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After weeks of speculation, Cannes Delegate General Thierry Frémaux confirmed Thursday morning that Sam Levinson’s Euphoria follow-up The Idol will screen out-of-Competition at the festival.

Christine And The Queens has spoken about recruiting Madonna to feature on the follow-up to his 2022 album ‘Redcar les adorables étoiles’.‘PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE’ was confirmed earlier this month. Due for release June 9, the album is the “second part of an operatic gesture” that takes inspiration from the “glorious dramaturgy of Tony Kushner’s iconic play, Angels In America.”According to the tracklisting for the album, Madonna features on several tracks.

Christine and the Queens has confirmed details of his fourth studio album. PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE will be released on June 9 via Because Music with lead single "To Be Honest" released today. Check out the self-directed video for that song below.

The Idol is the most controversial show in town, and it doesn't even have a premiere date yet. But maybe that's how the creators like it.

Shirley Halperin Executive Editor, Music Veteran music publicists Luke Burland and Bobbie Gale are teaming up to form a new firm, 2b Entertainment. The two share more than 30 years experience working with artists, music companies and brands. Both previously served in senior media relations positions at Warner Bros. Records (now known as Warner Records) and as in-demand indies — Burland, most recently at BB Gun Press (founded by Brian Bumbery, currently a top communications executive at Apple Music); Gale at her own MixedMediaWorks. Based in Los Angeles, 2b Entertainment’s client roster includes Jojo Siwa, Danny Elfman, Mike Dean, Holly Humberstone, Josh Groban, Julian Casablancas, Justin Tranter, Maggie Lindemann, Meghan Trainor, My Chemical Romance, OK Go, Shania Twain and Steve Earle, among other artists. Corporate accounts run across entertainment, lifestyle and fashion, representing such brands as CITI, +1 Records, Laylo, Dad Grass, Muserk and Cosm. (See the full roster here.)

HBO has released a new trailer for upcoming series The Idol – check it out above.Created by Euphoria’s Sam Levinson, Reza Fahim and Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd, the drama series follows a self-help guru and leader of a modern-day cult, who develops a complicated relationship with an up-and-coming pop idol.Lily Rose Depp (The Dancer) and The Weeknd lead the cast, supported by Suzanna Son, Troye Sivan, Moses Sumney, Jane Adams, Dan Levy, Eli Roth, Mike Dean and Hank Azaria.In the trailer, The Weeknd, who plays Tedros, says: “Los Angeles is where all the monsters of the world come to gather. Trust no one.”“I need full control,” he later remarks.

Moses Sumney has unveiled details of a new concert film before announcing his break from music.Sumney was this week revealed to be part of The Weeknd’s upcoming HBO series The Idol and has now today (August 25) unveiled a new concert film called A Performance In V Acts that covers his gig at the Ford Theater in Los Angeles on October 31. After that, he also announced his upcoming break from music.He said in a statement that the new concert film “marks the official end of the græ album cycle.”He continued: “It’s a capsule of our headline show since we will not be touring the album after all,” he wrote. “This film also ushers in a new period of creativity for me – one in which I take a continued break from making albums and touring music to focus on other disciplines.”The film will be released on August 31 and you can see a clip of him from the film performing ‘Doomed’ and his cover of Björk’s ‘Come to Me’ here:Earlier this week, HBO released the second teaser for The Idol, the upcoming drama series created by “the sick and twisted minds of” The Weeknd and Euphoria helmer Sam Levinson.It was confirmed some time ago that the main cast will feature Troye Sivan, Debby Ryan and Hari Nef, while the recurring cast will include Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio and Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects.In the latest teaser, we learn that other actors and artists set to appear.

The Weeknd has dropped another teaser ahead of the launch of his HBO Max series The Idol, due to launch later this year. The Weeknd, a.k.a.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorA large fire erupted outside Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas Saturday night as fans were leaving the Weekend’s concert at the venue. Local firefighters responded to the blaze shortly before 11 p.m.

Mike Dean has opened up about Kanye West’s unpredictability in the studio, describing how just weeks before he was due to release 2018’s ‘Ye’, the rapper scrapped everything he and Dean had worked on.The anecdote was shared in a new episode of Nile Rodgers’ Apple Music 1 show Deep Hidden Meaning Radio. The pair spoke about how Dean is often recruited to recording sessions so he can “Mike Dean it up”, with Beyoncé being a key example of an artist who seeks the producer out for his idiosyncratic style.Dean explained that he’s not concerned with how much of that style an artist will opt of keep on a record’s final mix, saying: “They can take all that, or 50 per cent of it, or 80 per cent of it… I’ve got real thick skin, so it doesn’t bother me – it’s like, you know, whatever they like of what I did, they can use.”Agreeing with Rodgers’ notion that you can’t be “passionate about your part” as a producer, Dean continued: “Exactly – or you’d get your feelings hurt, like, every day.

HBO have released the second teaser for The Idol, the upcoming drama series created by “the sick and twisted minds of” The Weeknd (aka Abel Tesfaye) and Euphoria helmer Sam Levinson.As well as reminding us that The Idol will feature copious amounts of sex, the new preview offers a closer look at its extended cast. Tesfaye himself will star as a self-help guru, club owner and leader of a modern-day cult, who begins dating an up-and-coming pop artist played by Lily-Rose Depp.In the trailer, we see the latter’s character being taken on a night of clubbing by BLACKPINK‘s Jennie (credited here as Jennie Ruby Jane), who will makes her acting debut in the series.Already confirmed was that the main cast will also feature Troye Sivan, ex-Disney Channel luminary Debby Ryan and Transparent breakout Hari Nef, while the recurring cast will include Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio and Tyson Ritter of The All-American Rejects.In the latest teaser, we learn that other actors and artists set to appear include Moses Sumney, Mike Dean, Suzanna Son, Jane Adams, Dan Levy, Eli Roth, Rachel Sennott, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Ramsey and Hank Azaria.

Anticipation is building for “The Idol”, the upcoming HBO Max series set in the music industry starring and co-created by The Weeknd.

William Earl A new teaser for The Weeknd’s upcoming HBO series “The Idol” has been released, which gives a look at the full cast in character.The trailer shows quick footage of the whole cast, including Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, Lily-Rose Depp, Suzanna Son, Troye Sivan, Moses Sumney, Jane Adams, Dan Levy, Jennie Ruby Jane, Eli Roth, Rachel Sennott, Hari Nef, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Mike Dean, Ramsey and Hank Azaria.The teaser debuted at The Weeknd’s concert last night at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. There’s still no premiere date for the show, with the trailer teasing that it’s “coming soon.”The show has had significant changes behind the scenes in recent months, as changes in creative direction lead to director Amy Seimetz leaving the show.

Thania Garcia Beyoncé’s seventh solo album “Renaissance” serves as a celebratory tribute to the Black and queer roots of dance and house music; a compilation of new and old sounds, complete with samples from the genre’s most influential. It’s an intensely purposeful formula, and to get it just right, Beyoncé elected a board of “superheroes,” as Leven Kali — one of the many young contributors on the project — describes them to Variety.Indeed, the credits for “Renaissance” are impressive, with producers the Neptunes, Mike Dean, The-Dream, Skrillex, A.

Saucy Santana's "Material Girl" blew up on TikTok last year. It went so viral that it got the attention of the original Material Girl, Madonna, with her inviting Saucy Santana to join her onstage for her New York City Pride performance at Terminal 5 this past June.

Mike Dean tweeted on Wednesday that he would no longer be appearing at Kid Cudi's Moon Man's Landing festival. The producer and DJ made it clear that the decision to remove him from the bill of the Cleveland event was not his and that he is the only artist to be taken off the line-up. The one-day Moon Man's Landing is due to take place on September 17 with Cudi headlining alongside guests Playboi Carti, HAIM, Don Toliver and Pusha T.

Mike Dean has said that he has been pulled from the line-up for Kid Cudi‘s Moon Man’s Landing festival, which is set to take place next month in Cudi’s hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.Cudi announced the event back in June with a line-up that included Dean along with Cudi himself, Playboi Carti, Haim, Don Toliver, Dominic Fike, Pusha T, Jaden, 070 Shake and more.SEE U SEPT 17TH!! pic.twitter.com/RqX61LdRNR— The Chosen One : I

Nav has reached into his rolodex of contacts and called on Travis Scott and Lil Baby to appear on his latest single "Never Sleep." The song will appear on Nav's new album Demons Protected By Angels, which is "coming soon" according to press materials. "Never Sleep" was produced by Tay Keith and Grayson, with co-production from Mike Dean.

The wait is over. After clearing her social media accounts to signal a new era, Beyoncé has finally revealed details of her upcoming project RENAISSANCE.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBeyonce has revealed the credits for her forthcoming seventh full-length solo album “Renaissance,” and they’re every bit as star-studded and envelope-pushing as you’d expect, a mixture of household names like Drake, Jay-Z and Pharrell, veteran hitmakers like The-Dream, Raphael Saadiq, Hit Boy, Mike Dean and Nova Wave, and some unknowns who are having their first entries on Genius.com.Based on the songwriting credits revealed in Apple Music — with a few typos — collaborators include:Drake, on the song “Heated,” Jay-Z, with credits on three songs, Pharrell Williams, likely in collaboration with his Neptunes partner Chad Hugo (the name “Chad” appears at the end of the credits for song “Energy”), Nigerian singer Tems, Solange/ D’Angelo collaborator Raphael Saadiq, R&B chanteuse Sabrina Claudio, Longtime Beyonce collaborator The-Dream (“Single Ladies,” “Who Run the World (Girls)”) on multiple songs, Longtime Jay-Z/ Kanye West collaborator No I.D., Songwriting/production duo Nova Wav (Denisia “Blu June” Andrews and Brittany “@Chi_Coney” Coney), PC Records founder and Charli XCX collaborator A. G.

A.D. Amorosi It’s difficult to imagine that an intensely theatrical performer like the Weeknd — whose videos, concerts, 2021 Super Bowl Halftime performance and lyrics are loaded with vibrant, at times disturbing imagery — would launch his first-ever stadium tour without spectacle.And thankfully, after several  incidents of unwanted drama — including two Covid-related delays, the postponement of the tour’s intended opening date in Toronto last weekend due to a Canada-wide wireless outage, and original opening act Doja Cat dropping out due to tonsil surgery — for the belated first night of his “After Hours Til Dawn” tour in Philadelphia, the theatrics were all onstage.The concert took place on a humid July night in Philadelphia, which had a temperature of 87 degrees as the show opened with sets from producer-artist Mike Dean and Canadian electronic act Kaytranada, but it had cooled down by the time the Weeknd’s headlining set began at around 9 p.m.

The Weeknd has announced new support acts for his upcoming North American stadium concerts – dubbed the ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ tour – after Doja Cat pulled out.Back in May, Doja Cat announced that she was to cancel all her 2022 live dates, including festival shows and the tour with The Weeknd, to recover from tonsil surgery.The tour, which begins in Abel Tesfaye’s native Toronto on Saturday night (July 8), will now see support on select dates from Snoh Aalegra, Kaytranada and Mike Dean.After its opening in Toronto, ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ will take The Weeknd to Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and more.See the full list of dates below.JULYWednesday 8 – Toronto, Rogers Centre Tuesday 14 – Philadelphia, Lincoln Financial Field Thursday 16 – New York, Metlife Stadium Tuesday 21 – Boston, Gillette Stadium Friday 24 – Chicago, Soldier Field Monday 27  – Detroit, Ford Field Thursday 30 – Washington, FedExField ThursdayAUGUSTThursday 4 – Tampa, Raymond James Stadium Saturday 6 – Miami, Hard Rock Stadium Thursday 11 – Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium Sunday 14 – Arlington, AT&T Stadium Thursday 18 – Denver, Empower Field at Mile High Saturday 20 – Las Vegas, Allegiant Stadium Tuesday 23 – Vancouver, BC Place Thursday 25 – Seattle, Lumen Field Saturday 27 – San Francisco, Levi’s Stadium Tuesday 30 – Phoenix, State Farm StadiumSEPTEMBERFriday 2 – Los Angeles, SoFi StadiumAccording to a press release, the North American dates are just the first leg in a world tour that will also includes stops in Mexico, South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa and the Middle East which are yet to be announced.Additionally, the singer – real name Abel Tesfaye – has

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Weeknd’s opening acts for his global stadium tour, which launches in his hometown of Toronto next Friday, will be R&B singer Snoh Aalegra, Canadian electronic artist Kaytranada and top DJ/producer Mike Dean, his team reveals in an exclusive interview with Variety. The full 19 dates, noting which acts are playing in which cities, appear below.The tour’s original opener, Doja Cat, pulled out last month to undergo throat surgery, and although “the phone was ringing” with calls from interested parties, according to Omar Al-joulani — Live Nation’s president of touring and a Toronto native who has worked with the Weeknd since 2014 — the choices reflect the artist’s long practice of having up-and-coming acts open his tours, even one as massive as the stadium show that will work its way across North America (slowly) through Labor Day weekend before moving on to the rest of the world.

Kid Cudi has announced and shared dates for his To the Moon tour, a late-summer U.S. and Canada run followed by an October performance in Tokyo and six November European shows.

We don't know exactly when Brent Faiyaz will share his second solo studio album, but on Monday, the R&B star shared a big hint that it could be coming soon. On Twitter, Faiyaz posted a new trailer detailing the featured artists and producers on his upcoming full-length, a project Faiyaz said in 2021 was titled Make It Our Alive but may now be titled Wasteland.

Kanye West has teamed up with Vory on his new track, ‘Daylight’ – listen to it below.Vory featured as a guest on West’s last two albums, ‘Donda’ and ‘Donda 2’. The new track ‘Daylight’ will feature on Vory’s upcoming album, ‘Lost Souls’, which is released this Friday (June 3) via Dream Chasers/Universal Music Group.West produced the track alongside collaborators 88-Keys, Ojivolta, and Ratatat’s Evan Mast, aka E*vax. The song was mixed by Mike Dean.Vory and West last worked together on ‘Donda2′ track ‘Lord Lift Me Up.’Listen to ‘Daylight’ here:Last week, West‘s collaboration with the late XXXTentacion was released.‘True Love’ appears on West’s recent ‘Donda 2’ album, which until last week had only been available on the Stem Player that was launched to release the rapper’s album in February.

Madonna is celebrating her dance floor domination.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMadonna recently became the first artist to top Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart for the 50th time, making her the first and only recording artist to have 50 No. 1 hits on any single Billboard chart.She is commemorating the event in characteristically outsized fashion with two new compilations: “Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones,” a new 50-track collection that includes her favorite remixes of her dance hits, and an abridged 16-track version, simply titled “Finally Enough Love.” The full tracklists appear below.The collections mark the first album releases to be part of the newly announced partnership between Madonna and Warner Music Group, which will feature an extensive series of catalog releases across her career.

BTS, following a series of tweets where he criticised the septet.On April 4, the night of the Grammys 2022, Dean took a jab at the K-pop boyband by responding to a tweet from the Recording Academy. The Grammy organiser had dared followers to “name a group smoother than BTS”, which Dean replied with “Anyone”.A post shared by thinker (@the.thinkings)Later that night, while responding to BTS fans, the producer added further fuel to the fire by questioning BTS’ songwriting credits.

Producer Mike Dean was apparently irked when Kanye West’s album Donda — which he produced — didn’t win the Album of the Year award at Sunday’s Grammys, and seemed to take it out on BTS.

Shirley Ju Separately from each other, producers Mike Dean (pictured above) and Jeff Bhasker (below) are both synth gods in their own right. As a unit, performing their first show on Friday (April 1) at OffSunset in West Hollywood, the two were otherworldly.The intimate set reunited the Kanye West collaborators, who each have five Grammy Awards, and included an all-star guest list that both teased on socials prior to the event.

BBC Strictly Come Dancing will return to our screens in September this year. Strictly will be back following a break from December, when the last series was won by Rose Ayling Ellis.

ITV I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here is returning to Australia this winter. And now the bookies have released their odds for the cast. Danny Dyer heads William Hill’s market of candidates who might enter the jungle for this year’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!.

Ellise Shafer Jack Antonoff is the world’s top music producer, according to Jaxsta’s inaugural list of the 100 most successful producers in the business.Jaxsta, the world’s largest public database of music credits, determined the list by analyzing statistics provided by record labels, publishers, distributors, industry associations and charts from the period of March 2021 to February 2022. Jaxsta’s weighted algorithm calculated each producers’ chart performance, Grammy wins and nominations, Spotify streams, RIAA certifications and number of total credits to determine the world’s 100 most successful producers.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWith her just-released “Caprisongs” mixtape and a fresh affiliation with a new label, Atlantic, British singer-songwriter-producer FKA Twigs ups the ante on her eerily experimental sound and intimately nuanced lyrics and goes big. That’s not only because the genre-jumbling, multi-octave performer has invited brand-name featured guests such as Jorja Smith and the Weeknd to the party that is “Caprisongs.” Rather, it’s because the Gloucester, U.K.-born artist — real name Tahliah Barnett — is having any kind of party at all.The bottom line on Twigs has long been that her most ambitious music was deeply emotional and uncompromising.

Lana Del Rey was the recipient of Variety‘s Decade Award yesterday (December 4), receiving the title at its Hitmakers brunch in Los Angeles.After being presented the award by producer Mike Dean, who she collaborated with on recent track ‘Wildflower Wildfire’, she thanked many of the people who helped her on her journey in an emotional acceptance speech.“My managers helped me up the stairs,” she said. “I still haven’t mastered the art of walking in heels.