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2023 Billboard Music Awards Teams With Spotify for Reimagined Awards Show
The 2023 Billboard Music Awards (BBMAs), set for Sunday, Nov. 19, will include a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Spotify ‘Fans First’ to bring fans up-close-and-personal with their favorite artists. The BBMAs will roll out performances and awards across BBMAs and Billboard social channels, as well as via BBMAs.watch, on that date. Performances and award celebrations will…
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Savannah Music Festival and SMF Jazz Academy host a Community Family Jam in Daffin Park
Savannah Music Festival is inviting everybody to grab their guitars, banjoes, trumpets, violins, bongos, maracas, washboards — whatever instrument you play — for an epic jam session in Daffin Park, 1 Waring Drive. The Savannah Music Festival Community Family Jam is hosted by SMF Jazz Academy, which is a part of Savannah Music Festival’s educational…
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‘When I play drums, I feel proud’: How music inspires hope in Haiti
Woodberson Seïde held his stepsister’s hand as they walked through Haiti’s capital on their way to an afterschool music program. They avoided cars, motorcycles, and territory controlled by the gangs whose predation prompted the United Nations Security Council vote for the deployment of a multinational armed force. Once he arrived at the school that hosts…
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Marc Hershberg Joins Music Theatre International as Director of Business and Legal Affairs
Industry News Marc Hershberg Joins Music Theatre International as Director of Business and Legal Affairs The entertainment attorney comes to the theatrical licensor after representing the estates of August Wilson and Tennessee Williams. Marc Hershberg Marc Hershberg has joined theatrical licensor Music Theatre International as Director of Business and Legal Affairs. Hershberg joins the company…
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Can Japanese Girl Group XG Make ‘X-Pop’ the Next K-Pop?
Earlier this year — on a warm day in May, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month — a septet of young women fought nerves backstage at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. Just over a year after its official debut, the group XG was in town for Head in the Clouds, a music festival celebrating…
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John Mulaney on the Music That Made Him
After more than 20 years of near-nonstop work en route to becoming a defining comedian of his generation, John Mulaney is coming off a rare period of calm. The writers’ strike gave him time to do some fishing, watch period-drama sex scenes with his girlfriend Olivia Munn’s mom, and assess the impact Cocomelon is having…
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Augustana University School of Music Partners With Promising Futures Fund for 2023 Middle School Choral Festival
Presented by the Promising Futures Fund, Augustana University is excited to announce that its School of Music (SoM) will host the Middle School Choral Festival at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 23, in the Mary W. Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion. The Ben Reifel, George McGovern and Whittier Middle Schools choirs will join Augustana…
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New footage depicts start of Hamas assault on music festival near Gaza
New footage shows Hamas terrorists opening fire at the Nova festival near the southern community of Re’im, during the October 7 attacks. The video, published by the South First Responders group on Telegram, shows dozens of Hamas terrorists opening fire toward the fleeing partygoers. At least 260 people were killed in the attack on the…
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Universal Music sues AI startup for copyright infrincement over song lyrics
Universal Music sued AI startup Anthropic over “systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics,” per a filing Wednesday in a Tennessee federal court. One example from the lawsuit: When a user asks Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude about the lyrics to the song “Roar” by Katy Perry, it generates an “almost identical copy of…
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‘I Feel at Home in Filth’
Photo: Hugo Yu. Grooming: Jennifer Brent 2023 is certainly not wanting for gay films, but from the competent schlock (Red White and Royal Blue) to the ghostly prestige (All of Us Strangers) to the cowboy yearning (Strange Way of Life), they all have that faint stench of polish on them — more Ang Lee than…