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Exclusive: Paul Hudson’s Los Angeles-based Outsider Pictures is talking to buyers in Cannes about the documentary Copeland, a Spanish production about Stewart Copeland, the composer and former drummer with The Police.

Pablo Aragüés directs the Redwood Films production, which will get a sneak preview at Huesca International Film in Spain in June.

The film opens on Copeland performing in a festival in Italy, where he recalls his life and career, from his childhood in Beirut where he was raised by his CIA agent father and archaeologist mother, before he moved to London during the 1970s punk explosion and formed...

On Monday March 10 2025, Axs TV broadcasts Hell’s Kitchen!

11 Chefs Compete Season 13 Episode 9 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Hell’s Kitchen,” titled “11 Chefs Compete,” promises to be filled with excitement and high stakes. As the competition continues, the remaining chefs will face a unique challenge that involves rolling the dice to determine their ingredients. This twist adds an element of surprise and forces the cooks to think on their feet, making it a test of both creativity and skill.

In this episode, the pressure intensifies when one contestant has to leave due to an injury. This unexpected turn of events could change the dynamics of the team and impact their chances in the competition. The remaining chefs will need to rally together and adapt quickly to keep their hopes alive in the kitchen.

The episode also features a special treat for the contestants as they prepare to serve music legends.

Brian James, the pioneering punk guitarist who co-founded the Damned, died Thursday, March 6, at the age of 70.

James’ death was confirmed with a statement on his Facebook page. While no cause of death was given, the statement said James “passed peacefully on” with his wife, son, and daughter-in-law by his side.

On X, James’ former Damned bandmate Captain Sensible (Raymond Burns) wrote, “We’re shocked to hear that creator of @thedamned, our great chum Brian James has sadly gone. A lovely bloke that I feel so lucky to have met...

Brian James, founding guitarist and principal early songwriter for the legendary UK punk band The Damned, has died at the age of 70.

James’ passing was reported on his Facebook page, with no cause of death listed. The guitarist, who was born in London in 1955, had just turned 70 on February 18th.

Prior to The Damned, James played in the proto-punk bands London SS, The Subterraneans, and Bastard. He formed The Damned in 1976 with singer Dave Vanian, bassist Captain Sensible, and drummer Rat Scabies.

James wrote most of the songs on the band’s first two albums — Damned Damned Damned and Music for Pleasure — including “New Rose,” which is considered the first-ever UK punk single (preceding any releases by The Clash or Sex Pistols). However, he quit the band at the end of 1977, the same year both of those albums were released.

He went on to form the band Tanz Der Youth...

The excitement is building for the next episode of “Hell’s Kitchen,” as Season 13 Episode 9, titled “11 Chefs Compete,” is set to air on Monday, March 10, 2025, at 10:00 Am on Axs TV. In this episode, the remaining contestants will face a unique challenge that involves rolling the dice to determine the ingredients they will use. This twist adds an element of surprise and strategy, pushing the chefs to think creatively and adapt quickly to whatever ingredients they are given.

As the competition heats up, tension is expected to rise in the kitchen. Unfortunately, one contestant will have to leave the competition due to an injury, which could shake up the dynamics of the remaining teams. This unexpected turn of events may create new opportunities for the chefs still in the running, as they strive to impress Chef Gordon Ramsay and avoid elimination.

The stakes are high as the cooks prepare to...

Distilling the musical legacy of the Grateful Dead into one night is no small feat, and into three hours is an even taller order. But Don Was — longtime president of Blue Note Records, respected multi-instrumentalist and musical director for the Jan. 31 MusiCares Persons of the Year event — was up to the task, curating an inspired lineup of devotees, including Billy Strings, The War on Drugs, Norah Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Maren Morris, Noah Kahan and Wynonna Judd, and longtime collaborators like John Mayer, Bruce Hornsby and Was himself, who’s a touring member of Bob Weir’s Wolf Bros playing his signature upright bass.

As Was tells it, the set list came together organically, with the artists choosing which songs to play in concert with show producer Rac Clark and MusiCares’ Laura Segura. The end result ran the gamut from the popular (“Truckin’,” performed by Yoakam) to the ambitious (“Terrapin Station...

A hollow, lifeless conference hall at the Los Angeles Convention Center is just about the last place you would expect to find a Grateful Dead tribute concert on a Friday night. But it was there that MusiCares put on a show for the ages, honoring the band at its Persons of the Year gala with founding members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart in attendance (drummer Bill Kreutzmann could not make the trip and delivered a message by video) and a slew of acolytes who understood the assignment.

Typically, the MusiCares dinner is a polite affair, with guests seated respectfully for most of the performances, save the all-star finale, a staple of the event. And that’s not to say that previous Person of the Year recipients — which include Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney and Barbra Streisand — didn’t have their own rabid fanbases in attendance. But the Deadheads just do things differently.

What has rainbow grilled cheese platters, giant dancing bear cutouts, and Woody Harrelson wearing a tie dye tie? The MusiCares’ annual Persons of the Year Charity Gala, where the Grateful Dead are the 2025 honorees (with some “Friend of the Devil” food cake to celebrate.)

“It’s an incredible honor and I’m humbled to stand here tonight,” drummer Mickey Hart told the audience, standing on the Los Angeles Convention Center stage on Friday night. “Because not too long ago, they wouldn’t let us into Disneyland. Our hair was too long.

Dave Matthews will no longer perform at this week’s FireAid benefit concert and MusiCares‘ 2025 Persons of the Year benefit gala. In a statement, the band revealed Matthews is dealing with “a critical illness in the family,” leaving him unable to attend either event.

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Matthews was scheduled to perform with John Mayer for the first time at the FireAid concert on Thursday, Jan. 30 at the Kia Forum. The remaining lineup includes Alanis Morissette, Anderson .Paak, Dawes, Graham Nash,...

The Grateful Dead will be honoured as MusiCares Persons of the Year 2025, and will be celebrated at a special gala on January 31.

Hosted by Andy Cohen, the event will benefit music professionals in need, including those affected by the greater LA wildfires, and feature performances from artists including Maren Morris, Billy Strings and a special appearance from Dead & Company.

The 2025 MusiCares Persons Of The Year Charity Gala will help raise vital funds to support music professionals in need, including those impacted by the Los Angeles wildfires. Donate to MusiCares’ Greater Los Angeles Fire Relief Effort to make a difference.

With all that the Grateful Dead have given to the music community and beyond, their influence is immeasurable. And on Jan. 31, they’ll be honored in star-studded fashion.

Grammy Award-winning artists Zac Brown, Stewart Copeland, Mick Fleetwood, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Hornsby, Norah Jones, Wynonna Judd, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Maren Morris,...

This year’s Grammy week will be looking a little different, as the show will take place shortly after Los Angeles was devastated by wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena. Music’s biggest night will mark the first awards show to take place in L.A. since the tragedy began on Jan. 7, and many of the typical Grammy events have been canceled as the usual players — including Spotify and the major labels — redirect resources to aid wildfire relief efforts.

However, a handful of events will carry on with a charitable component, including the starry Clive Davis party and MusiCares tribute concert. Check out this year’s still-on Grammys celebrations below.

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Rampd (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities) will present DisCo House, which aims to amplify disability inclusion in the music industry in partnership with the Recording Academy’s Raa+D Network,...

Grateful Dead will be honored as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year with an all-star tribute concert during Grammys week, featuring performances from Dead & Company (which includes Grateful Dead co-founders Bob Weir and Mickey Hart), John Mayer, Vampire Weekend, Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, The War on Drugs, and Bruce Hornsby (via The Hollywood Reporter).

Set to take place on Friday, January 31st at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the concert will also feature Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Norah Jones, Maren Morris, Noah Kahan, Sierra Farrell and Lukas Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Sammy Hagar, and The War and Treaty. Noted Grateful Dead super fan Andy Cohen will Mc the event.

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The MusicCares Persons of the Year award recognizes the band’s contributions to music as well as their philanthropic efforts and activism. This year’s event will double as a fundraiser for Los Angeles wildfire relief.

MusiCares’ 2025 Persons of the Year benefit gala, in honor of the Grateful Dead, will feature an A-list group of performers. Noah Kahan, John Mayer, Vampire Weekend, and Maren Morris are all on the lineup, along with Dead & Company, Rolling Stone has learned. The event is slated for Jan. 31.

It will also feature Zac Brown, Sierra Ferrell, Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Dave Matthews, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Hornsby, Norah Jones, Dave Matthews, My Morning Jacket, Billy Strings, the War on Drugs, the War and Treaty, Wynonna Judd, and Dwight Yoakam, Rs can confirm,...

The MusiCares Persons of the Year benefit gala, one of several official pre-Grammy Awards functions scheduled to take place in Los Angeles ahead of the Feb. 2 show, will go on with its tribute to the Grateful Dead on Jan. 31 and some big names are attached, sources reveal.

The Hollywood Reporter has been tipped to the slated performers on the lineup. They include: Dead & Company, John Mayer, Mick Fleetwood with Stewart Copeland, Norah Jones, Maren Morris, Noah Kahan, Vampire Weekend, Sierra Ferrell and Lukas Nelson, Dwight Yoakam, Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, the War and Treaty, Sammy Hagar, Zac Brown and the War on Drugs. Previous Grateful Dead collaborator Bruce Hornsby is also expected and friend of the band, and Bravo TV host, Andy Cohen — himself a longtime Deadhead who has hosted Weir on Watch What Happens — will Mc the evening.

An official announcement, released on Jan. 21, also includes Dave Matthews,...

It’s hard to imagine that anyone hasn’t heard Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” by now, but count Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy among the few humans who’ve somehow avoided the ubiquitous song since its release a decade ago.

As part of Drumeo’s latest “For the First Time” segment, the legendary prog-metal drummer was tasked with playing along to the sugary pop hit as he listened to the song for the first time, making for some highly entertaining content.

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In previous editions of the Drumeo series, we’ve seen Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith taking on Thirty Seconds to Mars’ “The Kill,” The Police’s Stewart Copeland trying his hand at Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin’,” and Portnoy himself figuring out Tool’s “Pneuma.”

In the new clip, Portnoy (who landed at No. 19 on our list of the 100 Best Drummers of...

Stewart Copeland, legendary drummer of The Police, was tasked with playing along to Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” while hearing it for the first time as part of Drumeo’s popular YouTube series.

Drumeo’s first “For the First Time” episode of 2025 follows acclaimed editions featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith taking on Thirty Seconds to Mars’ “The Kill” in 2023, and Dream Theater’s Mike Portnoy figuring out Tool’s “Pneuma” last year, among others. The Smith episode has garnered 20 million views itself.

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Copeland, who landed in the Top 10 of Consequence’s 100 Best Drummers of All Time list, was asked by Drumeo host Brandon Toews if he had seen the “For the First Time” series at all, replying, “I saw Chad. How can you not love Chad?”

Toews then started playing “Rollin'” without its drum track for Copeland, who immediately began to play along.

Tool’s Danny Carey is now an active YouTuber, having recently launched his own official channel. For Tool fans, the highlight among his initial videos is a clip of the renowned drummer warming up before one of the band’s gigs this past May.

Filmed from pseudo point-of-view directly above Carey and pointed down, we get a perspective of just how insane his drum kit is, surrounding and encompassing the drummer in a cockpit of shells and cymbals.

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The clip also highlights the fact that Carey uses every single one of those many pieces, his limbs flying across the kit as muscle memory takes over. The comparison could be made to an athlete warming up before a sporting event, and playing drums for Tool is certainly physically and athletically demanding, as Carey proves here. There’s a reason why he ranked highly on our recent list...

Francis Ford Coppola has revealed the movie he is most proud of. The answer may surprise some.

In a Q&a session on X (formerly Twitter) today, the legendary filmmaker was asked by one fan: “Out of all the films that you’ve made, which one would you say you are the most proud of having made, or which one do you feel best captures your ideas of film as an art form?”

Few living filmmakers have a catalogue to rival Coppola: The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now and The Conversation, to name a few of his most acclaimed.

But those weren’t his choice today. The filmmaker was torn, but replied: “That’s like asking someone with 7 kids, who’s the best? I love them all, but if scratched deeper I might say Rumblefish”.

Interesting choice for sure. 1983 drama Rumble Fish is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by S.E. Hinton,...

Sting has officially brought his new trio to the United States, kicking off the North American leg of his “Sting 3.0” tour on Tuesday at The Fillmore in Detroit.

Joined by guitarist and longtime collaborator Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas, the former Police frontman delivered a set nearly split down the middle between Sting tunes and Police favorites. The trio opened with “Message in a Bottle” and went on to perform classics like “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” and “Roxanne,” as well as his recently released solo single “I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart).”

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The accomplished bassist and songwriter will continue the “Sting 3.0” tour with a string of multi-night stints, starting with his second concert in Detroit tonight. He’ll then head to Toronto for three nights, followed by runs in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and more before wrapping up in Los Angeles.

In 1983, sometime between the M*A*S*H finale, the shock of seeing Darth Vader’s face, and the Cabbage Patch Riots, the Police issued the year’s music blockbuster. The trio’s fifth and final album, Synchronicity, was almost immediately the best-selling LP released that year.

The record, now octuple platinum, was a cultural force: The New York Times likened it to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for pairing highbrow conceptualism (can you explain psychiatrist Carl Jung’s 1960 theory of “synchronicity”?) with tunes you could hum (who cares!

The Police have announced a sprawling box set massively expanding their fifth and final studio album, 1983’s Synchronicity. Out on July 24th, the belated 40th anniversary celebration features dozens of previously unreleased tracks.

The super deluxe CD box set includes 55 newly unearthed alternate takes, outtakes, demos, and a live recording of The Police’s concert in Oakland, California on September 10th, 1983. Assembled over three years with the help of Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland, the package also includes new liner notes and interviews, archive memorabilia and photos, and other previously unseen material.

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Other slightly less comprehensive editions of the box set include a 4xLP deluxe and 2xCD release. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Originally released on June 17th, 1983, Synchronicity spent 17 weeks atop the Billboard 200. The lead single, “Every Breath You Take,” topped the Hot 100 for eight weeks. In 2022, Consequence ranked it as one of the 100 greatest albums of all time.

Spyro Reignited Trilogy could be coming to Xbox Game Pass soon, based on its new PC Microsoft Store listing. The acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft made the inclusion of the Spyro series in the Xbox Game Pass subscription seem inevitable. Fans are excited about the potential arrival of other popular Activision-owned franchises like Call of Duty and Crash Bandicoot on Xbox Game Pass soon.

A fan-favorite PlayStation 1 franchise, Spyro the Dragon, may be coming to Xbox Game Pass soon, according to recent speculation. Insomniac Games' original trilogy of Spyro titles was hugely popular upon its release between 1998 and 2000, with the titles being exclusive to the original PlayStation console. These titles underwent the remake treatment, developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision, and were released across all platforms in 2018 as the Spyro Reignited Trilogy bundle.

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Despite what you may have heard, ska music is no joke. It’s a vital, multifaceted genre with a global impact and thriving community. The Consequence Podcast Network is proud to stake our two-toned flag on that belief by welcoming the latest addition to our roster, In Defense of Ska. Check out the trailer above, and follow the series wherever you get your podcasts.

Hosted by renowned music journalist and author Aaron Carnes and veteran ska musician Adam Davis, In Defense of Ska is based on Carnes’ best-selling, soon-to-be-expanded book of the same name.

The weekly series dives deep into ska music’s rich history and unique culture to challenge mainstream misperceptions and celebrate the genre’s enduring legacy. Featuring insightful conversations with ska legends, emerging artists, comedians, and other culture figures who share Carnes and Davis’ deep appreciation for ska,...

There are several ways to soundtrack a journey back from hell. On a Wednesday afternoon in late November, Jorge Pabón lifts himself out of his wheelchair, props himself up, and scrolls through his iTunes until the right song hits him. “Órale!” he exclaims, as the chugging guitar riffs of “Disposable Heroes,” Metallica’s adrenaline-pumping war epic, fill his own personal purgatory: the unassuming physical therapy gym inside New Franklin Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Queens, New York. He clasps his hands on the arm bike and propels bicycle pedals with his hands.

After multiple Oscars, Silver Bears, Golden Globes, Grammys and a Tony, Denzel Washington has earned the right to be called one of the greatest actors of our time. He could drop the surname and still be instantly recognisable – two syllables that guarantee acting excellence.

Key to his success is his ability to mesmerise an audience into seeing past his instantly recognisable face and observing only the character. It’s arguably the central tenet to any actor’s success, yet it is with unusual success and consistency that Denzel Washington has been able to shift from character to character seemingly with ease. This is an actor who rarely repeats himself.

The need for variety and the consistency of execution makes his sole franchise role all the more intriguing. Today sees the digital premiere for the third entry in The Equalizer series, with his Training Day director Antoine Fuqua ending the trilogy...

Stewart Copeland, founding drummer of The Police, will document his band’s humble beginnings in his upcoming book Police Diaries.

Out October 26th, Police Diaries is billed as “the band’s truest account of their early days.” It compiles scans of original diary entries written during The Police’s “starving years” between 1976 and 1979, supplemented with new commentary to give those candid accounts some context. It’s all fleshed out with a series of photos, including some never-before-published.

Police Diaries is available to pre-order now in three different editions: Standard, which includes just the book; Signature, which includes a signed copy and a bonus demo CD; and Ultimate, which features a vintage-bound hardback, a Giclée print, and more. In Stewart’s own words: “It’s a big, noisy book about one heckuva ride.”

Copeland also recently hopped on Consequence’s The Story Behind the Song podcast to discuss The Police’s hit “Roxanne.

The Los Angeles Armenian American community is ramping up its public concerns over an international regional conflict between ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijan.

Last week, a protest blocked the southbound 101 in downtown Los Angeles after Azerbaijan resumed military attacks on an enclave where roughly 120,000 ethnic Armenians live. Thousands have fled their homes, according to Human Rights Watch, which added that most cannot flee because Azerbaijan had sealed the border.

The enclave in dispute is known as Nagorno Karabakh. Azerbaijan has laid claim to the land, which is at the heart of the dispute.

The recent escalation has raised concerns from several prominent Armenian voices from the entertainment community.

For Grammy Award winning Serj Tankian and Cher, and TV star Kim Kardashian, a crisis in a little-known region is not just a humanitarian disaster in a faraway land.

Using their star power, the three are elevating the plight of the vulnerable population...

Since its very first entry, the Spyro series has cemented itself in the gaming world as one of the hallmark examples of what a platformer should be. Originally created by Insomnia Games, the first three games in the franchise were given new life through developer Toys for Bob, which released The Spyro Reignited Trilogy. This month, Spyro is celebrating its 25th anniversary, with a myriad of celebrations planned both by Toys for Bob and fans themselves.

The critically-acclaimed Reignited Trilogy helped to introduce a whole new generation of players to the purple dragon with the added benefit of improved graphics and new mechanics. Composed by Stewart Copeland - former drummer for The Police - the soundtrack of Spyro has also become famous in its own right. Copeland made dozens of tracks for the series' many environments over the course of several years, crafting music that's still appreciated today.

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LL Cool J, Gretchen Rhodes, Mick Fleetwood and Lukas Nelson are among several artists performing in the #MauiStrong livestream event benefiting those impacted by the Maui wildfires.

The event, hosted by Kcrw’s Elvis Mitchell and Jimmy Jam, will be streamed live Sept. 8 at 5 p.m. Pt/8 p.m. Et on Ziggy Marley’s YouTube channel. Other celebrities participating include Marley, Benny Uyetake, Fred Armisen, Gretchen Rhodes, Kai Lenny, Matthew Pinfield, Nathaniel Rateliff, Ryan Bingham, Sarah McLachlan, Skunk Baxter, Slim Jim Phantom, Stewart Copeland and Uncle George Kahumoku Jr.

All funds raised will support the Maui Strong Fund, which provides recovery aid for people and areas devastated by the Maui wildfires, and MusiCares, an organization that supports the music community through preventive, emergency, and recovery programs.

According to the event’s press release, “The livestream will cast a spotlight on stories of local heroism and the rich history and challenges...

Francis Ford Coppola, the legendary director of The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now, and The Conversation, has recently revealed his favorite film among his own works. In an interview with The Guardian, Coppola said that he considers Rumble Fish, a 1983 film based on the novel by S.E. Hinton, to be his “best film” .

Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film that stars Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, and Dennis Hopper. It tells the story of Rusty James (Dillon), a young gang leader who idolizes his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy (Rourke), a former gang leader who has returned from California. The film explores the themes of youth, alienation, violence, and brotherhood, as Rusty James tries to live up to his brother’s reputation and cope with his own identity crisis.

Rumble Fish

Coppola said that he wanted to make a film that was “like an art film for teenagers” . He...

Bargain, Carthago, Curduroy’ among big winners.

Norwegian political satire Power Play was named best series as the sixth annual Canneseries (April 14-19) came to a close on the Riveria.

The series from Norway’s Nrk was the last of the 10-strong competition titles to screen at the six-day event, but triumphed with the festival’s top prize in addition to the award for best music that jury member and The Police drummer Stewart Copeland called “downright revolutionary”.

Power Play is based on the true story of the bid to become prime minster by pro-abortion ecologist politician Gro Harlem Brundtland in the 1970’s and 1980’s.

Norwegian political satire “Power Play” proved unbeatable at Canneseries, just like its headstrong protagonist, picking up awards for best series and music.

The show, focusing on Norway’s first female Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, and starting out in the 1970s, turned out to be a timely proposition, as noted by showrunner Johan Fasting, who co-wrote with Silje Storstein and Kristin Grue.

“It’s hard to persevere in politics, especially for women. We wanted to go behind the scenes of social democracy as well, see how it has dissolved and turned into what we have today. It felt like the right time to look at the mechanisms of power,” he told Variety earlier this week.

While the show delves into local politics, its youthful “punk” attitude and humor, which already drew early comparisons to the works of Armando Iannucci, seems to have paid off, seducing jurors Lior Raz, Zabou Breitman,...

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Soloway and Morfydd Clark will be honored this year as part of Canneseries 2023, the French TV festival that runs alongside international television market MIPTV.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Wolf Pack star Gellar will receive this year’s Canal+ Icon Award for her life’s work. Clark, best known for playing Galadriel on Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series, will be honored with the Canneseries rising star award. Soloway, the Emmy-winning creator of Amazon’s Transparent, will receive this year’s commitment award, which honors social engagement by creatives in the TV industry.

Canneseries on Tuesday also unveiled its competition jury for the 2023 event, with Fauda creator Lior Raz heading up the five-person group, alongside Lupin actress Shirine Boutella, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Bad Sisters actor Daryl McCormack, Emmy-nominated composer (and Police drummer) Stewart Copeland and French actress Zabou Breitman (24 Days,...

World premieres of Prime Video’s Rachel Weisz-starrer “Dead Ringers,” Paramount+’s “Fatal Attraction, with Lizzy Caplan, and Joshua Jackson, and Netflix’s awaited French bio “Tapie” pack out a 6th Canneseries which boasts its biggest U.S. presence yet, with titles from nearly all the major global streamers.

They join Apple TV+’s already-announced “Silo,” another world premiere. Paramount+ will also be represented by Korean smash hit “Bargain.”

In all, the main Competition features seven world premieres, Lewi said at a Paris lineup presentation on Tuesday.

Israel and Scandinavia have a prominent presence as ever at Canneseries. The selection also takes in, however, its first South African title in Competition, “Spinners,” admired at the London Screenings.

Adding star wattage, Sarah Michelle Gellar will pick up the Canal+ Icon Award, Joey Soloway, creator of Amazon Studios’ “Transparent” and producer of “Six Foot Under,” receives a Commitment Award. Canneseries’ Rising...

Indian music composer Ricky Kej has won his third Grammy award for his 2021 music album Divine Tides.

The US-born musician shared the award with Stewart Copeland, the drummer of British rock band The Police, who collaborated with him on the album.

On Sunday (5 February), Kej and Copeland won an award in the Best Immersive Audio Album category, beating other nominees such as Jaycen Joshua, Mike Piacentini, Jim Anderson and Morten Lindberg.

The two won a Grammy in the Best New Age Album category for the same album last year.

Other notable prizewinners included Bonnie Raitt, whose track “Just Like That” won Song of the Year and Harry Styles, who won the Grammy award for Album of the Year for Harry’s House.

Beyoncé was nominated in nine different categories this year, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year.

She won four of these awards including Best R...

Los Angeles, Feb 6 (Ians) It seems to be India’s year at the global entertainment arena as after the Golden Globe and Critics’ Choice Awards win of ‘Naatu Naatu’ from the S.S.Rajamouli directorial ‘Rrr’, along with Oscar nominations for ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ and ‘All That Breathes’, Indian music composer and producer Ricky Kej clinched the honour at the recently concluded Grammy Awards.

The composer picked up his career’s third Grammy for ‘Divine Tides’, which was nominated in the Best Immersive Audio Album category. The album ‘Divine Tides’ is a collaborative project with rock-legend and Police drummer Stewart Copeland.

Sharing his happiness right after the win, Ricky posted a picture and wrote: “Super grateful, my 3rd Grammy Award.”

In a statement shared with the media, the music composer said: “It feels absolutely surreal to win the biggest prize in music again for the third time. I am extremely...

Sunday, February 5, is Grammys day! But while most of the eyeballs will be on the prime time telecast live tonight on CBS and Paramount+, most of the actual awards are presented in the afternoon during the Premiere Ceremony, which streams live on the Recording Academy’s YouTube channel and on live.Grammy.com. Check out the complete list of Grammy winners here.

SEE2023 Grammy Awards: Full list of winners in all categories

Randy Rainbow, a current Grammy nominee for Best Comedy Album, co-hosts the event, which will feature performances from multiple awards contenders representing multiple genres. Blind Boys of Alabama and La Marisoul will perform during the opening number. Also taking the stage will be world music artists Anoushka Shankar and Arooj Aftab, folk singer Madison Cunningham, jazz singer and Best New Artist nominee Samara Joy, and Latin music veteran Carlos Vives. Handing out trophies as presenters will be Babyface,...

The set list for the Police’s first concert consisted of seven songs, and drummer Stewart Copeland estimates they got through all of them in about six minutes. “We were fast,” he says. With the exception of “Landlord,” which Sting cowrote, and a cover of the Animals’ “It’s My Life,” Copeland tells Rolling Stone the songs were “all my concoctions.”

One of the set list’s curiosities is “Clown’s Revenge,” a charging prog-punk hybrid that sounds a bit like what X was doing around the same time in L.

American rock band Foo Fighters confirmed that they will continue after drummer Taylor Hawkins, death in March, telling fans that they will see them “soon”.

Their post stated: “As we say goodbye to the most difficult and tragic year that our band has ever known, we are reminded of how thankful we are for the people that we love and cherish most, and for the loved ones who are no longer with us,” reports Variety.

“Without Taylor, we never would have become the band that we were – and without Taylor, we know that we’re going to be a different band going forward,” the statement reads.

“We also know that you, the fans, meant as much to Taylor as he meant to you. And we know that when we see you again – and we will soon – he’ll be there in spirit with all of us every night,” the statement added.

Paramount+ has announced that Sometimes When We Touch, a three-part documentary series exploring the history of soft rock music, will premiere exclusively on the service in the U.S. and Canada on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023 and will also stream in the U.K., Latin America and Australia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. Sometimes When We Touch is the untold story of soft rock, whose artists dominated pop music worldwide in the ’70s, only to crash and burn in the ’80s, eventually experiencing one of the most unlikely comebacks in music history. The series presents all-new interviews with some of soft rock’s biggest legends, like Air Supply (“All Out of Love”), Dan Hill (“Sometimes When We Touch”), Kenny Loggins (“This Is It”), Ray Parker Jr. (“A Woman Needs Love”), Rupert Holmes (“Escape: The Piña Colada Song”) and Toni Tennille (“Love Will Keep Us Together”). Through candid and poignant stories, these...

Instruments autographed by many of the all-star artists that took part in the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts will be auctioned off next week to raise money for MusiCares.

Hawkins’ Foo Fighters bandmates — including Dave Grohl — as well as guests like Stewart Copeland, Krist Novoselic, Joan Jett, Kesha, John Paul Jones, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, Queen’s Brian May, and Roger Taylor, are among the rock legends to sign a bevy of guitars, basses, drum heads, and cymbals for the charity auction, which will take place as part of Julien...

"I get to play it, and you get to listen to it – this instrument, this thing, this Force!" Greenwich Ent. has revealed an official trailer for an inspiring documentary film titled Let There Be Drums!, made by music doc filmmaker Justin Kreutzmann – who has years of experience in the music industry as he's the son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The film is a documentary about drummers, now being released in honor of the late Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters, who is interviewed in this film before he passed away. The world's greatest drummers all reflect on the art of drumming and how it has shaped their lives - including the nature of how music passes from generation to generation, and the role that drumming plays in human life. Featuring interviews with Ringo Starr from The Beatles, Stewart Copeland from The Police, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann from Grateful Dead,...

Justin Kreutzmann set out to make a standard documentary about drummers. After all, having Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann as his dad meant growing up on the road surrounded by rock stars and hippies. But once he started interviewing musicians for the film, named after the iconic Sandy Nelson composition “Let There Be Drums,” Kreutzmann stumbled upon something much more personal, leading him to “begrudgingly” come out from behind the camera and talk about his own upbringing.

“Let There Be Drums” is not a Grateful Dead documentary, and Kreutzmann says “you don’t have to be obsessed with drumming” to enjoy it. Through archival footage, interviews with musicians and their loved ones, and, of course, music, the film uses drumming as a vehicle to tell a more universal story — about community, resilience and family.

Speaking with Variety ahead of the doc’s release, Kreutzmann detailed the filmmaking process behind “Let...

Exclusive: Indian Two Time Grammy Award composer and environmentalist Ricky Kej has signed to compose the original music for American-Bangladeshi writer-director Asif Akbar’s spy action-thriller Mr-9 featuring Frank Grillo as a villain.

Based on the popular Masud Rana novels written by late novelist Qazi Anwar Hussain, top Bangladeshi actor Abm Sumon stars as secret agent Rana – code name Mr-9 – of the Bangladesh Counter Intelligence Agency. Grillo plays his evil nemesis, Roman Ross.

The film was shot over the summer in the U.S. and Bangladesh and is now in post-production.

“I take on very few motion pictures and I am very proud to be a part of Mr-9,” said Kej. “Asif has not only made a fantastic, edge-of-the-seat, action thriller with heart but also we finally have an international spy who looks like us… and is South Asian.”

North Carolina-born, Bangalore-raised Kej has distinguished himself on the international music...

The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” music video has surpassed one billion streams on YouTube.

The 1983 single features on the band’s last album Synchronicity, and is one of their most revered tracks.

It was so successful that after reaching No.1 in the UK Chart, it remained there for over a month. It was also the only track by The Police to reach No.1 in America. The song has since also racked up over one billion streams on Spotify.

In the black and white video, the three-piece band can be seen playing in a large room lit with a big window, with silhouettes appearing throughout. Frontman Sting is central to the video and plays the double bass while singing.

Despite its 1980s release, the video for the song was only uploaded 12 years ago – meaning it has achieved the impressive milestone in this short time. It is the 225th video to reach one billion views.

Miley Cyrus is sharing a special remembrance of the late Taylor Hawkins, who died at age 50 earlier this year.

Cyrus took to Twitter to share a brief voicemail she was left by the Foo Fighters drummer, who was also her neighbour.

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“Miley, it’s Taylor. Heard you’re moving — waah!” Hawkins says in the recording, mock crying over the prospect of losing Cyrus as a neighbour.

“I’m listening to ‘Photograph’ by Def Leppard,” Hawkins adds. “You could kill that one.”

A personal request from the legend himself. #TaylorHawkins my friend, my idol…. My neighbor. Growing up on a farm I never could see the light of another house nearby, but living by Taylor for the years that I did out in LA were some of the most fun times of my life.

Foo Fighters are in the midst of honoring their late drummer Taylor Hawkins with a tribute concert in Los Angeles at Kia Forum on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The lineup includes a bevy of Hawkins’ musician friends, some of whom performed at their tribute to him in London earlier in the month.

But before the festivities got underway, the band addressed the audience. “This is the hometown shit, so you gotta make it loud,” the Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl said. “What we really wanted to do was to pay tribute to...

The reviews are in, and Wolfgang Van Halen “killed it” during his performance with Dave Grohl at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert.

The succinct analysis comes from none other than Wolfie’s mom Valerie Bertinelli, who took to Twitter on Saturday and subtweeted a video showing Wolfgang rocking out onstage at Wembley Stadium in London. Bertinelli wrote, “Wolfie Killed It. So proud of you @WolfVanHalen.”

The tribute concert — the first of two, with the second one slated for Sept. 27 in Los Angeles — featured an all-star lineup that included Travis Barker, Queen’s Roger Taylor, the Police’s Stewart Copeland, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic and many more.

For those who couldn’t catch MTV’s live stream can tune in to CBS on Saturday night at 10 p.m. Est, when a one-hour primetime special is set to air. The special will feature highlights from the show in London.

Foo Fighters will stage the first of their two Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts today, Sept. 3 at London’s Wembley Stadium.

The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert, presented by Foo Fighters and the late drummer’s family, will begin 11:30 a.m. Est and be streamed live on Paramount+ and MTV’s YouTube channel; the livestream can also be viewed in the video above.

Additionally, a one-hour primetime special featuring highlights from the show will air on CBS later today at 10 p.m. Est, while the full show will be available to...

Dave Grohl and the other surviving members of Foo Fighters will pay tribute to their late drummer Taylor Hawkins in an all-star live concert on Saturday, Sep. 3. Hawkins died unexpectedly at age 50 in Bogotá, Colombia in March.

Among the music legends who are gathering to honor Hawkins are Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Rush’s Geddy Lee, Chrissie Hynde, Liam Gallagher, Krist Novoselic of Nirvana, as well as drumming prodigy Nandi Bushell, who sat in for Hawkins after winning a “drum off” with Foo Fighters frontman (and former Nirvana drummer) Grohl.

A separate tribute concert in Los Angeles on Sep. 27 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood is sold out.

Here’s everything you need to know about when and where to watch it and who else is performing.

When Is the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert?

The event is happening Saturday, Sep. 3 at Wembley Stadium in London.

Is “The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert” Streaming?...