Melbourne quartet Crayon Fields are reissuing their 2009 album All the Pleasures of the World, as BrooklynVegan reports. The deluxe reissue, to celebrate the record’s 10th annviersary, is pressed on blue/green “galaxy swirl” vinyl and includes B-sides, instrumentals, and covers of ABBA, Roxette, and Kath Bloom songs. Check out the band’s demo version of “Mirror […]
The new Aretha Franklin TV series Genius: Aretha premieres on National Geographic in May 2020. Today (December 6), Entertainment Weekly has shared the first photo of Erivo as the Queen of Soul. Check out the image below. Genius: Aretha will feature a number of Aretha Franklin’s hit songs, including “I Never Loved a Man (The […]
The Weeknd returned to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night for the second time this week. This time around, he performed his comeback single “Blinding Lights.” The Weeknd’s set was broadcast in black and white, and the singer performed in a hall of mirrors while audience members held up small, square mirrors to […]
Cardi B made her way to Africa to perform on the continent for the first time. In celebration, the rapper took to Instagram on Thursday (Dec. 5) to share a video of herself on the private jet. “1:03am drop my KK in NY on my way to Afrriiiiicaaaaaaaaaa baybeeeee!!!!!!,” she wrote in the caption as she twerked to “Fall” by Davido. […]
On the heels of releasing his new solo album, Liam Payne has also shared the music video for his song “Live Forever” featuring Cheat Codes. Filmed on the Isle of Wight, the visually stunning Similar But Different-directed video features a mostly shirtless Payne levitating near crashing waves, spinning nighttime donuts with Cheat Code, exploring seaside […]
After finally being discharged from the ICU on Thanksgiving, French Montana kicked off December on a positive note by dropping his highly-anticipated MONTANA album on Friday (Dec. 6). The musician FaceTimed with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1, and chatted with the host about the his recovery from the ICU. “You know, life come at you sometimes, get you down […]
The Department of Justice is taking sides in another hot-button antitrust battle, this time siding with Irving Azoff’s upstart music licensing firm against a group representing 10,000 radio stations. The DOJ Antitrust Division filed a brief on Thursday arguing that the Radio Music License Committee may have engaged in illegal price-fixing when it refused to […]
It’s different strokes for different streaming folks as Amazon, HBO Max and Netflix lifted the lid on their international plans in London this week. Amazon said it’s not in the volume game and talked up a select number of hyper-local shows, while Netflix dished on plans to rev up non-English-language originals. The message from HBO […]
Martin Scorsese’s mafia saga “The Irishman” was watched by 17.1 million unique Netflix viewers in the U.S. in the first five days of its streaming release, according to Nielsen estimates. By comparison, Sandra Bullock-starrer “Bird Box” scored nearly 26 million U.S. viewers in its first seven days of availability (Dec. 21-27, 2018) on Netflix, according […]
Clairo has joined Norwegian electropop outfit SASSY 009 for a new track titled “Lara.” Take a listen below. SASSY released their debut Do You Mind EP in late 2017 and they issued their eight-song EP KILL SASSY 009 in November. Clairo released her first full-length album, Immunity, in August. Since then, she’s appeared on Mura […]
The Weeknd recently returned with two new singles. Last night, he performed one of those new songs, “Heartless,” while wandering the elaborately lit, mysteriously shifting halls of the Ed Sullivan Theater on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Watch it happen below. “Heartless” recently got a new video which shows the Weeknd and Metro Boomin […]
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib dropped their latest collaborative album Bandana earlier this year. Now, you can watch their appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, playing four tracks from the record: “Education,” “Gat Damn,” “Soul Right,” and “Freestyle Shit.” Watch it happen below. Before Bandana, Gibbs and Madlib’s last joint effort was 2014’s Piñata. After the […]
Three months after her daughter Willow Sage shaved the side of her head, mom P!nk went all in and buzzed all of her hair off. The singer debuted her new buzz cut on Thursday (Dec. 5) in an Instagram post with the simple message: “Letting Go.” In the image, P!nk is looking down at a handful […]
Put on a sweater, because the studio version of Adam Lambert‘s cover of Cher‘s 1998 smash “Believe” will send chills down your whole body. Lambert sent jaws dropping to the floor last December when he debuted his haunting take on the 1998 AutoTune dance classic at the Kennedy Center Honors. It brought a tear to Cher’s eyes and a […]
“I thought that was pretty sweet,” the Archspire vocalist says of the actor’s request. Oli Peters was happy to learn from a mutual friend that actor Jason Momoa was a fan of his death metal band Archspire. But the Canadian singer never expected that a resulting friendship with the Aquaman star would lead to any sort […]
When cinematographer Roger Deakins opened the script for “1917,” he was greeted with the news that the entire, two-hour World War I epic would unfold as one continuous shot. “I thought, ‘Oh my God,’” Deakins remembers. “This is a gimmick.” Gimmick or not, it’s certainly the aspect of “1917” that’s generated the lion’s share of […]
A long time ago (1980) in a galaxy far, far away (where a movie ticket cost about $5), Billy Dee Williams first played Lando Calrissian, the smooth-talking smuggler-turned-administrator of Cloud City in “The Empire Strikes Back.” Despite having about 15 minutes of total screen time in “Empire” and “Return of the Jedi,” the character stole […]
Sex in all its permutations dominates this year’s crop of Latin American submissions, whether it be intersex issues in Venezuela’s “Being Impossible,” Bolivia’s homophobia in “Tu Me Manques,” or a transgender’s person’s plight in Panama’s “Everybody Changes.” “Retablo,” set in a mountaintop hamlet in Peru, is Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio’s nuanced portrait of a young indigenous teen […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine’s sentencing in his federal case is set for December 18. While the racketeering and firearms charges amount to a mandatory minimum of 47 years in prison, it’s long been assumed that his cooperation with the federal government and recent testimony against alleged members of the Nine Trey Bloods could mean that he’d receive […]
Sharon Van Etten has released a cover of the Christmas carol “Silent Night”. The song was originally recorded for Eric Paschal Johnson’s short film The Letter. Its cover art is a still from the film, photographed by Allison Anderson. Check out the song and the film below. Earlier this year, Van Etten recorded a song […]
Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien has shared a new song under the name EOB. It’s a nine-minute piece called “Brasil,” and it features Radiohead bandmate Colin Greenwood on bass. EOB’s debut album—produced by Flood and mixed by Alan Moulder—will arrive early next year. It features contributions from Greenwood, Laura Marling, Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Nathan East, Glenn Kotche, […]
A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday (Dec. 4) said Chris Brown must give up all rights to his former pet monkey, pay for its care and not try to buy a new one if he wants charges of illegal animal ownership dropped. The 30-year-old singer was allowed to enter a diversion program nearly a year after […]
The first snow of the winter in Appalachia was always a mixed blessing for the coal mining families that settled in the Smoky Mountains, bringing both the beauty of the winty white blanket draped across Eastern Tennessee’s old growth forest along with bitterly cold nights that mysteriouly magnified the howls of hungry stomachs. It’s against this backdrop that […]
Tommy Lee is channeling his Greek roots for a good cause. The Athens-born Mötley Crüe drummer was stunned by the cruelty that the donleys and mules endure when used for “taxi” rides in Santorini, and as a result, sent a letter to Greek authorities asking them to end the practice. “I’m honored to have been born […]
December 4, 2019 7:29AM PT The New York Film Critics Circle will be announcing its yearly awards Wednesday morning. The 85th ceremony will be held Jan. 7 at the New York Film Critics’ annual gala. Last year, “Roma” was named best film with Alfonso Cuarón taking the top directing prize. Other best film winners have […]
Producer-director Stephanie Laing aims to put a modern twist on branded content by teaming with an iconic lingerie maker to generate a showcase for fresh female talent. Laing has partnered with Authentic Brands Group, owner of Frederick’s of Hollywood, to produce a short-form “comedy-action miniseries” revolving around five women who pursue their dreams in the […]
In London on Wednesday to talk about her upcoming scripted series, “Stateless,” Cate Blanchett implored drama producers to be impolite, provocative and to make shows that start meaningful conversations. “I love zombies, I love vampires,” the two-time Oscar-winner said. “But we’re living in a time when the political system, which is meant to deal with […]
Last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon featured a performance from musical guest Burna Boy. Watch the Nigerian singer perform a medley of “Collateral Damage” and “Anybody” from his album African Giant below. Burna Boy recently teamed up with Stormzy and Ed Sheeran for a new song called “Own It” off Stormzy’s […]
Soccer Mommy have released another new song, “Feed,” which appears on the soundtrack for the new horror movie The Turning. Take a listen below. Soccer Mommy produced “Feed,” which was mixed by Lawrence Rothman. “I’ve always wanted to do a song for a horror movie so I loved getting to write ‘Feed,’” she said in […]
Caribou has announced a new album. This one’s called Suddenly and it’s out February 28 via Merge/City Slang. Have a listen to the new song “You and I” below. Earlier this year, Dan Snaith revived the moniker for his first new Caribou song in five years—“Home.” Find his upcoming tour dates here. “‘You and I’ […]