Maroon 5 Set Will Headline 2019 Super Bowl Halftime Show

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It appears that the list has gotten shorter. Variety and Billboard are both reporting that Maroon 5 is set to perform at 2019 Super Bowl halftime, which is set to take place during the NFL championship game on Feb. 3, 2019 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

Given the band’s current hit “Girls Like You”, it is entirely possible that Cardi B will also make an appearance. Also potential guests are their recent collaborators SZA (“What Loves Do”) and Kendrick Lamar (“Don’t Wanna Know”)

In recent years, the band has expressed interest in playing at the halftime show. “I like the fact that we can talk about it, because I think the band would be like thrilled to do it,” Levine said in a 2015 interview with Howard Stern.

The pop rock band from Los Angeles, California consists of seven members (not five as their name suggest) which includes Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael, Mickey Madden, James Valentine, Matt Flynn, PJ Morton and Sam Farrar. They have enjoyed longevity few pop rock bands have achieved during the past few decades. Since their 2002 debut album “Songs About Jane”, they have become one of the world’s best-selling acts, have won a grammy (for best new artist in 2005), and topped the Billboard singles chart three times.

The band’s frontman Levine is set to return as one of the coaches on NBC’s singing competition, The Voice which premieres next week Sept 24.

Maroon 5 is currently on tour, in support of their latest album “Red Pill Blues” which was released on November 3, 2017 by 222 and Interscope Records.

With the fact the Super Bowl itself is usually the most-watched television event every year in the United States, the halftime show have seen major pop acts take the stage including Lady Gaga, Coldplay, and Katy Perry. Last year, Justin Timberlake performed during the Super Bowl LII game’s halftime at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Post Malone, Carrie Underwood, Imagine Dragons To Perform At American Music Awards

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Carrie Underwood, Imagine Dragons and Post Malone featuring Ty Dolla $ign are set to perform at the 2018 American Music Awards, Dick Clark Productions and ABC announced today.

Carrie Underwood’s performance will make her return at the AMA stage since 2015. She is also a nominee in the Favorite Female Artist – Country category. Underwood recently released her sixth studio album “Cry Pretty.”

Post Malone is set to make his American Music Awards debut performance. He will be performing his Billboard Hot 100 number one hit “Psycho” with previous AMA nominee Ty Dolla $ign.

The fan-voted awards show will broadcast Tuesday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m. ET on ABC, live from Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater. The event will be hosted for the second year in a row by actress Tracee Ellis Ross.

Rappers Drake and Cardi B leading the list of nominees. Drake is up for top trophies including “Artist of the Year” along with Imagine Dragons, Post Malone, Ed Sheeran, and Taylor Swift, while Cardi B is up for “Favorite New Artist of the Year.”

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Sarah Brightman To Release New Album Plus World Tour

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Best-selling English classical soprano Sarah Brightman is set to release her much anticipated full-length album “Hymn,” which is set to come out on Nov. 9.

The upcoming album from Decca Gold/ Universal Music Group is Brightman’s her 15th studio album and her first since Dreamchaser which was released in 2013 to critical acclaim. It is currently available for pre-order.

The first track from the album “Sogni,” is as a collaboration between Sarah Brightman and french tenor Vincent Niclo. “Sogni” is now available on Spotify. The album will also feature “Time To Say Goodbye,” Brightman’s signature duet with Italian singer/songwriter Andrea Bocelli.

In support of the album, Sarah Brightman is set to embark on a world tour Hymn: Sarah Brightman In Concert, which is set to commence on November 2018 in South America. The tour will bring Brightman to five continents 2019 throughout the 125 shows.

The North American dates of the tour starts at Hippodrome Theatre in Baltimore, MD on January 30 and is produced by Live Nation. Tickets go on sale Sept. 21 at 10:00 am.

To know more about the album and the tour, go to sarahbrightman.com.

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Paul McCartney Releases “Fuh You” Video

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“Fuh You” the latest single to Paul McCartney’s latest new album “Egypt Station.”

The song is a follow-up to the album’s I Don’t Know” and “Come On to Me” which were released this summer.

The charming black and white video starts with a boy walking a girl home and the girl kissing him on the cheeks. When he tries to kiss her back, her mother opens the doors and tells the boy to leave. As he walks away, the smitten boy saw the girl looking out the window, signalling to call her. And so begins the “Fuh You,” the boy hopping and singing along his walk back home.

“On the night that I met you, I was on the town,” Paul sings. “I just wanna know how you feel, I wanna love the soul, proud and real.”

McCartney also played the song during his surprise concert at New York’s Grand Central Terminal, as a celebration for the album launch. There the legendary artist also performed his classics like Let it Be, A Hard Day’s Night and Can’t Buy Me Love among others.

‘Fuh You’ was written by McCartney and producer Ryan Tedder. It is the second single from the album, Egypt Station, which was release by Capitol Records on 7 September 2018. The album is set to debut atop the US Billboard 200 album charts on issue dated 22 September, making it his first album to debut at the top of the charts.

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Legendary Global Icon Mariah Carey Returns With New Music

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Today, incomparable, multi-platinum, multiple Grammy award winning global superstar Mariah Carey (the best-selling female artist of all time with 18 Hot 100 #1 hits) returns with the first taste of her new music, “GTFO,” available worldwide now. Get it HERE via Epic Records!

The new song is a tempting first helping from her upcoming new album, due out later this year, whetting fans’ appetites for the album’s stunning kickoff single, “With You,” scheduled for an October 5 release. Both tracks are from her upcoming 15th studio album, her first studio album since 2014.

“GTFO” is produced by Grammy nominated/multiple ASCAP award winner Nineteen85, who has worked with Drake and Jordan Manswell (Daniel Caesar), among others. An early treat for fans, atmospheric beats abound on the new track, with Mariah finding even more nuance in her seamlessly-spun vocal repertoire, her velvety, middle-range virtuosity once again dazzling in breathy hues.

The sultry track is the first serving of new music from the acclaimed singer/songwriter/producer since inking an exclusive partnership with her imprint Butterfly MC Records and Epic in the spring of 2017. Mariah will share the music video for the new song tomorrow, September 14.

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2018 American Music Awards: Drake, Cardi B Lead Nominees

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The nominees for the 2018 American Music Awards were announced on Wednesday, with rappers Drake and Cardi B leading the list of nominees. Kane Brown, Ella Mai, Normani and Bebe Rexha revealed the nominations live from YouTube Space L.A.

Drake is up for top trophies including “Artist of the Year” along with Imagine Dragons, Post Malone, Ed Sheeran, and Taylor Swift, while Cardi B is up for “Favorite New Artist of the Year.”

The AMAs is the largest fan-voted award show. Fans can vote for their favorites through VoteAMAs.com as well as via Twitter by by tagging the nominees, typing the category and using the hashtag #AMAs.

For the second year in a row, actress Tracee Ellis Ross will host the event.

The 2018 AMAs is set to air live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on October 9 at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

Here’s some of the nominees:

Artist of the Year
Drake
Imagine Dragons
Post Malone
Ed Sheeran
Taylor Swift

Favorite New Artist of the Year
Camila Cabello
Cardi B
Khalid
Dua Lipa
XXXTentacion

Favorite Collaboration of the Year
“Havanna,” Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug
“Finesse,” Bruno Mars & Cardi B
“Rockstar,” Post Malone ft. 21 Savage
“Meant to Be,” Beba Rhexha and Florida Georgia Line
“The Middle,” Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey

Favorite Female Artist, Pop/Rock
Camilla Cabello
Cardi B
Taylor Swift

Favorite Male Artist, Pop/Rock
Drake
Post Malone
Ed Sheeran

To see the full list, go to theamas.com.

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“A Star Is Born” Set To Open Tokyo Film Festival

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Bradley Cooper’s critically acclaimed directorial debut continues its successful world tour as the film is set to open the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival, Variety is reporting.

The Warner Bros. film recently had its world premiere at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on August 31 and screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. In both locations, the film received high praise especially for its stars Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.

The Tokyo Film Festival will run from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3 at venues around Tokyo, Japan, with
Japanese animated sci-fi kaiju film “Godzilla: The Planet Eater” closing the festival on November 3.

Interscope recently released the soundtrack details of the film, which includes new music from the film’s stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

The 34-track album also features songs by Lukas Nelson (of Promise of the Real), Jason Isbell, Mark Ronson, and Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow. Two of the songs in the soundtrack, “Shallow” and “Maybe It’s Time”, have been featured in the film’s trailer.

Part of the film was shot last year during Coachella. Original songs were also composed for the film, some of which was teased in the trailer, including a snippet of “The Shallow” which was co-penned by Mark Ronson, Gaga’s collaborator in her Joanne album.

This marks the third remake of the original 1937 film: the first was in 1954 which starred Judy Garland and James Mason, then again in 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson.

Warner Bros. is set to release “A Star Is Born” on Oct. 5.

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Mac Miller Dead At 26

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Pittsburgh-born rapper, singer and producer Mac Miller died on Friday in Los Angeles of an apparent overdose, various media sources are reporting. He was 26.

The artist, born Malcolm James McCormick, has struggled with substance abuse throughout his career.

In January 2013, Miller admitted to Complex: “I love lean; it’s great. I was not happy and I was on lean very heavy. I was so fucked up all the time it was bad. My friends couldn’t even look at me the same. I was lost.” Last month, he was charged by the Los Angeles Attorney’s Office with a DUI after a car accident in May.

Miller’s debut studio album, Blue Slide Park, was released by Rostrum Records in 2011 and debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart.

Last month, he released his fifth studio album, “Swimming” by REMember Music and Warner Bros. Records. The album debuted at number 3 on Billboard album charts.

This was followed by Watching Movies with the Sound Off (2013), GO:OD AM (2015) and The Divine Feminine (2016). Miller dated singer Ariana Grande for almost two years which culminated into a very public breakup on May of this year. The two have collaborated on the top 10 single “The Way” (2013).

He is also set to embark on a US tour, which was set to begin in San Francisco on October 27. “I just wanna go on tour. The show is going to be special every night. I wish it started tomorrow,” Miller tweeted on Thursday.

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Sting and Shaggy Announce North American Tour

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After wrapping their European co-headlining tour, Sting and Shaggy is headed to North America, lvie Nation Entertainment announced.

The tour kick will on Sept. 14 in Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 14, then continues to other locations such as Atlanta, Washington DC, Chicago and Pheonix among others. The tour then concludes in Funner, CA.

According to Billboard, the hit co-headlining tour have grossed $10.8 million during its run in Europe, where the two superstars played 23 sold out shows and attracted 132,155 concert goers.

The 44/876 tour was in support of their collaborative album, which was released on April 20, 2018 by A&M Records, Interscope Records and Cherrytree Records. The album was named after the phone call codes for UK and Jamaican, Sting and Shaggy’s home countries respectively.

Here is the The 44/876 Tour’s full North American schedule:
Sept. 14 – Jacksonville, FL – Daily’s Place
Sept. 15 – Miami, FL – Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater
‪Sept. 17 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
‪Sept. 19 – Washington, DC – The Theater at MGM National Harbor
‪Sept. 20 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore
‪Sept. 21 – Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
‪Sept. 25 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
‪Sept. 26 – New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17, Seaport District NYC
Sept. 28 – Toronto, ON – The Phoenix Concert Theatre
‪Sept. 30 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
‪Oct. 01 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
‪Oct. 02 – Chicago, IL – The Aragon Ballroom
‪Oct. 04 – Kansas City, MO – Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
‪Oct. 05 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
‪Oct. 08 – San Francisco, CA – The Masonic
‪Oct. 09 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
‪Oct. 10 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
‪Oct. 12 – Rancho Mirage, CA – Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa
‪Oct. 13 – Las Vegas, NV – Park Theater
‪Oct. 15 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
Oct. 16 – Funner, CA – Harrah’s Resort South California

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Trailer For Zombie Musical “Anna and the Apocalypse”

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Orion Pictures

Its Shawn Of the Dead meets La La Land in the latest trailer for Christmas-set zombie musical “Anna and the Apocalypse.”

“When a zombie apocalypse descends upon their small town during Christmas, it’s up to Anna (Ella Hunt) and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to safety,” says the film’s outline.

Directed by Scottish film director John McPhail from the screenplay by Alan McDonald & Ryan McHenry, the film stars lla Hunt, Malcom Cumming, Ben Wiggins, Sarah Swire, Christopher Leveaux, Marli Siu, Mark Benton & Paul Kaye.

Based on the 2010 BAFTA-winning short Zombie Musical, “Anna and the Apocalypse” is set to open in select theaters on November 30th, then later expands nationwide on December 7th.

Here’s the film’s synopsis:
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

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