Ladies and gentlemen, Sam Smith! The hitmaker commanded attention at the 65th annual Grammy Awards in an all-red look.
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APPOINTMENTSSony Music UK has hired DJ and producer Anton Powers as Head Of A&R at Ministry Of Sound Records. “I’m a huge fan of what Ministry Of Sound has done over the years and it’s an honour to come in as Head of A&R, be working with the amazing team and getting stuck in on lots of exciting projects”, he says.————————————————–RELEASESNoel Gallagher and those High Flying Birds of his are going to release a new album called ‘Council Skies’ on 2 Jun. “It’s going back to the beginning”, says Gallagher of the record.
“Daydreaming, looking up at the sky and wondering about what life could be – that’s as true to me now as it was in the early 90s. When I was growing up in poverty and unemployment, music took me out of that”, he says. The band will also be touring in July and August, and by jove if there isn’t a new single called ‘Easy Now’ out right now.Måneskin have released new single ‘Gossip’, featuring Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello.
“When I saw them play live I was blown away”, says Morello of his collaborators. “They are unapologetically loud, unapologetically sexy, and unapologetically rocking and deserve to be one of the standard bearers for rock and roll for a younger generation”.Nightwish frontwoman Floor Jansen has released new solo single ‘Invincible’. Her debut solo album, ‘Paragon’, is out on 24 Mar.The Heavy have announced that they will release new album ‘Amen’ on 21 Apr. Here’s new single ‘Hurricane Coming’.
Ladies and gentlemen, Sam Smith! The hitmaker commanded attention at the 65th annual Grammy Awards in an all-red look.
Matty Healy spoke clearly and with his whole chest about those Oasis brothers, Noel Gallagher and Liam Gallagher!
EXCLUSIVE: Shaquita Smith (Wicked City) will front a Valentine’s Day movie for Paramount Global’s BET+ opposite Travis Cure (The Oval) and Jeff Logan (Double Cross).
Former Amazon Studios Canada originals boss Christina Wayne will be the new Managing Director of Saudi Arabia-based MBC Studios.
The BRIT Awards 2023 revealed their the final live performance for this year’s show and it's none other than Scottish music phenomenon Lewis Capaldi.
DEALSHipgnosis has acquired the songs catalogue of songwriting and production trio TMS – aka Tom ‘Froe’ Barnes, Benjamin Kohn and Pete ‘Merf’ Kelleher – which includes Lewis Capaldi’s ‘Someone You Loved’ and Jess Glynne’s ‘Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself’. “We’re incredibly proud of this body of work and know Hipgnosis will be excellent custodians of these copyrights in future”, say the trio. “It’s incredible to see what they’ve built in just a few short years and we know they’ll continue to represent these songs with passion and commitment”.Sofi Tukker have renewed their publishing deal with Third Side Music.
DEALSSparks have announced that they will release their 26th album ‘The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte’ on 26 May. The release sees them return to Universal Music’s Island Records, the label that put out their 1974 breakthrough ‘Kimono My House’. “Here we find ourselves in 2023, almost 50 years later, re-signing with Island Records, again with an album that we all feel is as bold and uncompromising as anything we did back then, or for that matter, anytime throughout our career”, say Ron and Russell Mael.
brutal. The only thing that was more brutal than the fight itself was filming it.“It was by far the hardest fight to shoot, and only because it was minus 25 to 30 Celsius every day,” director Tommy Wirkola told TheWrap. “We shot outside at night in Winnipeg.
DEALSWarner Chappell in the Philippines has announced a new worldwide publishing agreement with ABS-CBN Music, which – we are told – has one of the largest music catalogues in the country. Says the Warner music publisher’s MD for ASEAN, Jacqueline Chong: “ABS-CBN Music has been our key partner in the Philippines for many years. I am very excited for this new deal and can’t wait to evolve our partnership to a new level”.————————————————–RELEASESBabymetal have released new single ‘Metal Kingdom’.
The season of rambling acceptance speeches is at hand, prompting that nasty question: Why can’t award winners learn how to edit their gratitude? Or find an editor to help?
It’s a party in the U.K.! The music industry’s biggest names will brush shoulders at the 2023 Brit Awards, held at The O2 in London.
The Santa Barbara Film Festival has today unveiled the lineup for its 38th edition, taking place in-person from February 8-18.
‘This Is Going To Hurt’, ‘Munich – The Edge Of War’ Scribes Honored At WGGB Awards
No longer his wonderwall. Noel Gallagher and his wife, Sara MacDonald, have announced their divorce after more than 20 years together, Us Weekly can confirm.
The breakdown Noel Gallagher and Sara MacDonald’s marriage was down to his wild partying ways, it has been reported
Noel Gallagher and his wife Sara Macdonald have announced they are divorcing after 22 years together.