Apple Music Launches Africa Rising Artist Showcase with Debut Cover Star Omah Lay

ACM: The Hub, which features artist conversations, at-home acoustic performances, access to artist merchandise and weekly ACM-curated playlists.ACM: The Hub was developed in response to COVID-19 freezing the concert and festival world.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEmmy and Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss has launched Love & Squalor Pictures production company and signed a joint first-look deal with Fox 21 Television Studio and Hulu.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe already impressive audience for the Verzuz battle series — which pits one OG artist or producer against another, playing their hits — is about to get even bigger: Verzuz is coming to Apple Music and Beats 1. The first session will take place Wednesday (July 22) at 5 p.m.

Verzuz, the breakout live-streaming battle series co-helmed by legendary hip-hop producers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland, will now be available on Apple Music and Beats 1.Each battle will be simulcast live on the music streaming service for free, at the same time it streams on the Verzuz Instagram account.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorApple is expanding its news footprint into the podcast space.Launching for free is “Apple News Today,” a daily audio news briefing co-hosted by Apple News editors Shumita Basu and Duarte Geraldino covering “some of the most fascinating stories in the news — and how the world’s best journalists are covering them.” The “Apple News Today” episodes are available weekday mornings (Monday-Friday) in the Apple News app in the U.S.

James Roday Rodriguez! For the first 21 years of his career, the Psych star went by his first name and a made-up last name.

Gabby Barrett, R&B singer Kiana Ledé, grime MC Jay1, alt-R&B singer and poet Arlo Parks, folk-pop group Provinz and German pop artist Malik Harris.The program is designed to provide global marketing support for emerging artists across genres and territories, with artists from the U.S., U.K. and Germany in the inaugural class.

Trina McGee and Danielle Fishel, co-stars on the sitcom "Boy Meets World," have taken positive steps forward in their relationship after McGee recently called their former work environment hostile.

David E. Kelly's The Big Sky thriller for ABC has shifted production from New Mexico and Nevada to Vancouver amid the pandemic.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmStephen King’s latest bestselling four novella collection If It Bleeds has quickly garnered three option deals, with a fourth in the offing because it involves a preexisting character who just starred in an HBO series adaptation.

TK Maxx is bursting with online bargains in a massive summer clearance event. There are savings of up to 88 per cent on some items including a pair of UNAROSE Dark Blue Denim Jeans, down from £12.99 to just £4.

#BlueprintForTheFuture report highlights inequalities in the music industry. Find out how your organisation can drive change alongside 18-25s: https://t.co/Sml3mVFsVg pic.twitter.com/G3QAZ3TqcO— Youth Music (@youthmusic) July 8, 2020“For more than two decades, Youth Music has invested in music education projects nationwide supporting the next generation of young musicians.

Absolutely Ascot's Samson Lee Smith has revealed he's engaged to his girlfriend Chloe Bowler after dating for two years.The reality stars, both 23, took to their Instagram feeds on Saturday, 4 July, to announce the happy news with their combined 141,100 fans. Posting a short clip, Samson could be seen wearing an all-black outfit with a matching leather jacket as he moved over to his girlfriend, pretending to pose for a photo before getting down on one knee in the middle of Piccadilly Circus.

next project is a Showtime documentary about New York Dolls frontman David Johansen.The as-yet-untitled doc will cover the many facets of Johansen’s career — from his childhood in Staten Island to fronting the flamboyant ’70s-era New York Dolls to his evolution into Buster Poindexter, to his blues work with the Harry Smiths in the ’90s to the present day.“I’ve known David Johansen for decades, and his music has been a touchstone ever since I listened to the Dolls when I was making ‘Mean

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Chinese megastar Donnie Yen is set to star in and produce crime thriller Golden Empire, in which he will play a notorious drug kingpin who hits the top of the most wanted list for both the U.S. and Mexican governments.Yen will also produce the movie alongside Peter Luo, CEO at Starlight Media, which is lead financing alongside SA Inc.

not to speak up. “I feel as if we can’t go back now,” she says.

Omah Lay as the first Africa Rising feature artist.“I have always used Apple Music, seeing my favorite artists on playlist covers and features but here I am looking pretty as Apple Music’s first Africa Rising artist,” said Lay in a statement.“I am overwhelmed. Dreams really do come true.”Lay, who was previously a member of rap group Lil King, released his debut solo EP ‘Get Layd’ last month.

Another former co-star of Lea Michele’s has attacked the actress for her bad behaviour a month after castmates started coming forward to accuse the actress of bullying tactics and making on-set threats.

SAG-AFTRA has given a greenlight for production on 7th & Union, a LatinX drama toplined by Mexican comedy star Omar Chaparro and Edy Ganem, and to start in Los Angeles on Monday. The feature from newly launched Broken English Productions has Chaparro playing Raymundo, a Mexican ex-fighter who forms an unlikely bond with a disgruntled man (Gregg Daniel), whose life and relationship with his daughter, played by Erinn Westbrook, are unraveling.