Sandra Bullock & Jesse James. Photo: (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage

So it appears Jesse James has deleted his Twitter account while rumors of him cheating on Sandra Bullock with a hood rat named Michelle McGee are breaking everywhere.

Why delete his Twitter account if he wasn’t cheating?  That would be the perfect forum to say it’s not true.  It also seems he would have conversations with Michelle through Twitter and, interestingly enough, Michelle twittered after Sandra Bullock won the Oscar that she is not getting enough sex lately.  Hmm.

Bottom line; If Jesse kept his twitter to himself, he may not be in this situation.-Dr.FB

Lenny Kravitz on the cover of Mix Magazine, March 2010

Lenny Kravitz celebrated the 20th anniversary of “Let Love Rule” with a 2CD deluxe edition of the album, filled with unreleased material and a fantastic live show from 1990, as well as a completely sold out world tour. Since then, he has been recording and finishing his long awaited “Funk” album “Negrophillia” in his studio in the Bahamas.  All along the way, he has been bringing his fans along for the ride. LIKE NEVER or ANYONE BEFORE!

Kravitz uses the Internet in a unique way to correspond with his fans directly.  Not in the whole “hey guys, what you have dinner” rhetoric you get when following a Kardashian on Twitter but with the posting of a photo of him in the studio recording and released minutes after it is shot or a video of him creating a song or just chilling in the Bahamas with family and friends. 

He uses his Twitter and Facebook accounts for that purpose andhas an outstanding 1.6 million people following him on Twitter in less than a year with no project to promote at the time.  1.6 million??  With no radio play or real media attention?  See, Lenny understands the new technology of interactions with fans like no other artist.  Get the music and news straight to the fans and they will find a way to get it. A short “making of” film of the song “Super Love” has already created a huge buzz online. The video was posted the same night the song was recorded, completely unprecedented and proving the love Lenny has for his fans. This has made “Negrophilia” the most anticipated album of 2010 amongst music fans, critics and Internet users all over the globe.

There was a classic video of Lenny getting lost on his way to an Atlantic City performance entitled “Lost In Borgota” that was filmed by Mathieu Bitton on his iPhone that other artists may have been embarrassed about but Lenny took you on that adventure.  That moment captured by Bitton was a stroke of creative genius and started the now fan-favorite series of short films by Bitton. “We were in the elevator filming a 30 second twitter shout out about the show when we suddenly realized we were lost and no one was coming to get Lenny to bring him to the venue” says Bitton. “Lenny just looked at me and said “Take out your phone and film, this is some ridiculous Spinal Tap shit and we gotta share it with the people.” The rest is history. The movie ended up on MSNBC and CNN worldwide and was the most talked about online film that week.

When a snippet of the unreleased Michael Jackson track “Another Day” written and produced by Lenny was leaked on a mix tape that R.Kelly put out, Lenny, within hours of the leak, recorded a video statement via Twitter about his frustration with the song being released in that manner and wanting to get a proper version out to the fans.  This became his most watched and re-tweeted post to date. We hear Lenny spent most of that same night mixing and finishing the track and is hoping for a release by Sony this year. Sony stepped in to remove the unreleased version off any web site carrying it. 

With Lenny’s new CD coming out this fall, his 1.6+ million Twitter followers are sure to grow along with many artists trying to use the LK way of new promotion in this digital and Twitter age. 20 years into the game, Lenny is way ahead of the curve and is schooling younger artists on self-marketing in the new age of online marketing. “What I love about Lenny’s usage of this medium is that he does it all with the fans in mind. He doesn’t ever want to over saturate them or give them unnecessary information. Everything has to be up to his standard of class,” adds Bitton. “I am witnessing the making of Lenny’s greatest album yet, the one he was born to make and am so proud to be here to help bring it to the REAL people. The fact that Lenny is embracing this new technology is sure to help the album reach more fans and make more new fans than ever before.”

Also, Lenny is headed to Los Angeles to attend the NAACP Image Awards where he is nominated for bestsupporting actor in Precious and then the Oscars where the film has 6 noms.

If you’ve been missing out on Lenny’s adventures, be sure to follow Lenny Kravitz on Twitter. You just never know where he’ll take you.-Dr.FB

P.S. – While you’re at it, follow Drfunkenberry on Twitter too.

Kevin Smith File Photo

Kevin Smith was kicked off a Southwest plane after being told he was too fat to fly and a flight risk.

Kevin was flying out of Oakland back to Burbank and was already seated when he was kicked off the plane.  Kevin took to his Twitter account and sent off a slew of attacks on the airline and the embarrassment that followed. 

They did offer Kevin a $100 dollar voucher for his trouble and Kevin said they chastised the women next to him as well for not buying an extra seat even though Kevin said he was not a risk. 

Kevin took another Southwest flight out of there and pointed out he flew out to Oakland and flew back to Burbank so does not understand what the pilots deal is.

Kevin will be addressing this on his podcast tonight.  Wonder how soon until they start weighing people before they get on a flight or ask for your weight description when purchasing tickets.  Bet it happens soon.  But if you have a bomb in your underpants, hey, step right up and take your seat.-Dr.FB

Ironically enough, Southwest responded to Kevin on their Twitter account  saying they were sorry for his experience.

Pete Wentz & Ashlee Simpson. Photo: SplashNewsOnline.com

Pete Wentz took a break from his Twitter to attend a New York Knicks basketball game last night.

Pete, who either really cares about his fans or was trying to get away from Ashlee, was on his Twitter talking about how the group he is in, Fall Out Boy, may be over and done.   He was responding to almost every single person who would contact him about the situation.  That’s what press releases are for.

Again, too much time on his hands or does he care about his fans?  Will you miss Fall Out Boy?-Dr.FB

The Grammys last night had a problem.  Actually, they had a lot of problems and I am about to address some of them right now.

First of all, the Grammys need to follow the Golden Globes lead and what the Oscars have done for years and that is go LIVE around the United States and the World.  We are living in an Internet world where people use Twitter and Facebook to converse and we have friends in different states that are watching it live while we wait for 3 hours, but we see them tweet about performers and awards. 

As we become more advanced, the need for LIVE shows is more important.  Trust me, people on the West Coast get screwed on finding out the results of American Idol as well. 

The Grammys were so heavy on commercials that it made me wish I DVR’d them instead of wanting to watch them live.  That was some lameness right there.  You don’t have a host so it cut down on time, but it doesn’t help when we are getting 15 minutes an hour of commercials. 

 If you guys are so strapped for cash then maybe you need to come up with this: “Here is the Best New Artist Award, brought to you by Target.  Target.  Where you get crap for less.”  I mean you are already commercialized so much any way, we wouldn’t really notice and then you would not have to go to a break so quickly.

Another thing is Adam Lambert got so much crap from censors about his performance at the American Music Awards.  You want to know what is more annoying to me?  When the Black Eyed Peas are performing and you hear about 10 seconds of dead audio because they just had to curse.  That was sooooo 1993. 

The Lil Wayne, Eminem and Drake performance was even worse.  It is not enjoyable at home and I am ALL about artistic expression but B.E.P. and Em, Wayne, and Drake, your performances were straight booty because you not being professional enough to keep it clean for TV.  It is the most annoying thing to not have audio for that long.  Can’t you think of other words that rhyme with duck or lit or pucker?  Come on now.  Show your versatility.

Lastly, the Grammys gave out a BUNCH of awards before the show.  Taylor Swift’s first ever Grammy was given before the show aired.  We missed her excitement.  Lady Gaga did not win any awards on the telecast but actually won 2 before the show.  Maxwell won R & B male but we did not see it.  Jay Z won two awards for D.O.A. and Eminem won for best rap album but we did not know.

Toby Keith talked about the grammys not giving Country music respect.  Sorry, but  for R & B music and Rap music categories to be ignored the way they have is horrible. 

A message to the Grammys, the MTV Awards, The American Music Awards, the TV networks and Award show producers need to figure this out and make some changes or the Grammys next year won’t be in my home, they can go home.-Dr.FB

Katy Perry. Photo: SplashNewsOnline.com

Katy Perry was walking in the rain again and it seems she took our advice and got a new umbrella and put away her Hello Kitty umbrella.

Gotta lover her outfit as well.  Nice dress, nice tights, nice heels and a nice jacket over it.   She took to her Twitter “should I even shower or just stand outside for 1 minute?” 

Only if I can watch Katy.  Would Russel mind?  Nahhhh.-Dr.FB

The Golden Globes are going to be a star-studded affair with confirmations of:

Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Sam Worthington, Matthew Fox, and Leonardo DiCaprio with more to be announced.

I am happy that the Golden Globes will be aired live on all coasts with no delay.  Hopefully in this Internet age of Facebook and Twitter, more award shows will go live like that.

Well….to be honest, I am looking forward to the after parties.  Who will be my designated driver this year?-Dr.FB

Pearl Jam File Photo

Want the new Pearl Jam song “Breathe” for FREE?

Click here to find out how! 

Very cool promotion if you ask me and also gets you a lot of followers on Twitter.-Dr.FB

Lindsay Lohan. Via. Lindsay Lohan's Twitter

Lindsay Lohan is starting 2010 with hopes for a fresh start and a new beginning. She twitted this:

“Starting my new year off with friends& family, the way it should be….. No boyfriends and the other drama.”

“Peace and Love Mates.”

Boyfriends?  Is Lindsay forgetting she was in a long relationship with another woman?  Is it a new start or just selective memory?-Dr.FB

DrFunkenberry Funk Logo

Hey everyone! I hope everyone is enjoying their December and staying warm as we funk up your holidays!

There have been some changes made to the site, some very noticeable, some not so noticeable.

After The Grammy Nomination Special where we Twittered live from the event, we decided to have a special Twitter update on the right hand side of the site, for those that follow us on Twitter and for those that do not have a Twitter account.

We got rid of the log in feature and you should easily be able to leave comments.  You can just put your email address as 123@aol.com and it will take it.

Also, for those of you on Facebook, a feature will be added to where you can be logged in with your Facebook account to leave comments just as easily as you do on a status update.

2010 is going to be a big year for drfunkenberry.com and you can bet I am not resting and going “oh, it’s December” I can chill for a month and wait for 2010. Oh. Heaven. No. 

There will be other changes made as we try to make this site a force and increase our visibility which we cannot do without YOU and I am so grateful to you guys.    Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!

So let me know what you think of the new changes and if there is anything you are missing in regards to the site.-Dr.FB