Marc Geiger Says Live Music’s Recovery Will Be a ‘Roaring 20s’ of Prosperity

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Calling it quits. Cheryl Burke filed for divorce from Matthew Lawrence after nearly three years of marriage.

Vanity Fair. The interviews with both women were conducted by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick, the directors of “Allen v. Farrow,” in conjunction with Vanity Fair.

Room for improvement. Jana Kramer and Mike Caussin don’t have the most cordial coparenting relationship while raising their two kids.

Kim Kardashian’s bikini body is off the charts, next-level amazing, insanely toned — all the things. Curious how she gets herself in such sick shape? Us too, which is why we tapped her trainer Melissa Alcantara, aka @fitgurlmel, for the down low on the 41-year-old reality star’s gym routine. 

Massive Attack, The National and The Chemical Brothers will headline its 2022 event.The latest addition to the Scottish festival calendar will take place at Edinburgh’s Royal Highland Centre from August 26–28.Other names on the bill for the rebooted event, which was announced yesterday (February 22), include Mogwai, Little Simz, Self Esteem, Black Country, New Road, Jon Hopkins, Black Coffee, Bonobo, Bombay Bicycle Club, John Grant, LOW, Idlewild and more.Massive Attack will take to the Grand Parade Stage on the Friday; The Chemical Brothers will top the bill on the Saturday; and The National will close out proceedings on the Sunday.“We are delighted to be announcing our line-up for Connect today,” said DF Concerts & Events CEO, Geoff Ellis. “For some time now we have been working tirelessly and carefully to curate a captivating line-up for the first edition of our new iteration of Connect and we have been really excited to share it.“While Connect is a brand new festival proposition, it will still retain many qualities from – and the ethos of – its namesake from 2007 and 2008, especially regarding the music, entertainment, food and drink programmes.Ellis added: “We are thrilled to be welcoming the very best in left field talent from grassroots through to award-winning headliners to perform this year and we cannot wait to welcome fans to the Royal Highland Showgrounds this August.”This is Connect 2022.Sign-up for access to pre-sale:https://t.co/ZVj8UkwnJGFor your chance to win 4 weekend tickets to Connect 2022, head over to our Instagram account.

Jon Hopkins has soundtracked and helped create an installation which can induce hallucinations.By combining flickering lights and electronic music, Hopkins, with the help of neuroscientists, philosophers and trance music producers, has formed an out of this world experience for users called ‘Dreamachine’.The new project uses ambient music from Hopkins as a soundtrack to the experience, which researchers called “stroboscopically induced visual hallucinations.”It sees visitors enter a room, lie-down and close their eyes before the experience begins.“The important thing about these practices is the loss of ego and the beginning of shared experience,” Hopkins told The Guardian. “These are alternatives to our problem-solving, scientific consciousness of reality.”The project will tour the UK this spring and more information can be found here.Earlier this month, Hopkins shared his first new music of 2022 – ‘A Gathering Of The Tribe’.The track is described as a sonic companion piece to Hopkins’ meditative 2021 album, ‘Music For Psychedelic Therapy’, which came out in November.Speaking about the new piece, which was originally written with the intention of scoring an animated short film featuring an excerpt from Charles Eisenstein’s book The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Hopkins said: “I haven’t done much scoring in the last few years, but occasionally something comes along that I fall in love with and feel like I just have to work on.

Love Island is coming back – at a new home.

Buckingham Palace released a short statement on Wednesday (February 23), just hours after a major death hoax spread across the Internet.

Supermarket fashion brand George at ASDA has been flooded with praise for its budget £12.50 jeans.

The leader of the opposition at Salford council stormed out of a meeting today (February 23) after saying he was 'attacked' during a debate about the budget.

Former Manchester United midfielder Paul Scholes has expressed his concern about his old club persisting with veteran strikers Cristiano Ronaldo and Edinson Cavani.

Just as life appeared to be on a more even keel for former loan shark Gary Windass, the Corrie character has been spotted looking very shifty in dramatic new scenes being filmed for the soap.

on the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s website.“Drive-Thru provides a democratic platform that celebrates neighborhood voices,” said Soft-Firm co-founder Talitha Liu. “After another year of distance and uncertainty, the installation projects a portal into the rich cultural fabric of Brooklyn.” The installation indeed feels like a tongue-in-cheek reference to the pandemic trend of distance-friendly drive-in movies.

The website founded by Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert, says there are certain places you should put your Wi-Fi box in your home to get the highest internet speeds.

is back! After initially being canceled after season 20 in 2010, creator Dick Wolf’s mothership series, which has spawned a number of spinoffs and an expansive TV universe, is returning with season 21. Led by executive producer and showrunner Rick Eid, the revival features returning stars Sam Waterston as District Attorney Jack McCoy and Anthony Anderson as Det. Kevin Bernard.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCompared with the avalanche of recent weeks, the days leading up to Labor Day weekend were relatively slow for incoming new songs — which means we went through just 80 instead of 120! — providing a great opportunity to shine a light on some lesser-known artists.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen veteran music producer Hal Willner passed away due to complications believed to be associated with Covid-19 on April 7, a day after his 64th birthday, the music community in New York and beyond was devastated.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWith the exception of the psychedelic misadventure “Their Satanic Majesties Request,” the Rolling Stones’ “Goats Head Soup” is probably the most maligned album of the group’s first 20 years. Released in 1973, it arrived as most of the bandmembers were entering their 30s and the group was entering its second decade (unheard-of for a rock band at the time), and it found them moving awkwardly into both.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLive Nation and Ticketmaster were hit with another round of furloughs on Thursday, said to number in the hundreds, sources tell Variety. The cuts at the world’s largest live-entertainment company (Live Nation owns Ticketmaster) are said to reach across all business units, particularly regional offices.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor today only — Friday, Sept.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn a Wednesday filing in Los Angeles Superior Court, Britney Spears’ attorney filed a motion opposing a request by her father, Jamie Spears — who is also her conservator — to to keep her conservatorship case sealed.“Far from being a conspiracy theory or a ‘joke’ as James reportedly told the media, in large part this scrutiny is a reasonable and even predictable result of James’ aggressive use of the sealing procedure over the years to minimize the amount of meaningful information made available to the public,” wrote the singer’s court-appointed attorney, Samuel D.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs part of a long retrospective era that’s included a documentary, a speaking tour and more, the Beastie Boys will release a 20-song compilation on Oct.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFrederick “Toots” Hibbert, 77-year-old frontman of the legendary reggae act Toots & the Maytals, is in stable but serious condition in a private medical facility in Jamaica, a rep tells Variety. He was tested for Covid-19 earlier in the week and although the results have not been announced, his family issued a statement late Wednesday that says he is in “stable” condition and recovering from an undisclosed condition.“Mr.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn an effort to rally support for the countless music venues impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of buildings across the U.S. — from New York’s Empire State Building to Seattle’s Space Needle — were illuminated in red light on Tuesday evening (Sept.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn the wake of George Floyd’s murder at the hands of Minneapolis police in May, an organization formed by music industry execs Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang under the name #TheShowMustBePaused began with a call for a single day shutdown soon grew into a movement that called for change across the entire industry. All three major labels, Live Nation, AEG and many other companies pledged millions of dollars and major overhauls to their policies within a matter of weeks, if not days.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Q&A and Human Re Sources team has launched Homebase, which it describes as a “virtual collective of global creators on TikTok.”According to the announcement, “Homebase seeks to foster community digitally, while uplifting a global group of TikTok creators to take their hustle to the next level.” As a part of the launch, TikTok creators are invited to apply to be part of the inaugural class of Homebase. Application period launches Wednesday, September 2 and ends Thursday, September 10.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHallwood Media, former Geffen Records president Neil Jacobson’s new writer-producer management company, has hired Cristina Chavez as SVP of A&R / Management. According to the announcement, Chavez will focus on expanding Hallwood Media deeper into the R&B and hip-hop space. Most recently, Chavez was a membership exec in ASCAP’s urban-music department, recruiting new talent and maintaining existing relationships.“Cristina is a wonderful addition to our team and brings two important skills to Hallwood,” said Jacobson.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorMore than 1,500 music venues across the U.S. will be illuminated in red light on Tuesday evening (Sept.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorErick Morillo, a veteran DJ who broke into the mainstream with the 1990s hit “I Like to Move It,” was found dead Tuesday, Miami Beach police told Local 10 in Miami.Morillo, who was 49, was facing charges of sexual assault and was scheduled for a court hearing on Friday.Officers told the news outlet that they received a 911 call at 10:42 a.m., and that detectives are on scene and in the preliminary stages of the investigation.Morillo was arrested in August after being accused of sexual battery on a woman in an incident that took place at his home in December.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDavid Byrne has issued an apology for impersonating people of color, including wearing brownface and blackface, in a 1984 promotional video for the Talking Heads’ iconic concert film “Stop Making Sense.” In the clip, which was intended to be humorous, Byrne interviews himself in a split-screen scene, portraying multiple different reporters.Byrne addressed the matter in a series of tweets on Tuesday. “To watch myself in the various characters, including black and brown face, I acknowledge it was a major mistake in judgement that showed a lack of real understanding,” he wrote.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorDespite the pandemic that has devastated global economies, revenues of BMG’s music division were up 4.8% year-over-year for the first half of 2020, reaching $308 million.The company’s operating income for the period was flat at $54 million, while the percentage of digital revenue was up 3%, from 56% to 59%.The company said it was its best first-half since it was founded in 2008, despite its 19 offices across the world being closed and its 926 staffers working remotely.“Thanks to dynamic growth in music streaming, further facilitated by [BMG’s] broad and highly digital setup, any lost revenues due to postponed releases or disruptions of physical distribution [during the pandemic] were more than compensated for,”

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFive agents formerly with Paradigm have launched a new agency called TBA that represents The War on Drugs, Courtney Barnett, Chvrches, Jose Gonzales, Guided by Voices, Jay Som, Yaeji, Omar Apollo and many other artists.The company, which has offices in New York and Los Angeles, was founded by agents Marshall Betts, Avery McTaggart, Amy Davidman, Ryan Craven, and Devin Landau.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHipgnosis Songs has acquired the music catalog of Motley Crue bassist and main songwriter Nikki Sixx, one of the most successful rock bands of the 1980s.Hipgnosis have acquired 100% of Sixx’s writer’s share of PRO income and writer’s Sound Exchange royalties for the cataog, which contains 305 songs. Further details were not disclosed.With hits like “Looks That Kills,” Shout at the Devil,” “Home Sweet Home” and “Girls, Girls, Girls,” the group has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide and scored nine Top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn this pivotal year and racially charged era, the BET Awards chose to open their show in June with a new version of Public Enemy’s iconic 1989 song “Fight the Power,” which sadly is as relevant today as it was 31 years ago.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHxouse, the Toronto-based skills incubator launched by The Weeknd, his creative director La Mar Taylor and Influencers PR’s Ahmed Islamil, announced that TD Bank Group has become a founding sponsor of its leadership and entrepreneurial development initiative, Black Hxouse.