Virtual Reality broadcasting company NextVR is partnering with Live Nation to bring immersive live concerts to music fans around the world. To experience a concert as if you were there, all that will be needed is the NextVR app and a Samsung Gear VR headset. Despite being in its infancy as a consumer technology, virtual […]
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Kaleidoscope Film Distribution will handle worldwide sales on the film about the rise and fall of the Britpop label. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Cannes: 'Trainspotting' Author Irving Welsh to Adapt Music Biopic 'Creation Records'
Plans are to broadcast “hundreds” of musical performances in VR. Source: Yahoo Music Link: NextVR, Live Nation in Virtual Reality Music Pact
The 2016 Billboard Music Awards air live from Las Vegas on Sunday, May 22, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Celine Dion to Receive ICON Award, Perform at 2016 Billboard Music Awards
Dan Aykroyd and Judy Belushi, widow of John Belushi, are rebooting The Blues Brothers as a primetime animated series, which they’ll begin to pitch to networks and TV platforms this month, Deadline reports. Aykroyd and Belushi co-created the series with original Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts, while the animation is being handled by… Source: RollingStone Link: Dan […]
Mark Hoppus refuted Tom DeLonge’s claims that the estranged Blink-182 co-founders had met recently during an interview on Kevin Klein Live Tuesday, saying “I haven’t even spoken to Tom in a year and a half.” In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, DeLonge insisted that he had never officially quit or been fired from… Source: RollingStone Link: Mark […]
There’s a telling scene in Scotty McCreery’s new book, Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream, that takes place during his championship run on Season 10 of American Idol. In the semi-final selection rounds — before the week-by-week fan voting competition begins — he still has to… Source: RollingStone Link: Scotty McCreery […]
DJ and super-producer A-Trak has teamed up with Phantogram for the spirited new single “Parallel Lines.” The track premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show and begins like a ballad, with plunging piano chords. Sarah Barthel’s dreamy, melancholic vocals beckon: “You were always on the other side/ Running in parallel lines/ You and… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Steven Tyler and Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton wrote “Janie’s Got a Gun” 26 years ago. The song, about a girl’s revenge on her sexually abusive father, earned the band its first Grammy in 1991 and remains Aerosmith’s most politicized statement to date. The track was an awakening for Tyler, he said onstage at the David Geffen… Source: RollingStone Link: 5 Things […]