The Latin Recording Academy announced today that the 2022 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year is composer, arranger, producer, musician, artistic director, and five-time Latin Grammy winner Marco Antonio Solís. He will be honored at a gala and tribute concert that will include renditions of his music performed by …
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In a new clip from the forthcoming film This Much I Know to Be True, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis show that, even in creative partnerships, sometimes opposites do attract. Cutting between separately-filmed conversations with the two artists, the narrative of their collaborative nature unfolds almost comically at their contrast …
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Soccer Mommy stopped by The Tonight Show to perform her emotional new single, “Shotgun.” Appearing with her band, the musician, a.k.a. Sophie Allison, offered a buoyant take on the synth-laden track. Soccer Mommy released “Shotgun” in March. The single marked the first glimpse of her third studio album, Sometimes, Forever, …
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Alec Baldwin and the Rust crew tried to parse what happened in the immediate aftermath of the on-setshooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, with the actor expressing serious concern for the film’s cinematographer, as evidenced in newly released bodycam footage from the Santa Fe Sheriff’s office. In the several hours-long …
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Kristina Karamo, who denied the 2020 election results and has been connected to QAnon, was endorsed by Michigan Republicans and Trump as their candidate for Michigan Secretary of State over the weekend, as NPR reports. The podcaster of the defunct It’s Solid Food and community college professor also had a …
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Donald Trump says he won’t rejoin Twitter even if the social media platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, reinstates his account. The news comes as the former president struggles to promote his own social media app, Truth Social, which has been beset by issues since its launch. “I am not going …
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In his final day on the stand in his $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard, Johnny Depp told the court “the only person that I have ever abused in my life is myself.” After a three-day break in which the court was dark, the seven-person jury listened to …
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With Elon Musk making a $44 billion purchase of Twitter, which he will own fully as a private company, infamous right wingers who’ve been booted from the platform are eagerly anticipating a return to what Musk is describing as the “digital town square.” To be clear, there have been no …
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Cher’s lawsuit claiming Sonny Bono’s widow, Mary Bono, owes her $1 million in unpaid royalties for Sonny & Cher songs — including hits like “I Got You Babe” — had its first major court hearing Monday, April 25, with a federal judge asking a telling hypothetical. U.S. District Judge John …
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Elon Musk and Twitter have struck a deal for the world’s richest man to buy the influential social media platform, multiple outlets reported on Monday. The sale is for $54.20 a share, or around $44 billion in total. Negotiations between the two parties stretched into the early hours of Monday …
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