Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green ready for operatic stardom

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRepublic Records has promoted Lucas Romeo to senior VP of promotion, effective immediately, EVP Gary Spangler announced on Monday.Based in New York, Romeo will oversee promotion efforts across multiple formats, guiding the promotion team and breaking artists in today’s new landscape. Romeo joined Republic in 2014 as regional promotion manager in Nashville, before returning to New York to serve as VP of Top 40.

Chloë Grace Moretz “showed [us] something good” on the “Tonight Show” segment in which celebs reveal their hidden talents.

Sam Heughan and his Outlander co-star Graham McTavish released their second book Clandlands: The Almanac last month, and already it has made the New York Times Best Seller list.

While No Time to Die producer Barbara Broccoli admitted today that the stewards of the 007 franchise don’t yet know how James Bond will return after Daniel Craig’s swansong as the super secret agent, she did allow, “We’ll figure that one out, but he will be back. You can rest assured James Bond will be back.”

Following her trip to her native Barbados, Rihanna returned to the states and reunited with boyfriend A$AP Rocky for a shopping excursion in New York. The Fenty founder, 33, hit up several stores, including a Celine, in the SoHo neighborhood on Thursday, Dec. 2.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds looked like a couple straight out of a rom-com during a stroll in New York on Thursday, Dec. 2. The actress, 34, and her longtime husband, 45, were deep in conversation as they linked arms in the city, both looking casual and stylish.

Dakota Johnson knows how to liven up an after party! The actress apparently does late night tattoo work for her co-stars in hotel rooms.In a recent profile in, Johnson reflected on how she and her fellow stars of her new drama — including Olivia Colman and Peter Sarsgaard — like to throw huge, wild dance parties after screenings of the film.According to the article, the cast and crew of threw a party after the New York Film Festival premiere in October at Altro Paradiso in Soho.

NEW YORK -- He's a legendary musician and two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, but the thing that Graham Nash never leaves home without isn't his guitar. It's his camera.The Nash in the supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young began taking photos long before he started making music and taunts fate every day to show him something interesting to capture.“Here’s what I do: I wake up every morning.

Major Grammy nominations for artists such as Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Lil Nas X were apparently added at the last minute due to a change in rules. 

New York Times on Wednesday night, what actually happened is that the expansion made room instead for some of the biggest names in music . According to the Times, the last-minute rule change resulted in Kanye West and Taylor Swift being added as nominees in the Album of the Year category.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Recording Academy decided to expand the number of Grammy nominees just 24 hours before the list was announced on Tuesday — to the benefit of artists including Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Abba and Lil Nas X — according to a report in the New York Times.The move, which saw the list grow from eight nominees to 10, was positioned as a natural progression by CEO Harvey Mason jr. when asked about it by Variety on Monday.

Kanye West‘s ‘DONDA’ and Taylor Swift‘s ‘Evermore’ were reportedly nominated for Album of the Year at the 2022 Grammy Awards at the last minute.According to a new report by The New York Times, the two artists were added to the list of nominees after a meeting took place on Monday night (November 22), where it was decided the Recording Academy would expand the number of nominees for the award from eight to 10.This meeting took place the day before the nominees for the 2022 awards were made

LCD Soundsystem‘s Gavilán Rayna Russom has announced that she has left the band.The synth player/multi-disciplinary artist joined the James Murphy-fronted group in 2008, but was notably absent from the first show of their Brooklyn Steel residency in New York last night (November 23).Explaining her decision to depart LCD in a new interview with Pitchfork, Russom said:  “When this offer came up again [to perform at LCD Soundsystem’s Brooklyn gigs], I had considered it.

Gabriel Basso (Hillbilly Elegy) and Luciane Buchanan (The New Legends of Monkey) are set as the leads in The Night Agent, Netflix’s political conspiracy thriller series created by Shawn Ryan based on author Matthew Quirk’s 2019 New York Times bestseller.