Thursday, October 8, 2026

Music

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kanye Tweets: “I am the head of Adidas” and Support for Freeing Two Convicted Killers, Suge Knight and Larry Hoover

Kanye West is back on Twitter and having a manic episode that doesn't stop. This afternoon he tweeted that he was the head of Adidas....