Music Industry Moves: Bravado Names Matt Young President

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorJack Harlow told tales of being in second grade. Lil Nas X admitted he “had a lot of fun pissing people off” this year.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe New Mexico prosecutor overseeing the investigation into the “Rust” shooting said Friday that she is “exploring various legal theories” in the case, and has not ruled out any criminal charges.Mary Carmack-Altwies, the district attorney for New Mexico’s First Judicial District, issued a statement apparently in response to Alec Baldwin’s interview on ABC on Thursday, in which the actor said he did not think he would be charged criminally in the case.“Everyone

Matthew Morgan has joined the agency as Co-Head of its Nashville office, working alongside Co-Head Jeffrey Hasson. Rock agent Buster Phillips has also joined UTA’s Music City headquarters.

HBO has fleshed out its cast for music industry drama series The Idol. Juliebeth Gonzalez has been added as a series regular, and Maya Eshet (Teen Wolf), Tyson Ritter (Preacher), Kate Lyn Sheil (House of Cards), Liz Sierra and Finley Rose Slater (Playing With Fire) will recur in the series, co-created by Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye and Reza Fahim. The high-profile one-hour drama is currently in production.

Micah Richards has called the reaction to Ralf Rangnick's Manchester United interim manager appointment as an overreaction and has questioned the motivation surrounding the decision.

Santa Fe police may be a step closer to discovering where the live round fired on October 21 by Alec Baldwin that killed Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins came from.

Berklee College of Music has established a scholarship named after Grammy Award-winning engineer Al Schmitt. The fund was created by the school’s Music Production and Engineering Department and seeded with a $50,000 gift from the endowment fund of former Berklee faculty member Wayne Wadhams, who played a key role in building the department, beginning in 1983.

BTS have opened up about anti-Asian hate and what it feels like to be Asians in the global music industry.During a recent press conference, which came shortly after the first day of their Permission To Dance On Stage concerts in Los Angeles, the septet were asked about the rise of anti-Asian hate around the world, per Teen Vogue.“I wasn’t born and raised abroad, but as Asians – these past years, our path around the world, we truly felt the walls,” said BTS leader RM.

Lokomotiv Moscow's former president slammed Ralf Rangnick for 'only caring about money' ahead of his appointment as Manchester United's interim manager.

Adele has claimed that she and Drake are “a dying breed” within the music industry.The singer took part in a wide-ranging interview on Canadian station CBC Radio in promotion of her fourth album ’30’, which came out last Friday (November 19).At one point in the conversation, host Tom Power brought up a tweet from the ‘Certified Lover Boy’ artist that read: “One of my best friends in the world just dropped a single”.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla In a tough climate for televised awards shows, the 2021 American Music Awards managed to hold steady with last year’s ratings even as social media around it surged.Sunday night’s awards show, which was hosted by Cardi B, averaged a 1.0/7 rating among adults 18-49 and around 4 million total viewers, according to Nielsen.

COVID test rather than proof of two jabs to enter venues will be allowed from December 6.It comes after the implementation of coronavirus vaccine passports were made a requirement for entry into nightclubs and concerts in Scotland in October.Now, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that given the “inevitable impact vaccine certification has on the operation of businesses”, ministers have concluded that extending the scheme would thus not be proportionate.Scotland’s plans to extend

Chris Willman Music WriterOneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder‘s interest in evolving technology is well-documented (see his recent interview with Variety about moving into the NFT space). Now, he’s put his cryptocurrency where his mouth is, as OneRepublic became the first major-label U.S.

The Idol is going to series.

The Big Bang Theory star Simon Helberg is set to return to the show’s universe in Young Sheldon.The actor, who played Howard Wolowitz in the hit CBS sitcom, will be narrating a forthcoming episode of the spin-off show.Young Sheldon follows the childhood of Sheldon Cooper – played by Jim Parsons in The Big Bang Theory and now played by Iain Armitage as a child.Helberg’s episode will air on November 19, and will focus on how Sheldon’s hatred for engineering began.