After decades in the spotlight making blockbuster films, Sandra Bullock is happiest at home with her two children.
13.06.2022 - 15:57 / variety.com
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLevel, the publication for Black men launched on Medium three years ago, has migrated to its own website, Levelman.com, with Medium founder/CEO Ev Williams serving as the lead investor.The initial launch content, according to EIC John Kennedy, includes rapper Jim Jones on being an NFT early adopter and his two-decade career; comedy writer Carlos Greaves compiles the 55 biggest, Blackest dad jokes you’ve never heard; and the return of the popular Level column “The Only Black Guy in the Office,” sharing one man’s snarky accounts of being corporate while Black. There is also an essay from author/ culture critic Michael Arceneaux about the problematic legacy of the recently deceased, controversial relationship guru Kevin Samuels.
Other future topics include “How Future Became a Toxic King” and a symbol for exes trying to keep in touch; “The Ills of Parenting While Mentally Ill,” “How America Is Already Trying to Gentrify Juneteenth” and more.Level highlights over the past three years include the “Abolition for the People” package in collaboration with Colin Kaepernick and the “40 Rappers over 40” list. The new website will continue the brand’s goal of speaking to Black men age 30+ and will focus on the areas of Race & Politics, Culture, Relationships, and Self (finance, wellness, career, identity, and aging).“Level built an ecosystem for Black men,” says CEO and founder Jermaine Hall.
“We delivered a space where this audience with tremendous disposable income and cultural currency can be seen. The response from our audience required us to expand our offerings and build a larger universe for them to come together, let their guards down, and share ideas.”
.After decades in the spotlight making blockbuster films, Sandra Bullock is happiest at home with her two children.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorR. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison in a New York court on Wednesday.Kelly, one of the most successful hitmakers of the 1990s and early 2000s, was found guilty of all nine counts against him in September, after a six-week trial revealed how he had used employees and intermediaries to lure fans and hopeful singers into sexually abusive and controlling conditions, including locking them in rooms without food or access to a bathroom for days.The 55-year-old singer, whose full name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, was convicted of racketeering and eight counts of violating the Mann Act, which prohibits transporting people across state lines for prostitution.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFollowing BTS’ announcement that they will be focusing on solo projects in the coming months, the group’s J-Hope announced on the Weverse platform early Saturday that he will release a solo album called “Jack in the Box” on July 15. The first single single will drop next week, on July 1.According to the official announcement, “Jack in the Box” lends voice to J-Hope’s aspirations to break the mold and grow further.
Few K-pop girl groups are conquering the globe quite like TWICE.
Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe lights come up on four Korean American teens crowded around a hotel bed. They’re members of a So Cal church group on a mission to Bangkok, Thailand — though the location only matters is the abstract.
Sandra Bullock is sharing what led her to take a step back from acting and when, if ever, she might take on a new role.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBeyonce just can’t make it easy: Just hours after she’d announced that “Break My Soul,” the first single from her forthcoming seventh solo studio album “Renaissance,” would be dropping tonight at midnight ET / 9 p.m. PT, it emerged on Tidal — yes, the streaming service co-owned by her husband, Jay-Z —three hours early.All of that noise notwithstanding, it’s the Beyonce jam fans have been waiting for: A driving dance track co-produced by the “Single Ladies” team of Tricky Stewart and The-Dream, with a plinking, insistent hook, a hot beat and a near-unintelligible, dancehall-like voice dropping in and out of the mix.“Release your anger/ Release your mind/ Release the time… Release the stress/ Forget the rest,” the voice intones.
Sandra Bullock previously said that she’s going to be taking a break from acting and she doubled down on the sentiment in a new interview.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGabriella Sarmiento Wilson, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter known as H.E.R., is suing MBK Entertainment, the record label owned by her longtime manager Jeff Robinson, for the rights to her music catalog. H.E.R.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBeyonce will drop “Break My Soul,” the first single from her forthcoming seventh solo studio album “Renaissance,” tonight at midnight ET / 9 p.m. PT, the singer announced on social media Monday morning.
AJ Tracey has officially released ‘Seoul’, a track he first debuted during a freestyle for New York rap show On The Radar.The London rapper went viral last month when he stopped by On The Radar to visit host Gabe P, and the freestyle that ensued – produced by MDS X Larry – caught the attention of fans, many of whom urged Tracey to release it in full.“I told bro, ‘Let it go’ and I meant it/ I don’t care if this car gets dented/ I paid full price and this star ain’t rented,” Tracey raps on the song’s chorus.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRayna Bass and Selim Bouab have been promoted to co-presidents of 300 Entertainment, it was announced Thursday by co-founder and chairman/CEO Kevin Liles. Bass and Bouab, who both joined 300 in 2014, were most recently the company’s senior VP of marketing and senior VP/head of A&R, respectively.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven as reports from Wall Street grow dark amid worries of a recession, Goldman Sachs predicts a booming decade for the music industry, with total music revenue to double to about $131 billion by 2030. The company’s annual “Music in the Air” forecast predicts that a combination of global streaming growth, emerging platforms like TikTok, the revival of the live music market and the ongoing strength of vinyl sales will drive the recorded music industry revenues to $52.3 billion by 2030, a $7.5 billion boost over last year’s prediction and more than double last year’s IFPI revenues of just under $26 billion.It is bullish on publishing as well, predicting that revenues will rise to $11.6 billion in 2030, up a cool billion from last year’s prediction for the year.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile he hasn’t been active in the music world for a couple of decades, Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, is indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history. The list of artists that the company spawned under his watch is astonishing and arguably without peer for a company of its size: U2, Bob Marley, Nick Drake, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Traffic, Free, Cat Stevens, Grace Jones, Robert Palmer, Brian Eno, Steve Winwood, Jethro Tull, Fairport Convention, Toots & the Maytalls, the Cranberries, Marianne Faithfull, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, King Sunny Ade, Eric B.
Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock are back in the new trailer for Bullet Train.