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Gwen Stefani Talks No Doubt’s Studio Progress

Gwen Stefani took some time out from No Doubt’s studio sessions in California to visit New York City for Fashion Week last week. Rolling Stone reports that Stefani previewed her “military and punk-inspired” fall line of her L.A.M.B. clothing collection on Thursday, and then spoke at the event about No Doubt’s studio progress.

Speaking on No Doubt’s current status, Stefani noted that while her bandmates had worked on some material while she was on her solo tours, now “things are kind of starting over, you know what I mean? We might revisit some of that stuff, but it’s the same old chase. It doesn’t matter how we get there — we want to get there, we will, and we’re having fun doing it.”

Stefani also said that the band has been inspired lately by the music of the ’80s. Stefani said, “The last few weeks, we’ve been listening to the worst of the ’80s, in the sense of bad but good. Pop songs, one-hit wonders, nifty songs, things like that. You just go back and find things that you love, and try to figure out how they made them. We just listen to good songs, and then writing our own stuff, we try to pull it out wherever we can.”

When asked, “What was the last thing I was listening to?,” she replied, “Lionel Richie. I love him.”

From FMQB

No Doubt Tweet About Progress On New Album

After solo projects, family time and last year’s summer reunion tour, it looks like No Doubt are getting down to business on their long-awaited sixth studio album. The band, which has been working on the project intermittently over the past few years, has taken to Twitter to keep fans updated.

“Tony and Gwen are rocking the synth. Our little studio is warm and candlelit, above the glowing city. Tom,” guitarist Tom Dumont tweeted on Wednesday evening.

Dumont has been tweetingabout their progress for the past week, with the first landing on January 20. “Back in the studio together writing today. Synth horns=cheesy but fun. :),” he tweeted.

The following day brought even more work for the group as Dumont tweeted a close-up picture of bassist Tony Kanal in the studio with singer Gwen Stefani.

The bandmembers worked on new material without Stefani for some time. “Tony, Adrian and I have been busy preparing material for the album since this time last year,” Dumont told MTV News in an e-mail in 2007. The following year, drummer Adrian Young talked loosely about the new material. “It seems like we’ve always come from an eclectic background musically,” he said. “But we seem to always gravitate towards reggae. I can’t say that’s what our record is going to be like, ’cause it’s too early to tell, but what makes us feel really good is reggae music. I can play reggae music to my grave.”

Last May, the group used an appearance on “American Idol” to preview what Stefani called “the procrastination tour” (with Paramore opening), and made a cameo appearance on “Gossip Girl,” covering Adam & the Ants’ 1981 track “Stand and Deliver.”

The band hoped to use the tour as a way to reconnect and find inspiration for their new material. “Once we reconnect onstage and reconnect with all the people who have supported us, I think it’s going to inspire us to make an amazing record,” Kanal said before the tour.

From MTV

Hot New Harajuku Laptop Sleeves by Gwen Stefani

Rocker mom Gwen Stefani is all about the tech accessories! Just a couple of months ago she showed off her fashionable L.A.M.B laptop sleeves in N.Y.C. And now she’s introduced a Japanese-inspired Harajuku Lovers collection which includes laptop sleeves and bags for your beloved gadgets.

This 13-inch Kanji Girls print Harajuku Lovers sleeve ($35) is made from poly twill fabric and includes an enamel heart logo zipper pull in black and white. And don’t worry, with its water resistant fabric, and quarter-inch protective foam filler, your laptop will always stay protected from the elements.

From Geek Sugar

Bon Jovi, Gwen Stefani Take (Taylor) Swift Action

Jon Bon Jovi and Gwen Stefani are following in Taylor Swift’s sports-bar-crushing footsteps — because the two pop stars are also suing a hometown drinking establishment for allegedly jacking their music.

According to a lawsuit filed in Minnesota last month, several of Gwen and Bon Jovi’s compositions were publicly performed at Sally’s Salloon & Eatery — and they claim the bar never got the licensing it needed. Now Bon Jovi, Gwen, and all the other people who own copyrights to their music want the bar to pay damages … and stop playing their songs.

This could be a crushing blow to the local watering hole — because as we all know, a bar without Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” is like a bird without wings.

Calls to Universal Music Group weren’t returned. A rep at Sally’s wasn’t even aware of the lawsuit.

From TMZ

Gwen Stefani Lightens Up With Sunshine Cuties

Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers have touched off a flurry of activity at Coty, creating five new juices, new outfits, optimistic tans and pedicured toes.

The newest incarnations — dubbed Sunshine Cuties — are limited edition summer scents, which will hit stores in February.

“We wanted to change up the outfits, because that’s what they are — little fashion plates,” said Stefani during a recent interview. “We did that first with the Snow Bunnies [an earlier flanker project], and then we started thinking, ‘Let’s change up the fragrances.’ So we did, and we based the scents on their personalities and a sort of summer fun feeling.”

Stefani was excited to get back into the fragrance labs. “I find [the fragrance development process] difficult but a lot of fun,” she said. And she had a built-in testing group: “I was on tour earlier this year, so I had a whole group of wives and girlfriends to try the fragrances out on,” she said, noting she also developed her spring apparel line while on tour. “There’s not one that I wouldn’t wear. And what’s fun about having five is you have five chances that people will like at least one of them!”

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