Latest news with #IzItaCrime
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Here Are the Performers for the 2025 Grammy Hall of Fame Gala
Susanna Hoffs, Muni Long and more have been added to the lineup for the 2025 Grammy Hall of Fame gala, presented jointly by the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum. The event is set for Friday (May 16) at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. – the site of the first Grammy Awards ceremony in 1959. Performances will pay tribute to the 2025 Grammy Hall of Fame inducted recordings, which were announced on Feb. 13. More from Billboard Recordings by Jay-Z, Santana, Miami Sound Machine and More Inducted Into Grammy Hall of Fame: Full List Andy Bell Confirms His Place in Reunited Oasis Lineup Snoop Dogg Drops 'Iz It a Crime' Album Featuring Sexyy Red, Wiz Khalifa & Pharrell: Stream It Now Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles will perform Cat Stevens' 'Wild World' from the singer-songwriter's 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman. Emmylou Harris, her producer Daniel Lanois, and jazz drummer Brian Blade will perform selections from Harris' 1995 album Wrecking Ball. Leslie Odom Jr. will perform the title track from Luther Vandross' 1981 album, Never Too Much. Ledisi will perform Clara Ward's 1951 song 'How I Got Over.' Latin Grammy nominee Leslie Grace will deliver Miami Sound Machine's 1985 breakthrough hit, 'Conga.' Percussionist Cindy Blackman and guitarist Orianthi, joined by longtime Santana band member Andy Vargas, will perform Santana's 'Smooth' from the band's 1999 album Supernatural; Blackman is married to Carlos Santana. Eddie Floyd and Jody Stephens, drummer of iconic power-pop band Big Star will perform Floyd's 1966 hit 'Knock on Wood.' Stephens is also expected to perform a track from Big Star's 1972 album #1 Record. The other five 2025 Grammy Hall of Fame inducted recordings are: J.D. Crowe & The New South's J.D. Crowe & The New South; Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt; Fela Kuti & Afrika 70's Zombie; Linda Martell's 'Color Him Father';and Geeshie Wiley's 'Last Kind Words Blues.' In addition, John Mellencamp, Conan Gray and Long will perform as part of a tribute to this year's label honoree, Republic Records. Atlantic Records was the initial label honoree at last year's gala, which marked the first time there was a stand-alone event to honor the inducted recordings. Last year's gala was held at the Novo Theatre at L.A. Live. Jon Batiste, the inaugural recipient of the Ray Charles Architect of Sound Award, will also perform. This new annual honor, created in partnership with The Ray Charles Foundation, recognizes an artist whose creative legacy reflects the visionary innovation of Ray Charles. Returning as host is CBS News journalist Anthony Mason. The show will again be produced by Ken Ehrlich, alongside Ron Basile, Lindsay Saunders Carl and Lynne Sheridan. Ehrlich produced or executive produced the annual Grammy Awards telecast for 40 years. Cheche Alara, a Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning composer, producer and conductor, will serve as musical director for the event. This year's additions to the Grammy Hall of Fame meet the main requirements – they exhibit 'qualitative or historical significance' and are at least 25 years old. Eligible artist(s), producer(s), engineer(s), and mixer(s) of these 13 recordings will receive a certificate from the Recording Academy. The Grammy Hall of Fame was established by the Recording Academy's national trustees in 1973. Inducted recordings are selected annually by a member committee drawn from all branches of the recording arts with final ratification by the academy's national board of trustees. Counting these 13 new titles, the Grammy Hall of Fame totals 1,165 inducted recordings. The full list of past inducted recordings can be found here. The Grammy Hall of Fame Gala serves as a fundraiser to support the Grammy Museum's national education programs. It includes a cocktail reception, dinner, and concert program. Tickets are on sale now. Individual tickets are $1,250. For more information, visit this site. An online auction is currently underway, featuring a collection of guitars signed by such artists as Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, Chris Martin, Sabrina Carpenter, and Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars. They are also auctioning off platinum tickets to the 68th Grammy Awards and more. Proceeds will benefit the Grammy Museum's education programs. For more information, visit this site. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Here's Why Lorde Didn't Work With Jack Antonoff on ‘Virgin'
After working with Jack Antonoff on her last two albums, Lorde surprised fans in April when she announced her fourth studio LP, Virgin, and the producer's name was nowhere to be found in the credits. But in a Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (May 15), the New Zealand pop star finally explained why she chose not to work with her longtime collaborator this time around. Calling Antonoff a 'positive, supportive' teammate, she revealed that she simply felt like it was time to make a change. More from Billboard Everything We Know About Lorde's 'Virgin' So Far Andy Bell Confirms His Place in Reunited Oasis Lineup Snoop Dogg Drops 'Iz It a Crime' Album Featuring Sexyy Red, Wiz Khalifa & Pharrell: Stream It Now 'I'm very vibes-based,' she told the publication. 'I just have to trust when my intuition says to keep moving.' For Virgin, Lorde's intuition led her to Jim-E Stack, who executive produced the album alongside the 'Royals' singer. She also worked with producers Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Dev Hynes of Blood Orange on the record. Her partnership with Stack and Hynes will extend to touring when she embarks on her Ultrasound trek in September, with both collaborators serving as opening acts along with The Japanese House, Nilüfer Yanya, Chanel Beads, Empress Of and Oklou. 'Very proud and excited to be bringing my most talented friends in support,' Lorde said when she announced the tour on May 8. 'Come see what's under the skin.' Dropping June 27, Virgin will arrive four years after Lorde's last album, Solar Power. Both the 2021 LP and 2017's Melodrama were produced by Antonoff, with whom the 'Green Light' artist famously had a close friendship. 'When I came to New York, we had only written together maybe a couple of times, and we were very obsessed with each other on a creative level and as buds,' Lorde told Billboard of her dynamic with the Bleachers frontman in 2018. 'I was sort of doing nothing in New York, and we did this thing where for five days in a row, we just kept having dinner every night, just getting to know each other.' 'We still FaceTime almost every day,' she added at the time. 'When you work with someone, you sometimes think, 'Maybe it will just be for this time, and we say we're going to keep in touch but we won't.' But we really … I'm like, 'Hey, dickhead, what are you getting me for Christmas?'' The two stars were so close as friends and collaborators, they often found themselves faced with rumors that their relationship had turned romantic. Both parties, however, denied the speculation on multiple occasions, with Antonoff tweeting in 2018, 'normally i would never address rumors but i resent having the most important friendships and working relationships in my life reduced to dumb hetero normative gossip … im not seeing anyone. lol.' The next month, Lorde told fans on an Instagram Live, 'Jack and I are not dating … I love him. He's awesome, but we're not dating.' See Lorde on the cover of Rolling Stone below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Wolf Alice Returns With Bold New Single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom,' Announces Fourth Album
If anyone has cause to celebrate this week, it's Wolf Alice fans. After waiting four years for a new album from the British rock band, the group announced that its fourth LP, The Clearing, is arriving this summer on Aug. 29. The news lands alongside lead single 'Bloom Baby Bloom,' which vocalist and guitarist Ellie Rowsell has described in a statement as a rejection of 'the 'girl singer in band' trope' that she has been made subject to in the past. 'I wanted a rock song, to focus on the performance element of a rock song and sing like Axl Rose, but to be singing a song about being a woman,' she shared in a press release. 'I've used the guitar as a shield in the past … but I wanted to focus on my voice as a rock instrument so it's been freeing to put the guitar down and reach a point where I don't feel like I need to prove that I'm a musician.' More from Billboard Wolf Alice Is Teasing a Comeback — and It Could Be the Band's Biggest Era Yet Andy Bell Confirms His Place in Reunited Oasis Lineup Snoop Dogg Drops 'Iz It a Crime' Album Featuring Sexyy Red, Wiz Khalifa & Pharrell: Stream It Now The accompanying video for 'Bloom Baby Bloom,' meanwhile, was made in collaboration with director Colin Solal Cardo, renowned for his work with Charli xcx, Robyn and Phoenix. It sees Rowsell perform alongside a troupe of dancers, with choreography from Ryan Heffington, the visionary behind Sia's iconic 'Chandelier' video. The Clearing will be released via Wolf Alice's new label home of Sony Music, whom the band signed with last year after completing a three-album contract with Dirty Hit (The 1975, Beabadoobee). The forthcoming record was written in Seven Sisters, north London, and recorded in Los Angeles with the Grammy-winning producer Greg Kurstin in late 2024. A tracklist for the album is yet to be announced, but the band has shared its artwork, which features Rowsell singing into a vintage microphone while wearing an olive-green leotard and knee-high leather boots. Comprised of Rowsell, guitarist Joff Oddie, bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey, the four-piece will prepare for the arrival of the new LP with a series of U.K. and Irish shows in the coming weeks. The band is scheduled to perform intimate theater gigs in Kilkenny, Cork and Limerick May 19-21, ahead of appearances at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool (May 24) and Glastonbury on June 28. Blue Weekend, the band's last full-length effort, arrived in 2021 and topped the Official U.K. Albums Chart before leading the group to its first-ever BRIT award the following year. It was also nominated for the Mercury Prize, which Wolf Alice won for 2017's Visions of a Life. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lorde Says She Discussed Gender Identity With Chappell Roan: ‘I'm a Woman Except for Days When I'm a Man'
In the lead-up to her new album Virgin, Lorde has started to slowly open up about her broadening gender identity with the world. But before she was ready to do that, she confided in one of her new friends: Chappell Roan. In a Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (May 15), the New Zealand native revealed that she and the 'Pink Pony Club' singer have gotten quite close over the past year, and that one of the things they've discussed is Lorde's changing relationship with gender. When asked how she identifies now, the 'Royals' artist told the publication, '[Chappell Roan] asked me this … She was like, 'So, are you nonbinary now?'' More from Billboard Everything We Know About Lorde's 'Virgin' So Far Andy Bell Confirms His Place in Reunited Oasis Lineup Snoop Dogg Drops 'Iz It a Crime' Album Featuring Sexyy Red, Wiz Khalifa & Pharrell: Stream It Now 'I was like, 'I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man,'' Lorde continued. 'I know that's not a very satisfying answer, but there's a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.' The musician also explained that she still identifies as a cisgender woman who uses 'she' and 'her' pronouns. But the complexities of her newfound gender fluidity informed much of the June-slated Virgin, the opening track of which Rolling Stone reveals finds her declaring, 'Some days I'm a woman/ Some days I'm a man.' Even so, Lorde added that she doesn't think her gender expression is 'radical' compared to what most transgender and nonbinary people face on a daily basis. In the United States in particular, the rights of LGBTQ people have been under constant threat for years, something Roan — a longtime advocate for the community and a queer-identifying artist herself — has spoken out about many times. 'I see these incredibly brave young people, and it's complicated,' Lorde said. 'Making the expression privately is one thing, but I want to make very clear that I'm not trying to take any space from anyone who has more on the line than me. Because I'm, comparatively, in a very safe place as a wealthy, cis, white woman.' The star's embrasure of her new gender expression is one of several personal transformations that has occurred since she last dropped an album, 2021's Solar Power, four years ago. In addition to breaking up with Universal Music executive Justin Warren after about eight years together — 'It was so painful, as they are, but there was real dignity to it,' she told the publication of the split — Lorde also recovered from an eating disorder, something she's also been increasingly open about in the weeks ahead of Virgin's June 27 release. 'I felt so hungry and so weak,' she recalled of being obsessed with calories and protein intakes around the time Solar Power came out, specifically the day it dropped. 'I was on TV [that] morning, and I didn't eat because I wanted my tummy to be small in the dress. It was just this sucking of a life force or something.' See Lorde on the cover of Rolling Stone below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lorde Watched Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee's Sex Tape After a Psychedelic Trip: ‘I Found It to Be So Beautiful'
Wait, what was that? Lorde made an interesting revelation in her Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (May 15), revealing that she once watched Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's famous sex tape after taking psychedelics. In the wide-reaching interview, the New Zealand singer-songwriter opened up about everything from struggling with an eating disorder to dealing with a breakup after a yearslong relationship. One of the ways she ultimately healed after those struggles was through therapeutic psychedelic trips, as referenced in her April single 'What Was That,' on which she sings, 'MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up.' More from Billboard Lorde Says She Discussed Gender Identity With Chappell Roan: 'I'm a Woman Except for Days When I'm a Man' Andy Bell Confirms His Place in Reunited Oasis Lineup Snoop Dogg Drops 'Iz It a Crime' Album Featuring Sexyy Red, Wiz Khalifa & Pharrell: Stream It Now After her second time taking the drugs for that purpose, Lorde recalled searching for the actress and the Mötley Crüe drummer's adult film without really knowing why. But what she saw stuck with her. 'I found it to be so beautiful,' the musician told the publication. 'And maybe it's f–ked up that I watched it, but I saw two people that were so in love with each other, and there was this purity. They were jumping off this big boat … They were like children.' The tape Lorde was referring to was filmed in 1995 on Anderson and Lee's honeymoon, which they celebrated in Mexico after getting married just 96 hours into knowing each other. The intimate footage was later stolen and sold, embroiling the couple — who divorced in 1998 — in scandal. Noting that she watched the entire tape, Lorde said of the exes, 'They were so free.' 'And I just was like, 'Whoa. Being this free comes with danger,'' she added. The interview comes more than a month ahead of Lorde's new album Virgin, which drops June 27. So far, the only taste fans have gotten of the LP has been 'What Was That,' although the musician opened up more about the record — which she describes as visceral and rooted in bodily imagery — in her Rolling Stone interview. 'I think coming more into my body, I came into an understanding of the grotesque nature of it and the glory and all these things,' she explained. '[The album's] right on the edge of gross. I often really tried to hit this kind of gnarliness or grossness. 'You tasted my underwear.' I've never heard that in a song, you know? It felt like the right way to tell this whole chapter.' See Lorde on the cover of Rolling Stone below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
