Notes On The Season: Oscar Controversies; The Susan Lucci Of Music; Pelosi’s ‘Irishman’ Campaign Boost

TV icon Susan Lucci opened up about the death of Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas on Wednesday.

Kirk Douglas' death on Wednesday at the age of 103 was felt across all of show business, as entertainers reflected on the acclaimed star's iconic legacy and incomparable career.

Apparently High School Musical: The Musical: The Series couldn't just keep putting on productions of High School Musical: The Musical forever. 

By Dominic Patten

Although Avengers: Endgame concluded the series of Marvel films that has now been dubbed the Infinity Saga, the Marvel Cinematic Universe goes on. In addition to a number of films currently in the works as part of Phase Four, some of your favorite Avengers will also be venturing to the small screen for limited series on Disney+, Disney's streaming service, which launched late last year.

Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa returned for its sixth year in Mexico and the country singer’s famous friends were in tow for the music festival.

My Chemical Romance's legions of diehard fans swarmed social media on Wednesday (Jan. 29) in the wake of the band's announcement that they'll be reuniting for a North American tour in 2020. 

A pub has banned 'jobby catcher' grey tracksuits and shoes with no socks.

With the news of legendary basketball player Kobe Bryant's death breaking just five hours before Grammy Awards 2020 was scheduled to kick-off, the organisers made some last-minute changes in host Alicia Keys’ opening monologue and the result was moving! During her appearance on the latest episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Alicia shared details about what went on backstage while she and her team were trying to come up with a 'proper' tribute to retired NBA star.

Back in December, Future teamed up with 1800 Tequila for 1800 Seconds Vol. 2: Curated By Future, a 12-track project featuring a crop of rising stars in music. It’s all produced by Papamitrou, who recently sat down with Genius to break down his work on “Hit Like Mike.” The song is created in collaboration with Memphis, Tennessee rapper Herion Young.

The past few years have been a roller-coaster for Billie Eilish as she transitioned from making music in her brother Finneas O’Connell’s bedroom to becoming the youngest artist to sing a James Bond theme song. Along the way to the top of the charts, the 18-year-old has been open about her battle with depression.

I am nominated for best album notes for Craft Recordings’ The Complete Cuban Jam Sessions, a box set of five remastered albums of improvisational sessions recorded for the pre-Revolutionary Cuban label Panart. These are my first-ever liner notes, but I previously wrote a series of articles about the label, which captured an indelible age of Cuban music in the 1940s and ’50s.

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons are teaming for a series of documentaries about the music world, taking a similar approach to what Simmons did with sports docs in ESPN's 30 for 30 series.

OK, now what does Best New Artist mean to the Recording Academy again?