Prolific French composer Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars and five Grammys during a career spanning more than half a century, died aged 86 on Saturday, prompting an outpouring of tributes for his “inexhaustible genius”. Legrand’s music spanned a wide range of styles and genres. He composed for more than 200 film and TV productions…
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“Hulu PAID BILLY!!!
In the past week, two documentaries about the ill-fated Fyre Festival were released. Hulu released FYRE FRAUD days before Netflix’s FYRE. Both documentaries chronicled the creation and downfall of Fyre, and specifically, at the actions of co-founders Billy McFarland and Ja Rule. Today, Ja Rule tweeted his responses to the new documentaries. “I love how ppl watch a doc…
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. — A Life of Discord to a Career of Discontent
This past September a new documentary was released in select cities about Maya Arulpragasm, better known as M.I.A. (Its title, Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., also refers to her birth name, Mathangi.) Towards the end of this remarkable documentary, M.I.A. states, “I need to keep the immigrant story in all my work, always, because that is what I’m trying…
Woodstock Returns Again on the Festival’s 50th Anniversary
When the first Woodstock music festival was held in 1969, bringing around 400,000 people to a muddy field in Bethel, N.Y., it focused the world’s attention on pop music’s power to shape the culture. Half a century later, in a music market already jammed with big-ticket festivals, could another Woodstock muster the same impact?…
The Music That Changed America
On 12 January 1959, the music sensation that changed America – and the world beyond it – was set in motion. Detroit-born 29-year-old Berry Gordy founded Tamla Records with an $800 loan from his family’s collective savings. By the following year, he’d merge this into the Motown Record Corporation: an independent empire that would…
Lana Del Rey Writing More Candidly Than Ever…
Lana Del Rey Patrick Hoelck. Photo: Getty Images It is easy to project onto Lana Del Rey. She is not exactly forthcoming, but she’s not a complete cipher either. Most of us can empathize, or directly relate to her in some capacity. We know what her politics are. We know how she feels about Azealia Banks. Through her music,…
Death, drugs, destruction: Troubled year of SOUNDCLOUD rap…
From the murder of XXXTentacion to the arrest of 6ix9ine, 2018 has seen ‘SoundCloud rap’ embroiled in more controversy than ever. Is a moral outcry now justified? he past 12 months have generally been good ones for hip-hop. It has reasserted a commercial dominance first noted in 2017, when Nielsen Soundscan figures from the US…
Nancy Wilson, Grammy winning jazz singer, dies at 81
Nancy Wilson, the Grammy-winning “song stylist” and torch singer whose polished pop-jazz vocals made her a platinum artist and top concert performer, has died. Wilson, who retired from touring in 2011, died after a long illness at her home in Pioneertown, a California desert community near Joshua Tree National Park, her manager, and publicist Devra…
Lindsey Buckingham settles suit with Fleetwood Mac
Even in a group notorious for turmoil, it came as a shock when earlier this year Fleetwood Mac fired Lindsey Buckingham, a key member of what many consider the band’s classic lineup. Buckingham sued, and in his first television interview since being ousted, he revealed that he and the band have settled that lawsuit. “I’m happy enough with…
Remembering John Lennon 38 years after his death
John Lennon Biography Singer, Songwriter (1940–1980) Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other before, or since. Famed singer-songwriter John Lennon founded the Beatles, a band that impacted the popular music scene like no other before, or since. Who Was John Lennon? John Lennon was born on…
