Pop music – Page 2 – The News Desk

K-pop group TOMORROW X TOGETHER on their new album, working with Anitta and the Jonas Brothers

13Oct

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

K-pop group TOMORROW X TOGETHER on their new album, working with Anitta and the Jonas Brothers

LOS ANGELES -- In 2019, when the K-pop group TOMORROW X TOGETHER (TXT for short) first debuted, they were best known as the first BigHit Entertainment boy band since BTS. Those days went as quickly as they arrived.The quintet of Yeonjun, Soobin, Taehyun, Huening Kai, and Beomgyu are one of the most influential contemporary K-pop groups, lovingly referred to as “K-pop's voice for Gen Z" for their high-concept, relatable albums and their fearless genre eclecticism. No two records are the same, but the accolades are many. Last year, TXT made their U.S. debut at Lollapalooza, the famed festival in Chicago. This year, they became the first ever K-pop group to headline it, a few months after their album, "The Name Chapter: Temptation,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. On Friday, the TXT s...

Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour is over. But it’s coming to movie theaters soon

2Oct

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour is over. But it’s coming to movie theaters soon

A documentary chronicling Beyoncé‘s just-concluded 39-city Renaissance World Tour will premiere in North American theaters Dec. 1, AMC Theaters announced MondayByJAKE COYLE AP film writerFILE - Beyonce performs at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 4, 2016. Beyoncé shined the brightest in a city full of Hollywood stars during the second night of her epic Renaissance Tour show on Saturday night, Sept 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)The Associated PressNEW YORK -- A documentary chronicling Beyoncé's just-concluded 39-city Renaissance World Tour will premiere in North American theaters Dec. 1, AMC Theaters announced Monday. The film adds a second blockbuster from a music superstar to a fall s...

Ringo Starr on ‘Rewind Forward,’ writing country music, the AI-assisted final Beatles track and more

29Sep

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

Ringo Starr on ‘Rewind Forward,’ writing country music, the AI-assisted final Beatles track and more

LOS ANGELES -- There are rock stars, and then there is Ringo Starr — drummer for the Beatles, award-winning soloist, photographer, narrator, actor, activist. To call him prolific would almost shortchange his accomplishments. But it also feels right.“Rewind Forward,” out October 13, is his fourth extended play release in three years.“I’ve loved EPs since they first came out in the ’60s,” he says of the format. “And then I heard the kids are making EPs and thought, ‘That’s good!’”The title is a classic “Ringoism,” as John Lennon used to refer to his malapropisms, an unusual phrase ripped from the same mind that came up with “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Tomorrow Never Knows.” Assigning profundity to it came later. “I think it means that, you know, you’re sitting still for a while. You rewind an...

AP PHOTOS: MTV Video Music Awards celebrate music’s global power with hip-hop, K-pop and Latin jams

15Sep

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

AP PHOTOS: MTV Video Music Awards celebrate music’s global power with hip-hop, K-pop and Latin jams

ByThe Associated PressSeptember 14, 2023, 5:45 PMLil Nas X poses in the press room at the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)The Associated PressNEWARK, N.J. -- Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards for her “Anti-Hero” music video on a night full of surprises.But as much as Swift dominated, the VMAs centered on music’s global power.Colombian icon Shakira received the Video Vanguard Award and performed an incredible bilingual medley of her decades of hits. She also took home the award for best collaboration for “TQG,” her song with reggaetonera Karol G. The duo gave their acceptance speech entirely in Spanish.Here are some of the best AP images from the 2023 MTV Vi...

Love pop music? Largest US newspaper chain is hiring Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter writers

14Sep

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

Love pop music? Largest US newspaper chain is hiring Taylor Swift and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter writers

LOS ANGELES -- This week the United States’ biggest newspaper chain posted to its site two unusual job listings: a Taylor Swift reporter and a Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter.Gannett, which owns more than 200 daily papers, will employ these new hires through USA Today and The Tennessean, the company's Nashville-based newspaper. The job description for the Swift-focused role announced Tuesday says the company is seeking “an energetic writer, photographer and social media pro who can quench an undeniable thirst for all things Taylor Swift with a steady stream of content across multiple platforms."“Seeing both the facts and the fury, the Taylor Swift reporter will identify why the pop star’s influence only expands, what her fanbase stands for in pop culture, and the effect she has across the...

Why Gen X Dads Can Appreciate Olivia Rodrigo

13Sep

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

Why Gen X Dads Can Appreciate Olivia Rodrigo

Six-year-olds are careless little obsessives. Some flashy thing—these days, they all seem to involve dogs and the police—grabs their attention and, for a very short period of time, nothing else matters. The fever breaks as soon as you finally pull out your wallet and buy the action figure or lunchbox or whatever else they’ve been asking for. The toy gets tossed, and then it’s on to the next law-enforcement animal trend. My daughter has gone through every fixation, including “Octonauts,” “Paw Patrol,” and Pokémon. She has read multiple book series about moody dragons. Still, every obsession has been entirely disposable to her.The only thing that seems to have stuck is the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” She has watched pretty much every incarnation of the Ninja Turtles, starting from the 1...

Lil Nas X documentary premiere delayed by bomb threat at Toronto International Film Festival

10Sep

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

Lil Nas X documentary premiere delayed by bomb threat at Toronto International Film Festival

The premiere of the documentary “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” was delayed after a bomb threat was called in at the Toronto International Film FestivalByThe Associated PressSeptember 10, 2023, 4:02 PMLil Nas X arrives on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of "Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero" at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, in Toronto. (Cole Burston/The Canadian Press via AP)The Associated PressTORONTO -- The premiere of the documentary “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero” was delayed after a bomb threat was called in at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Saturday night premiere of the film at Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall was delayed by about 20 minutes while authorities verified that the threat wasn't credible. Lil Nas X was kept off the red carpet ...

Fall music releases: Pop powerhouses, country classics, hip-hop heavyweights and beyond

7Sep

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

Fall music releases: Pop powerhouses, country classics, hip-hop heavyweights and beyond

LOS ANGELES -- Music fans, it is time to bid adieu to the sunny, slow summer months, and welcome fall — historically, one of the busiest times in the calendar year for new albums, EPs, and mixtapes.Trends have already begun to reveal themselves: Some of the biggest names in pop (and in pop's future) are gearing up for back-to-school releases. A-listers are returning after years. Country legends are taking on new genres. And hip-hop heavyweights are back in full force.Others defy categorization — like a new Pretenders record (“Relentless”), the swoon-worthy “Live for Me” EP from Omar Apollo, and Steve Aoki’s “HiROQUEST: Double Helix" — and even more have yet to be announced. Take a look at what's in store with The Associated Press' 2023 fall music preview — a collection of releases schedul...

The ‘Barbie’ bonanza continues at the box office, ‘Oppenheimer’ holds the No. 2 spot

30Jul

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

The ‘Barbie’ bonanza continues at the box office, ‘Oppenheimer’ holds the No. 2 spot

NEW YORK -- A week later, the “Barbenheimer” boom has not abated.Seven days after Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” conspired to set box office records, the two films held unusually strongly in theaters. “Barbie” took in a massive $93 million in its second weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. “Oppenheimer” stayed in second with a robust $46.2 million. Sales for the two movies dipped 43% and 44%, respectably — well shy of the usual week-two drops. “Barbenheimer” has proven to be not a one-weekend phenomenon but an ongoing box-office bonanza. The two movies combined have already surpassed $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for data firm Comscore, call it “a touchstone moment for movies, moviegoers and movie th...

14Jul

By adminNo Comments

Entertainment

How Far Can Amapiano Go?

It was opening night at the Brooklyn Mirage, a seasonal rooftop night club in East Williamsburg. In the main area, about five thousand people were bobbing and waving along with an English d.j. named Chris Lake, who played a set full of muscular and rubbery dance tracks, rarely straying for too long from the unifying thump of house music. At around two-thirty in the morning, just as the revellers were starting to sweat, a smaller and stranger dance party was getting going in a dark room off to the side. Banele and Bandile Mbere, twin brothers from South Africa, took to a small stage, plugged in their gear, and cued up a track that resembled an alien variant of the music being played outside. The sound was sparse, tense, and slightly menacing, with a bass line that cut in and out of the mix...