Month: October 2021

Sony’s Venom: Let There Be Carnage rang up a great $11.6M Thursday night from showtimes that began at 4PM yesterday at 3,475 theaters. That’s the second best we’ve seen during the pandemic after Disney/Marvel’s Black Widow which grossed $13.2M on Thursday night from shows that began at 5PM (sans Disney+ Premier for the night). Disney/Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of
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Happy Birthday, bitch. Krizz Kaliko and T-Pain are some wild pranksters in the video to their celebratory smash “BB (Birthday Bitch)”. In the whimsical clip, the pair set up a hidden camera on an Atlanta street where they drawl bystanders to dance before smashing them in the face with birthday cakes. Got’cha! [embedded content]
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Where Monk was mysteriously interior and Coltrane beatific, Mingus was volcanic, a big, turbulent man who notoriously punched the embouchure and prospects of his trombonist Jimmy Knepper to bits, and regularly blew his own career stormily off-course. His autobiography Beneath The Underdog saw his music subsumed by wild pornographic excess, even a composing sanctum in
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Dutch techno pioneer Lady Aida has died, aged 63. Lady Aida, real name Aïda Spaninks, died following a short illness which was first reported in Eindhovens Dagblad, the Dutch city where Spaninks was raised. Serge Clone, from famed Dutch techno label and record shop Clone, wrote a tribute to Spaninks on Facebook (via DJ Mag).
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Billy Blue Records’ release Country Faith Bluegrass is the first in a planned Country Faith series. No one can accuse the boutique label of craven cash-grabs assembling and promoting a collection featuring high profile mainstream country music stars indulging passions they seldom allow themselves to enjoy and bluegrass titans burnishing their legacies. Some songs are drawn from prior
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Samm Henshaw has saved a first-quarter release date for his debut album Untidy Soul. His first full-length release for AWAL arrives on January 28, 2022. Henshaw previewed the upcoming LP with two earlier singles, including “Grow” and “Still Broke.” Both arrived with supporting videos.  “Chicken Wings,” produced by Ivan Jackson from Brasstracks, is the newest addition to
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After great reviews at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after its world premiere at Fantastic Fest and a great response to the trailer at CinemaCon, Universal is moving Blumhouse’s Scott Derrickson directed feature from Jan. 28, 2022 to Feb. 4, 2022. The following weekend is the Valentine’s Day-Presidents Day stretch which is an ideal period for Black
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News Adele’s Return Possibly Teased with “30” Billboards “30 will be a drum n bass record to spite you,” Adele wrote on Instagram two years ago By Matthew Strauss October 1, 2021 Facebook Twitter Adele, March 2017 (Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Adele fans have spotted at least two “30” billboards, sparking speculation that new
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Lil Nas X is clapping back at his critics. The rapper’s debut album Montero opened at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 last month with 126,000 equivalent album units, including 147 million streams, but took the runner-up spot to Drake’s Certified Lover Boy. While second-week sales are not officially in yet, it appears that he
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