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Katy Perry Is Leaving ‘American Idol,’ Hints at New Music

Katy Perry Is Leaving ‘American Idol,’ Hints at New Music  Billboard

Listening to Music Is Better When It’s a Conversation Among Friends

Listening to Music Is Better When It's a Conversation Among Friends  The New York Times

Watch Usher’s Full Super Bowl Halftime Show Here

Usher was the Super Bowl Halftime Show in Las Vegas, performing to a crowd of 65,000 people. The slick R&B singer had recently ended his Las Vegas residency, but returns to one of the biggest stags in the world to showcase his showmanship one more time in Sin City. The icon's performance saw him bring onto stage various collaborators including some he has worked with on his greatest hits. Halfway through his performance he was joined by H.E.R. who came out with a guitar solo. The guitar solo gave Usher just enough time to change into roller skates. The 15-minute performance began with his 2005 hit "Caught Up" before transitioning to "U Don't Have to Call." Alicia Keys came out to sing "My Boo" with Usher. Later, Will.i.am, Lil Jon and Ludacris appeared for "OMG" and "Yeah" to end off t...

Beyoncé’s new country songs salute the genre’s Black cultural roots

Beyoncé's new country songs salute the genre's Black cultural roots  The Washington PostSuper Bowl 2024 announcement: Why Beyoncé is reclaiming country music  BBC.comBeyoncé is primed and ready to dominate country music even if it is a genre that shunned her  Salon

Brittany Howard: What Now

The second solo album from the Alabama Shakes singer-songwriter is musically muscular and thematically heady, a sound nerd’s project with stadium-sized panache.

Adam Sandler Sets New Netflix Comedy Special

Adam Sandler is set to have a new comedy special at Netflix. This time around, Josh Safdie will be directing the special. In the past, Safdie and Sandler worked on the 2019 film Uncut Gems.The special is currently untitled but it will be his second one on Netflix as a follow up to his 2018 set, 100% Fresh which also scored 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not much is known about this special but Sandler's relationship with Netflix continues to grow with each project. He is set to appear in another Netflix film next month, titled Spaceman which sees him take on a more dramatic sci-fi role. Other Netflix projects with Sandler include Murder Mystery, Leo and Sandy Wexler.Safdie and Sandler also worked together on a 2020 short film titled Goldman v. Silverman. Sandler is also set to lead another featur...

Watch Netflix’s Teaser for ‘Scoop,’ the Dramatization of Prince Andrew’s Infamous Jeffrey Epstein Interview

Netflix is taking a look behind the scenes of Prince Andrew's infamous interview with Newsnight surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in 2019. Releasing a first teaser for the new project, the trailer sees Gillian Anderson star as the notorious Emily Maitlis, whose grilling on the BBC interview left Prince Andrew in enormous humiliation. The dramatization, titled Scoop follows the behind-the-scenes process of the interview of Prince Andrew's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.In the trailer, Anderson's character Maitlis can be seen with her team prepping for the interview at Buckingham Palace that Prince Andrew agreed to speak out on. Revealed to be one of the most shocking British TV interviews of all time, the prince has since settled the sexual assault case filed against him by Epstein...

Watch Jon Stewart’s opening monologue in return episode of The Daily Show

Stewart began The Daily Show's coverage of the 2024 presidential election - or, as he dubbed it, "Indecision 2024: Electile Disfunction." Jon Stewart Returns to The Daily Show After Nine Years: Watch His Opening Monologue Scoop Harrison

Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Production Company Inks First-Look Deal with Warner Bros.

Margot Robbie's production company LuckyChap, has officially signed a multi-year, first-look feature film deal with Warner Bros. Her partners in the company include Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara. Following the huge success of Barbie, which garnered $1.45 billion USD globally and became the highest grossing film of 2023 and the biggest of the studio's 100-year history, Warner Bros. is placing their bet on Robbie and her team.In a previous statement, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group co-chairs and CEO Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy commented on how they would build out their repertoire of films and said that they are on a mission to "invest and commit to working with the greatest partners in front of and behind the camera." On the deal with LuckyChap De Luca and Abdy said, "“Margot, Tom and Jos...

‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ Official Trailer Shows a Tyrannical Proximus

During the Super Bowl, 20th Century Fox dropped the official trailer for the upcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. The latest installment of the legendary franchise is set to arrive in theaters this spring. Set almost three centuries after the events of the last film, the 2017 War for the Planet of the Apes, the new trailer gives a glimpse of the new ape leader, Proximus Caesar played by Kevin Durand. Proximus becomes a tyrannical leader and enslaves other ape clans by obscuring the truth of how apes became the dominant species. At this point, humanity has regressed into a primitive state, leaving one human who appears to be smarter than the rest. The film follows a young chimpanzee named Noa who discovers Proximus is hiding the truth from everyone about the enslavement of humans. No...

African Music’s Finest: 10 dynamic duos ready to rock the Super Bowl halftime show

African Music's Finest: 10 dynamic duos ready to rock the Super Bowl halftime show  Pulse Ghana

South African Singer Tyla Won The Inaugural Best African Music Performance Category At The 2024 GRAMMYs. What Does It Mean For African Music On The Global Stage? | GRAMMY.com

South African Singer Tyla Won The Inaugural Best African Music Performance Category At The 2024 GRAMMYs. What ...  The GRAMMYs