. This is the entertainment industry - we're in it to entertain people, this is our job. We have to think about audience and have to engage them.

Listen to 'Made to Love below

Made To Love by johnlegend

John Legend has unveiled his stunning new single 'Made to Love'. 

Taken from his forthcoming new album Love In The Future, the track will be released on August 25th in the UK.

'Made to Love' was produced by Kanye West, Da Internz, Dave Tozer and Nana Kwabena. Kanye also serves as the album's co-executive producer.Love In The Future will be released on September 2nd. 
John will play the Wireless Festival main stage on Friday, July 12th.

The singer's smash hit 'Blurred Lines' has jumped up from No.6 to the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

It means that the suave star is currently enjoying double success either side of the Atlantic, with the track also No.1 in the UK.

His US chart victory sees Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' 'Can't Hold Us' drop to No.2, whilst Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' is at No.3.

As previously reported, Robin Thicke recently admitted that he feels Justin Timberlake's foray into R&B sounds has "opened a door" for his own career. He said:

"[Justin Timberlake] actually helped me a lot because his sound went more R&B and soulful and that's what I've been doing my whole career, so it really opened up a door."

The group - who comprise of original Sugababes trio Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy - are releasing 'Flatline' as their maiden song.

On Thursday (June 13) the band issued a sampler of the track online, with just over one minute of the song previewed.

Mutya Keisha Siobhan (MKS) said on Twitter at the time: "So excited to present to you all a preview of our brand new single Flatline!"

MKS's live schedule is currently sparse, but the group are booked to play at the Brighton Pride festival on August 3.

Member Tom Parker revealed to MTV that 'Walks Like Rihanna', which is the group's latest offering, was played to the Bajan beauty recently and she enjoyed it:

"We met her manager in New York and he said that he really liked it and that she really liked it which is always a good sign 'cos if she hated it we'd be in a pretty bad place."

The Wanted also explained that Justin Bieber and 'Shine Ya Light' songstress Rita Ora will feature on their forthcoming new album:

"Dr Luke, Rita Ora, Nasri who does a lot of Bieber's stuff [and] Justin himself. Nath's back so yeah I think it's gonna be our best album yet and hopefully there'll be a couple of surprise collabs there as well."

Watch The Wanted perform the song live here:

The 'Party in the USA' star recently released 'We Can't Stop' as her latest single and it has proved a hit across the world.

Producer Mike Will Made It told MTV that the track was actually meant for Rihanna - but she was too busy to listen to it. He said:

"It was kind of crazy 'cause...when I originally worked on 'We Can't Stop', we had did it for Rihanna. The idea was more towards Rihanna. And then Rihanna, she heard [her 'Unapologetic' track] 'Pour It Up', and then she got on 'Pour It Up' right away. And she didn't even hear 'We Can't Stop'. So then we finished up the record."

Speaking about Cyrus's take on the track, Mike Will Made It added:

"She liked it, so I thought we were going to knock out one record, and we ended up going in, caught a good vibe, and she's real cool, regular person. We went in, she nailed the record, and she did it with her swag. So it sounds totally different than from what we originally tried to come up with."

The veteran singer is releasing the track 'Woman's World' as the first song from her forthcoming new album.

She posted an image of the colourful artwork on Twitter, which sees the singer seemingly wearing a wig.

Cher added that she will be playing the song on The Voice US soon, revealing:

"I'll be celebrating my new single 'Woman's World' with a performance on the finale of @NBCTheVoice on Tues 6/18!"

Cher meanwhile revealed in April that her new album had been completed, suggesting that Scissor Sisters man Jake Shears appears on one of the songs.

She later commented: "Truthfully, I'm not a huge Cher fan and I've said this many times, but I think this is the best album I've ever done."

As previously reported, the US star is due to release the track 'Tunnel Vision' as the next cut to be lifted from his comeback album 'The 20/20 Experience'.

It will follow previous singles such as 'Suit & Tie' and the No.1 'Mirrors'.

The artwork for 'Tunnel Vision' sees Timberlake's face cut out in such a way that it resembles a naked female body.

The 'Cry Me A River' star meanwhile announced at the weekend's Capital FM Summertime Ball event that he will tour the UK in 2014.

The singer and actor was hosting the Wembley Stadium event, but he took time out to perform an acoustic set.

Timberlake will also perform at this year's Wireless Festival in London in July - once solo and then alongside Jay-Z.

The pop-rockers will release their next studio record 'Anthem' on July 1 in the UK and Europe.

It will be preceded by the single 'Get The Girl Back', with the group also confirming eleven tour dates for December.

The jaunt will kick off in Glasgow on December 3 before concluding in Milan on December 17.

Speaking about their album, Taylor Hanson said: "We have always been in awe of the ability music has to engage people, whether it’s a song that makes you want to dance, or a song that inspires you to take action for a cause. We want this record to be the anthem for all of those moments."

The full Hanson tour schedule meanwhile is as follows:

Dec 3 Glasgow UK ABC
Dec 5 Manchester UK Ritz
Dec 6 Cardiff UK Solus
Dec 7 Birmingham UK HMV Institute
Dec 8 London UK Indigo O2
Dec 10 Tilburg NETHERLANDS 013
Dec 11 Cologne GERMANY Luxor
Dec 13 Paris FRANCE Trabendo
Dec 14 Solothurn SWITZERLAND Kofmehl
Dec 16 Rome ITALY Palatlantico
Dec 17 Milan ITALY Magazzini generali

Tom describes his music as ‘an expression of my experience of people, situations, places, and society’ and cites his influences as including Bob Marley, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Counting Crows and John Harper.

The four tracks from the ‘Lost’ EP were recorded in four different major London recording studios, where Tom worked with Matt Lawrence (Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, Patrick Wolf), Tony Platt (Bob Marley, Rolling Stones) and Oli Savill of Basement Jaxx who played percussion on Tom’s final EP track ‘Fortune Favours’.

Tom has made the lead track from the EP 'Lost' available on SoundCloud, which you can listen to here: https://soundcloud.com/tom-dibb/lost

You can also catch Tom and his band performing live on stage, as well as exclusive performances from Tom’s own campervan which he has nicknamed Pickle, throughout this Spring and Summer. These include main stage performances at Bug Jam and Beach Break Live. Full listings can be found below.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TOM DIBB PLEASE VISIT

Website - www.tomdibb.com

Music – www.soundcloud.com/tom-dibb  

Videos – www.youtube.com/tomdibbmusic

Facebook – www.facebook.com/TomDibbMusic

Twitter - @TomDibb / @PickleTheCamper

TOM DIBB LIVE SHOWS

Line Up: Tom Dibb (vocals, acoustic guitar), Josh Roberts (Percussion), Oscar Golding (Electric Guitar) and Hugh Richardson (Bass).

22nd June - Beach Break Live, Newquay, Cornwall – 16:30

7/8th June - Bristol Volksfest, Bristol – 12:00

3rd July - ‘Lost’ EP Launch Evening @ Troubadour, London – 22:00

5th-7th July - Cornbury Music Festival, Charlbury, Cornbury – 12:00

19th July - Bug Jam, Wellingborough, Northants – 20:00

17th August - VW White Noise, Norwich – 23:00