Gorillaz Cracker Island takes early lead in Number 1 race ahead of Gracie Abrams' debut album Good Riddance

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Roku Channel scripted series head Colin Davis has jumped to Sony Pictures Television Studios as the studio’s new exec VP of comedy development, Variety has confirmed. As part of the exec shuffle, back at Roku, Brian Tannenbaum has replaced Davis as head of scripted on an interim level. Davis will report to Sony Pictures TV Studios co-president Jason Clodfelter and oversee comedy development for all platforms. Davis’ team will include comedy development senior VP, animation VP Frank Ochoa and comedy development manager Jackie Wertheimer. He starts on May 1. At Roku, Davis oversaw the launch of series including the “Reno 911” reboot and Kevin Hart’s “Die Harter,” as well as the greenlight and release of the feature “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.” Davis joined Roku as part of its acquisition of Quibi content; he had previously led scripted at that very brief short-form subscription service. Before Quibi, he handled comedy development at Turner, working on shows such as “Search Party.” His interim replacement, Tannenbaum, also joined Roku from Quibi..

EXCLUSIVE: The Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews, held in northern Scotland, has set the lineup for its second edition, running April 14 – 16.

Taylor Swift has released four previously unreleased song from her discography ahead of her ‘Eras’ US tour kickoff.The singer previously announced the release of the four songs, confirming that three of them come from her re-recording projects, while the last comes from her ‘Lover’ album cycle. These songs are ‘Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version)’, ‘Safe & Sound (Taylor’s Version)’, ‘If This Was A Movie (Taylor’s Version)’ and ‘All Of The Girls You Loved Before’.Listen to the songs below.The songs’ release coincides with Swift’s first ‘Eras’ show across the United States.

Taylor Swift has announced that she’ll be releasing four previously unreleased songs tonight at midnight (March 17).The singer shared the news via an Instagram story today (March 16), writing: “In celebration of The Eras Tour I’m releasing 4 previously unreleased songs tonight at midnight.”She confirmed in the post that the four songs would be: ‘Eyes Open (Taylor’s Version)’, ‘Safe & Sound (Taylor’s Version)’, ‘If This Was A Movie (Taylor’s Version)’ and ‘All Of The Girls You Loved Before’.The pop star opens the US leg of her tour this Friday (March 17) at State Farm Stadium, the same location where the Super Bowl was held last month. She plays the same venue the following night (March 18).As Swift opens ‘The Eras Tour’, it will be celebrated with a temporary name change in Glendale.I’m enchanted to announce my next tour: Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour, a journey through the musical eras of my career (past & present!) The first leg of the tour will be in stadiums across the US, with international dates to be announced as soon as we can!https://t.co/KFuqvrhSGo pic.twitter.com/eVyTcuW8sK— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) November 1, 2022A host of special guests including Paramore, beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, MUNA, Haim, Gayle, Gracie Abrams and Owenn join Swift on the tour, which is in support of her latest album ‘Midnights’.

Law Roach is only a few days into his retirement but he's already making boss moves, like making his debut on the runway. The stylist to the stars — including Zendaya, Kerry Washington, Issa Rae, and many others — strutted his stuff among the best of them Wednesday night in Miami.

Taylor Swift is to be honoured this week with a temporary name change for the city of Glendale, Arizona as she kicks off her ‘The Eras Tour‘.The pop star opens the US leg of her tour this Friday (March 17) at State Farm Stadium, the same location where the Super Bowl was held last month. She plays the same venue the following night (March 18).To celebrate her choosing Glendale as the opening date location, it’s been reported that Mayor Jerry P.

filmmaker Jarmusch and Carter Logan, announced their debut LP ‘Silver Haze’ with the release of their new single’s video. The new song and its video features footage and music from as long-ago as the late ’80s.“Jim created the basic guitar tracks first in his home studio, with memories of living in Berlin in 1987 floating around him,” the band said in a statement, as per Pitchforck.

RXKNephew (fka RXK Nephew) is known for his ultra-prolific output as much as he is for the eccentric, free-flowing bars that have endeared him to so many new fans over the past two years. Nevertheless, he’s calling his new project — dropped today with very little warning — his debut album.

Mary J. Blige joined Sherri Shepherd on her daytime talk show “Sherri” to promote her various projects, including the new season of her Starz series “Power Book II: Ghost”, her BET talk show ”The Wine Down with Mary J. Blige” and her new single “Good Morning Gorgeous,” the title track from her new album.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “Top Gun: Maverick” topped the winners at the 58th Cinema Audio Society Awards for outstanding achievement in sound mixing. Other winners included “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,” “Moonage Daydream,” “Better Call Saul,” “Only Murders in the Building” and “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Five-time Oscar-nominated production sound mixer Peter J. Devlin, whose credits include “Black Panther,” “Bullet Train” and “Gone in 60 Seconds,” was honored with the Cinema Audio Society’s 2023 career achievement award. Alejandro González Iñárritu who directed this year’s Oscar-nominated “Bardo” received the CAS Filmmaker of the Year.

Gorillaz secure their second Official Number 1 album with Cracker Island today.

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The South African Love Island villa is set to be rocked on Friday as Shaq Muhammad makes an enormous claim about Ron Hall’s relationship with Lana Jenkins. Besides a few heated arguments once in a blue moon, the first winter version of the show since the pandemic has been relatively chilled out.That all changed after Casa Amor, as arguments seemed to pop up, including Olivia Hawkins and Maxwell Samuda slating Jessie Wynter, Tom Clare losing his mind during sports day, and Casey O’Gorman finding himself in the hot seat over his treatment of Claudia Fogarty.

Ashnikko has announced their debut album ‘WEEDKILLER’ and shared details of a huge world tour for 2023 – find all the details below.The album will be released on June 2 via Parlophone, and will be available to pre-order from today (March 2) at 6pm GMT from here.“My bioluminescent heart is glowing. My post-apocalyptic fae world is here for you to journey into,” Ashnikko shared in a statement.

Listening to Gracie Abrams' debut album, Good Riddance, sometimes feels like you're eavesdropping on a conversation.

Last Friday, Gorillaz shared their eighth studio album Cracker Island. An album written as the animated band's co-founders continued production on a now-shelved animated film, Cracker Island saw Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett enlist a range of legends and modern stars like Stevie Nicks, Bad Bunny, Thundercat, and Beck.

Lorraine Kelly has given fans an update on her health following her recent absence from her morning ITV show.

Gorillaz have released a deluxe edition of new album ‘Cracker Island’ featuring an additional five tracks – listen below.The band’s star-studded new album came out last week (February 24), and Sunday (February 27) saw the band expand the record with a number of bonus tracks.Included in the extra songs are all-new tracks ‘Captain Chicken’ (featuring Del The Funky Homosapien), ‘Controllah’ (featuring MC Bin Laden) and ‘Crockadillaz’ (featuring De La Soul and Dawn Penn), along with a ‘2D Piano Version’ of ‘Silent Running’ (featuring Adeleye Omotayo), and a Dom Dolla remix of Tame Impala and Bootie Brown collaboration ‘New Gold’.‘Cracker Island’ is the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Song Machine, Season One – Strange Timez‘. The virtual band, headed up by Damon Albarn, has a host of collaborators on their eighth studio album including Stevie Nicks, Bad Bunny, Beck, Thundercat, Adeleye Omotayond and more.Listen to the expanded version of ‘Cracker Island’ below.Reviewing ‘Cracker Island’, NME wrote: “Albarn and his team appear unburdened by living up to a concept, and instead turn in a consistently enjoyable record that shows why they remain relevant so far into their career.“A band that was once considered mucking about on the periphery of pop are now very much defining the present and inspiring the future.

Gracie Abrams has celebrated the release of debut album ‘Good Riddance’ by performing on Jimmy Kimmel Live – watch her play ‘I Know It Won’t Work’ below.Abrams’ debut album was released on Friday (February 24) and the same day, she took to the late night TV show to perform the haunting ‘I Know It Won’t Work’.Speaking about the track to Billboard, Abrams said: “The ease at which a lot of the words came out was the painful part, because a lot of what was said in the song wasn’t said directly to the person [they’re about].“I do worry about some people thinking a song is about them when it isn’t,” she added. “I don’t know how to navigate my personal life and job being intertwined so seriously yet.”For the live performance, Abrams was joined by a three-piece band.

Kate Hudson is gearing up to release her debut album in 2023. However, it could have come a lot earlier if not for “daddy issues.”