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Maya and Ethan Hawke Starring in New Film About Teen Trying to Lose Her Virginity to George Harrison
Maya and Ethan Hawke are joining the lineage of parent-child acting teams who share the screen. The daughter-father duo will headline the new movie Revolver, which is a fictional story centered around the very real incident of The Beatles making an unplanned stop in Anchorage, Alaska. On June 27th, 1966, The Beatles’ plane indeed landed in Anchorage, though there’s conflicting reports regarding why. Some say their flight got held up by a typhoon named Kit, but others claim it was a refueling stop that was delayed due to mechanical issues. When the Fab Four were forced to charter a bus to the nearby Anchorage Westward Hotel (now a Hilton), some Beatlemanics caught wind. Within hours, there were some 500 fans crowded outside the hotel. The whole ordeal lasted barely 12 hours, with The Beatle...
Indigo Sparke Announces Debut Album Echo, Shares “Baby”: Stream
Indigo Sparke has announced her debut album Echo, co-produced by Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief. It arrives January 29th, and Sparke has shared a preview with her new single “Baby”. Sparke is an Australian songwriter who’s been building buzz over the last year, even performing an NPR Tiny Desk Concert right before the coronavirus lockdowns. She’s already made some well-regarded friends. In addition to Lenker, Echo was co-produced by Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver), and features playing from Nick Hakim and Big Thief’s James Krivchenia. All of those indie darlings are present and accounted for on “Baby”. Lenker sings backup vocals, Krivchenia handles synths, and Hakim tinkers with a glockenspiel. The song is gorgeous and gentle; Sparke sings in an ethereal voice of the kind of lov...
Rolling Stones Share First-Ever Live Performance of ‘Sympathy For The Devil’
The Rolling Stones’ legendary Rock and Roll Circus concert film is a documentation of the last appearance of the band’s original line-up — and today (Oct. 30) the first-ever public performance of “Sympathy For The Devil” from that Dec. 12, 1968 show is available online for the first time. “It was an incredible shoot, I think, 36 hours or something,” guitarist Keith Richards recalled in a statement. “I remember not remembering everything towards the end… but it was fun… we went through two audiences… wore one out… it was great!” In addition to the Stones, featured are iconic performances of artists in the glory of their careers: The Who, Jethro Tull (featuring Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi on guitar), Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, impromptu supergroup The Dirty Mac (John L...
Donald Trump Calls Lil Wayne a ‘Really Nice Guy’ After Their Meeting
Donald Trump had a lot of positive things to say about Lil Wayne, a day after it was revealed that the unexpected duo met up to discuss the White House’s “Platinum Plan” for Black America. In a press conference on Friday (Oct. 30), a reporter asked the President why he met up with the rapper. “Well, he wanted a meeting,” Trump responded. “He’s a really nice guy. He’s really an activist, in a very positive way. And he asked for a meeting, and we had the meeting. And as you saw, the meeting went very well.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn reward...
First Stream Latin: New Music From Becky G, Bad Bunny, Tini & More
Becky G and Ozuna’s long-overdue collaboration is a reggaetón banger that finds the pair longing for a relationship, minus the drama. The playful and infectious beat pairs perfectly with Becky G and Ozuna’s slick bilingual verses. “Why so many fights if you always end up in my bed?” Becky G sings. The ever-so-confident Ozuna responds with “I’m not stressing because I know you’re mine.” The “No Drama” music video is set in an oasis-like environment where the two go back and forth about their relationship. “I love this collab with Ozuna,” said Becky G, who co-wrote the song alongside Ozuna and other songwriters. “I have always liked his music and I knew that together we could record something amazing. Now, perhaps more than ever before in our lives, less drama is something we all need, and t...
27 Artists and Executives on the Importance of Voting in the 2020 Election
Billboard asked artists and executives about the importance voting this year. From Halsey to DJ Khaled, Nelly, Phillipa Soo, Mary Chapin Carpenter and more, here’s what everyone had to say: Fabio Acosta, founder, Vibras Lab: “This marks the first time that Latinos will be the largest racial or ethnic minority in the electorate. With almost 32 million eligible voters, Latinos have been given the opportunity to choose leaders that fight for our interests. Simply put, the election in November is important because every vote counts, especially the Latino vote.” Phoebe Bridgers: “Obviously, please, God, for the love of God and f—ing democracy, vote. But a more nuanced thing that is really important is just, find a way — especially as white people in Amer...
Ask Billboard: From Shania Twain to Gabby Barrett, These Are the Biggest Country Radio Crossover Hits
Hi Gary, As a certified chart nerd, I’m excited about Gabby Barrett‘s arrival and continued rise in the Billboard Hot 100‘s top 10 with “I Hope,” featuring Charlie Puth. A recent “Ask Billboard” ran down every Hot 100 top 10 by American Idol contestants, while this week’s recap of the Hot 100’s top 10 notes that “I Hope” is just the fourth song to have topped both the Country Airplay and all-format Radio Songs charts. Can you please provide a deeper list of No. 1 Country Airplay hits that have crossed over to the Radio Songs entire top 10? Thanks, Mark BlankenshipNew York, New York Hi Mark, Barrett and Puth’s hit is clearly among rarified radio air in having conquered both Country Airplay and Radio Songs. But it’...
SPIN Daybreaker: 15 Songs You Need In Your Life
Friday is finally here and you know what that means… SPIN is back with yet another exciting Daybreaker roundup for your listening pleasure. We’re in our feelings this week with a unique selection of artists that possess a certain musical prowess to tug at our heartstrings. Get swooned by the beautiful sounds of alternative indie artist Nick Leng, vibe like you’re back in the club with electronic sensation Park Hye Jin, and indulge in the sounds of the artist that’s been dominating the indie scene, Arlo Parks. Whether you live in a city that never sleeps or secluded in a quaint small town in the mountains, this introspective roster will be enough to drown out the sounds of the hustle and bustle or serve as the perfect soundtrack to your next stargazing adventure. You Deserve to Make Money E...
Ariana Grande’s Fluttering Strings, Julien Baker’s Misplaced Faith, And More Songs We Love
Halloween is kind of a bummer this year. Costume parties? Canceled. Trick-or-treating? Canceled. Even It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown on television has been effectively canceled. But if there’s one thing we can count on, even in 2020, it’s resident spooky-season pop queen Kim Petras. The aptly titled “Party Till I Die” was quietly added to her Halloween EP Turn Off the Light, further building on her reputation as the pop’s finest purveyor of bloodthirsty bops, ghostly glitches, and hellishly fabulous lyrics. She’s serving us death on the dance floor, sex in a coffin, and partying in a graveyard all in one. Thank goodness, because we’ve never needed it more. —Carson Mlnarik You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. ...
Ariana Grande’s Positions Has A Song For Every Mood
By Ashley Oken Ariana Grande’s highly anticipated sixth studio album, Positions, dropped today (October 30) and is full of the empowering and relatable bops we expect from the pop princess. An R&B-influenced follow-up to her February 2019 album Thank U, Next, Positions finds Grande confidently and happily singing of healing through new love. Second song “34+35,” for example, finds her candidly embracing her sexuality with her partner in a way she hadn’t in previous songs, while “Obvious” is a celebration of how newfound, unexpected love can be both freeing and comforting. She first announced the new era of music via Twitter on October 14 by telling fans of an album release at the end of the month, and she teased the LP until release day by posting the tracklist, where collaborations wi...
Mark Kassen And Chris Evans Want To Make Every Important Issue A Starting Point
Last week, as part of MTV’s Vote For Your Life Stream digital event, Mark Kassen and his pal Chris Evans talked to young, first-time voters about what was driving them to the polls this year. The issues ranged from climate justice to health care and more — nuanced topics with discernibly different views on both sides of the American political spectrum. But how can you get an informed take on what those sides are in hopes of digesting the issue in totality? That’s where A Starting Point — the civic engagement platform co-founded by Kassen, Evans, and Joe Kiani earlier this year — comes in. Kassen, an actor who also directed Evans in the 2011 film Puncture, notes that, as they got more buy-in from elected officials in Washington, D.C., the site quickly evolved into an information...
Cam’s The Otherside Synthesizes Sci-Fi, Harry Styles, And Backseat Quickies
By Ilana Kaplan When it comes to the release of Cam’s sophomore studio album, nothing has really gone as planned. For one, it’s taken five years for the record to come to fruition — thanks to a label change right after her 2018 heartbreaking single “Diane” dropped. Then, there was the fact that the country-pop singer-songwriter wanted to spend her time tinkering to get the music right. When she got pregnant in 2019, the timing for the record’s release didn’t quite work out. Add in a pandemic, and well, the timeline was complicated further. But Cam, 35, has found benefits to the way that her album rollout has happened. “I’ve had the extended maternity leave that I didn’t think I would ever get, so now I get extra time with the little one [daughter Lucy], which is amazing, and no...
