Photo Credit: Chris Benson Paramount has shuttered MTV News after a 36-year run amid broader cost-cutting as the company announces laying off approximately 25% of its staff. After a 36-year run, MTV News is shutting […]
What use could healthcare have for someone who makes things up, can’t keep a secret, doesn’t really know anything, and, when speaking, simply fills in the next word based on what’s come before? Lots, if […]
Eurovision 2023 – tonight’s running order Here is your running order for tonight, which the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have handily put on a social media graphic so that I don’t have to type it […]
It is western Europe’s tallest building, and a modern staple of the 21st-century London skyline. Now the Shard will take centre stage in a “nail-biting” thriller starring Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley and directed by James […]
Overmono take their name from a suburb of their Welsh home town. You could take that as a knowing joke from a duo steeped in wilfully urban-sounding music, who specifically intended their celebrated 2021 Fabric […]
A year after confirming their romance, “Selling Sunset” star Chrishell Stause and Australian musician G Flip are married. The “Days of Our Lives” and “All My Children” actor revealed the news on Instagram late Wednesday, […]
Dolly Parton has announced a genre switch to rock music, and has tapped what will surely be the starriest supporting cast for any album this year. Her new album Rockstar – a 30-track epic with […]
The most impressive thing about Robert De Niro is how prolific he is. The man is 79 years old, and simply cannot stop. In the last 10 years alone he has made 19 films, with […]
The UK is having one of its busiest weeks in months – but while the coronation put Britain in the global spotlight last weekend, all eyes are on a very different cultural spectacle in Liverpool […]
Ed Sheeran is very aware of the contradictions at the heart of his superstardom. The first line of his new Disney+ documentary, The Sum of It All, finds the multi-platinum songwriter declaring: “I’m speccy, ginger […]
Metallica, which co-founded AudioShake backer Black Squirrel Partners, performing live. Photo Credit: Kreepin Deth With considerable interest – and capital – continuing to reach the quick-evolving artificial intelligence space, AI music-separation startup AudioShake has raised […]
Few records in the 21st century have divided a band’s fans as much as Daft Punk’s fourth studio album, Random Access Memories. While the reviews were largely positive, a significant swathe of the band’s fanbase […]
Ed Sheeran famously keeps one eye on the numbers. A decade ago, he established his trademark, a pop take on the sensitive singer-songwriter trope with a healthy relationship to rap and R&B that has allowed […]
South African music is a confluence of paths; a plethora of hands, feet and voices crossing and moving ever forward, yet still interconnected. For that reason, attempting to unravel those strands and arrive at some […]
Voyager’s Daniel Estrin rehearses “Promise” for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Chloe Hashemi/EBU hide caption toggle caption Chloe Hashemi/EBU Voyager’s Daniel Estrin rehearses “Promise” for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest. Chloe Hashemi/EBU A few years […]
10 Star Wars: Squadrons (2020) The unlikeliest project to emerge from Electronic Arts’s decade-long oversight of the Star Wars video game franchise, Squadrons is a spiritual successor to the much-loved X-Wing series of space combat […]
Actor Bill Hader is not one to give autographs, especially not on “Star Wars” merchandise that includes BB-8. Some fans might not know that the “Barry” star and Ben Schwartz provided the voice of the iconic droid, […]
Photo Credit: Hanny Naibaho Bamboozle Festival was abruptly cancelled after New Jersey officials refused its final permit. Now fans say they’re getting bamboozled on refunds, too. “After extensive discussions, we have made the heartbreaking decision […]
Over the last 60 years, keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith has made an artform out of countering some of jazz music’s loudest heavyweights with a soft, sensuous sound. His is the gently radiating electric piano or […]
It has often been noted that George Lucas’s 1977 film Star Wars was greatly influenced by Frank Herbert’s Dune. The desert-covered central planet; the blending of religion and magic to the point where they are […]