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The rock field at the Grammys has given us some of the show’s most memorable winners, whether they’re critically acclaimed industry faves like Boygenius, Brandi Carlile and Fiona Apple, or big commercial powerhouses like Imagine Dragons and Foo Fighters. This year’s lineup is quite competitive, with multiple previous winners and nominees vying for noms alongside breakthrough critics picks. With last year’s victories for Paramore and Boygenius, it looked like the voters were starting to skew younger and fall more in line with critics. Will that stay the same this year?

There are three alternative contenders that you can count on popping up in the Best Rock Performance and/or Best Rock Song categories. First is Brittany Howard, who has won Best Rock Song twice, and could be gunning for a third win with her hit “What Now,” which topped triple A radio. Howard is a field favorite,...

The people of Gaza are at the top of Belly’s mind. On Thursday, the Canadian-Palestinian rapper released the nine-track album 96 Miles From Bethlehem as an ode to Palestine amid the Israel-Hamas war, featuring appearances from Elyanna, Saint Levant, and Mc Abdul.

“I got a lot more to say,” Belly wrote on Instagram before releasing the project, whose proceeds will support those affected by the Israeli attacks on Gaza and the West Bank.

Belly opens the album with “Metal Birds” about the Israeli airstrikes that have killed thousands of innocent...

Anointed a blues-guitar prodigy before he was old enough to drive, 40-year old Austin, Texas, native Gary Clark Jr. has spent much of his career thinking outside his primary genre, and his latest, Jpeg Raw, sounds more than ever like the music Clark wants to make rather than the music folks think he makes.

Since as early on as his second album, the underrated 2015 collection The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, Clark has embraced everything from fuzzy rock to funk to Prince-ly psychedelia. Jpeg Raw continues his never-ending quest for new fire,...

Gary Clark Jr. is ready to play some songs from his upcoming album Jpeg Raw on the road. On Tuesday, the musician announced dates for his North American tour in celebration of his first LP since 2019.

The musician will commence his tour on May 8, stopping in cities such as St. Louis, Chicago, and Boston along the way. He’ll close the run of shows in August in Los Angeles. Tickets will go on sale for the general public on Feb. 2 at 10 a.m. local time, but fans with presale access can purchase them on Jan.

Gary Clark Jr. is back with four new tracks — his first collection of music in nearly five years — that serve as a sampler to his upcoming album Jpeg Raw. The singer-songwriter’s fourth studio LP is out in full on March 22nd via Warner Records.

Jpeg Raw sees Clark further expand on his vast array of influences, merging traditional African music and jazz with elements of rock, R&b, hip-hop, and blues. The 12-track record incorporates samples of Thelonious Monk and Sonny Boy Williamson, and even includes collaborations with both Stevie Wonder and George Clinton. Pre-orders are ongoing.

The four-track sampler includes “Maktub,” “Jpeg Raw,” “This Is Who We Are,” and “Hyperwave,” all of which expectedly spotlight Clark’s big guitar riffs and soulful, evocative vocals. Stream them all below, and then keep scrolling to see the artwork and tracklist for Jpeg Raw.

Clark’s last album was 2019’s This Land.

“False Flag” director Oded Raz is set to direct “Jerusalem 67,” an epic period thriller retelling Israel’s unlikely victory during the Six Day War in 1967. The long-gestating project is getting ready to shoot on location in Jerusalem on Aug. 16 and is being produced by New York-based Joseph Schick, a U.S. lawyer who started developing it over a decade ago.

Yael Grobglas (“Supergirl”) is in advanced negotiations to play the lead role as a civilian haunted by a painful childhood who leaves her family to serve on the frontlines of war. Itzik Cohen, whose acting credits include “Fauda” and “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” is in advanced negotiations to join the cast.

The key crew includes cinematographer Daniel Miller, who won the Israel Film Academy’s Ophir Award for “Fig Tree” and production designer Yoram Shayer, who won Israel’s equivalent to the Oscars twice with “Ish HaHashmal” and “Turn Left at the End of the World...

Israel’s Yes Studios (“Fauda”) has unveiled a first look clip and photos of the anticipated third season of its hit Netflix drama “Shtisel,” and has announced two new shows, “The Chef” and “Embezzlement.”

“Shtisel,” whose first two seasons are available on Netflix, follows a Haredi family living in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem reckoning with love, loss and the doldrums of daily life.

Created and written by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, the series stars Michael Aloni, Doval’e Glickman, Neta Riskin, Sasson Gabai and Shira Haas, the star of Netflix’s “Unorthodox” who is nominated for an Emmy Award. “Shtisel” was produced by Abot Hameiri, a Fremantle company, and is directed by Alon Zingman.

The third season of “Shtisel” picks up four years after the events of the previous season. Comprising nine episodes, season three of the show started filming last month and will be airing on Yes TV in Israel later this year.

‘Douze Points’ will be set against the backdrop of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest.

Israeli producer Adar Shafran, whose credits include the hit feature Maktub, is developing a comedy-thriller miniseries Douze Points set against the backdrop of the 2019 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest which is due to take place in Israel.

The storyline revolves around an extremist plot to assassinate the president by infiltrating a French boyband in the contest and a group of Mossad agents who have been coached in the art of make-up and dancing to guard over the event in the guise of hairdressers, choreographers and stylists.

Chicago – The world comes to Chicago for the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival, and screenwriters/lead actors Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon has brought their new film “Maktub” for screening on Sunday night, October 15th, 2017 (8pm). The unique comedy is the first film for the Israeli television hitmakers.

Festival Men (L-r): Producer Adar Shafran, Writer/Actors Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon

Photo credit: Patrick McDonald for HollywoodChicago.com

Amir and Sayron wrote the film and play the leads, two small-time enforcers for a Jerusalem mob protection racket, who find their lives in flux when they survive a terrorist suicide bomb. They readjust, and go to the Wailing Wall, where they begin to fulfill the wishes of those who traditionally leave notes at the shrine. The two writer/actors have created some hugely popular TV shows in Israel, including “Scarred,” “Asfur” and “Ma Bakarish.”

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