Given everything happening in the world, the Grammy Awards have signaled that the 2025 ceremony will be different, and a series of special performances featuring a dozen newly announced performers will highlight the show, the Recording Academy revealed Wednesday. These will include the annual In Memoriam segment, a star-studded salute to the life and legacy […]
“Hans Zimmer & Friends: Diamond in the Desert,” a concert film shot in Dubai that also includes documentary interviews with some of the stars and filmmakers the composer has worked with, will hit theaters globally starting March 19, Trafalgar Releasing announced Wednesday. The bulk of the 158-minute film will be performance footage of Zimmer and […]
Former MTV personality Matt Pinfield has been placed under a conservatorship following a massive stroke that he suffered earlier this month. According to TMZ, the former Columbia Records executive and radio show host suffered a stroke on Jan. 6 after enduring various health struggles over the years. The 63-year-old is now apparently incompetent, and his […]
With the Grammys just days away, the big question is: who will walk away as the biggest winners? The odds of a woman taking home a golden gramophone in the top categories are relatively high: female artists claim six out of the eight nominations for both album of the year and record of the year. […]
Spotify has defeated a lawsuit from the Mechanical Licensing Collective that accused the streaming giant of unfairly cutting royalty rates as part of its audiobooks-music “bundling” option announced last year, according to Billboard. Although the MLC claimed that Spotify had “unilaterally and unlawfully” cut its music-royalty payments via the bundle, a federal judge ruled that […]
