Maïmouna Doucouré’s film about the Franco-American jazz icon is set to begin shooting this fall

Margo Price and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra are also among the artists celebrating the late musicians’ 80th birthday in Chicago

The rooftop where the band played its final show will be the seven-story archive’s summit

FKA Twigs will star as Jazz Age icon Josephine Baker in a new movie biopic from “Cuties” filmmaker Maimouna Doucouré, which begins filming this fall. Variety previously reported that the Grammy-winning artist was in negotiations to portray the trailblazing American-born French dancer, singer, actor and civil rights activist in the film, which is financed and […]

Dua Lipa is suing electronics maker Samsung for $15 million, claiming the company has utilized her image to sell TVs without her permission. The Grammy-winning, dance-pop singer filed the copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit in California federal court May 8th alleging Samsung is using her photo on television boxes without…

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Dave Matthews Band kicked off their 2026 US tour with a duo of shows in Texas that included a few surprises in their sets. For the May 8th set in The Woodlands, Texas at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, DMB started their 20-song set with “So Right” and “Warehouse” before…

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The deal includes the band’s entire recorded output, including their 13 studio albums

The comedy film, Maitreya, will be directed by Portlandia co-creator Jonathan Krisel

It’s anything but a dry spell commercially for Kacey Musgraves right now, as her “Middle of Nowhere” album debuted with the best opening-week numbers of her career to date, 100,000 equivalent album units. The recent Variety gover gal landed at a solid No. 3 with that figure. Musgraves’ last album, 2024’s “Deeper Well,” was close, […]

Rita Wilson is hardly the first Hollywood actress who’s complained of a dearth of interesting parts for women, or to have met that by realizing that she might have to proactively create challenging roles for herself. What sets her further apart is that she’s taken to creating these parts in song. And yes, as a […]