Michaela Zee editorThe African American Film Critics Association held its fourth annual AAFCA Awards on Saturday to honor outstanding work in television. During the ceremony, Courtney B.
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Production ace Danger Mouse combines with rapper Black Thought to create a dynamic fusion of eloquent rhymes, sumptuous string samples and swaggering psych funk, writes Fiona ShepherdDanger Mouse & Black Thought: Cheat Codes (BMG) ****Panda Bear & Sonic Boom: Reset (Domino) ****Erasure: Day-Glo (Based On a True Story) (Mute) ***Jimetta Rose & The Voices of Creation: How Good It Is (Day Dreamer) ****From Gnarls Barkley with Cee-Lo Green to Broken Bells with Shins frontman James Mercer, production ace Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse knows how to work a duo collaboration. His latest, with The Roots rapper Tariq Trotter aka Black Thought, has actually been in the works for some time, with the pair now revisiting a project from the mid-2000s which they had originally dubbed Dangerous Thoughts.
Fifteen years on, Trotter’s forthright conscious rap marries well with Burton’s crate-digging sampledelics to create a bubbling stew of soulful socio-political comment which places Cheat Codes in a dynamic, eloquent tradition running from Gil Scott Heron via Public Enemy to Kendrick Lamar. There is a quiet rage and calm authority to Trotter’s rhymes which Burton swathes in sumptuous string samples, swaggering psych funk, even marimba muzak.
The heady splicing of organ drone, twanging bassline and woozy vocals on Close to Famous is typical of their stylish mixology. There is also room in their musical marriage for some esteemed special guests such as Wu Tang Clan’s Raekwon on piano soul track The Darkest Part or Michael Kiwanuka, another old (school) soul, testifying in a swirl of strings on Aquamarine.
Michaela Zee editorThe African American Film Critics Association held its fourth annual AAFCA Awards on Saturday to honor outstanding work in television. During the ceremony, Courtney B.
Maren Morris and Zedd have released their second collab together!
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterHow do producers figure out what episode best represents their series when submitting the overall show for an award? For “Rick and Morty,” the process is “not scientific,” according to Dan Harmon.The Harmon and Justin Roiland-created Adult Swim series, which has twice won the Emmy for outstanding animated series — first for the Season 3 episode “Pickle Rick” and then for Season 4’s “The Vat of Acid Episode” — has offered up “Mort Dinner Rick Andre” as its Season 5 contender at next month’s Emmys.“We just looked at it as a really nice overall success from every department on the show,” Harmon told Variety ahead of the “Rick and Morty” Season 6 premiere on Sept. 4.
Selome Hailu Disney Branded Television has set a celebrity voice cast for its upcoming animated musical series “Firebuds” including Padma Lakshmi, Melissa Rauch, Oscar Nuñez, José Andres, Pamela Adlon and “Weird Al” Yankovic. The series will premiere on Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney+ on Sept.
Fugitive Nicholas Rossi has been accused of forcing a woman into a bedroom and sexually assaulting her, according to a new charge filed in America. The Sunday Mail has obtained US court files which outline details of the third allegation against the convicted sex offender which will form part of his extradition case from Scotland.
“Kung Fu Panda 4” is officially in the works at DreamWorks and Universal, with a wide release set for March 8, 2024. The film will mark the third sequel of the original “Kung Fu Panda,” which premiered in 2008 to become DreamWorks’ highest-grossing original animated film.
There will be more Kung Fu Panda. Universal has set a March 8, 2024 theatrical release for the fourth installment to the Jack Black voiced franchise which has grossed $1.8 billion through three movies.
Doris was always a talker! The Rockford Peaches may huddle in their locker room before hitting the field, but it was Rosie O’Donnell who they surrounded in-between takes of Prime Video’s A League of Their Own.
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is done with teasing. He jumped into the social media universe Saturday with a full post-credit scene from the animated DC’s League of Super-Pets.
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has taken North American rights to Low Life, the cat-and-mouse thriller from director Tyler Michael James starring Marriage Story’s Lucas Neff. Pic will be released later this month in North America. Scroll down for trailer.
Joy Behar has been on for nearly its entire quarter-century run, and the celebrated TV personality is opening up about the reason she's stayed with the program for as long as she has.The 79-year-old veteran TV personality sat down with ET's Rachel Smith to talk about the show's new co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and she joked about what keeps her coming back to the show each season.«Money,» Behar says with a laugh. «And also geography.
Stranger Things and Lizzo mash-up happened – and now it’s finally here. Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays villain Vecna, was practicing his character’s gravelly voice and he sounded Good as Hell when he recited the chartopper’s lyrics. The 33-year-old actor was discussing how he found the monster’s voice during Wednesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower, who appears as the villainous Upside Down monster Vecna in the show’s fourth season, has shown off the terrifying voice he uses for the character – by reciting Lizzo lyrics.While appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Bower explained how he first came up with the low, menacing voice that his character uses throughout the show, saying that he was inspired by Doug Bradley’s portrayal of Hellraiser. “It said that this deep, booming voice kind of comes out of the darkness,” he said.
Lizzo-meets-Vecna vibes. Jamie Campbell Bower dove into the process behind his terrifying villain on Tuesday night, telling host Jimmy Fallon about how he developed his character's bone-chilling voice before delivering some classic pop culture lines as Vecna. «It took a few months to get right,» he said of the vocal work. «We had the readthrough in March of 2020 and I had been doing a bit of work on Vecna and on [his other character] Henry. I only got the job in January, so I had February to prepare for it.»Bower sat behind co-star Millie Bobby Brown at the first table read, where his initial version of Vecna «started in this very kinda nasally area,» he said.
Country music icon Ronnie Dunn spoke about his upcoming album in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, saying it’s a return to the more traditional style of country music from the ’80s. Dunn’s seventh solo album, entitled "100 Proof Neon," is Dunn’s return to the kind of country music he grew up listening to, which he described as country music mixed in with a little bit of rock music, taking influence from bands like Paycheck and artists like Johnny Lee. In his experience, the most important thing about a song is how audiences respond to it and whether they can dance to it.
A new online petition is calling on the UK Government to set a minimum level of weekly State Pension payments of £200 for every retiree, irrespective of gender, marital status or National Insurance Contributions record. The petition suggests that this would remove any anomalies in the current pension system, including the growing discrepancy between the old and new State Pensions.