The Recording Academy will induct eight albums and five singles in the Grammy Hall of Fame this year. The albums include Jay-Z’sReasonable Doubt, Luther Vandross‘ Never Too Much, Emmylou Harris‘ Wrecking Ball, and Cat Stevens‘Tea For The Tillerman. The Grammy Hall of Fame will also induct Big Star‘s #1 Record, …
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Nearly 20 years after his death, it’s easy to forget the ways that R&B legend Luther Vandross impacted pop music. His suavely rhythmic hits, many from the Eighties, don’t get the same amount of airplay as New Wave classics of the same period. It’s also easy to forget how complex …
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Madonna‘s Celebration tour takes a moment each night to pay tribute to artists who suffered or died from AIDS. During “Live to Tell,” her 1986 single about persevering through trying times, a montage of images flash across the screen. Among them are photos of Keith Haring, Herb Ritts, and Freddie …
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Dawn Porter looks for stories of people who made history without asking. By following congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis in John Lewis: Good Trouble, or President Obama’s White House photographer Pete Souza in The Way I See It, she says she hopes to shade in between the lines …
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Sundance Film Festival 2024 has its bases covered. The 40th edition of the film festival will feature the premiere of Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun‘s post-apocalyptic romance Love Me; Michael John Warren’s evolutionary documentary Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza; Steven Soderbergh‘s haunted house thriller Presence; and 88 additional films, documentaries, …
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