Josh on "The Simpsons"! 29/01/2009 | source: joshgroban.yuku.com

Josh recently appeared in an episode of "The Simpsons" as a brave knight who slays an evil dragon! Lisa Simpson considers herself a Josh Groban fan! If you missed it, you can catch it on Hulu.com!

Here's a description of the episode at stake:
In art class, Lisa meets an intelligent girl named Juliet, who also likes Josh Groban, and the two create a fantasy world that takes them away from reality. They deem the land "Equalia" where they are the queens and everybody is equal. However, Lisa soon becomes distracted in school after becoming obsessed with the imaginary land. After meeting Juliet's family and seeing her disruptive behavior, Marge thinks Lisa's friend might be troubled, so she forbids Lisa from ever seeing her again. Lisa becomes angry and runs away with Juliet to a run-down restaurant where they intend to carry out their plans for "ruling" Equalia. She does this by missing her UN Model meeting and Martin contacts Marge and tells her. Marge immedietely goes looking for her but cannot find her. Alas, bullies are using the restaurant as their hide-out, and trap Lisa and Juliet. The girls manage to escape by distracting Kearny with stories about Equalia. The two other guys come, and try to destroy the story, but Kearny stops them. Later, Juliet abandons Lisa, because Lisa wants to go back to the real world. At the end, Homer says that he wants to make his own fantasy story, based on his life as a father, but he can't.

Josh Groban to Work With Metallica Producer! 25/01/2009 | source: www.foxnews.com

Here’s news from the music biz that’s weird and interesting but also potentially troubling for two record companies.

Josh Groban, the young velvet-voiced singer who bridges opera and popular music, is getting ready to make a new album with Metallica producer Rick Rubin.

Yes, it’s a cool idea, but here’s the wrinkle: Groban records for Warner M. Group and producer David Foster. Rubin is the highly paid chief in orbit of Sony Music. Not only should the twain not meet, as they say, but critics of Rubin and struggling Sony might wonder what in the heck he’s doing with a Warner artist and why he isn’t doing a Sony project.

Of course, Metallica isn’t Rubin’s only credit. Recently he produced a dud (sales wise) album for Sony/Columbia’s Neil Diamond. That was nice, but it produced no revenue. Rubin has already cost Sony a bundle and has yet to generate cash. To make matters worse, he made the music company move its west coast HQ to really expensive digs in Beverly Hills from just fine space in Santa Monica. The rub, of course, is that Rubin doesn’t come into the office.

Groban, 27, was one of several celebrities and performers, including U2, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder, who stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration.

"I was very nervous," Groban told OK! at the Huffington Post Pre-Inaugural Ball on Jan. 19. "Heathy nerves though. I try not to get terrified. I think we all wanted to do our best and take a breath and realize that nobody has a harder job than he does right now."

Luckily for Groban, he got the Presidential approval for his performance!

"He said, 'great job, great voice and thanks for being here,'" Groban says President Obama told him after the show. "And I just told him that it was an honor to sing for him and I was available for anything he ever needed, just to let me know."

Groban, who is busy working on a new album right now, says not to be surprised if he writes and Obama-inspired tune!

"I wouldn't put it past me to do it," he says. "I think a lot of us are experiencing what's going on in our country right now and to be young and to be in this historic moment, it's hard not to sit down at the piano with pencil and paper and jot a few things down."

Groban has been so inspired by Obama, that on Tuesday the singer braced the cold along with two million other Americans as he watched Obama be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.

"It was the first political event I've ever been a part of that I've ever been so proud to be a part of," he says.

Be sure to pick up the latest issue of OK Magazine! for eight pages of exclusive inauguration coverage and photos!