Amy Winslow, Artist Manager Who Worked With Guided by Voices and Yoko Ono, Dies at 59

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “It feels to me like there’s more there.” J. Smith-Cameron is manifesting a return to “Hacks,” hoping the showrunners Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky find a way to bring Kathy Vance back to the show.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The Songwriters Hall of Fame, which staged its annual awards ceremony on Thursday night, is an institution and an event unlike any other in the music industry, even though many of its elements are hardly unique and many things about it have barely changed over decades, and possibly since it launched in 1969. Indeed, we say many of the same things about the ceremony in an article very similar to this one every year — it’s a combination of an awards show, a family reunion and a trade event that is invite-only yet features a mind-blowing array of Grammy-level, once-in-a-lifetime performances and tributes, always held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York’s Times Square.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music If there was one place to be in New York on Tuesday night, it was Charli XCX’s show at Brooklyn’s newly reopened and spectacularly renovated 1920s-era Paramount Theater. Matty Healy and his girlfriend Gabriette Bechtel (who chose the occasion to apparently announce their engagement) were in the house, as were Lorde, Julia Fox, Lily Allen and probably other luminaries.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music When Indian-American singer-songwriter Zeshan B takes the stage and begins to perform, it’s safe to say that the sound you first expect to hear is not classic, gospel-infused R&B with passionate lyrics about American social justice. Nor, when you look at the credits for Zeshan’s forthcoming third album, “O Say, Can You See?,” do you expect to see the words “Executive Producer: Preet Bharara” — the former U.S.

Renfrewshire Council and the area's citizens advice bureau will continue to work together to support those who are struggling to pay council tax after a recent pilot ended.

One was caught on a hidden camera having sex in a store cupboard. Another was said to have cut a hole in her trousers to enable her secret trysts.

Billy Strings won’t have many days off this year.In addition to his summer tour and festival headlining gigs, the beloved bluegrass musician just added 16 concerts to his 2024 tour schedule and announced his live album ‘Billy Strings – Live Vol. 1’ will hit shelves on July 12.And while he doesn’t have any New York or New Jersey gigs lined up, he will get close when he performs back-to-back nights at Bridgeport, CT’s Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater on July 26-27, Worcester, MA’s DCU Center July 30-31 and Baltimore, MD’s CFG Bank Arena on Oct.

NME about his new book – which explores his time working with the likes of David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Prince, Britney Spears and more.With 45 years experience in the entertainment industry, Edwards – who also founded celebrated PR firm The Outside Organisation – has represented clients including the biggest musicians on the planet, as well as royalty, sports legends and more.Now, he has compiled his most fascinating anecdotes into a new book: I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll. From his gruelling mentorship from Mick Jagger to watching his office casually destroyed by The Who‘s Keith Moon, playing football with Bob Marley and watching David Bowie’s legacy evolve over four decades — these are just some of the memories that Edwards explores in the memoir.“It feels like I went through life very fast, without ever really looking back… until now,” he told NME.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Tom Verlaine — the guitar virtuoso, cofounder and “frontman” of the pioneering New York group Television, who died last year — might be the most low-key guitar hero in rock history. If he had only ever released “Marquee Moon,” Television’s galvanizing 1977 debut album, his place in history still would be assured: The album, which brought the sounds of late-period Velvet Underground and the early Rolling Stones into a musical era filled with bloated solos and every imaginable excess, is one of the great guitar albums of all time.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The Black Keys and managers Irving Azoff and Steve Moir have parted ways after the sudden and thoroughly publicized cancellation of the band’s North American arena tour previously scheduled for the fall. A rep for Azoff confirmed the split to Variety late Thursday, calling it an “amicable parting”; a rep for the group did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The news was first reported by the New York Times.

The Hollywood Reporter, she considered it, thinking: “‘Well this is something I can tell my grandchildren about.'”“Obviously she told them anyway.”Per the review, the documentary then cuts to von Furstenberg’s “grown granddaughter saying that turning those two down at the height of their fame was a ‘really epic’ move.”Von Furstenberg’s documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 5. It debuts on Hulu June 25.In it, the Belgian fashion designer talks about splitting from husband Prince Egon von Furstenberg of Germany in 1983 after 14 years of marriage.“Divorce for me was freedom,” she says in the doc, per THR.Von Furstenberg also looks back on partying at the iconic New York City nightclub Studio 54 when she became single.“I was with Warren Beatty and Ryan O’Neal on the same weekend,” she recalls.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “13-foot tall Black Man in Oakland.” That’s how “I’m a Virgo” creator Boots Riley pitched his latest show to actor Jharrel Jerome. “This is the wildest title to an email I’ve seen. I don’t know what he’s talking about,” Jerome tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast.

Geordie Shore star Marnie Simpson made a shock return to the MTV show after her infamous row with Charlotte Crosby, as she was spotted filming in Thailand. However, things have taken a turn for the worst as she arrived back in England.The cast have been out in Asia filming the new series, which is set to be one of the most exciting yet, with the return of legend, Scotty T. Marnie, who previously insisted she wouldn’t be filming anymore episodes, flew out to join the rest of the crew, but was met with a nasty surprise.Taking to her Instagram story on Tuesday, 4 June, the 32-year-old posted a picture of her arm in hospital, with a drip attached.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music For a variety of reasons, one of the biggest stories in entertainment this year has been the precarious state of Jennifer Lopez’s “This Is Me… Now” tour, which was finally put out of its misery yesterday. The tour, announced in February, came as part of “This Is Me… Now,” a massive, self-celebrating, and honestly rather hubristic album/ tour/ two-film project essentially about herself and her romantic reunion with actor Ben Affleck.

Snow Patrol have today (May 30) shared new single ‘The Beginning’ and announced their eighth album ‘The Forest Is The Path’ with a supporting 2025 UK and Ireland arena tour.‘The Forest Is The Path’ is the band’s first full-length record in six years, following on from 2018’s ‘Wildness’, and will arrive on September 13 via Polydor. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.Produced by Fraser T Smith, the album was written by Gary Lightbody, Nathan Connolly and Johnny McDaid, and features 12 tracks as well as writing credits from Smith, Will Reynolds, Roy Kerr and Troy Van Leeuwen from Queens Of The Stone Age.Speaking about the new single, which was written on a trip to Somerset, Lightbody explained: “The first day we wrote ‘The Beginning’, start to finish.”McDaid added: “And he did the vocal in one take. “Straight after writing the lyrics.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Argentine bio series “Cris Miro” is slated to debut on TNT, Flow and Max across various territories in late June. While cable network TNT will be airing the series every Sunday from June 23 in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, local platform Flow will stream the series in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay starting June 24. Max launches it on June 24 across Latin America, the U.S.

Camila Cabello opened up about getting Drake on her new album C,XOXO.

A British father is having to face the law after allegedly punching — and ultimately killing — a grown man who was flirting with his underage daughter.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Recently crowned Oscar winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph has joined the cast of A24‘s upcoming romantic comedy “Eternity,” Variety has learned exclusively. Directed by David Freyne, the film also stars Miles Teller (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Elizabeth Olsen (“WandaVision”), and Callum Turner (“Masters of the Air”). This project marks Randolph’s first feature film with A24.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music As expected, the United States Department of Justice sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster for antitrust violations on Thursday, a move that could change the shape of the multibillion-company that is the world’s largest live entertainment organization and owns Ticketmaster, North America’s biggest ticket vendor. The antitrust lawsuit claims that the company has a monopoly on ticketing through its Ticketmaster division, and that it illegally uses monopoly power to dominate the ticketing business and quash competition.