George Carlin’s Estate Sues Creators of AI Comedy Special

George Carlin’s Estate Sues Creators of AI Comedy Special

George Carlin’s estate is suing the creators of an AI-generated “comedy special” mimicking the late comedian’s signature style. The special — titled George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead — premiered on YouTube earlier this month […]

Lawrence Unveil New Album ‘Family Business’ and International Tour

Lawrence Unveil New Album ‘Family Business’ and International Tour

Photo Credit: Deanie Chen Today, Jan. 24, Lawrence has unveiled its long awaited new album Family Business. This marks the first full-length offering for Gracie and Clyde Lawrence’s 8-piece band since its 2021 project Hotel […]

The Smile: Wall of Eyes review – inventive Radiohead side project risks eclipsing the real thing | Music

The artwork for Wall of Eyes.

Three songs into the second album by the Smile, Thom Yorke informs us that he’s had it. “It takes away, it takes the fun out,” he keens, to Read the Room’s vinegary guitar riff. “Maybe […]

Oppenheimer beats Barbie as Bafta nominations announced | Baftas 2024

Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie at the Critics Choice awards.

Christopher Nolan, arguably the most commercially and critically successful British director in decades, looks set to secure his first Bafta victory next month, after his latest film, Oppenheimer, was nominated in 13 categories. The film […]

Taylor Swift’s old apartment to Nirvana’s bathtub: the photo project following in musicians’ footsteps | Music

US singer-songwriter John Mayer.

“Sometimes it’s just a case of going on Google Maps and losing my mind,” says Steve Birnbaum. “Just searching and searching until I see something recognisable.” Birnbaum, a film director based in New York, is […]

PORNO FOR PYROS’ Last-Ever Concert In Los Angeles To Air Live On VEEPS

PORNO FOR PYROS' Last-Ever Concert In Los Angeles To Air Live On VEEPS

After a 26-year touring hiatus, alternative rock superstars PORNO FOR PYROS are about to say goodbye to the road forever with the 15-city “Horns, Thorns, En Halos” farewell tour. On Sunday, February 18, 2024, the […]

Kali Uchis: Orquídeas review – urgent Latin beats from a superstar in waiting | Music

The artwork for Orquídeas.

No one could accuse Kali Uchis of wasting time. The tour to promote her third album, Red Moon on Venus, ended a matter of weeks ago – with a performance at Camp Flog Gnaw, the […]

Taylor Swift’s people shut down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans | Music

Swift at the Golden Globe awards in a dress which some fans interpreted as an allusion to her Reputation album.

In every sense, Taylor Swift is an outlier. This week her Eras Tour film became the highest-grossing concert film in box office history, taking the record from Michael Jackson’s 2009 movie This Is It. She […]

Taylor-made deals: how artists are following Swift’s rights example | Taylor Swift

Rina Sawayama and Matt Healy

A revolution is brewing in the music business as a new generation of female acts, following the example of Taylor Swift, are seizing ownership of their music rights and refusing to sign deals that cede […]

Bill Ryder-Jones: Iechyd Da review – Coral co-founder’s songs of heartache and hope | Music

The artwork for Iechyd Da.

Since Bill Ryder-Jones left the Coral in 2008 after five Top 10 albums, he’s been quietly busying himself away in his Yawn studio in West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula. He’s produced records for the […]

Female pop stars celebrate record-breaking year on UK singles chart | Music

Elton John making his retirement from live performance by headlining Glastonbury, 25 June 2023.

The last 12 months proved a record-breaking year for female musicians in the British music industry, according to new figures from the British Phonographic Institute (BPI). Women spent an unprecedented 31 weeks atop the UK […]

Dua Lipa Scraps Music Video With ‘Explosions’ Due To Israel-Hamas War

Dua Lipa at Barbie - World Premiere

Dua Lipa‘s upcoming third studio album hit an unexpected hiccup over an “insensitive” music video. The sensational songstress has been actively teasing her upcoming project, but a music video for one of her new songs […]

Dua Lipa pulls music video over Israel-Hamas war concerns despite filming scenes before conflict started

Dua Lipa has canned an expensive music video to be sensitive over the Israel-Hamas war

DUA Lipa has pulled a music video that has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds after she decided it was “insensitive” amid  Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza. The British superstar, 28, secretly shot the […]

What Shawn Levy learned from ‘All the Light We Cannot See’

A man in a dark coat and hat crouches to speak with a young girl in a red sweater holding a cane

Amid the bombed-out streets of a picturesque French village, blind teenager Marie-Laure, her kindly poppa, an agoraphobic resistance fighter, a young German soldier and one sadistic Nazi cross paths in the sprawling World War II […]