Music
Metropolitan Opera Cancels 2020-21 Season But Will Return With First Ever Opera by a Black Composer
Good news and bad news at the Metropolitan Opera.
First the bad news: they've cancelled the season right through May 2021. No opera. Nothing. Just...
Media
Worrying Hollywood Consolidation as Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and All Their Subsidiaries Merge into One Company with Many Awards Shows
Um, this is a little worrying.
The companies that own Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, Billboard, Rolling Stone and all the secondary awards shows...
Music
Elton John Won’t Resume Farewell Tour in US Until January 2022, Most of 2021 Cancelled Except European Dates in the Fall
For Elton John, 2021 is basically not happening, at least in the US.
Sir Elton has just announced the resumption of his Farewell Yellow Brick...
Music
Pop: Justin Bieber’s “Holy” Single, Movie Off to Slow Start with Disappointing Sales, Streaming Numbers
Justin Bieber fans are not exactly scooping up his new single called "Holy."
Over the weekend, "Holy"-- featuring Chance the Rapper -- sold just 16,500...
Music
Rolling Stone’s New Top 500 Albums List Panders to the Current Headlines: Jann Wenner Must Be Turning in His Grave (He’s Not Dead, Don’t...
Rolling Stone? Jann Wenner must be turning in his grave. (He's not dead, but you know what I mean.) The new people at the...
Celebrity
Watch Yo Yo Ma’s Beautiful Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, A Special Performance of Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise”
You almost forget there's a civilised world anymore what with Donald Trump's attempted annihilation of it. But the great cellist Yo Yo Ma has...
awards
Emmys In Memoriam Huge Snub: Leaves Out “Saturday Night Live” Music Producer Hal Willner
Why are these In Memoriams always such a mess at every awards show?
This year's big snub on the Emmys was Hal Wilner, the beloved...
Music
Grammy Best Song Choice: Taylor Swift’s Live Version of “Betty” from the ACM Awards is Moving Up the iTunes Chart
Taylor Swift's performance of "Betty" on the ACM Awards this week was so perfect and such a hit that it's landed on the iTunes...