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This Year’s Oscar Nominees, Ranked By How Much They’ll Bum You Out
We have all sorts of different kinds of conversations about movies these days. As critics, we talk about a film’s quality as well as its place in cinema history, its technological achievements, and its impact on the cultural landscape. As fans, we talk about how a film made us feel, how it changed the way we personally look at the world around us. But with our friends and loved ones, especially those who haven’t seen most or any of this year’s nominees, they might have one key question as we urge them to check out our favorite films: How big of a bummer are they? It’s certainly the question that many people would like to have answered when sitting down with an unknown quantity like Drive My Car or CODA. Hence, this hopefully helpful guide, with all 10 Best Picture nominees ranked from leas...
Bruce Lee Band Eat the Rich with New Single “Did You Find the Money Farm?”: Stream
Bruce Lee Band, the ska project from Mike Park and Jeff Rosenstock, return today with their first new single of the year. “Did You Find the Money Farm?,” their collaboration with Fishbone’s Angelo Moore, arrives with a comical accompanying music video. It will appear on the group’s upcoming LP One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, out sometime this summer. “Did You Find the Money Farm?” is a scathing diss of those who profit most from late-stage capitalism. “You pattern your life after powerful people, follow the path through the door,” vocalist Mike Park sings, his snide critiques backed by the band’s menacing drums and horns. “One step inside and you’ll never look back, you ride on the backs of the poor.” But despite its somber message, the DIY-style video for “Did You Find the Money Fa...
Rivers Cuomo Announces Weezle, a Wordle for Weezer Fans
Rivers Cuomo has announced a new word game for Weezer fans. “If you like Wordle and Weezer, you’ll probably like Weezle,” the veteran songwriter wrote on Twitter today, March 3rd. Like Wordle, the viral sensation that was recently bought by The New York Times, Weezle gives players six cracks at guessing a five letter word, using color blocks to indicate the right letter in the right place (green), a correct letter in the wrong place (yellow), or a total miss (gray). While Cuomo hasn’t fully explained the word list, today’s Weezle is certainly Weezer-adjacent. Get it right and you’ll be treated to a Weezer song. You can play for yourself here. This is just the latest technological venture for Cuomo. In January he unveiled Weezify, a Spotify for Weezer fans that held over 3,500 demos. L...
Diplo Talks New Solo Album, Why He Didn’t Join Neil Young’s Spotify Exit and His Misinterpreted Taylor Swift Diss
If you’ve spent even one minute on Diplo‘s socials you know he takes NGAF to stratospheric levels on the regular. But in a new interview with Input magazine in which he explained why he’s releasing his first solo album in 18 years (Diplo) and the reason he didn’t follow Neil Young‘s exit from Spotify over Joe Rogan’s spreading of disinformation, the EDM star also served up a on-brand shruggy response to a nearly decade-old tweet in which he joked, “someone should make a kickstarter to get taylor swift a booty.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I don’t take it that seriously. When I first started using social media, it was a big joke for me,” he explained. “On Twitter, I was an unabashedly crazy person. And I didn’t realize that there was power ...
Inside Madonna Biopic Auditions & Top Contenders | Billboard News
At the moment, the biggest role available for some young actresses is one of pop music’s biggest icons: Madonna. Everyone from Emmy winners and Oscar nominees to signers turned actresses has been seen for the role, with some advancing on to what can be best described as a Madonna Bootcamp. [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”category” title=”Select category”][flexi-form-tag type=”tag” title=”Insert tag”][flexi-form-tag type=”article” class=&...
Virgin Music President Jacqueline Saturn on Navigating COVID, a Rebrand & the Distribution Craze
Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Caroline Distribution staffers were able to renovate their floor of the famed Capitol Tower to meet their particular needs: open floor plan, no offices, a collaborative environment where sharing ideas freely became paramount. So when office life shut down, president Jacqueline Saturn did what she could to try to preserve some of that open-air feel in which her team had begun to thrive: she invited the staff to her back yard, where a friend had a banner made with the division’s logo that hung above an area where her team could work outside. “People really needed a safe space, so that’s how it started — we could have people spaced here, people could wear their mask and be six feet apart and that was the beginning of it,” she tells Bill...
Randy Newman Broke His Neck & Is Rescheduling His Tour to Recuperate
Randy Newman is putting his 2022 U.K. and European tour dates on hold after a serious injury. On Wednesday (March 2), the early Americana singer best known for songs “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” “Short People” and “I Love L.A.” announced the rescheduling of his upcoming tour due to a broken neck, and is taking time off to recover before hitting the road again. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “Recently, I noticed I was shrinking. People over whom I had towered now towered over me. Could this be payback for having written Short People? Turns out, my neck was broken. They operated on me successfully, I think. For even now, I look less like an anteater and more like a folk rock artist from the early sixties,” Newman said in a statement to his official website and Instagram account. ...
The Weeknd Unveils ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ North American Tour Dates
The Weeknd has unveiled the official tour dates for his long-postponed North American After Hours Til Dawn Tour, which is set to kick off this summer. The chart-topper’s first-ever stadium tour begins on July 8 with a hometown show at Toronto’s Rogers Centre before heading to 17 additional destinations including New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, Las Vegas and San Francisco, with a final stop at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium on September 2. Dates for Mexico, South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa and the Middle East will be announced in the coming weeks. Doja Cat, who recently enlisted The Weeknd for “You Right” on Planet Her, will accompany the Dawn FM vocalist on the tour. Tickets for the tour will be available for purchase beginning March 10 at 1...
Barry Jhay – Agege
Check out this brand new single from Barry Jhay titled “Agege” out now. Nigerian award-winning singer Barry Jhay unveils his brand new single tagged “Agege” for his fans. The new record “Agege” stands as the third track on his newly released body of work titled “Son Of God“. The album consists of seven amazing tracks with two featured music artists. “Agege” serves as a follow-up to the track on the album titled “Bless Me“. Listen and share Barry Jhay – “Agege” below. Download coming soon.
Cory Asbury – Reckless Love
Reckless Love is a song by Cory Asbury and it was released on October 27, 2017, as the lead single from his second studio collection of a similar name, Reckless Love (2018), through Bethel Music. The song likewise showed up on the album Bethel Music en Español (2019). The tune was composed by Caleb Culver, Cory Asbury, and Ran Jackson, produced by Jason Ingram and Paul Mabury. Reckless Love” became Cory Asbury’s first single on the US Hot Christian Tunes graph, given by Billboard in March 2018, and proceeded to top at No. 3 on Bulletin’s Rising Under Hot 100, accordingly turning into the most elevated chart entry in his music profession. The song was positioned by Billboard as the greatest Christian song in 2018 and the fourth greatest Christian song of the 2010s. The song accomplished bas...
Barry Jhay ft Zlatan – Ayewada Remix
Check out this brand new single from Barry Jhay titled “Ayewada Remix” out now. Nigerian award-winning singer Barry Jhay unveils his brand new single tagged “Ayewada Remix” featuring Zlatan. The new record “Ayewada Remix” stands as the sixth track on his newly released body of work titled “Son Of God“. The album consists of seven amazing tracks with two featured music artists. “Ayewada Remix” serves as a follow-up to the track on the album titled “Agege“. Listen and share Barry Jhay – “Ayewada Remix” ft Zlatan below. Download coming soon.
Barry Jhay – Whine My God
Check out this brand new single from Barry Jhay titled “Whine My God” out now. Nigerian award-winning singer Barry Jhay unveils his brand new single tagged “Whine My God” for his fans. The new record “Whine My God” stands as the fourth track on his newly released body of work titled “Son Of God“. The album consists of seven amazing tracks with two featured music artists. “Whine My God” serves as a follow-up to the track on the album titled “Bless Me“. Listen and share Barry Jhay – “Whine My God” below. Download coming soon.
