Licensed To Ill is the new musical about white rappers the Beastie Boys, staging at the Camden People’s Theatre in London, Nov. 23-Dec. 12. Presented by Simon Maeder and Adam El Hagar present the story of “hiphop’s most notorious pranksters” using a combination of live music and DJ-ing. Audiences will journey with Mike D, MCA and AdRock – the […]
India’s Vedalam has been a huge hit over the holiday weekend of Deepavali, or Festival of Lights, with songs by 25-year-old composer and music director Anirudh Ravichander getting audiences out of their seats and dancing in the theater aisles, according to news reports. The story of a taxi driver who finds himself on the wrong side of some […]
Oliver Stone’s Snowden hits theaters September 16, 2016 with a score by Craig Armstrong. The teaser trailer opens with percussion and segues to an ethereal version of the gospel song “Let It Shine (This Little Light of Mine)” created by trailer tunesmiths Confidential Music. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, though no actors appear in […]
HGTV stars Drew and Jonathan Scott, better known as the Property Brothers, make their recording debut with a pair of country tunes to air on “Property Brothers at Home on the Ranch,” which premieres at 9 p.m. on Nov. 25. The new 10-part series sees the Scott twins, Jonathan and Drew, joined by brother JD in renovating a Rocky Mountains […]
The 2015 Hollywood Music in Media Awards were handed out on Wednesday November 11th at Hollywood’s historic Fonda Theater, hosted by comedian Ron Pearson. Winner for Original Feature Film Score was Dan Romer for Netflix’s wrenching Beasts of No Nation, about a warlord training a young African orphan to be a guerilla fighter. (Listen to Romer’s Indiewire podcast here.) […]
B-sides don’t get much respect, but this one has propelled a budding career into the spotlight. Norwegian recording artist Aurora has recorded the 1994 Oasis song “Half the World Away” for the 2015 Christmas advertising campaign for U.K. retail chain John Lewis. Themed “Man on the Moon,” the commercial plays out a heartwarming drama as a little girl observes […]
Because “musicians and bands are among the best selection of folks to watch from afar,” Maxim compiled a list of its Top 20 favorite music films. Spanning all genres, you’ll find the expected crowd-pleasers like Walk the Line and La Bamba with off-the-wall selections like Sid and Nancy, a Beastie Boys concert film and the 1968 […]
The long-awaited YouTube Music app has made its public debut, combining convenient mobile access for its free service with an effort to up-sell the $10 per month YouTube Red, which makes content available without those pesky ads. And not a moment too soon. While the Official YouTube Blog post announcing YouTube Music touted a global audience of […]
How much Questlove? Never enough! Which is fortunate, because the man who put the bizzy in show biz is juggling an abundance of projects. The drummer for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon house band The Roots teamed with Icona Pop to update of the 1986 Nu Shooz hit “I Can’t Wait” for Target’s “This […]
Bands like The Beatles are allowing their songs to be heard on Internet radio services, like Pandora, which pay-out royalties whenever the songs play. But a select group of top-tier bands have banned their songs from”interactive streaming services,” where homage bands are staking a claim, getting cover-versions of popular recordings played by virtue of search-friendly […]
