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The Grammys Unveil Five New Categories, Including One To Honor Songwriters
The Recording Academy announced Thursday (June 9) several brand-new Grammy categories: Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical; Best Alternative Music Performance; Best Americana Music Performance; Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games And Other Interactive Media; Best Spoken Word Poetry Album; and the special merit award for Best Song for Social Change. All categories will go into effect in next year’s 2023 ceremony. “We’re so excited to honor these diverse communities of music creators through the newly established awards and amendments, and to continue cultivating an environment that inspires change, progress and collaboration,” Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said in an official statement. “The Academy’s top priority is to effectively represent the mu...
Pharrell’s 2022 Something In the Water Fest Adds SZA, Justin Timberlake, Clipse and More
Pharrell‘s Something In the Water Festival is finally scheduled to make its long-awaited return this year, and after announcing its preliminary lineup towards the tail end of April, the event just made some big-time updates to the bill. Today, Skateboard P just announced the additions of Justin Timberlake, SZA, Clipse, , N.O.R.E, Q-Tip, J Balvin, Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals, bLAck pARty, 21 Savage, Bad Brains: A Tribute by Black Dots, TOB and YungManny. Among the incredible batch of headlining acts, other artists that are slated to perform include Calvin Harris, Usher, Tyler, the Creator, Snoh Aalegra, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Baby and more. Surprise guests are also expected to pop up throughout the weekend. This year marks the first time that the festival is seeing a venue change as it...
Grammys Announce 5 New Award Categories, Including Songwriter of the Year
The Recording Academy on Wednesday unveiled five new Grammy Awards categories that will be introduced at the 2023 iteration of the annual event. Among them are Songwriter of the Year, Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media, Best Spoken Word Album, Best Alternative Music Performance and Best Americana Performance. Additionally, the Recording Academy will present a Special Merit Award for Best Song for Social Change, which will be determined by a Blue Ribbon Committee and celebrate music that addresses timely social issues. “We’re so excited to honor these diverse communities of music creators through the newly established awards and amendments, and to continue cultivating an environment that inspires change, progress and collaboration,” Recording Academy CEO ...
She Wants Revenge Announce Summer Comeback Tour
She Wants Revenge are hitting the road. On Thursday, the dark alternative act announced the “Disappear Tour,” slate of summer headlining dates across the US. The tour signals a coming together between singer Justin Warfield and multi-instrumentalist Adam Bravin after their second indefinite breakup in 2020. (The first occurred in 2012 following the release of the duo’s third and most recent album, 2011’s Valleyheart.) Back in April, Consequence even did a deep dive into the history and happening of the California-based darkwave act as part of our ongoing Whatever Happened To series. The cross-country trek begins August 11th at the Music Box in San Diego, California, before continuing on to cities like San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas. After eleven other ...
Microsoft Making Glass Platters That Store Music Data
Microsoft officially has our backs for when the impending apocalypse wipes out our music libraries. The tech giant has partnered up with Oslo-based Elire Group for the latter’s Global Music Vault initiative, using pieces of glass to preserve the world’s most important music recordings. Together, Microsoft and Elire Group have created what they call a Proof of Concept (PoC) glass platter, which will store a sample selection of music files. The PoC platter is about the size of a coaster, and can hold 100 gigabytes of data in any digital format, encrypted or unencrypted. A laser encodes data in the platters by creating layers of microscopic engravings, which artificial intelligence algorithms can then read back by decoding those images and patterns. Microsoft debuted the PoC platters a f...
Stanning BTS: Proof of a Comeback Pt. 2
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Radio Public | Pocket Casts | RSS PROOF is practically here and our excitement is palpable! Join Stanning BTS hosts Kayla and Bethany this week as they catch up on everything that has happened leading up to BTS’ majorly anticipated comeback. Related Video The hosts also discuss Proof of Inspiration, concept photos, FESTA, and the Bangtans Boys’ visit to the White House all on this comeback episode of Stanning BTS. Listen via the player above. Advertisement Make sure you like, review, and subscribe to Stanning BTS wherever you get your podcasts. You can also show your Iconic status by snagging the Stanning BTS Iconic ARMY T-shirt, now on sale at the Consequence Shop ...
Here Are All the Performers & Presenters for the 2022 Tony Awards
Tony winners Bernadette Peters and Billy Porter are among the performers set for the 75th annual Tony Awards, which will air Sunday (June 12) from Radio City Music Hall in New York. The show will include performances from all six of this year’s nominees for best musical (Girl From the North Country, MJ, Mr. Saturday Night, Paradise Square, Six: The Musical and A Strange Loop) and two of the three nominees for best revival of a musical (Company and The Music Man). The show will not include a performance from the third nominee in that category, Caroline, or Change. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The ceremony will also include a special reunion performance by the original cast members of the 2007 musical Spring Awakening. The show was nomina...
War Rap: Ukraine War Fuels Angry Voice for Furious Generation of Rappers
From the battlefronts of Ukraine comes rap music — filled with the anger and indignation of a young generation that, once the fighting is done, will certainly never forget and may never forgive. Ukrainian rapper-turned-volunteer soldier Otoy is putting the war into words and thumping baselines, tapping out lyrics under Russian shelling on his phone, with the light turned low to avoid becoming a target. It helps numb the nerve-shredding stress of combat. “Russian soldiers drink vodka, we are making music,” says the rapper, whose real name is Viacheslav Drofa, a sad-eyed 23-year-old who hadn’t known he could kill until he had a Russian soldier in his sights and pulled the trigger in the war’s opening weeks. One of the ironies of the Feb. 24 invasion launched by Russian President Vl...
Dirtybird Campout West Coast 2022 Announces Phase One Artist Lineup: See Who’s Playing
The dependably playful Dirtybird Campout is returning with a white-hot lineup for its upcoming West Coast iteration. Happening this Oct. 7-9 at the Modesto Reservoir Campgrounds in central California, the event will feature music from twin sister duo Coco & Breezy, bass stars such as Eprom, Goldie, The Librarian and Mary Droppinz, house mongers including VNNSA, Walker & Royce and Mz Worthy and, of course, Dirtybird founder Claude VonStroke, who’ll be playing under that moniker and as part his Get Real project with Green Velvet. More artists will be announced in the coming months. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Designed to mimic the summer sleepaway camp of your youth (albeit with vastly fewer rules), the fall event will also fe...
See Harry Styles As a Closeted Officer in ‘My Policeman’: First-Look Photos
Harry Styles is basically the king of mid-20th century movies. After making his acting debut as a soldier in Christopher Nolan’s 2017 World War II film Dunkirk and then landing a role opposite Florence Pugh in Olivia Wilde’s forthcoming Golden Age thriller Don’t Worry Darling, the 28-year-old musician will next star in Michael Grandage’s My Policeman as a closeted police officer in the 1950s — a character that has just made his world debut in gorgeous new still photos from the film. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Posted Thursday (June 9) to Prime Video’s Twitter account, the two stills serve as the first visuals look into My Policeman, which is set to premiere in theaters Oct. 21 before arriving on Prime Video Nov. 4. The film is ...
SZA Delivers ‘Ctrl (Deluxe)’ With Seven Additional Tracks
SZA has released the deluxe version of her GRAMMY-nominated debut album, Ctrl. Clocking in at approximately an hour and 10 minutes, the extended record features seven additional tracks including an alternative version of the Travis Scott-assisted cut “Love Galore,” “2 AM” — which hears the TDE star sample Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR‘s “Come and See Me” — “Miles,” “Percolator,” “Tread Carefully,” “Awkward” and “Jodie.” She confirmed on Twitter that the songs are not technically “new” and were recorded from 2014-2017. Chart Data reports that Ctrl, which debuted at No. 3 in its first week, has never left the Billboard 200 ever since its release in June 2017. The album earned SZA GRAMMY nods for Best Urban Contemporary Album, Best R&B Performance for “The Weekend,” Best R&B Song for “Super...
Heaven 17 Announce 2022 North American Tour
English synthpop pioneers Heaven 17 have announced the 2022 “We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang” North American tour. Named after their President Reagan-bashing single, the “We Don’t Need This Fascist Groove Thang” tour kicks off in September and spans 15 stops in the US and Canada. Tickets are currently on sale via Ticketmaster. As lead singer Glenn Gregory explained in a statement, it could be classified as Heaven 17’s first official tour of the continent. He said, “Our first trip to America as Heaven 17 was to New York in 1981; in fact, it was my first-ever trip to the USA and was a truly amazing experience. I can’t remember how on earth this came about, but we were going to play our first-ever live performance at the legendary Studio 54. We have, believe it or not, only ever playe...
