Production on the VH1 reality series T.I. and Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle has been paused after the show’s stars, rapper T.I. (real name Clifford Harris) and his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, were accused of sexual abuse. Production on the fourth season of T.I. and Tiny had started in December. …
Read More »John Carpenter's 'Lost Themes III' Scares Up New Thrills
When John Carpenter was making his movies Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween, he wrote and recorded the scores himself almost as an afterthought because he had to: there was no budget for a composer. Here he had these hair-raising, suspenseful stories with murderers wending through darkness, but it all …
Read More »Olivia Rodrigo's Whirlwind Rise, by the Numbers
It’s rare that we see a breakthrough on the charts quite like Olivia Rodrigo. While her debut single “Drivers License” writhes with heartache and desperation, on the charts, it’s been casually cool and unbothered at Number One on the RS 100 for three weeks in a row, millions of streams …
Read More »Green Day Returning to the Stage for 'NFL Honors'
It’s been a year since Green Day played a set; they celebrated the release of their 2020 album Father of All… at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, California. It was supposed to be the beginning of a huge 2020 for the band, with a summer stadium tour planned — but …
Read More »Madlib's 'Sound Ancestors' Is All About the Ecstasy of Discovery
In his 1996 documentary The Last Angel of History, filmmaker John Akomfrah creates a fictional character to explore the enduring and connected threads of Afrofuturism in Black music, from Parliament Funkadelic to Detroit Techno. A time-traveling figure called “The Data Thief” digs through the past for clues about the future, …
Read More »Vicarious Hollywood at Clive Davis' 2021 Pre-Grammy Gala
We have, by and large in this pandemic year, lost our grasp on time, tossing out heralded routines and watching some minutes skirt by while others seem to drag without end. And yet Clive Davis remains unperturbed. The 88-year-old music executive’s storied pre-Grammy bash, which he hosted Saturday night in …
Read More »Anitta Slopes Through the Mountains in a Bikini in 'Loco' Video
Anitta brings the tropics to the slopes in the new video for “Loco.” Shot in Aspen, Colorado, the clip features the Brazilian pop star skiing in a bikini, donning several outfits that include a purple fur coat and gold puffer jacket. She drinks champagne with her friends, twerks in the …
Read More »Duran Duran Bring New Wave Magic to David Bowie's 'Five Years' in New Video
Duran Duran have dropped a futuristic new video for their recent cover of David Bowie‘s “Five Years.” Directed Gavin Elder, the video features the band accompanied by Bowie’s longtime pianist Mike Garson surrounded by swirling colors as they tear through the track. Elder shot each band member individually across Los …
Read More »Benedict Cumberbatch Goes Behind the Iron Curtain in New Trailer for 'The Courier'
Benedict Cumberbatch plays a British businessman who’s enlisted as an undercover spy during the Cold War in the new trailer for The Courier, which is set to open March 19th. The film is based on the life of Greville Wynne, whom Cumberbatch plays, a British businessman who’s recruited by MI-6, …
Read More »Louis Armstrong's Only, and Secret, Child Opens Up in New 'Little Satchmo' Trailer
Sharon Preston-Folta discusses growing up as the secret child of jazz great Louis Armstrong in the new teaser for the upcoming documentary, Little Satchmo. Preston-Folta was Armstrong’s only child, but because he fathered her with a mistress, Lucille Preston, a dancer at the Cotton Club, Armstrong never recognized or acknowledged …
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