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The Playing For Change video features Cindy Blackman Santana, Becky G, Tito Puente, Jr., Rubén Rada, and more than 20 others

The Playing For Change video features Cindy Blackman Santana, Becky G, Tito Puente, Jr., Rubén Rada, and more than 20 others

Umi's 'Forest in the City' reflects the R&B artist at its center and her struggle for balance — city and green landscapes, forgiveness and healing within herself, and manifesting a singular and strong debut statements.

Kenny Loggins may forever be associated with his era-defining contributions to the soundtracks for such ’80s classics as Caddyshack, Footloose and Top Gun, but they are just a few of the countless milestones in his eventful, 50-plus-year career in music. Already a folk-rock superstar by his early […]

Offering features three songs chosen by Army, "Fake Love,” “Life Goes On,” and “Blood Sweat and Tears"

Offering features three songs chosen by Army, "Fake Love,” “Life Goes On,” and “Blood Sweat and Tears"

Their latest is a beautifully rootsy album with a broken sense of patriotic concern

When it was revealed earlier this month that “Sex Education” star Ncuti Gatwa would be taking on the role of the new Doctor Who, the whole world was taken by surprise – including Gatwa’s “Barbie” castmates. Simu Liu, who is co-starring alongside Gatwa and Margot Robbie in the upcoming […]

India’s Kamal Haasan is a true multi-hyphenate. Beginning as a child actor in 1960, he is one of the country’s most consummate actors with films like “Pathinaru Vayathinile” (1977) “Moondram Pirai” (1982) “Nayakan” (1987), “Thevar Magan” (1992) and “Vishwaroopam” (2013) […]

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to “King’s Land,” a period epic movie reuniting “A Royal Affair” helmer Nikolaj Arcel with Mads Mikkelsen. Sold by TrustNordisk, the film is produced by Danish production powerhouse Zentropa. Arcel penned the script with Anders Thomas Jensen who […]

"I listen to music when I’m going through a hard time, or don’t want to think about anything — I hope our music can have the same effect on many others"

Indian activist filmmaker Pa. Ranjith has revealed an extensive production slate featuring top stars and socially relevant themes. Ranjith was at the Cannes Film Market, where he revealed “Vettuvam”, a linked film and TV series, a co-production between his and Aditi Anand’s Neelam Studios and […]

Saudi Arabia’s rapidly expanding Telfaz11 Studios is teaming up with France’s Easy Riders Films to develop and produce a slate of four features directed by emerging Saudi talents with international ambitions. The first title expected to go into production is “Night Courier,” a comedy about […]

The 2022 cast of “Love Island” will be given extended duty of care protocols and offered inclusion training, ITV and Lifted Entertainment confirmed today. The eighth season of ‘Love Island’ is set to air this summer (pictured above: season 7 contestants). The inclusion training, which will […]

Artist and Hong Kong-based experimental filmmaker Scud is to retire from filmmaking leave the city after completing his two final features. These have been licensed for North American distribution by Breaking Glass Pictures. A license deal for rights to “Apostles” and “Bodyshop” was struck […]

“Plan 75,” Hayakawa Chie’s Japanese dystopian drama which world premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, has been sold in a raft of territories by Urban Sales. The movie is set in Japan, in a near future where a government program called Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily […]

Kore-eda Hirokazu, director of the well-received Cannes competition film “Broker” says his diverse and lonely characters constitute a family of choice. “This film tells the story of a family which came together by choice. Each character had been rejected. They set off on a car journey, as if […]

It was Paul Gauguin, France’s most celebrated Polynesian tourist, who once wrote of “learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.” It’s a void, he wrote, in which other senses and sensory awarenesses are heightened, amplifying his sense of loneliness and separation from others: “The […]

You know when you do something great. Conventional wisdom is no one knows anything in Hollywood. Only hacks believe that. Certainly when it comes to music, some songs are UNDENIABLE! My favorite story here involves Al Kooper. He was being inducted into the Guitar Center RockWalk and we’re sitting […]

New collaborative track with Metro the Savage follows the singer's English singles, "Please Don't Suck" and "Thought About That"