Jordan Peele will host and narrate upcoming episodes of The Twilight Zone, which is being revived by CBS in 2019. CBS made the announcement on Thursday with the shortest of teaser videos. The original Twilight Zone, a popular science fiction series, ran from 1959 to 1964. At the time, it …
Read More »Robyn Announces Long-Anticipated Eighth Album 'Honey'
Robyn will release her long-awaited eighth albumHoney on October 26th. She began teasing her first solo LP in eight years this summer with the new single “Missing U.” Honey shares its name with a still-unreleased song, though snippets of the track have become a bit of a fan obsession since …
Read More »'Life Itself' Review: We Have Now Seen the Worst Movie of 2018
How do you rate a cinematic black hole that doesn’t deserve a single star? Do you simply give it five eyerolls? Better question: How does a movie, with all the talent in the world going for it, become a such a blithering botch job? That’s Life Itself, which counts Oscar …
Read More »Brazil-Based Music Distributor Poaches Republic Records Exec
Music industry veteran Jason Jordan is taking a post as the North America managing director of ONErpm, a Brazil-based global music distribution, label services and rights management company. Jordan, who has served as vice president of A&R at Hollywood Records and senior vice president of A&R at Universal Music Group’s …
Read More »Brett Kavanaugh Cannot Hide From These Sexual Assault Allegations
A California woman named Christine Blasey Ford has come forward to describe an alleged sexual assault at the hands of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when both were teenagers. Ford’s story appeared in a widely-read Washington Post article. The alleged assault had previously been the subject of an anonymous letter …
Read More »Smashing Pumpkins Preview New Album With 'Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts)' Song
Smashing Pumpkins have unveiled the release of their first new album in almost two decades featuring founding members Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin, along with guitarist Jeff Schroeder. Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. is due on November 16th …
Read More »See Issa Rae, Childish Gambino Perform at Rihanna's Diamond Ball
Rihanna held her fourth annual Diamond Ball Thursday night at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street, a fundraising gala that featured a performance by Childish Gambino and emcee duties from Insecure‘s Issa Rae. As is tradition, proceeds from the Diamond Ball – which also included an auction hosted by Seth Meyers …
Read More »Flashback: Paul McCartney Plays a Beatles Medley in 1989
Paul McCartney was extremely busy in the 1980s creating solo records, film soundtracks, music videos, his own movie and even a couple of duets with Michael Jackson. The one thing he didn’t really do was tour. Wings did quite a few shows in the 1970s, but the band ended in …
Read More »Milk Carton Kids on Hosting Americana Awards, Following Jim Lauderdale
The Americana Honors & Awards ceremony is the flagship event of every AmericanaFest, which officially got under way on Tuesday in Nashville. First held in 2002, the ceremony honors both emerging talent as well as genre icons, and has, over the last 18 years, championed the careers of beloved artists …
Read More »Jack White Plots New Live EP, Doc 'Kneeling at the Anthem D.C.'
Jack White will release a new live EP and concert documentary, Jack White: Kneeling at the Anthem D.C., September 21st via Amazon. Kneeling at the Anthem captures White’s May 30th performance at the titular Washington D.C.venue in support of his latest album, Boarding House Reach. It will also include segments …
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