1. Donald Trump has revealed the lineup for the upcoming season of Celebrity Apprentice, and the rather depressing roster of “celebrities” includes Arsenio Hall, Clay Aiken, Dee Snider, Debbie Gibson, and Real Housewives star Teresa Giudice. [via Deadline]

2. Les Miserables director Tom Hooper has offered the choice roles of Eponine and Cosette to Taylor Swift and Amanda Seyfried, respectively. Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and Sacha Baron Cohen are already on board the project. [via Collider]

3. Pop icons (and longtime mutual admirers) Madonna and Kylie Minogue are finally going to be performing a duet together as part of a British TV special honoring Minogue’s 25th anniversary in music. Any guesses as to what they’ll sing? [via Vulture]

4. The Kardashians are rumored to be launching a new magazine with American Media, the publisher of Star, The National Enquirer, and Shape. Word is that the girls will be involved with the project editorially, but it’s unclear at the point whether it will be more of a fanzine or a lifestyle title. [via NYP]

5. Patti Smith wrote a song inspired by Amy Winehouse that will appear on her next album. “We were at [New York studio] Electric Lady doing a whole other song and I wrote Amy a little poem when she died and my bass player, Tony Shanahan, wrote a piece of music and the two matched perfectly.” [via NME]

Bonus Buzz: 30 Billboards That’ll Make You Say WTF

It’s not news to anyone that nudity in music videos is a bona fide fad. But Kylie Minogue’s just-released video for her whispery, sensual dance-floor anthem “All the Lovers” has confirmed a trend within a trend: The naked-on-the-street video. After the jump, check out the orgiastic, potentially NSFW Kylie clip, as well as the recent videos that may have helped inspire it.

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Are media outlets abusing the word “hipster” in headlines “2 get hits”? Yes. Because it’s hard out there for a blogger. Well that, and love ‘em or hate ‘em, stories about hipsters are usually a juicy read. After the jump, find our second installment of Hipster Headlines, a round up of the most interesting hipster-related stories of the week. Leave links to anything entertaining that we’ve missed in the comments.

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In a music world where cross-genre dissemination is the norm, it takes truly incongruous pairings to raise eyebrows. That’s exactly what happened when it was announced this past week that legendary black-metal artist Xasthur is working with the sweet coos of freak-folkie Marissa Nadler on an album to be released later this year. It remains to be seen if the combination will yield creative dividends; plenty of other odd projects have done nothing but inspire awkward hilarity.

And then, there are a few that are pure magic. After the jump, find some of our favorite musical collaborations from the most unexpected of pairings. Leave a comment and let us know which ones we left out.

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In the Mean Girls universe, Norwegian pop princess Anne Lilia Berge Strand would be Public Frenemy Number One. Some girls get hated on because they’re too pretty. Others, because they’re too smart. Worse are those who are both pretty and smart. And if she happens to be popular with the boys, then you may as well call her Carrie and fetch the pig blood. On the surface, Annie seems built to order. But on the afternoon we caught up with her to discuss her long-awaited sophomore CD Don’t Stop, she had been up all night DJing, helped a friend in the morning, and stayed up waiting for our call.

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I am a very bad homosexual. Last night, I was late — LATE — to catch Kylie Minogue’s first EVER American tour. In my defense, I assumed that, like me, Kylie would be working on gay time (the show was supposed to go on at 8:00 p.m., so I figured I’d be fine if I made it there by 8:30). But, by the time I rushed in at 8:20, I’d missed the entire first song. I was upset — until I got a brief glimpse of Kylie’s first outfit. It appeared to be a teddy covered in pink feathers. Needless to say, I knew things were headed in a good direction.

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Australian rock legend, screenwriter, actor, and novelist Nick Cave is out with a scorching, hypersexual, operatic new novel — and groundbreaking audiobook — about a salesman rushing headlong toward his own bad end. The Death of Bunny Munro confronts the pageantry of male sexual perversion, the insatiability of consumer desire, and the insane capacity of the human heart to tolerate heartbreak and mystery. By turns hilarious, terrifying, poetic, and all too familiar, the book is a sharp-edged romp through the depraved subconscious next door. Flavorpill’s Shana Nys Dambrot caught up with Cave to talk about life, death, and multimedia publishing. Read More »

Named after an ’80s fantasy flick starring Matthew Broderick and Michelle Pfeiffer, New Zealand’s Ladyhawke is carrying the torch for the decade of her birth in a big way. The artist, known to her family as Pip Brown, released her self-titled debut album in the U.S. this week. A mix of retro-synth pop, dance-floor cool, and timeless tunes, the record has already charted everywhere from her native continent to her adopted home of England, where she is currently on her first headlining tour. While Brown is drawing comparisons to everyone from Pat Benatar to Peaches, she’s also drawing a host of celebrity fans, including Kylie Minogue and Courtney Love.

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According to this report from Bloomberg, “Dubai defied the economic crisis last night as stars flocked to South African billionaire Sol Kerzner’s Atlantis resort for a $20 million party that included the world’s largest fireworks display dazzling enough to be seen from space and a performance by pop singer Kylie Minogue.”

Fireworks that can be seen from space and Kylie Minogue? We think there’s a disconnect. She will always be the poor man’s Madonna to us. Odds are Kerzner used a British party planner — even frosty Queen Elizabeth flips out over Kylie.

If you were spending a reported $4.4 million to book the talent at the best party ever, who would you hire as the entertainment?