The Recording Academy has announced the performers for its 2020 Grammy Premiere Ceremony, taking place the afternoon before the main Grammy Awards ceremony and honoring the bulk of the Grammy winners. Country singer and Best New Artist nominee Yola is slated to perform, along with classical violinist Nicola Benedetti, jazz …
Read More »Luke Bryan Announces Proud to Be Right Here Tour, Readies New Album
Update (4/7): In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Luke Bryan has pushed back the release of his new album along with his summer tour dates. Born Here Live Here, Die Here, originally set for an April 24th release, will now arrive on August 7th. The Proud to Be Here Tour, …
Read More »Alex Winter's Frank Zappa Doc 'Zappa' Premieres at South by Southwest
UPDATE (8/6):Magnolia Pictures announced Thursday that it has acquired the North American rights to Zappa and will premiere the film in theaters and on-demand November 27. *** A little more than four years after filmmaker Alex Winter started making a documentary about rock iconoclast and classical composer Frank Zappa‘s life, …
Read More »New Impeachment Evidence: 'The Biden Case Will Be Investigated'
Lev Parnas, an indicted crony of personal Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, has given House impeachment investigators a new cache of documents, including a handwritten note from the Ritz-Carlton in Vienna, Austria, that appears to document the plot to get Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Parnas, a naturalized American citizen born …
Read More »Halsey's 'Manic' Is a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mess
Early on Halsey’s excellent new album,Manic, she samples a bit of movie dialogue: “I’m just a fucked-up girl looking for my own piece of mind. Don’t assign me yours.” It’s from the filmEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,spoken by the manic, pixie dream-girl heroine Clementine. But she definitely speaks for …
Read More »Oscars 2020: 'Joker,' '1917,' 'Parasite' Lead Nominations
Parasite, Joker and 1917 will vie for multiple Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 92nd Academy Awards, set to take place February 9th. Along with those three films, the Best Picture category featured Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Little Women, Marriage Story and Once Upon a Time… in …
Read More »See Marcus King and Dan Auerbach's Acoustic Performance of 'Beautiful Stranger'
As Marcus King gears up for the release of his latest album El Dorado on January 17th, the South Carolina native unveils another song off the LP. The studio version of “Beautiful Stranger,” which coasts along on King’s sublime yearning vocal and electric piano accompaniment, arrives today, along with a …
Read More »'Fargo' Trailer: Chris Rock's Loy Cannon Battles Mafia to Control Kansas City
FX’s anthology series Fargo is set in Kansas City, Missouri in 1950 for its fourth season, where two criminal syndicates come to a head. The city’s Italian mafia battle with an African-American crime family led by Chris Rock‘s Loy Cannon for power and control of the illicit economy. “Italians, they’re …
Read More »Prince Is Getting an All-Star Grammy Tribute Concert
Alicia Keys, John Legend and Usher will perform at a special Prince tribute concert set to take place after the 2020 Grammy Awards and air on television later this year, Rolling Stone has confirmed. Let’s Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince will be held January 28th – two days …
Read More »Nicky Jam, Daddy Yankee Reunite as Los Cangris in Defiant 'Muévelo' Video
Nicky Jam and Daddy Yankee — two reggaeton legends, both alike in dignity — have overcome their longtime beef to release new music once more as Los Cangris. Released late Tuesday night, their brand new song, “Muévelo,” recalls the rascally spark that first brought the two MCs together 20 years …
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