The Grammy Awards have launched a different procedure for selecting their nominees this year — going with a popular vote and eliminating the controversial “secret committees” that had curated the final lists in recent decades — and although many of the top nominees were expected, the top one definitely was not. Jon Batiste — veteran jazz keyboardist, musical director of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and a member of one […]
Genesis performed ‘Misunderstanding’ for the first time in 37 years earlier this week – you can check out the footage below. Phil Collins and co. dusted off the 1980 single – which appears on the group’s 10th studio album, ‘Duke’ – during a concert at Chicago’s United Center on Monday (November 15). It was the first show on the ‘Last Domino?’ tour’s US leg. As Rolling Stone notes, Genesis hadn’t played the track since […]
Lil Nas X won best video for "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)." He accepted via a cheeky video in which he played a worker in a fast-food restaurant. BTS and Ed Sheeran each won multiple awards at the 2021 MTV EMAs, which were broadcast live from the Papp László Budapest Sportaréna in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday (Nov. 14). BTS won best pop, best K-Pop, best group and biggest fans. Sheeran took […]
U2 return with their first new song in three years: “Your Song Saved My Life,” from the soundtrack for the upcoming animated film Sing 2; Bono portrays a reclusive, rock & roll-singing lion named Clay Calloway in the sequel, out Dec. 22. The upbeat piano ballad — something you’d expect to hear on a soundtrack from a children’s movie about singing animals — was inspired in part by Bono’s list of “60 Songs That […]
ABBA’s Benny Andersson said the group won't make any more music after completing its comeback album Voyage. The Swedish quartet, which broke up in 1982, spent several years working on the LP and its associated virtual-based stage show, which opens at a custom-built theater in London next year. But in a recent interview with The Guardian, Andersson said two songs left unfinished from Voyage would remain that way, and the band won't ever return to the studio […]
ABBA have previewed a snippet of a new track called ‘Just A Notion’ – you can check it out below. In September, the iconic four-piece made their monumental comeback, announcing the release of their new album also called ‘Voyage’, due out November 5 – and dropping the singles ‘I Still Have The Faith In You’ and ‘Don’t Shut Me Down’. They also revealed their forthcoming tour will see a “digital” version of ABBA […]
Tears for Fears, the duo of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, are back. Today, they announced their first album in 17 years. The Tipping Point is out February 25 via Concord. Check out the video for the title track, directed by Matt Mahurin, below. The album had originally been set for a 2017 release; the duo discussed the delay in a statement with the album announcement. “Before everything went so right with this album, everything […]
Tina Turner has sold the rights to her music catalog spanning six decades — including songs "What's Love Got to Do With It" and "The Best" — to music publishing company BMG.The legendary singer has also sold the artist's share of her recordings, her music publishing writer's share, neighboring rights and name, image and likeness as part of the deal, according to BMG, which did not disclose financial terms. "Tina Turner's […]
Sting and Eric Burdon got together in Athens on Friday to celebrate the former Police bassist’s 70th birthday under the Acropolis. The two English musicians are no strangers to Greece. They have both played live in Athens numerous times in the past 30 years. Sting first played live in Athens with his former band, the legendary Police, in 1979 in one of the first rock concerts ever held in the city, held in Sporting […]
