Saturday, February 13, 2021
Of all the words of wisdom my mother has passed on to me, the earliest ones I remember have been the most useful. She told me I could achieve any goal I set for myself, but being Black, I wo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Dolly Parton has reimagined her classic 1980 song "9 to 5" as "5 to 9" for a Squarespace commercial celebrating office workers getting their entrepreneurial side hustles going after hours. T…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2021
Rita Moreno's most indelible screen moment, which had her and a "West Side Story" ensemble sizing up the pros and cons of their adopted U.S. homeland, remains an eternally clever musical arg…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Florida Georgia Line member Brian Kelley's plan to bring a country-music musical to life as a legit stage production is now extending to a movie version that is being developed simultaneousl…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28PM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2021
Ariana Grande was nearly able to make her song "34+35" add up to No. 1, by releasing a hit remix that includes Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat. The song moves up to second place on the new …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 21, 2021
There are two songs that are completely guaranteed to be played over the PA at any 4th of July celebration in America: Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" and Katy Perry's "Firework." Since …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32AM[SHARE]Monday, January 11, 2021
While no tribute may ever go down as the one David Bowie actually deserves, Saturday's three-hour "A Bowie Celebration" livestream came within spitting distance of giving the duke his due, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 6, 2021
If you ever loved, liked or even hated "Rent," there's a fair chance that you've never been able to hear a set of numerals large enough to include a comma without having that musical's signa…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:13PM[SHARE]Monday, December 28, 2020
Fresh from taking over family home entertainment centers for yet another holiday season with her vocal appearances in the "Frozen" films, Idina Menzel is un-animating herself with a new web …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Whatever else it may be, Ariana Grande's Sweetener World Tour is not a "get to know your superstar" affair. On record, Grande has ably followed Taylor Swift down the trail of openly autobiog…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45PM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2019
Bruce Springsteen hasn't made too many public predictions about whether he'd ever record or tour with the E Street Band again. Sunday night, he answered a firm yes to both those questions. A…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:43PM[SHARE]In their conversation Sunday night at a private Netflix event honoring "Springsteen on Broadway," Bruce Springsteen and Martin Scorsese spent close to a third of the 45-minute chat discussin…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:43PM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2019
It was fitting that ASCAP president/chairman Paul Williams took the stage Thursday morning at the opening of the 14th annual "I Create Music" Expo to the strains of Kermit the Frog crooni…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:53PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 27, 2019
Bruce Springsteen was a surprise guest at the Asbury Park Music and Film Festival for a viewing of his own documentary of clips culled from the Bruce Springsteen Archives Saturdsy at the…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2019
Motown has almost certainly never had more ancillary projects happening at once in the realms of TV and theater than it does in 2019. Among the offshoots keeping the catalog alive in multipl…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 4, 2019
"She used to be mine" " that's how a lot of Sara Bareilles fans probably felt, losing her to the legit stage, at least as a recording and touring artist, for the better part of five years. W…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:03PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2019
Earlier this week, Jezebel published an op-ed in which Tracy Clark-Flory says that Alanis Morissette's iconic, multiple Grammy-winning 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill," which she loved when s…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
The ASCAP Screen Music Awards has announced several honorees to be feted at a May 15 ceremony in Beverly Hills, with "Captain Marvel" composer Pinar Toprak, "Incredibles 2" scorer Michael Gi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Siddhartha Khosla, one of the busiest composers in TV with ongoing assignments for "This Is Us," "The Kids Are Alright" and "Marvel's Runaways," has made the move to ASCAP, the performing-ri…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:26PM[SHARE]"I know it's been a really long time since I made a record," said Sara Bareilles, introducing a night of mostly new music at the Troubadour Tuesday. Hearing some shouted assents from the aud…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:07PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2019
Myspace-related news travels very, very slowly in the late 2010s. So while the company had quietly acknowledged a massive data loss in response to user inquiries last year, it took until thi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Aretha Franklin is going on tour " or, rather, the concert movie she stars in is, as "Amazing Grace" is being booked for a solid week's worth of premieres across the country at the end of Ma…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2019
One of this year’s most nominated artists at the Grammys, Brandi Carlile, won all three of the awards she was up for in the pre-telecast ceremony Sunday afternoon. She was one of two p…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:22PM[SHARE]Monday, January 28, 2019
A few months before the film version of "The Sound of Music" hit the silver screen, a song plugger working the catalog of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein approached label owner Dave Ka…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57PM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2019
In a year when Lady Gaga stands to win at least one Oscar next month and has a decent chance at two, it may sound like a case of premature congratulation to suggest that she's already enjoye…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:40PM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
Among those who are so F—ing grateful to Ariana Grande right now: the nation's festival bookers, who, facing a shortage of contemporary rock heavyweights, are increasingly looking to p…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Fans attending a free screening of “Springsteen on Broadway” at Monmouth University in West Long Branch Sunday night may not have noticed a familiar face in the audience: Bruce S…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Joni Mitchell’s birthday party is making its way to the big screen. Fans who lamented they weren’t able to attend a sold-out pair of all-star Mitchell tribute concerts in L.A. tw…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:59AM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2018
Ariana Grande may be celebrating the run-up to New Year's Eve with bed rest. One thing is certain: She won't be spending it on stage at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, where she'd been schedu…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2018
Now that America has come together as one and finally settled that whole "Baby, It's Cold Outside" thing (we did, didn't we?), it's time to spend the remaining days of the Christmas season r…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Hope you like the 69-year-old version of Bruce Springsteen's face, because it's virtually all you're going to see for the two hours and 40 minutes of the filmed "Springsteen on Broadway" " o…
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