Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who earned two 2021 Oscar nominations for Best Original Score, reacted to the news on Monday, with Reznor describing the nods to Billboard as “surreal and humbling and incredibly flattering.” The duo, who secured an Academy Award in 2011 for David Fincher’s …
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The Grammy Awards, now in their 63rd year, once again take place in L.A. but this time in Covid-safe conditions. For the 2021 ceremony, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah makes his hosting debut. Performers include Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Bruno Mars, BTS, Bad Bunny, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Brittany Howard, …
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On the one-year anniversary of the last pre-Covid lockdown Late Show, Dr. Anthony Fauci visited with Stephen Colbert Friday to discuss America’s path back to “normal.” During the interview, the host asked Fauci to pick his favorite between the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. “I would pick the …
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Thirty years ago, R.E.M. dropped an album called Out of Time — and nobody was prepared for it. “Losing My Religion,” “Half a World Away,” “Country Feedback,” “Near Wild Heaven” — these were the most soulful, gorgeous songs the boys from Athens G-A had ever written. This comeback changed everything …
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As the Academy of Country Music Awards ramp up for another year in Nashville under Covid-19 restrictions, the event will have a new hosting team. For its 56th annual outing on April 18th, the ACM Awards will feature Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton sharing hosting duties. Urban hosted the ACM …
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It felt like church. Sure, more of a nondenominational, Unitarian-Wiccan gathering rather than a holyroller revival. After all, we were gathered in the Brooklyn Museum Beaux-Arts court — with its dramatic skylight and brass chandelier — on a gorgeous March afternoon that felt like spring. That felt like hope. When …
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Doja Cat has released the sultry — and scary — new music video for her viral single “Streets,” originally featured on her 2019 album Hot Pink. In the horror-fantasy clip, directed by Christian Breslauer, a taxi driver stares out at a mannequin while Paul Anka’s “Put Your Head on My …
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Ben Winston is exhausted. The television producer, who moved from the U.K. to Los Angeles six years ago to start The Late Late Show With James Corden, is a week away from executive-producing his first Grammys telecast. “I literally had two hours of sleep last night,” he tells Rolling Stone …
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Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill is an arena-rock idealist, a firm believer in the undying power of setting up shop at the 50-yard line of rock & roll expectations and doing very brisk business. “Like in a mainstream melody / Oh, I want to take you in!” he told …
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Lil Baby has dropped the video for his new track “Real As It Gets,” the Atlanta rapper’s first new music of 2021. The single also features Louisville rapper EST Gee, who appears alongside Lil Baby in the Caleb Jarmine-directed video; the rapper is reportedly at work on his Lamborghini Boys …
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