John Coltrane’s Masterpiece, ‘A Love Supreme,’ Certified Platinum (EXCLUSIVE)

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIssa Rae has unveiled the soundtrack for the next soundtrack to her Peabody-award-winning HBO series “Insecure,” which features new songs from Saweetie — “Get It Girl,” which dropped earlier this month — Nnena, Thundercat, B.K. Habermehl, TeaMarrr and Amindi, among many others.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDua Lipa’s “Levitating” was the most-played song and Ariana Grande the most-played artist on iHeartRadio’s stations in 2021, according to lists released Monday morning. iHeart, which is the world’s largest radio network, calculated that “Levitating” reached an audience of nearly 1.2 billion in the U.S.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIssa Rae has unveiled the soundtrack for the next soundtrack to her Peabody-award-winning HBO series “Insecure,” which features new songs from Saweetie — “Get It Girl,” which dropped earlier this month — Nnena, Thundercat, B.K. Habermehl, TeaMarrr and Amindi, among many others.

Ben Croll While their most recent doc “The Rescue” continues its festival and award-circuit run, directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have been at work in the edit suite prepping their next big-screen effort – a decades spanning love story mixing business, philanthropy, and the great outdoors.Aiming for a mid-2022 launch, the still-untitled doc will follow the complicated relationship between conservationist and climber Yvon Chouinard, founder of apparel brand Patagonia, Douglas Tompkins,

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorQuality Ventures — the private equity investment arm of hip-hop and sports powerhouse Quality Control — and the Network Advisory have entered into a strategic partnership to launch Vocal, a premium multi-platform podcast and audio streaming network that occupies the intersection of music, sports, fashion and culture.The announcement was made jointly by Quality Control Media Holdings founders Kevin “Coach K” Lee and Pierre “P” Thomas, Quality Films President Brian

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”Jane Campion is not a fan of superhero movies. “I hate them,” the Oscar winner told me at the AFI Fest screening of her new drama, “The Power of the Dog.” “I actually hate them.”Campion offered her thoughts when I asked if she would be interested in directing a superhero movie.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSnap has struck a licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment — which means the music of all three major labels/ publishers and many indies is now available on the platform (which prefers to be called a camera company, not a social media network).

Megan Hilty has joined the cast of NBC’s Annie Live, replacing Jane Krakowski in the role of Lily St. Regis.

Ciara Miller admits to telling a bit of a white lie when it comes to her romance with Austen Kroll. Back in April, after wrapping filming on , the  star told ET there was nothing romantic going on between her and the -er («No, we're not dating,» she declared.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn an effort to contribute to the fight against the recent Texas state law that effectively bans abortion, Sonic Youth have released two archival live albums on Bandcamp.com, both of which were recorded in the state.The first was recorded in 1995 at the Austin Music Hall during the band’s “Washing Machine” tour, which followed their headlining slot on the alternative-nation defining Lollapalooza tour that summer (which also featured Hole, Cypress Hill, Beck,

third and final season of kicked off with three episodes on Friday, Nov. 5, which included the introduction of Ziwe guest-starring as abolitionist Sojourner Truth.

Bravo is going international for its next iteration of Real Housewives to a place that Lindsay Lohan, 35, calls home. The Real Housewives of Dubai is set to premiere on the network in 2022, and fittingly, Lindsay has been living in Dubai for some time now. And if Andy Cohen had it his way, the A-list star would be among the inaugural group of Dubai Housewives.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter a grueling 18 months of pandemic, Live Nation Entertainment posted a strong third quarter of 2021, with the return of festival concerts helping to drive “all our business segments to positive operating income and adjusted operating income for the first time in two years,” according to the report, with a company-wide operating income and AOI of $137 million and $306 million, respectively.The report notes that its results are driven “primarily” by the U.S.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIf, like some of us, you’re not completely caught up on the ongoing dramas within HBO’s popular super-rich family drama “Succession,” have no fear because there’s no spoilers here except to say that in season three, skullduggery continues, and Nirvana’s controversial 1993 song “Rape Me” was used in a pivotal scene last weekend.Cobain’s widow, erstwhile Hole singer Courtney Love, approves Nirvana syncs and, according to an Instagram story post, she seems quite

does perform hysterectomies for non-life-threatening injuries such as chronic pelvic pain or uterine fibroids — despite its purported Catholic beliefs — and Minton would have been able to receive the surgery had he been a cisgender woman, according to Reuters.The hospital later helped Minton’s surgeon, Dr.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEd Sheeran, who tested positive for Covid-19 literally the day after he was announced as a performer on “Saturday Night Live,” has completed his quarantine and has been cleared to appear on this week’s show, which will be hosted by “Succession” star Kieran Culkin.“Posting this pic to say I’m released from Covid isolation today, so if you see me out and about I’ve had the all-clear and done my quarantine,” the singer posted on Instagram.

Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse has hit back at claims that the show’s dance-off is fixed after fans picked up on a blunder during this weekend’s elimination. Motsi and her fellow judges - Shirley Ballas, Craig Revel Horwood and Anton Du Beke - were tasked with choosing whether to send home Adam Peaty and his professional partner Katya Jones, or Judi Love and Graziano Di Prima.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHarry Styles will finish his 2021 “Love on Tour” with the first concert at the new UBS Arena in Belmont Park, NY, on Sunday, November 28. Tickets for the newly announced show will go on sale starting Friday, November 5 at 12 p.m.The new arena is just outside New York city limits, on the border of Queens and Nassau Counties.Presale registration is available now via Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program now through Tuesday, November 2 at 12 p.m.

Erykah Badu has been announced as the first headliner for Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2022.The Texas neo-soul artist will take to the stage in Glynde, East Sussex on Saturday, July 2 next year.