The Recording Academy’sProducers & Engineers Wing will kick off Grammy Week with an event honoring drummer, producer, and three-time Grammy winner Terri Lyne Carrington and classical producer and 13-time Grammy winner Judith Sherman. The event will take place Wed., Feb. 1 at the Village Studios in Los Angeles. Along with paying homage to Carrington and
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Legendary composer John Williams has written an original theme for ESPN’s College Football Playoff National Championship, airing at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Monday night prior to the TCU-Georgia game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif. Titled “Of Grit and Glory,” it runs three and a half minutes and will score a specially created series of visuals
No one will be catching the bell-bottom blues after getting a strong dose of freshly minted country star Lainey Wilson, whose second album, “Bell Bottom Country,” is one of the more irresistible collections to come out of the genre in some time. Everything about her is a breath of fresh air — her brash but
At least 10 people were injured in by gunfire outside a Florida restaurant where rapper French Montana was shooting a music video, according to statements from the restaurant and Miami Dade Fire Rescue cited by CNN and other news outlets. Details of the incident were unclear at the time of this article’s publication; there were
It’s safe to say that more than one voracious music fan has found themselves thinking they might have been more careful in what they’d wished for: Experience has shown this recovering superfan that, with rare exceptions, we probably didn’t really need to spend countless hours tracking down that unfinished studio outtake or muffled concert recording.
A Grammy-winning recording engineer who has worked in the Nashville music scene for 35 years, Mark Capps, was shot and killed by police in Nashville Thursday afternoon. A spokesperson said he was killed by a SWAT team member after he brandished a gun in his doorway, as police responded to an incident in which Capps
Universal Music Group sued Triller on Thursday, alleging that the video-sharing app has failed to make payments for the last nine months, in violation of their licensing agreement. In the complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Universal said it notified Triller on Tuesday that it is terminating the agreement due to Triller’s repeated breaches.
Journey’s “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart),” from the 1983 album “Frontiers,” arrived 40 years ago and went on to peak at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. To commemorate its release, rock artists Daughtry and Lzzy Hale of Halestorm have teamed up for tribute single, which Chris Daughtry tells Variety was inspired by the
It’s Nov. 30 and punk-rock icon Billy Idol is 67 today, so what is he doing on a Zoom call with a journalist? “Even on my birthday they’ve got me doing stuff,” he growls good-naturedly, but he has a happy reason to be working on his birthday: He’s talking about his Jan. 6 star ceremony
The Kristen Ann Carr Fund’s 2022 gala, featuring John Mellencamp and honoree John Sykes, set a new fundraising record, pulling in a record $1.35 million for sarcoma research and treatment, the organization announced Thursday. It also announced the addition of two new fellows to its training programs at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: surgical oncology
Britain’s Royal Mail has revealed images of 12 stamps being issued as a tribute to a seemingly unlikely but legendary British rock band: Iron Maiden, and their grisly illustrated mascot, Eddie the ‘Ead. See the images below. Such stamps have been issued in the past for the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Queen and Pink Floyd,
Miley Cyrus has revealed her new album “Endless Summer Vacation” will be arriving on March 10 via her new label, Columbia Records. The record, which Cyrus described as “her love letter to L.A.” in the announcement, will be the follow-up to 2020’s “Plastic Hearts.” News of “Endless Summer Vacation” came attached to a teaser trailer
Ryan Raftery has written and starred in stage musical parodies about Martha Stewart, Anna Wintour, Andy Cohen and Andy Warhol. The actor is now taking on Kris Jenner. “Just for Variety” has the exclusive first look at the poster for the upcoming show, “Mother of the Year,” featuring Raftery in full Jenner drag. The tagline
Sam Smith, whose fourth studio album is out on Jan. 27, has announced dates for “Gloria the Tour,” their North American tour in support of the album. The tour, Smith’s North American outing since 2018, will cover 27 cities and launch on July 25 at FTX Arena in Miami and include shows at New York
Patrick Clark, who is accused of killing Migos rapper Takeoff, was released from a Texas jail on Wednesday after posting $1 million bond, according to the Houston Chronicle, citing court records. Clark, 33, was arrested and jailed on Dec. 1 in connection with the fatal shooting of the rapper (real name: Kirsnick Khari Bell), which
The Recording Academy’s Special Merit Awards Ceremony — which will celebrate the organization’s 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award, Technical Grammy Award, and Best Song for Social Change Award recipients — will return for the first time since 2020 during Grammy Week, taking place the night before the big show, Feb. 4, 2023, at the
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released its “Class of 2022” list Wednesday night, celebrating the 39 freshman artists who had records go gold or platinum during the last calendar year. The news was mixed, though — although 39 is a healthy crop of newcomers to have singles break through, none of those artists
Shania Twain has released a new music video for “Giddy Up!,” the third single from her forthcoming sixth studio album “Queen Of Me,” to be released on Feb. 3 via Republic Records. The cheery single’s catchy and fun chorus receives a matching dance number in the song’s visual treatment where the track’s listening versatility is
UPDATED: Rapper Theophilus London has been found “safe and well” after his family filed a missing persons report last week, according to his cousin. On Wednesday night, London’s cousin, Mikhail Noel, posted on Instagram that the rapper has been located. “We have found Theo. He is safe and well,” the post reads. “At this time
Quavo posted a touching tribute song Wednesday night to his nephew and Migos bandmate Takeoff, who was shot and killed in Houston on Nov. 1. Titled “Without You,” the song is a heartfelt and heartbreaking reminisce that features a video of Quavo sitting sadly, smoking a blunt, looking down and rocking gently in a chair
Anyone who’s been to a concert in the past couple of decades knows the sound: the crunch of dozens or hundreds of plastic cups littering the venue floor at the end of the show. How much less waste would there be if those cups — which number in the millions every year — could be washed
One of Mexico’s most beloved pop singers Gloria Trevi has once again been accused of “grooming” and exploiting underage girls in the early 1990s for the benefit of her ex-producer Sergio Andrade. Two Jane Does have alleged that Trevi, now 54, and Andrade used their “role, status, and power” to initiate sexual contact with them
After a couple of online teases, Skrillex has dropped his first new music in many months with “Rumble,” a collaboration with fast-rising British artist-producers Fred Again and Flowdan. The song arrives via Skrillex’s long-running OWSLA label, distributed by Atlantic Records. Along with the new music comes a new look: gone is Skrillex’s trademark long, curly
YoungBoy Never Broke Again has announced his fifth studio album “I Rest My Case” is set to arrive this Friday, Jan. 6. The Louisana-born rapper also shared the sultry cover art for the record, which marks his first release on Motown Records as part of a deal he signed in October. YoungBoy is one of
New year, new Shazam predictions. Like its previous lists, the song-identifying app crowned five artists poised for a global breakthrough in 2023 and, for the first time, also spotlighted five additional artists who are gaining ground regionally based on Shazam’s “uniquely predictive data and algorithms,” and supplementary insight from its parent company Apple Music’s global
Joseph Koo, a leading music composer during Hong Kong cinema’s golden era, has died in Vancouver, Canada. He was 91. Local media report his death as happening on Tuesday Jan. 3, 2023, but do not state a cause of death. Born in Guangzhou, China on Feb. 23, 1931, Koo Ka-fai moved with his scholarly and
Singer Ava Max has signed with Scooter Braun’s SB Projects, Variety has confirmed, where she will be represented by Allison Kaye. Max was previously managed by Jeffrey Azoff and Tommy Bruce’s Full Stop Management. Kaye, a veteran of Variety‘s Hitmakers list, has worked closely with Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande at SB Projects, where she
SZA’s “SOS” rings in the new year atop the Billboard 200 chart for a third consecutive total week, following its impressive debut week on the chart in late December. Meanwhile, the final week of 2022 pushed a number of cheery Yuletide favorites to dominate the top 10 of the singles chart in what has largely
Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill plans to have a big 2023, according to his own plans. On his social media accounts, Mill shared extensive previews of new music, all accompanied with visuals, with the intention of dropping an album every quarter this year — for a total of four. On the linked Instagram post, Mill indicated
Bad Bunny has responded to online backlash after footage of him throwing a fan’s phone went viral over the holidays. The reggaeton singer did not apologize for the confrontation, which he called a “lack of respect” on the fan’s part, and explained his reaction. The video, which was filmed in the Dominican Republic, shows a