Pharrell says he is working on new N.E.R.D music

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. has posted an Instagram video walking back comments published in the New York Times yesterday expressing support for the Grammy eligibility of "Heart on My Sleeve," a song created using deepfaked voice models of Drake and the Weeknd. Criticizing what he characterized as "bad and really inaccurate information," Mason Jr.

NME journalist will begin a new weekly show, Steve Lamacq’s Teatime Session, on Monday, January 8 (4pm-7pm), while Huw Stephens will be taking the weekday slot Tuesday-Friday.“Steve Lamacq has decided to make a well-deserved change to his broadcasting career,” BBC 6 Music announced in a social post this weekend.It confirmed that Lamacq will present his final daily weekday show on Friday October, 20. Stephens will then begin his new show on Tuesday, January 9, after covering the show with other hosts in the interim.A post shared by BBC Radio 6 Music (@bbc6music)“Steve Lamacq’s Teatime Session will see Steve bring listeners his favourite new and classic tracks, as well as live sessions from established bands and emerging artists,” the post added.“Huw’s show will see him share the music he loves, past and present.

In Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,” truth proves stranger than fiction. Based on Skip Hollandsworth’s Texas Monthly piece of the same name from 2001, Linklater’s newest film follows Glen Powell as Gary Johnson, a man so good at pretending to be someone else he could convince clients he was a cold-blooded contract killer.

Donald Trump allegedly overestimated his net worth by more than $2.2 BILLION, according to New York’s Attorney General! Whoa!

‘Utopia Presents Circus Maximus Tour’ in early August, Travis Scott just unveiled new dates for his 28-concert fall jaunt.The 32-year-old rapper is now scheduled to headline at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Dec. 18, New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Dec.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Warner Bros. Discovery is widely expected to name Mark Thompson, the former New York Times Co. and BBC leader who has demonstrated a knack for guiding media into digital realms, as the latest executive to oversee CNN, according to a person familiar with the matter, putting in place the fifth executive structure around the news giant since early 2022.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are playing not one, not two but three (!) concerts at East Rutherford, NJ’s MetLife Stadium this week.After their first gig on Wednesday, Aug. 30, they’ll return for a Friday, Sept.

Millie Bobby Brown is looking back on her first date with fiancé Jake Bongiovi. 

Olivia Rodrigo is opening up about the pressure she felt after dropping Sour in 2021, the debut album that brought her stardom as well as a license to “make mistakes,” which she says was evident in the people she chose to date.

Renée Rapp is opening up about her bad experience starring in the Mean Girls musical.

Garden State.Following a heroic victory behind an epic Messi assist to send the match into overtime in Cincinnati, his Inter Miami CF team will play the New York Red Bulls at Harrison, NJ’s Red Bull Arena next on Saturday, Aug. 26.And, as expected, tickets are not exactly cheap to see the World Cup winner live in person.“Messi’s MLS match on Aug.

Burna Boy has shared his thoughts on the Afrobeats genre, criticising it for lacking any “substance”.The Nigerian singer, songwriter and record producer made the comments in a new interview with Apple Music. Speaking with host Zane Lowe, he recalled his less-than-fond take on the genre, and pointed out how he believes the majority of Afrobeats music is lacking in any deeper meaning.This, he explained, is because he sees many of the artists as lacking any real “life experience”, which results in their final product being about “nothing”.“Half of them, [actually,] 90 per cent of them, have almost no real-life experiences that they can understand,” he claimed in the discussion. “That’s why you hear most Nigerian music, African Music, or Afrobeats, as people call it, is mostly about nothing, literally nothing.”“There is no substance to it, like nobody is talking about anything.

Priscilla Presley is opening up about her final moments with her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.In a new interview with, the 78-year-old recounts knowing something was off with her daughter prior to her death.«I did know there was something not right,» Priscilla says in an interview with filmmaker Sofia Coppola for. Still, she remembers being with her daughter and having a laugh at theChateau Marmont in Los Angeles as they celebrated Austin Butler's Golden Globes win for his role as Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s film. However, the outing was cut short as Lisa Marie said she was experiencing pain.«We had just gotten there, you go down all these stairs,» Priscilla remembers of the evening.

Patricia Swinney Kaufman, longtime head of film and television development for New York State, has been named Commissioner of NYC’s Mayor’s Office Of Media and Entertainment.

Everything about this case, everything connected to Jeffrey Epstein is just so gross. And every time you think it’s over, it just gets a little worse…

Donald Trump said that he would head to Atlanta on Thursday to turn himself in to face charges in his most recent indictment in Georgia.

She has kept a relatively low profile this year while her husband has been involved with promotional activity for his memoir and upcoming Netflix documentaries. But now it looks as if the Duchess of Sussex could draw on her experiences of acting and the film industry to return to the bright lights of Hollywood in a move described as clever by a royal expert.

Striking members of the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA who live in New York and New Jersey have a distinct financial advantage over their counterparts in California and elsewhere in the country: They are eligible for state unemployment insurance benefits even though they’re on strike.

Ken Burns lives just where you might imagine. The documentary filmmaker, who has spent a lifetime exploring American history, long ago made Walpole, New Hampshire his home, a bucolic village founded before the American Revolution. It’s dotted with old inns and quaint shops, and democracy is practiced there the old-fashioned way, through the traditional Town Meeting. 

Emanuel Okusanya Swazi-born, South African DJ Uncle Waffles is at the forefront of propelling amapiano — a subgenre of house and South African music — to dancefloors across the world. Her third EP, “Solace,” released today (Aug. 11), sees her expanding on the invigorating beats that earned her a spot at this year’s Coachella festival, and delving into multiple other genres.