A new line of cannabis products named after the late Grateful Dead icon Jerry Garcia, Garcia Hand Picked, will be landing in select California dispensaries next month. The brand is being marketed by Holistic Industries, one of the leading private multi-state cannabis operators in the U.S., in partnership with the Garcia family. The goal is
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As part of a five-song preview of his forthcoming album “Magic,” Oneohtrix Point Never has dropped a collaboration with The Weeknd titled “No Nightmares.” It’s a slow and yearning ballad that recalls “Scared to Love” from The Weeknd’s smash album released in March, “After Hours.” The Weeknd-featured track appears at the end of a five-song
How the 1940s standard “Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe” failed to be adapted into a Joe Biden campaign song until now is a mystery, but Cher recognized the obvious pairing of classic song and candidate and has recorded her rewrite of the tune, which was originally sung by Ethel Waters in the 1943 film
Harry Styles has released the music video for “Golden,” the fifth single from his “Fine Line” album following U.S. radio hits “Adore You,” “Watermelon Sugar” and “Falling.” The artist released a teaser for the clip on Sunday, amassing millions of views in the hours before the official video dropped. On Monday, within 30 minutes of
Netflix has debuted the first trailer for its upcoming biographical drama “Selena: The Series,” about the beloved Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, set to release Dec. 4. Christian Serratos (“The Walking Dead”) will play the late artist, while Madison Taylor Baez will play a young Selena. Produced by Campanario Entertainment and created by Moisés Zamora, the
The Weeknd and Roddy Rich lead the 2020 American Music Awards nominees, with Megan Thee Stallion next with five and Bad Bunny, DaBaby, Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift tied with four, nominee Dua Lipa announced on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” The show will air live from the Microsoft Theater in Los
Harry Styles is investing in a new arena to be built in his hometown of Manchester. Dubbed “Co-op Live,” the Oak View Group (OVG) is leading the effort to construct the venue, which gained planning approval in September and is set to open in 2023. Its arrival represents a £350 million ($455 million) investment in
A new studio album from Drake is coming early next year. The Toronto-born rapper released a short teaser on Saturday, which also happened to be his 34th birthday. The caption confirmed that the name of the album is “Certified Lover Boy,” and the release date is January 2021. Within the short clip, a young boy
John Mulaney is set to return to “Saturday Night Live,” with the Strokes as the musical guest, for the Oct. 31 episode. This episode, taking place on Halloween, is also the last one before the 2020 presidential election. Mulaney, a former writer for the NBC late-night sketch comedy series, last appeared on the show in
Despite multiple assurances that she would focus on acting during her appearance as host on “Saturday Night Live,” Adele burst into song several times during a spoof on “The Bachelor” about half an hour into the show. The skit found Adele, who was introduced as her superstar self, interrupting every bachelor-dating scenario by bursting into
In a visually dazzling pay-per-view livestream Saturday, Billie Eilish played something close to her usual set. But she was far from being on her usual set, as ingenious digital effects turned her soundstage into a peaceful starfield, the lair of a giant spider, the bottom of the ocean, a bucolic cartoon forest and a news
Rapper Offset of the group Migos was detained Saturday in Beverly Hills in an incident that reportedly involved Trump supporters who were marching in the area. Offset broadcast part of the incident to 30,000 people live on Instagram, after Cardi B, his wife, posted footage of the Trump supporters walking in Beverly Hills. Police confirmed
When gymnast Simone Biles started training, she couldn’t find many role models who looked like her. To change that lack of representation across women leaders, the Olympic gold medalist now devotes her time to empowering people of color in sports. “Growing up, I didn’t see very many Black gymnasts,” Biles, 23, said during Project Glimmer’s
Kanye West talked about his work as a “pastor,” music industry contracts, his fashion line and his “calling to be the leader of the free world,” which he said came to him in the shower, in a three-hour long, free-associative interview with podcaster Joe Rogan that was released Saturday — and that’s in just the
Jerry Jeff Walker, the singer-songwriter known for penning the hit “Mr. Bojangles” and as a pillar of Texas’ country music scene, has died, according to published reports. He was 78. Walker’s death was reported early Saturday by ABC affiliate KTRK-TV Houston, among other outlets. Walker died Oct. 23, according to Pitchfork. Walker is best known
Cheap Trick were one of the best rock bands to emerge in the 1970s but also one of the most confusing, both musically (a combination of power pop and aggressive hard rock) and visually (two dreamboat rockers and two ridiculously attired misfits). And even at their peak, with classics songs like “Surrender,” “Dream Police,” “Southern
Travis Scott and PlayStation have announced a creative collaboration ahead of the PlayStation 5’s launch. “I’m super thankful and excited to be able to bring my strategic and creative vision to the rollout of such an iconic product,” Scott said in a statement. “I’ve always been a fan of PlayStation and the brand they’ve built,
Swizz Beatz has a lot going on: Not only is he co-founder of Verzuz, the popular online DJ battle series, he’s a successful music producer (Jay-Z, Nas, DMX), he’s married to Alicia Keys and the two of them have built a formidable art collection. Having discussed Verzuz at length with him earlier this year, we
In today’s TV news roundup, YouTube Originals announced “Justin Bieber: Next Chapter” documentary, and Netflix unveiled a trailer for “Dash & Lily.” FIRST LOOKS Netflix released a trailer for its upcoming series “Dash & Lily,” set to premiere on Nov. 10. Based on the book “Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares” by Rachel Cohn and
After a full decade spent living in a sprawling Coldwater Canyon estate she bought from Candice Bergen, Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden have upgraded to a new home in a different section of the 90210, where some of their nearest new neighbors include Vin Diesel, Gene Simmons, John Mayer, Kate Upton and Justin Verlander. The
As the hangover from last night’s final presidential debate fails to wear off, we’ve gotta say that soothing female voices are just the thing right now — and that’s reflected in each of the week’s picks for top songs (well, except for the Illenium and Tom DeLonge track). We’ve already covered Ariana Grande’s latest and
Tyler Perry is Variety‘s 2020 Showman of the Year. For the full cover story, click here. Music supervisor Joel C. High distinctly remembers meeting Tyler Perry for the first time in 2004 on “Diary of a Mad Black Woman.” “It changed my life,” says High of what was the beginning of a beautiful filmmaker-music supervisor partnership that continues
Early in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s just-released documentary, “Letter to You,” the group drinks a toast to the fans in San Siro Stadium in Milan, happily reminiscing about the audiences in Italy and looking forward to performing there on tour in 2020. That was in November, 2019, after a five-day recording session
Showtime has released the first trailer for “Supervillain,” a revealing docuseries about the rise of provocative young rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine. Directed by Karam Gill, the three-episode docuseries will examine how 6ix9ine manufactured his own cult celebrity status through his mastery of social media and purposely stirring up controversy. Gill conducted an exclusive interview with 6ix9ine
If anyone knows Bruce Springsteen, it’s filmmaker Thom Zimny. The two have been collaborating for 20 years, from video shorts to retrospective documentaries like “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town,” before moving his cameras into a New York theater for “Springsteen on Broadway.” Their latest collaboration is “Letter to You” (now
Spirit Music Group, the 25-year-old independent music publisher, has brought in Amy Hartman (pictured at right) for the position of senior vice president, creative services. A veteran of Roc Nation, where she most recently served as svp, creative sync licensing for film/TV and advertising, and of Universal Music Group, where she was vp of film
Even as one of music’s most forward-facing artists, Damon Albarn must have been surprised by the prescience of his statement that the 2017 Gorillaz album “Humanz” was a “party record for the world going nuts.” Planet Earth’s apocalyptic shindig was only just beginning but Albarn has always been supernaturally gifted at reading the room, blessed
In the second episode of “Live From My Den,” a weekly video series from Artists Den and Variety, Aloe Blacc introduces his new album “All Love Everything.” In an interview with Variety’s executive music editor Shirley Halperin, Blacc shared that even before the pandemic, he had been used to creating music “all the time, anywhere
Ariana Grande plays the most glamorous leader of the free world in the video for her new song “Positions,” which dropped on Thursday night. The Dave Meyers-helmed clip envisions the singer as a kind of fantasy of Audrey Hepburn as president, working her new retro-early-‘60s look while she moves through a series of cabinet meetings
The first time I saw Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, nearly 20 years ago at the legendary Frank’s Cocktail Lounge in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, I turned to my companion and said, “I get it — they’re a classic R&B cover band that plays originals.” While not completely inaccurate, my hot take was seriously short-sighted.