Republic Records Is First Label to Partner With Grammy Museum on New Spotlight Saturdays Series

Jon Burlingame “Can you believe that’s an online orchestra?” asks composer Laura Karpman.She’s talking about the musical score of HBO’s new “Lovecraft Country,” which debuted Sunday night and is believed to be the first post-pandemic series to be entirely scored, from first episode to last, by musicians recording remotely from their homes.Together with musical partner Raphael Saadiq, Karpman scored the 10-part series in which three African-Americans drive across 1950s America experiencing not

Metallica have announced that they’ll play their first show of 2020 as part of the ‘Encore Drive-In Nights’ series.The band will shoot a special show at a secret location near their northern California headquarters, which will subsequently be shown on August 29 at hundreds of drive-in and outdoor theatres across the United States and Canada.The venture will mark their first show since the ‘S&M2’ concerts that opened at Chase Center in San Francisco in September 2019.

Lizzo is teaming up with Amazon!

One of the most anticipated films of 2020 is definitely A24’s upcoming feature, “Zola.” Even before one frame of film (or megabyte of footage) was produced, “Zola” had everyone talking thanks to the production deal that was made off of a Twitter thread. And now, we have our first teaser for the film that gets us pretty hyped for the feature but also offers up a clue that the drama might not get a traditional release.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe Tribeca Film Festival is teaming up with Walmart for a new drive-in series that will take place at 160 Walmart stores across the country. Store parking lots will be turned into outdoor theaters Aug.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorThe New York Times said digital revenue exceeded print for the first time ever for the second quarter ended in June when it added 669,000 net new digital subscriptions.That included 493,000 net new subscriptions to its core news product and 176,000 to other digital products, like Cooking, Crossword and audio.

Star Wars actor John Boyega is set to star in a new Steve McQueen directed drama, Small Axe.The drama, which is airing on the BBC and Amazon later this year, has now shared a first-look photo of Boyega in character. The image comes almost five years after the project was first announced.As reported on Digital Spy, the mini-series will tell “five stories from within London’s West Indian community between the 1960s and 1980s.”Boyega will appear in the episode ‘Red, White and Blue’ and will play

New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you're supposed to somehow find the best ones.

Has there been a fall from grace quite as big as that of Tomas Alfredson? After making two incredible films in “Let The Right One In” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” the Swedish director followed up with the catastrophic yer very meme-able disaster “The Snowman.” Now, Alfredson is hoping to make a comeback with “Se upp för Jönssonligan,” the reboot of a popular Swedish film franchise.

Burt Bacharach and Daniel Tashian will be the focus of a digital program on the Grammy Museum’s website on Wednesday (Aug. 5).The two musicians have been working together on projects, including a five-song EP, Blue Umbrella, being released today (July 31).Bacharach is a six-time Grammy winner, including song of the year for co-writing Dionne & Friends’ “That’s What Friends Are For” (1986).

Ratched,’ Netflix teases.According to Vanity Fair, Ryan Murphy, the brains behind popular shows such as Glee, Scream Queens, Pose and American Horror Story discovered the spec script by a film school graduate Evan Romansky.The Emmy-winning writer describes the show ‘an imagining of how this monster was created.’There is a seriously stellar line up on female talent involved in the show.

Alexandra Del Rosario editorNearly three years after landing Sarah Paulson-starrer Ratched, Netflix announced that Ryan Murphy’s asylum drama series, inspired by the diabolical Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, will premiere on September 18.

Get ready for some major suspense.

New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you're supposed to somehow find the best ones.

Janet W. Lee Amazon Prime Video has released a new trailer for its long-gestating American adaptation of “Utopia.”The one-minute trailer imagines the end of the world with snippets of young comic fans who discover that the conspiracy — and beloved protagonist — in a graphic novel (entitled “Utopia”) is real.

When British comics Simon Pegg and Nick Frost join forces, you know it’s going to be good. The duo is teaming up for supernatural- comedy series “Truth Seekers,” and the new trailer is out now.

After scripting the dramatic stories of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple visionary Steve Jobs, and underground A-list poker boss Molly Bloom, Aaron Sorkin is focusing on another group of real-life revolutionaries.