Brittany Howard: “Be An Artist First”

Sabrina Carpenter has been making music for nearly 10 years, but she still has a shot at winning Best New Artist at the Grammys.

A Kilmarnock Fair Festival has been organised to kick off the summer holidays this weekend.

The Real Housewives of Atlanta just lost a member…

EXCLUSIVE: After nearly five years at Authentic Talent and Literary Management, Adam Segal has departed to launch his own shop, Strig Artist Management, Deadline has learned.

As Georgia O’Keeffe was to the landscape of New Mexico, artist Chiura Obata was to the grandeur of Yosemite.

Al Schultz, a top CBS makeup artist for The Carol Burnett Show and several groundbreaking Norman Lear sitcoms including All in the Family and Good Times and was married to Vicki Lawrence for nearly 50 years, has died. He was 82.

Billie Eilish has become the third artist to reach 100million monthly Spotify listeners, and the youngest yet to reach the milestone.The ‘Happier Than Ever’ singer follows behind Taylor Swift – who has 102million monthly Spotify listeners – and The Weeknd – who tops the list with 107million monthly listeners on the music streaming platform.Both Swift and The Weeknd have over double the amount of songs on Spotify than Eilish, with the latter only having 82 tracks on the platform. She also makes history as being the youngest to reach the 100million monthly listeners at the age of 22.Speaking about the achievement, Jeremy Erlich, Spotify’s global head of music told Billboard: “Spotify has been a part of Billie’s story from the start.

Ed Sheeran has been named the most played artist of 2023, beating out close competition from Taylor Swift.The Suffolk-raised singer, songwriter and guitarist has topped the charts when it comes to the most listened-to artist in the UK over the last year – ranking at the tip of the list when it comes to having his music played across radio, television and public spaces.The study was carried out by the music licensing company PPL, who compiled all of the data across January to December last year, and made a rank of the most played artists across the country.As aforementioned, Sheeran was closely followed on the list by Taylor Swift, with the latter becoming the second most-listened-to artist in the UK. The year prior she was in 10th position, and the huge leap sees her match the previous high she had in 2015.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Scarlett Johansson confirmed to ComicBook.com that she is, in fact, headlining the next “Jurassic World” movie, which is being directed by “Rogue One” and “Godzilla” filmmaker Gareth Edwards from a script penned by David Koepp. The screenwriter is returning to the dinosaur franchise after having penned Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” (1993) and “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” (1997). “I am an enormous ‘Jurassic Park’ fan,” Johansson said.

Still! It’s incredible. And it teaches me so much every time I listen to it.”In case you missed it, the singer with the powerhouse vocal cords, who began her career fronting the Grammy-winning rock band Alabama Shakes and has since moved on to an extraordinary — and Grammy-winning — solo career, is a huge Stevie Wonder fan.“I’m a diehard Stevie fan,” she grins. “I listened to Songs in the Key of Life just about every day during 2021, because of COVID.

His sartorial style was atypical of the staid local government corridors of power. His immaculate wardrobe included ever-present scarves, vivid socks, suits and sovereign rings.

The last major role of Donald Sutherland, who died today at the age of 88, was on the Paramount+ limited series Lawmen: Bass Reeves, headlined and executive produced by David Oyelowo.

Interpol have apologised for inadvertently copying another artist’s work for the poster for their forthcoming ‘Antics’ 20th anniversary tour.The tour poster resembles a painting by New York-based mural and studio artist Tony Sjöman, which he produced on commission. While not an exact replica, the noticeable similarities between the two led to a friend of Sjöman angrily pointing it out.“At first when I saw this amazing new tour poster from @interpol I jumped at the idea of my friend getting such a cool project to work on… as I reached out to @rubinartnyc / @tonysjoman with a picture he said where did you find this? I pointed him to the post and he let me know they flat out stole this artwork and repurposed it for their own marketing… they didn’t reach out, they didn’t ask for permission,” Sjöman’s friend wrote on Instagram.“As an art supporter and as a licensing professional… I am beyond disbelief they would do this.

EXCLUSIVE: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the filmmaking duo behind BAFTA-nominated Nick Cave pic 20,000 Days on Earth, have just wrapped filming a new performance film dubbed The Extraordinary Miss Flower. The project brings to life the remarkable story of Geraldine Flower and the discovery of a suitcase of letters sent to her in the 1960s and 1970s that inspired acclaimed Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini to return to the studio. 

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Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel are sharing more footage from Abby’s 2021 wedding to Army veteran Josh Bowling. The siblings posted a video of the wedding dance to TikTok on Thursday.The clip showed Abby and Brittany with their arms around Bowling’s neck as they swayed together on the dance floor.

has always been a fashion girlie, but her really put her on the map for those of us who may not be tuning into Monday night football every week. And, it seems, the spotlight suits her: Mahomes looked right at home on the red carpet for the Kansas City Chiefs ring ceremony on June 13, which she attended on the arm of her husband, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.For the occasion, Brittany dressed on theme in head-to-toe Chiefs colors, from her ruby red off-the-shoulder dress to her matching satin clutch and all the way down to her stilettos, which nearly blended in with the red carpet.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Perhaps the toughest takeaway from Ron Howard’s documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man” is the fact that his sudden death in 1990, at just age 53, robbed us all that “The Muppets” creator might have created in the computer age. Henson was already experimenting with technology before he died — and we can only imagine what he might have done with the tools we now have. “It would have been fantastic,” Howard says.

EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has signed comedian and actress London Hughes for representation, Deadline has learned.

The Zurich Film Festival will hand Canadian composer and three-time Academy Award winner Howard Shore its Career Achievement Award during this year’s edition, which runs October 3-13.