Billboard and Telemundo have announced nominations for this year’s Billboard Latin Music Awards, which will take place on September 23rd in Miami. Bad Bunny, who released three back-to-back albums within the award eligibility period, received the most nominations of any artist with 22 nods across 13 categories, including “Artist of …
Read More »Lady Gaga Goes Behind the Scenes of '911' in New Virtual Reality Video
Lady Gaga takes viewers behind the scenes during the filming of her surreal video for Chromatica song “911” in a new virtual reality experience via the CEEK VR app. The release closely coincides with the one-year anniversary of Chromatica, which arrived in May 2020. The 360-degree CEEK VR experience was …
Read More »Alessia Cara Perseveres in 'The Use in Trying'
Alessia Cara has dropped “The Use in Trying,” featured in Spin Master/Paramount’s Paw Patrol: The Movie, out later this month. Co-written by Cara and Jon Levine, the track opens with subtle piano as Cara’s vocals wade in. “Just a jump away from where you wanna go/But you’re too afraid of …
Read More »Brian May Chides Eric Clapton's Anti-Vax Stance as Delta Spreads
Queen guitarist Brian May has joined the chorus of artists who have looked askance at Eric Clapton for his anti-vaccine rhetoric and refusal to perform at any concert venue that requires fans to be vaccinated. “I love Eric Clapton, he’s my hero, but he has very different views from me …
Read More »Frank Ocean Launches New Luxury Company Homer
Frank Ocean has unveiled Homer, a luxury goods line that launched this week in New York. The first collection from the company features high-end jewelry pieces and silk scarves, all made in Italy with diamonds crafted from a state-of-the-art lab in the United States. A press release states the designs …
Read More »Take It From Them: Americans Hospitalized With Covid Regret Not Getting the Vaccine
Conservative radio host Phil Valentine spent months preaching vaccine skepticism to his followers in Nashville. It seems like many of them listened. Tennessee has experienced a dramatic spike in the Covid-19 cases as the Delta variant has swept the nation, with the case rate ballooning over 220 percent over the …
Read More »As Delta Variant Spreads, Artists and Venues Scramble to Keep Concerts Safe
Dayna Frank didn’t think it would come to this. “Never in the last six months did I think we would be looking at a vaccination or test mandate,” says the president and CEO of First Avenue, the famed Minneapolis, Minnesota, music venue. “Never, ever thought we would do that.” But …
Read More »'Stillwater' Examines Lives in Wreckage, With Matt Damon at the Center
Matt Damon’s new movie, Stillwater, opens by building up to a gentle but pointed bit of misdirection, the subtle sort of deviation from our expectations meant to say as much about the audience as it does about the man at the story’s center — something of an running theme for …
Read More »Dusty Hill's Widow Charleen McCrory Thanks Fans for 'Outpouring of Love'
Charleen McCrory, the widow of ZZ Top bassist Dusty Hill, has spoken publicly for the first time following her husband’s unexpected death last week. In a message posted to the ZZ Top Facebook page on Monday, McCrory thanked Hill’s “colleagues and friends for the overwhelming outpouring of love for the …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Yves Tumor, 'Jackie'
Regret, longing, and heartache define the latest song by Yves Tumor, the producer-singer who’s spent the better part of quarantine and lockdown recording new music. “These days have been tragic,” Tumor sings on “Jackie,” the standout track from their recently released The Asymptotical World. “I ain’t sleepin’/Refuse to eat a …
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