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Ex-WHITE LION Singer MIKE TRAMP Releases Music Video For ‘Everything Is Alright’
Internationally recognized solo artist and songwriter Mike Tramp has released the official music video for his brand new single “Everything Is Alright”. An honest number written directly from the heart, it will be performed by Tramp in the competition to find the Danish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. “Everything Is Alright” will battle seven other songs in Denmark’s national final “Dansk Melodi Grand Prix” on March 6, with the winner going forward to represent Denmark in the Eurovision finals, due to be held in Rotterdam this May. The winner of “Dansk Melodi Grand Prix” will be decided solely by televote this year. Due to the pandemic, the contest will be performed without a live audience as it was in 2020, although an orchestra...
PAPA ROACH Is ‘Three-Quarters Of The Way Finished’ With New Album
PAPA ROACH singer Jacoby Shaddix spoke to the “Lipps Service With Scott Lipps” podcast about the progress of the recording sessions for the band’s follow-up to 2019’s “Who Do You Trust?” album. “We’ve just been doing [it] piecemeal,” Jacoby said. “We’ll quarantine, and then we’ll meet up at an Arbnb somewhere, ’cause I’m not going down to L.A. right now; I just don’t wanna be a part of what’s going on. “We’re a little over three-quarters of the way finished with the record, and we’re looking at dropping music later this year,” he continued. “I’ve got a bunch of remixes and guest features that I’ve done as well through the pandemic that are coming. So the...
Wyclef Jean on Covering Bob Marley and a Third Fugees Album
Kyle Meredith With… Wyclef Jean Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Wyclef Jean hangs out with Kyle Meredith to dive into his new podcast series, Run That Back, and his Bob Marley cover for Amazon Music. The Fugees member also celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Score, speculates on what a third LP from the group would have sounded like. Jean then regales us with stories of disguising Van Halen songs in his church and starting as a jazz musician while wanting to be a composer. Later on, he gives updates on his recent 2020 singles, his Netflix movie Prince of Port au Prince, scoring Showtime’s The Chi, the Sodo Mood Lab, and what’s next for Haiti. In related news, Rootsland is curre...
Marilyn Manson Abused and Threatened to Kill His Current Wife, Claims Ex-Assistant
Dan Cleary, a former personal assistant for Marilyn Manson, alleges that the rocker abused and threatened to kill his current wife, Lindsay Usich. The revelation comes weeks after Manson’s ex-fiancée Evan Rachel Wood, former girlfriend Esmé Bianco, and several other women accused the singer of abuse. Cleary, who initially worked as a a keyboard tech on Manson’s touring crew, served as his personal assistant from 2014 to 2015. He claimed on his Rare Form Radio podcast (via Huffington Post) that during that time he saw Manson be abusive to his “then girlfriend” and “now wife”. “I saw some physical abuse as far as like pushing and throwing things at her and a lot of like violent outbursts around her ― breaking things,” Cleary claimed. “A lot of mental abuse and name-calling and thr...
Jesse Plemons Cast as Lead in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
De Niro, DiCaprio, Da Plemons? Via The Hollywood Reporter, Jesse Plemons will get top-billing over some of the biggest names in Hollywood when he takes on the lead role in Martin Scorsese’s upcoming crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon. After two decades as a scene-stealing character actor, Plemons has fully transitioned to prestige powerhouse, with recent star turns in Judas and the Black Messiah and I’m Thinking of Ending Things. He’s also worked with Scorsese before, nabbing a small part in 2019’s The Irishman. Lots of great thespians have put in a few minutes of work for Marty, but those that lead in his movies are often nominated for Oscars. Already a star, Plemons is stepping up to an even bigger stage. Killers of the Flower Moon is based on David Grann’s non-fiction...
The King of Limbs Remains a Crucial Piece of the Radiohead Puzzle
Editor’s Note: Radiohead’s The King of Limbs came out on February 18th, 2011, to strong sales but mixed criticism. A decade later, our own Jordan Blum revisits the band’s eighth studio album and its gradual journey toward the heart of many fans. For more articles like these, check out our Are These Classics Yet? series. People have often said that Radiohead are the last great rock band. While that may be an unfair and hyperbolic assessment — especially since they frequently defy categorization — it’s certainly an understandable one. After all, no other group in the last 30 years have managed to fully sustain their integrity amidst achieving endlessly admirable evolutions and perpetually outstanding commercial and critical reception. In that sense, they’re like a modern-day Bea...
Music Victoria Appoints Simone Schinkel as CEO
Additionally, she holds a Master of Arts and Cultural Management, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in technical production, is an alumni of the Australia Council’s Emerging Leaders Development Program and co-convenor of the Arts Industry Council of Victoria. Schinkel is based in Melbourne, which has a reputation as a world-class music city and is arguably the live heartbeat of Australia. That was pre-COVID. Melbourne has endured several setbacks during the pandemic and has only just emerged from a snap five-day lockdown, a so-called circuit-breaker intended to halt community transmissions of new, highly contagious variants of the coronavirus. “In Simone we have found the person to lead our organization and sector through its next critical stage,” comments Sally Howland, chair of Music Victoria. “CO...
Facebook Blocks News Viewing, Sharing In Australia
“It has left us facing a stark choice: attempt to comply with a law that ignores the realities of this relationship, or stop allowing news content on our services in Australia. With a heavy heart, we are choosing the latter,” Easton added. The company’s decision to take the nuclear option and block news access and sharing has already led to a storm of criticism from the emergency services in Australia who rely on the social media platform to relay vital information on wildfires, floods, extreme weather and COVID-19 among other local interest and public safety issues. The Australian government slammed Facebook for what is a landmark local ban on viewing and sharing news. “Facebook was wrong. Facebook’s actions were unnecessary, they were heavy-handed and they w...
Country Radio Was Already Adapting to Streaming. Then Came COVID-19
Indeed, it’s likely that most businesses — and maybe even CRS — will continue to use the internet for at least some conferences after offices reopen. Panelists across the summit’s spectrum referenced numerous ways in which the industry should anticipate post-pandemic change. Artists will continue to sign new recording deals after establishing audiences through online platforms, as did Andrew Jannakos, who contributed to a panel focused specifically on TikTok. In fact, songwriters are likely to receive publishing deals in greater numbers through the platform — and it’s already happening, said TikTok head of music partnerships and content operations Corey Sheridan on the same panel. Country radio will see some bounce back, though maybe not to its pre-pandemic listening leve...
WME’s Brett Murrihy Explores the State of Touring In Asia Pacific, ‘Electrifying’ India & More
In 2015, William Morris Endeavour acquired Artist Voice in a deal that saw Murrihy join the powerhouse U.S.-based talent and media agency, and take on duties for expanding and managing its presence in the music space throughout the region. Today, its clients include Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Nine Inch Nails and chart-leading newcomers Olivia Rodrigo, 24kGoldn and The Kid Laroi. To date, WME is the only global agency representing the Asia Pacific market. The pandemic has called a halt to pan-Asian touring, for the time being. Murrihy, however, anticipates the region’s touring circuit will open-up once vaccinations roll out, with Australia and New Zealand positioned to emerge earlier than its neighbors. Billboard caught up with Murrihy for a glimpse at the Pan...
MTV Is Reuniting The Original Cast Of ‘The Real World: New York’ With New Show
Source: Ron Galella, Ltd. / Getty Next month, MTV’s “The Real World” is returning to television as part of ViacomCBS’s launch of their streaming service Paramount Plus. The iconic show will reunite the OG cast of the first season with brand new episodes for their new show “The Real World Homecoming: New York.” Engadget reports that the reboot’s first season will film the original seven roommates in the same Soho loft where they first met back in 1992. The show will debut on the streaming platform on March 4. “In the multi-episode docuseries, the original seven strangers will revisit the shocking moments and explosive issues that transpired during the historic season and discuss how they parallel in today’s social climate,” the media conglomerate said in their press release. “After sp...
Colin Kaepernick TV Team Heightens Security Over Threat From Domestic Terrorist Group “Proud Boys”
Source: Jeff Grossman – WENN / WENN Colin Kaepernick has begun production on his highly anticipated mini-series, Colin in Black and White, but not without a few hiccups. According to published reports, the production team of the Colin Kaepernick production has had to increase security after threats of protests on site from the domestic terrorist group, Proud Boys. Executives on the project reportedly sent an email to the staff with measures to protect the cast and crew. Producers were told in a memo last week that, “anti-BLM sentiments may protest against the production.” Additionally, two anonymous production members told TMZ that the office received an ominous phone call last week, believed to be from the militant far-right group. While the threat never materialized physically on-site,&n...
