Bright Eyes unveil 2021 summer US tour dates

Clayton Davis The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the 395 artists and executives that have been invited to join this year — about half the number of last year’s class. The 2021 class is comprised of 46% women, 39% underrepresented ethnic/racial communities and 53% international from 49 countries outside the United States.

In the fight against anti-Asian racism, “Sesame Street” is here to comfort children facing bullying on the playground.

Antonio Ferme editorThe New York Comedy Festival (NYCF) has announced the official return of the highly anticipated, week-long celebration of laughs, set for Nov.

Serena Williams is skipping out on the Olympics.

Wilco have announced new dates for a planned run of shows across the US, following coronavirus-enforced postponements.Originally announced in March 2020, the band will embark on their ‘It’s Time’ co-headline tour with Sleater-Kinney throughout this August. Wilco will then go it alone for a number of festival and solo headline shows.In October, the band will then begin the ‘Ode To Joy’ tour, in support of their 11th LP ‘An Ode To Joy’.

Beck has rescheduled his forthcoming UK tour to 2022 and has added several new dates.The American singer-songwriter was set to head out on a UK and European tour this summer, but he was forced to postpone the dates due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.The dates for the UK leg of the tour have now been rescheduled to 2022, kicking off with a new date at Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange on June 14.

A new trailer for Snake Eyes has just dropped!

Chris Willman Music WriterThe dog days of summer will come with a silver lining for Lorde fans — the release of her third album and first in four years, “Solar Power,” coming August 20.The sun won’t be quite so high in the sky, meanwhile, when Lorde finally hits the road. She’ll be touring behind the album in the spring, with North American dates starting at Nashville’s Opry House on April 3, 2022 and wrapping up at the Santa Barbara Bowl May 7.

A new look at the action-packed G.I. Joe spinoff “Snake Eyes” has arrived.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentBrussels-based company Best Friend Forever has closed major territories on Hadas Ben Aroya’s daring sophomore outing, “All Eyes Off Me,” which world premiered at Berlin in the panorama section. The drama, which is set in contemporary Tel Aviv, was sold to Film Movement for North America, and also lured buyers in France (Wayna Pitch), Japan (Klockworx), Spain (Filmin), Portugal (Nitrato) and South Korea (Lumix Media).

Grimes has taken to Discord to preview a brand new song – listen to a snippet of the track, reportedly called ‘Shinigami Eyes’, below.The track’s title is a reference to Japanese manga TV show Death Note, and also seemingly points to experimental eye surgery that Grimes claimed to have received in 2019. Doctors subsequently debunked the theory that surgery is available to eliminate blue light.The new minute-long snippet of the song is a danceable, poppy hint at new material.

Courtney Barnett has announced a sprawling North American headline tour, hitting 23 cities throughout the last weeks of 2021 and first two months of 2022.The tour will feature a changing roster of support acts. Bartees Strange is scheduled to appear at the 2021 dates in Arizona, California and Washington.

Liz Truss and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai, both sides have agreed to halt retaliatory tariffs for five years. The tariffs have led to whisky exports to the US falling by more than a third, amounting to more than £600 million in lost sales, since the 25 per cent tariff was imposed in October 2019.

Soaking up summer! Thomas Rhett, Jade Roper and more celebrity parents have loved taking their little ones swimming this year.

Pixies have announced a series of US tour dates, culminating in their previously announced support slots with Nine Inch Nails.The 11-date tour takes place this September, beginning in Port Chester, New York before ending up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.“Over the past year, it’s been wonderful to spend so much time with our families,” said Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago said of the tour in a statement.“I’ve been doing a lot of cycling and playing music, Paz has been working on art projects, music, film,

MGM has taken North American distribution rights to Sean Penn’s upcoming Flag Day which is making its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this July. Penn directs, and also stars with his daughter Dylan Penn in what we’re already hearing is a sublime star-making role for the actress. The studio will release Flag Day via its marketing-distribution joint venture United Artists Releasing later this year.

The character posters for Henry Golding‘s new movie Snake Eyes are here.

US President instructed his senior diplomat in London to deliver an official dressing down of UK’s Brexit Minister Lord Frost in a rare diplomatic move between allies. Yael Lempert, a senior official at the US Embassy in London, reportedly told Brexit chief Lord Frost that the UK government was “inflaming” tensions in Northern Ireland by disregarding the customs protocol agreed with the EU.

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