Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHit Songs Deconstructed, which analyzes pop songs more deeply than anyone we’ve ever witnessed, and the AI song search and analysis platform MyPart have partnered to launch ChartCipher, a platform that takes both companies’ analysis to new levels. The service is launching in beta in the coming weeks, and the companieswill be delivering their inaugural presentation at Music Biz 2022 in Nashville on May 11th at 12:30 PM.ChartCipher leverages MyPart’s award-winning AI-powered analysis of the compositional, lyrical, and sonic qualities of songs and combines it with Hit Songs Deconstructed’s song analysis methodologies and analytics delivery platform to deliver insights into the characteristics driving today’s most successful songs.
Review: Old Crow Medicine Show offers serious tonic of songs
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“Paint This Town,” Old Crow Medicine Show (ATO Records)Due to the group’s name, good-timey tempos and comically frantic vocals, Old Crow Medicine Show can be mistaken for a hee-hawing string band not to be taken seriously. All of which makes the Nashville-based group’s new album deceptive in its delights.“Paint This Town” is indeed a party starter, but there are also powerful songs about racism, drugs, the abolitionist movement, environmental degradation and the Mississippi flag.Versatile frontman Ketch Secor’s distinctive delivery fits the material, whether his approach is crazed, comedic or conscientious.
It turns out Secor can sound a lot like Joe Strummer, and some of the subject matter is Clash-worthy.“Painkiller” captures the desperation of addiction, and “Used To Be a Mountain” turns angry as it describes an abused landscape. “DeFord Rides Again,” sung by drummer Jerry Pentecost, pays tribute to pioneering but long-forgotten Black country music artist DeFord Bailey.While the band delivers those tunes at a furious pace, “New Mississippi Flag” is a bold ballad that movingly summarizes the state’s complicated history in three minutes as it recalls “rattling chains” and those “who died on the road to change.”Old Crow does find time for fun.
Secor is delightfully hammy singing about divorce on “Bombs Away,” and the album opens and closes with joyful foot-stompers. This medicine show’s passion and energy are a potent tonic, especially on songs about right and wrong.
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Review: French Quarter busker charts new course in Americana
“A Walk Around the Sun," Erika Lewis (Independent)There's a sense of urgency in the lyrics of “A Walk Around the Sun," a hidden gem of a country-Americana project by a singer-songwriter known previously as the singer in a brassy French Quarter busker band called Tuba Skinny.It starts to make sense when you know her back story.Erika Lewis learned in 2020 that she needed surgery that had the potential to damage her vocal cords. A friend urged the singer to record some songs she'd been working on before she had the operation.
‘Funny Girl’ review: Beanie Feldstein’s Broadway show falls flat
Beanie Feldstein, who was a smash as Monica Lewinsky in “American Crime Story: Impeachment” last year, takes on the Brooklyn comic legend who sings classic hits like “People” and “Don’t Rain On My Parade.” She is supposed to steal our hearts and sprain our funny bones. No dice.Ticket-buyers are walking in forgivingly, with an understanding that we don’t expect any Broadway performer to match up to one of the greatest American vocalists of all time. Feldstein, however, barely muddles through the beloved songs.
Firefighter 'destroyed' £8,000 drone on residential street in Old Trafford during missing person search
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Entrepreneurs Needed ‘Shark Tank’ Even More During Pandemic, Show’s Stars And EPs Say – Contenders TV: Docs + Unscripted
Shark Tank had to make some significant adjustments to shoot during the pandemic, which included moving production to Las Vegas where they created their own bubble in the Venetian hotel. But then the producers had to wonder: Would entrepreneurs want to make the trek to Sin City to secure funding for their fledging businesses?
Watch Jack White perform ‘What’s The Trick’ on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’
Jack White performed his song ‘What’s The Trick’ on last night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (April 20) – you can watch his performance and interview with Colbert below.The track is taken from the guitarist’s recently released solo album ‘Fear Of The Dawn’, the first of two LPs that are set to be released by the White Stripes musician in 2022.White and his live band delivered an electric performance of ‘What’s The Trick’ during yesterday’s episode of The Late Show following an interview with host Colbert.White spoke to Colbert about his recent on-stage marriage to Olivia Jean and recalled a piece of advice he once received from the late Prince: “Don’t let anyone tell you how to play your guitar, Jack.”You can watch White’s performance of ‘What’s The Trick’ in the above clip, and see White’s interview with Colbert below.White has also this week shared the Jason Lester-directed video for ‘What’s The Trick’, which you can only watch on White’s Facebook page here.The clip features a host of Nashville musicians, including Regina McCrary (of the McCrary Sisters) and the singer-songwriters Adia Victoria and Lola Kirke. Recordings of shows from Jack White‘s ongoing world tour are currently being made available to stream or download via the live concert streaming platform Nugs.net.White’s tour will visit London for two dates in late June, with support from Chubby and The Gang and Yard Act.
Kim Kardashian, Amy Poehler, Robin Thicke, ‘Shark Tank’ Sharks And More On Board For Deadline’s Contenders Television: Docs + Unscripted Event
Fresh from the debut of The Kardashians on Hulu, Kim Kardashian joins our spectacular roster of talent for Deadline’s Contenders Television: Docs + Unscripted virtual event this Saturday.
Taylor Sheridan Knows His Nine-Show TV Slate Is ‘Excessive’: ‘This Volume of Work Is Not Sustainable’
Joe Otterson TV ReporterTaylor Sheridan is the first to admit that the number of series he is fielding for various Paramount platforms is “excessive.”“This volume of work is not sustainable for a long period of time,” the “Yellowstone” co-creator says. “But it’s an opportunity to tell stories the way I want to tell them with a creative freedom that just doesn’t exist in this space.
Listen To This: Thank You, Jesus!
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Money spat resolved over LGBTQ books at Mississippi library
RIDGELAND, Miss. -- A Mississippi library is on track to receive the full amount of money it was budgeted, months after a mayor threatened to withhold funding because the library displayed LGBTQ books for young readers.The city of Ridgeland and the Madison County Library System reached an agreement this week to end the dispute, news outlets reported.
16-Year-Old Cheer Captain Stabbed To Death During High School Parade
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Bachelor Nation’s Tia Booth and Fiance Taylor Mock’s Relationship Timeline
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Miranda Lambert Makes Her Awards Show Return at 2022 CMT Music Awards After Missing 2 Events
She’s back! After skipping two awards shows, Miranda Lambert returned to celebrate her song “If I Was a Cowboy” at the 2022 CMT Music Awards on Monday, April 11.
Sheryl Crow-Produced Christmas Music Film Among Three New CBS Holiday Movies
Wilson Chapman editorAfter hopping back on the Holiday movie train last year, CBS’ is taking it full steam ahead in 2022. The Eye network is expanding its presence in the lucrative holiday-themed film genre, ordering three new holiday themed projects set to air this December: “When Christmas Was Young,” “Fit For Christmas” and “Must Love Christmas.”“When Christmas Was Young” is described by CBS as a music-themed film set in Nashville, focusing on a music manager who attempts to secure the rights for a Christmas song that a failed singer-songwriter wrote years ago.
Amanda Kloots and Sheryl Crow Set for CBS Holiday Movies
Sheryl Crow and Amanda Kloots have been tapped for two of three upcoming holiday movies, the network announced Monday.Crow will executive produce and write the title song for , a Nashville music-themed film, which centers on a headstrong music manager in desperate need of a hit song for his last remaining client and finds himself falling for a singer-songwriter with abandoned dreams of making it big, as he attempts to secure the rights to a Christmas song she wrote years ago. Kloots, who co-hosts , will star in and executive produce , which follows Audrey, a Christmas-obsessed fitness instructor at a beloved, financially beleaguered community center in the quiet town of Mistletoe, Montana. She begins a holiday romance with a charming, but mysterious businessman, complicating his plans to turn the center into a profitable resort property. The third original holiday film will be penned by Mark Amato, who wrote last year's , led by Adam Rodriguez and Jessica Camacho, on CBS. revolves around a renowned romance novelist famous for her Christmas-themed books, who finds herself snowbound in the charming town of Cranberry Falls, where she unexpectedly becomes involved in a love triangle between her childhood crush and a reporter determined to interview her to save his dying magazine.Last year's toplined by Katie Lowes, and marked CBS' return to original holiday films since 2012.To stay up to date on breaking TV news, sign up for ET's daily newsletter.
Loved-up pensioner, 81, makes 'priceless' discovery about 36-year-old toyboy husband
A loved-up pensioner who fell for her Egyptian toyboy, who is 46-years younger than her, has made a "priceless discovery" about her lover after being forced to spend time apart.