Ryan Gosling may be resurrecting his long-dormant musical project Dead Man’s Bones just in time for Halloween. The actor’s folk-rock duo with Zach Shields have hinted at their first new material in 17 years, with an announcement seemingly slated for later this month. The speculation began when Gosling’s partner, Eva…

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John Mayer has launched his own record label, Sob Rock Records, in partnership with Mercury Records. To mark the occasion, he has announced a new single titled “Tom and Jerry.” Stream it below. The track marks the singer-songwriter’s first new solo release since his 2021 album, Sob Rock, which is…

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Singer-songwriter and Variety Hitmakers 2024 honoree Raye has won the 2026 Mercury prize for her epic second studio album, “This Music May Contain Hope,” beating out Olivia Dean, Paul McCartney and others for the prize. The Mercury Prize has no real equivalent in the U.S., and is intended to recognize music from the U.K. and […]

John Mayer has had his hands full with what felt like a hundred projects over the past few years — with putting out new music not among them. It takes a stretch of the memory to even recall that he announced a parting of ways with Sony Music back in 2022, with no followup revelation […]

Chaka Khan will receive the Classic Soul Honor at the 2026 Soul Train Awards, celebrating the singer-songwriter’s influence on R&B. Across her career, which spans more than five decades, Khan helped shape the sound of soul, funk and R&B with her music, including hits like “Tell Me Something Good,” “Sweet Thing,” “Ain’t Nobody,” “I’m Every […]

Veteran communications exec Liz Morentin has launched Greenvalley Media & Marketing, focusing on entertainment, media and technology companies and their leaders. Morentin most recently served as SVP and head of global communications and brand strategy at Virgin Music Group, and over the years has held top roles at Warner Bros. Records, Paradigm Talent Agency, Live […]

I asked Ellen Burstyn where a Grammy would go, if she ever won one. She stands up to show me. “I wonder if I took my iPad off the stand and walked you into my office, where they all are,” she says, immediately reaching for it over a video Zoom. Her assistant, Caitlin, gets the […]

Charli xcx and Martin Scorsese’s collaboration is extending beyond the cover for her new album “Music, Fashion, Film.” Sources tell Variety that the pop star has a cameo in the Oscar-winning director’s upcoming movie “What Happens at Night” alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Described as a Gothic psychological horror film, the Apple and StudioCanal […]

It’s hard to single out any one song as the “secret weapon” of Chappell Roan’s “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess”; as the best pop debut of the 2020s, the entire album was pretty weaponized. But the ballad “Coffee” certainly counts as a sleeper — and Roan was not sleeping on it when […]