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News Grammy Nominations 2021: See the Full List of Nominees Here Find out who’s up for Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and more By Allison Hussey, Quinn Moreland, and Evan Minsker March 14, 2021 Facebook Twitter The 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards®, January 2018 (DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images) Facebook

Fiona Apple is nominated for three Grammys this year, including Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, and Best Alternative Music Album. While a limited number of guests will be allowed to attend tonight’s ceremony, Apple will not be among them. “It’s not because I’m trying to protest, even though I have problems with the Grammys,

News Posthumous Tony Allen Album There Is No End Announced Check out “Cosmosis,” featuring Skepta and co-produced by Damon Albarn By Madison Bloom March 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Tony Allen, photo by Bernard Benant Facebook Twitter The Afrobeat legend Tony Allen died in the spring of 2020 at the age of 79. The year prior,

From Bot Dylan to digital film curators, there’s a whole wide world of AI robots out there slowly encroaching on human skills, and FN Meka is the latest to join the bunch. The bot, who’s credited as being the world’s first AI-powered robot rapper, just released a new single called “Speed Demon” that’s already making

News Spoon Cover Tom Petty’s “Breakdown” and “A Face in the Crowd”: Watch Recorded live at the Catacomb in Austin By Evan Minsker March 12, 2021 Facebook Twitter Spoon’s Britt Daniel, photo by Oliver Halfin Facebook Twitter Noted Tom Petty fans Spoon have shared recordings of two Tom Petty covers. Their renditions of “Breakdown” (which

“What if this is a movie where the characters have actually seen a horror movie?” –John Sayles By the dawn of the 1980s, there hadn’t been a genuinely successful werewolf film in years. And in the wake of films like The Last House on the Left and Halloween, which brought horror to the cities and

100 gecs’ Laura Les has shared a video for a new song called “Haunted,” a track she debuted at the A2B2 Night of Fire virtual concert. The visual is directed by Weston Allen. Check it out below. 100 gecs released their debut studio album 1000 gecs in 2019. In 2020, the duo also issued a

BTS helped kick off this weekend’s Grammy festivities with a rousing performance at MusiCares’ Music on a Mission virtual benefit concert. Appearing remotely from the Peace Hall at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, South Korea, our 2020 Band of the Year performed their Grammy-nominated song “Dynamite”. Notably, the performance featured Jungkook on drums. Watch the

Phoebe Bridgers appeared on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Thursday (March 11) to discuss her wild year off the back of Punisher. She also brought along a special guest: Her pug was photoshopped out of a recent Variety cover but suffered no such indignity on the show. Other topics include her slap-bass-playing neighbor and

The remaining members of Power Trip reflected on the tragic passing of Riley Gale and touched on the future of the band in their first interview since the singer’s death last year. The four remaining members — guitarist Nick Stewart, guitarist Blake Ibanez, drummer Chris Ulsh, and bassist Chris Whetzel — came together for the

Faith No More’s Mike Patton is the latest vocalist to perform the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song. The new rendition is in the trailer for the upcoming retro-style beat-em-up game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. If you would like to hear Patton sing about Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael, Splinter, and Shredder, watch the

The Pitch: Comprised almost entirely of home video tapes, audio recordings, and journal entries — interspersed with interviews conducted in the present day — ’90s child star Soleil Moon Frye reflects on her star-studded upbringing in Hollywood and grapples with the nature of growing up in front of the camera as she unearths firsthand accounts

It’s a Wu-Tang family battle: Raekwon and Ghostface Killah have been announced as the next VERZUZ opponents. “Steel sharpen Steel,” Raekwon wrote. It happens on March 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern. It can be viewed the VERZUZ Instagram account or via the Triller app—the new parent company of VERZUZ.  After closing out its first season

Our new music feature Origins tasks artists with providing some behind-the-process insights into their latest single. Today, Claudio Sanchez returns to his The Prize Fighter Inferno moniker for “Sweet Talker”. With work on Coheed and Cambria’s next record on hold during COVID-19, frontman Claudio Sanchez turned towards a project that had been largely dormant for

Lena Waithe—the writer, producer, and actor from shows including The Chi, Master of None, Twenties, and more—has launched a new partnership with Def Jam Records with the formation of a new label called Hillman Grad Records. A new press release described the label as an effort “Music and storytelling have always gone hand in hand.

Michael B. Jordan in Creed II (MGM) Michael B. Jordan has been confirmed as the director of Creed III, the upcoming sequel in which he will also continue to star as Adonis Creed. According to The Wrap, Tessa Thompson and Phylicia Rashad are also expected to reprise their roles as Adonis’ girlfriend and adopted mother, respectively.

Janelle Monáe was the musical guest on last night’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. She performed the new song “Turntables,” which appears on the soundtrack to the Stacey Abrams documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy. Watch the performance below. Janelle Monáe’s last album was the 2018 release Dirty Computer. She appeared

Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | Stitcher | Overcast | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Their obsession. Their words. Someone else’s movie. Hosted by Paul Davidson, The Side Track interviews filmmakers, producers, writers, actors, and film fanatics, then hands them the mic to present their own personal feature-length audio commentaries of the movies that moved them and made them who they are today. Screenwriters and

Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak have been cheekily campaigning on social media for the past week to perform at the 2021 Grammys, and now it seems like they’ll get their wish. Bruno Mars has confirmed in a Twitter post that the duo will be performing during this year’s broadcast, which is already slated to feature

What’s that fucking sound? Why, it’s “I FUCKED RYDER RIPPS”, an audio-only sex tape by rapper Azealia Banks that just sold as a blockchain NFT for over $18,000. (Via Vice.) The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) was created by the titular Mr. Ripps and posted on the Ethereum blockchain for 10.00 ETH. At the time of this writing,