Amazon Prime Video has released a behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel‘s third season finale, taking place at the actual Apollo Theater in Harlem, Manhattan. The episode featured recreations of a Moms Mabley set (played by Wanda Sykes) and a Hines brother tap dance routine, choreographed …
Read More »Trump: 'Democrats Took God Out of the Pledge' at the Convention. They Said It Every Night
President Trump took some time before golfing on Saturday morning to tweet an easily provable falsity, lying about the Democrats and God. In a tweet that as of this writing has not been deleted, the president spread a falsehood to his millions of followers that claims Democrats removed the words …
Read More »The Doors Prep 'Morrison Hotel' 50th-Anniversary Reissue
The Doors are set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their 1970 LP Morrison Hotel with a reissue packed with unreleased takes from the album’s studio sessions. The two-CD/LP deluxe edition of the Morrison Hotel: 50th Anniversary reissue, due out October 9th, will feature the original album newly remastered by …
Read More »Three R. Kelly Associates Arrested for Attempting to Intimidate Victims
Three people associated with R. Kelly were arrested on accusations that they attempted to intimidate or pay off victims and witnesses connected with the singer’s upcoming trials. Richard Arline Jr., Kelly’s former adviser Donnell Russell, and Michael Williams were each charged separately for their roles in the alleged harassment scheme, …
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I Am a Woman “Male groups are all the rage right now,” a label executive tells Helen Reddy (Tilda Cobham-Hervey). She fires back: “Did it ever occur to you men to ask women what they want to listen to?” In 1971, they wanted to hear Reddy’s anthem “I Am Woman.” …
Read More »Blondie Co-Founders and Barry Manilow Sell Their Catalogs to Hipgnosis
Merck Mercuriadis‘s big year doesn’t seem to be slowing down yet. The manager-turned-music investor’s IP acquisition group Hipgnosis Songs Fund bought two more notable catalogs, it announced Wednesday — this time from Blondie co-founders Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, securing both their writers’ shares and neighboring rights for their entire …
Read More »Toni Braxton Previews 'Spell My Name' Album With New Single 'Dance'
Toni Braxton attempts to spin and twirl her way through heartbreak on “Dance,” a shimmery slice of nu-disco co-written and produced by the R&B ace Antonio Dixon. The track will appear on the upcoming album Spell My Name, Braxton’s first new full-length since 2018’s Sex & Cigarettes. Braxton sets the …
Read More »The Strokes Mark Opening Day With New 'Ode to the Mets' Video
Friday marks Opening Day for the New York Mets’ COVID-abbreviated 2020 baseball season, and to celebrate the Strokes have shared the video for their New Abnormal closer “Ode to the Mets.” According to the band, the video was inspired by the waltz-through-history seen in the opening credits of the sitcom …
Read More »Fleetwood Mac Preps Massive Box Set Documenting Early Years
Fleetwood Mac will release a massive box set documenting the band’s early years, out September 4th on Rhino. Fleetwood Mac 1969-1974 will consist of eight CDs, beginning with their third album, 1969’s Then Play On.The lineup shifted quite a bit in these years, most notably when founding guitarist Peter Green …
Read More »Pop Smoke Posthumously Conquers Artists 500 Chart
Pop Smoke has ended Drake’s latest reign atop the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart, with the late Brooklyn rapper taking the top spot for the week of July 3rd through July 9th. Pop Smoke amassed a whopping 251.1 million song streams thanks to the release of his posthumous album, Shoot …
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