After JT returned from prison and almost immediately dropped the new song “JT First Day Out,” City Girls are back with another one, sharing their second new song since JT has returned. It’s called “You Tried It.” Have a listen below. City Girls recently joined Lupita Nyong’o, La La Anthony, and Ester Dean on a […]
In late October, hundreds of artists signed an open letter urging other members of the music community to boycott festivals and events sponsored by Amazon. Amazon Web Services has contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other branches of law enforcement. The artists supporting the No Music For ICE movement aim to abandon […]
Nicolas Godin—singer, songwriter, and half of French electronic duo Air—has announced his next solo album. Concrete and Glass arrives January 24 via Because. Ahead of the LP’s release, Godin has shared a new single with California’s Cola Boyy, “The Foundation.” Check out its futuristic, Greg Barnes-directed video below. Concrete and Glass includes “The Border,” which […]
Asia for beginners. Paradise for expats. Cashed up kids with a lotta love for music. Singapore has a lot going for it, and concert professionals have been working it for years, to varying degrees of success. Singapore’s music scene is growing. No doubt about it. U2 will play there for the first time on Dec. 1 […]
The Weeknd returns. The Canadian R&B star (real name Abel Tesfaye) dropped “Heartless” overnight, his first new music since the EP My Dear Melancholy arrived in March 2018 and his 2016 full-length LP Starboy. On it, he’s looking to climb out a personal hole. “Why? ‘Cause I’m heartless/ And I’m back to my ways ’cause […]
P!nk is not afraid to share the love, especially when it comes to expressing honest feelings. But when she saw how singer Bishop Briggs paid tribute to one of her quotes, she was just blow away. “I think my heart just stopped,” the singer wrote after seeing that Briggs had posted a photo of her […]
November 26, 2019 6:35AM PT Saro is a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter whose music can loosely be described as alt-R&B. The new video for his song “Nothing Remains,” from his third EP “Die Alone,” was directed by Alex Cook and finds him as a sort of narrator while a young girl wanders around an empty house […]
Producer of “Queen of the South,” starring Kate del Castillo, and “Black Widow,” CEO and partner of Colombia’s RTI Prods. a former Telemundo Studios president, then co-founder in 2016 of W Studios with Univision, Televisa Studios president Patricio Wills’ C.V. remains unique in Spanish-language TV. Joining Televisa in March 2018, where he launched Televisa Studios, […]
“Strange Angel” has been canceled at CBS All Access. The drama, about rocketry pioneer and occultist Jack Parsons, ended its second season in July. “Strange Angel” starred Jack Raynor as Parsons, one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet, who became a follower of cult leader Aleister Crowley. It also starred […]
After returning to Instagram earlier this month, the Weeknd is back with a preview of his new song, “Blinding Lights.” The clip premiered in an advertisement for Mercedes-Benz’s new EQC model. The Weeknd stars in the commercial, which you can watch below. [embedded content] In addition to debuting “Blinding Lights,” the ad announces that a […]
Britpop group Cornershop are back. The group has announced its first studio album in eight years, England Is a Garden, which arrives May 6 next year via frontperson Tjinder Singh and guitarist Ben Ayres’ Ample Play Records. It follows their 2012 LP Urban Turban. Along with the announcement, the band has shared a single called […]
Neneh Cherry’s debut album Raw Like Sushi was released 30 years ago, and to mark the anniversary, the album is getting a remastered reissue. The deluxe edition is out January 30 via UMC/Virgin. It’s available as a 3xCD or 3xLP set—the original album and two discs of demoes and remixes, including Massive Attack’s remix of […]
The ‘Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker’ star also weighed in on “dark Rey” and celebrity cameos in the film on “The Tonight Show.” Daisy Ridley has some strong feelings about the relative cuteness of “Baby Yoda” and the Porgs from the Star Wars universe. The star of the series’ sequel trilogy had some harsh words for the […]
Disney’s sequel to the 2013 animated blockbuster exceeded all expectations in its debut, including setting a slew of new box office milestones. Walt Disney Animation’s Frozen 2 created a global blizzard in its box office debut, grossing an estimated $130 million in North America and $228.2 million internationally for a worldwide start of $358.2 million. That’s ahead of Sunday’s (Nov. […]
Moroccan rapper Gnawi knew the police would come when he and two friends released an unusually outspoken video exposing their country’s problems with migration and drugs and expressing frustration with the king. And sure enough, they did. Gnawi, a former military serviceman whose real name is Mohamed Mounir, was handed a one-year prison sentence Monday […]
Online commerce company eBay has landed a buyer for StubHub, announcing a pact to sell the unit to Viagogo for $4.05 billion in cash — bringing together two of the world’s biggest ticket-resale providers. The deal comes after eBay in March 2019 announced that it was exploring a potential sale of StubHub at the urging of […]
A highly publicized mass brawl outside a cinema showing “Blue Story,” a London-set movie about two friends and the effects of gang violence, was one of 25 separate incidents involving the film at 16 of its venues, according to the Vue cinema chain, which pulled the movie from all of its theaters in the wake […]
Noel Manzano has been named vice president of international programming at AMC Networks, working on new original programming with partners outside the U.S. He will also shepherd through existing projects that have an international dimension at the AMC channels. Manzano joins AMC from Hoodlum Entertainment, where he has been overseeing the production company’s U.S. development […]
Post Malone took the stage with Ozzy Osbourne and Travis Scott at the American Music Awards earlier tonight to perform “Take What You Want” together. Post also performed “Circles.” Watch them take on the Hollywood’s Bleeding track below. https://twitter.com/PopNewsroom/status/1198810022928621568 Malone, who issued Hollywood’s Bleeding in September, was nominated for seven awards, including Artist of the […]
Kanye West wasn’t front and center on the Hollywood Bowl stage until the debut performance of his opera Nebuchadnezzar reached its curtain call. He clasped hands with Sheck Wes, who starred in the opera’s title role, and bowed in front of a massive team of singers and performers. Kanye served as the show’s offstage narrator, […]
Carly Rae Jepsen was the latest guest at NPR’s Tiny Desk. She performed three Dedicated tracks: “Now That I Found You,” “Want You in My Room,” and “The Sound.” Check it out below. This year, Jepsen has shared videos for two of the above tracks, one involving lots of cats. She recently appeared on a remix […]
Tones And I’s “Dance Monkey” (Bad Batch/Sony Music) extends its record-setting streak atop Australia’s singles chart this week, while Billie Eilish bows at No. 2 with “everything I wanted,” her first release since When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?. Meanwhile, veteran Australian singer and songwriter Paul Kelly makes it three in a row […]
Sony Music UK announced on Monday (Nov. 25) that Jessica Carsen was appointed to senior vice president, communications. She will report to chairman and CEO of Sony Music UK and Ireland Jason Iley. Carsen previously served as director of communications for News UK, specifically The Times and The Sunday Times. Prior to that, she worked as […]
Like most Kanye West-related endeavors, his Nebuchadnezzar opera ran a bit behind schedule. Patrons filled the Hollywood Bowl as the sun set on a brisk Sunday (Nov. 24). West’s family, represented by Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Kris Jenner and the kids, arrived to applause. Actor and West’s friend Brad Pitt, rappers MGK and Chance The […]
A concrete example of IDFA artistic director Orwa Nyrabia’s definition of a Frontlight title, Juliana Fanjul’s angry political sketch film “Radio Silence” started with a much-needed moment of light relief. Entering the auditorium with a backpack, the film’s subject—pioneering Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui—matter-of-factly walked to the front and sat herself down, without fanfare, in one […]
Making its international premiere in the Frontlight section, Danish doc “Fat Front” came to IDFA with a fair amount of buzz from its Scandinavian homeland, where it debuted in October. Directed by Louise Unmack Kjeldsen and Louise Detlefsen, the film follows four Nordic women—Helene, Marte, Pauline and Wilde—who are tired of kow-towing to society’s ideal […]
K-pop star, Goo Hara was found dead on Sunday at her home in Seoul, South Korea. She was 28. Goo, real name Goo Ha-ra, and also known under the single name Hara, was a former member of the five-part girl group Kara from 2008 to 2015. After that she launched a solo music career, and […]
Eric B.—one half of hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim—was recently arrested on an outstanding warrant that was issued back in 2002, after the rapper failed to appear in court for sentencing in a legal case where he had pleaded guilty to eluding arrest and aggravated assault. The rapper spent two weeks in jail before […]
Kanye West recently detailed his first opera, Nebuchadnezzar which is “based on the biblical story of the Babylonian King from the Book of Daniel.” It is set to premiere tomorrow, November 24, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET. Now, it’s been announced that Tidal will be live streaming […]
Former Fischerspooner member Casey Spooner has accused Madonna and French producer Mirwais of failing to credit or compensate him for contributions to her song “God Control.” “God Control” appears on Madame X, which came out in June. In a series of Instagram stories posted and viewed by Pitchfork on Saturday, Spooner said that in December […]