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R.I.P. Joseph Siravo, Actor Who Played Tony Soprano’s Father, Dead at 64
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T12:43:51+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 8:43am ET Joseph Siravo, who portrayed Tony Soprano’s father “Johnny Boy” Soprano on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died at the age of 64. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sirvano had been battling cancer. On The Sopranos, Siravo portrayed John “Johnny Boy” Soprano, the ruthless DiMeo crime family capo and father of James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano. Siravo appeared in a total of five episodes, showing up in flashback scenes from Tony’s childhood or in dream sequences. Related Video Though the character’s on-screen presence was limited, Johnny Boy’s relationship with his son was a reoccurring theme throughout the show’s six-season run...
Danny Elfman Announces First New Album in 37 Years, Unveils New Video ‘True’
Danny Elfman takes us into a beachside, polycephaly-laden nightmare on his new music video for “True.” The distortion-heavy song is the first surrealistic glimpse at the Grammy and Emmy-winning composer’s first new solo album in nearly 40 years, Big Mess, out on Epitaph, on June 11, 2021. “I hadn’t really sung anything as myself in 25 years and to my surprise, I found that I could do things now that I couldn’t have done when I was younger,” Elfman said in a statement. “It was like discovering I had a whole new voice.” Elfman had originally planned to release new solo work in 2020: a career-spanning live set at Coachella blending his film composition work and some Oingo Boingo classics with a “chamber-punk” treatment written for the live performance. When that didn’t happen and the world we...
Olivia Rodrigo Gets a Parking Ticket, Finds Out Driving ‘Isn’t All Fun and Games’
Earlier this month, it was reported that Rodrigo’s runaway hit single — which spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard Global 200 charts — had become the first song to surpass 1 billion global streams in 2021, according to figures from MRC Data. She recently released the new single “Deja Vu,” and her debut studio album is scheduled to arrive on May 21. Check out her reaction to getting a parking ticket on Instagram. 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 rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Inter...
Lil Nas X Keeps U.K. Chart Crown With ‘Montero’
Lil Nas X enters a second week at No. 1 on the U.K. singles chart with “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” (Lil Nas X) while Demi Lovato misses out on the albums crown in an agonizingly close race. “Montero” collects another 62,000 chart sales in the past cycle, including 8.6 million streams, the OCC reports. The U.S. rapper’s controversial song finishes comfortably ahead of the second-placed single, Justin Bieber’s “Peaches” (Def Jam) featuring Daniel Caesar & Giveon, up 3-2 to a new peak. Also hitting new highs this week is Russ Millions & Tion Wayne’s “Body” (Atlantic), up 21-12; Australian rapper Masked Wolf’s “Astronaut In The Ocean” (Elektra) up 20-18; Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s Silk Sonic’s “Leave The Door Open” (Atlantic), up 23-20; and D-Block Europe & Raye’s “Ferrar...
2021 Guild Of Music Supervisors Awards: Full List of Winners
Celeste also performed “If I Ever Lose This Heaven,” a song that first gained notice on Quincy Jones‘ 1974 album Body Heat. Andra Day, an Oscar nominee for her performance in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, performed a song to open the show. The show also included performances by Darius de Haas (the zesty “One Less Angel” from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Angelica Garcia. Soul won the award for best music supervision for film budgeted over $25 million. The award went to Tom MacDougall, the film’s music supervisor. Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste are Oscar-nominated for composing the film’s score. Reznor and Ross won here for best song written and/or recorded for television for “The Way It Used to Be,” which they wrote and recorded for an epi...
Polo G’s ‘Rapstar’ Takes on Lil Nas X’s ‘Montero’ For U.K. Chart Crown
Produced by Synco and featuring social media star Einer Bankz on ukulele, “Rapstar” is on pace to be the Chicago rap artist’s highest charting headline single. His best is a No. 3 peak for KSI’s “Patience,” on which he guests with Yungblood, and his other appearance in the Top 40 was thanks to an assist on Lil Tjay’s “Headshot,” with a peak of No. 40. Elsewhere, Rag’n’Bone Man’s collaboration with Pink, “Anywhere Away From Here,” is on track for a Top 10 bow. It’s at No. 10 on the chart blast and could give the British singer and songwriter his third Top 10 and Pink her 21st. Sydney newcomer Masked Wolf continues to climb the chart with his viral track “Astronaut In The Ocean,” up 18-13 for a new high, while Ava Max’s “My Head & My Heart” lifts 19-14, also a new peak. Doja Cat could ba...
How love affair gone bad led to imprisonment of Prophet Israel Oladele
When the Lagos State Court of Appeal granted the Senior Shepherd-in-Charge of the Celestial Church of Christ, Genesis Global, Prophet Israel Oladele Ogundipe, a post-conviction bail last week, on grounds of failing health, quite a number of people, particularly members of his congregation, were very happy with the news. This is because the televangelist’s previous bail applications were all turned down. Oladele was arraigned on seven counts bordering on obtaining by stealing, inducing delivery of money by false pretences, unlawful conversion of property and forgery, fraudulently collected N14m and £12,000 in various tranches from the complainant between August 30, 2002 and 2005. He was found guilty on two counts of stealing and unlawful conversion of property not delivered. And on November...
Judge Rejects ARTY’s Copyright Lawsuit Against Marshmello Over “Happier”
After two years, a judge has finally put an end to the lengthy legal battle between dance music producers ARTY and Marshmello. The copyright suit was filed in May 2019 after ARTY claimed that Mello had stolen the melody of his 2014 remix of OneRepublic‘s “I Lived,” subsequently recycling it for the 2018 hit single “Happier” with Bastille. Dan Smith, the British band’s frontman, was also named in the copyright suit along with producer Steve Mac. The decision came down on Thursday in favor of Marshmello, Smith and Mac, with California US District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez ruling that ARTY had no grounds to sue under the terms of his “I Lived” contract with OneRepublic. “I acknowledge and agree that ...
Fans Choose Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
Swift’s latest album includes re-recordings of the original Fearless songs, along with six never-before-released “From the Vault” songs, including collaborations with Keith Urban and Maren Morris. Swift announced her intention to re-record her first six albums — released between 2006 and 2017 by Big Machine Label Group — in 2019, following the acquisition of her master recordings by Scooter Braun. Fearless was Swift’s first album to top the Billboard 200 chart, spending 11 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1. The album also earned Swift her first Grammy Awards, including album of the year. She later won the same award with 2014’s 1989, and recently took home her third album of the year trophy with Folklore. Placing second on the past week’s tally with nearly 2...
Livestreams & Virtual Concerts to Watch: Week of April 12
April 13: Justin Bieber is performing a brief live show from the vacant ruins of a Paris hotel to promote his latest Billboard 200 No. 1 album, Justice. The show kicks off at 7 p.m. ET, with an afterparty beginning immediately after. The event streams on Bieber’s YouTube channel. April 14: Declan O’Rourke is celebrating the release of his latest album, Arrivals, with a livestream set. The virtual show will be his first live concert since 2019. The event begins at 9 p.m. ET; tickets start at $15. Elle King is performing a virtual show via Country Now Live’s Twitch channel, beginning at 9 p.m. ET. April 15: Lupe Fiasco is performing Food & Liquor live in its entirety. The show begins at 8 p.m. ET; tickets start at $14.99. Brandi Carlile sits down for a chat with Hu...
Travis Barker Alludes to Sex Life With Kourtney Kardashian in Not-So-Subtle Instagram Post
In case anyone questioned who the “you” in Barker’s caption was, he tagged Kourtney Kardashian as the drumstick in the photo. Some left comments that Barker’s caption brought to mind a Korn song (1997’s “A.D.I.D.A.S.”), while others gabbed about how smitten he clearly is with his Kardashian. The couple have been sharing glimpses into their private world over the past couple months: Barker recently got Kourtney’s name tattooed on his chest, and they’ve been posting their love notes to each other on their Instagram Stories. The pair went Instagram official in February with a photo of their hands intertwined. See Barker daydreaming about Kardashian in his latest post on Instagram. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking fo...
Bowen Yang on ‘SNL’ as Iceberg Who Sunk the Titanic Goes Viral
Yang’s iceberg snapped at Colin Jost’s line of questions about the Titanic with, “I think my publicist was very clear: I’m not here to talk about the sinking,” before getting into the details of the incident from his point of view. “First of all, you came to where I live and you hit me! It was midnight. I was chilling. And then I hear this Irish cacophony behind me,” he explained. “And before I turn around and go, like, ‘What?’ Half my ass is gone, which was my best feature. And I’m literally injured but all anybody cares about is that like 40 or 50 people died or whatever.” Yang was trending on Twitter Sunday morning for the hilarious bit and a tweet from the show with the segment had more than 25,000 likes alone. Yang — SNL‘s first Asian American cast ...
