Smashing Pumpkins headlined night one of Kroq’s 2018 Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Forum.<\/b>
\nKROQ held the first night of its annual Almost Acoustic Christmas on Saturday at the Forum, and from new punk to ska to classics from the \u201990s, the Los Angeles institution served up a formidable line-up. Smashing Pumpkins got top billing at the concert, joining groups like 30 Seconds to Mars, Bad Religion, Greta Van […]
First-round voting is underway for Oscar\u2019s Original Song and Original Score categories, but Academy music-branch voters are discovering that four talked-about scores are missing from the eligibility list. Music for \u201cSolo: A Star Wars Story,\u201d \u201cGreen Book,\u201d \u201cMandy\u201d and \u201cThe Other Side of the Wind\u201d has been disqualified for various reasons, Variety has learned. More […]
Mumford & Sons have come a long way from their raw and rustic roots to have happily come no way at all. Even though the British quartet smoothed and softened elements of the rough, intimate folk of their 2007 origin story to include flickering arena-rock guitars (on 2015\u2019s \u201cWilder Mind\u201d) and windy synths (2018\u2019s \u201cDelta\u201d), […]
Despite having a court date in Queens Friday morning (Dec. 7), Cardi B was on hand for holiday cheer and a victory lap celebrating her five Grammy nominations on stage at the Z100 Jingle Ball at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden. The hip-hop star faced a judge answering that morning to answer to charges that […]
Nothing takes you back to time and a place like the music of a particular era. That\u2019s one big reason why music documentaries are flourishing at a time of enormous demand for high-end docu productions. This year\u2019s five Grammy Award nominees for best music film reflect the appetite for stories about renowned and beloved musical figures, […]
John Carpenter\u2019s \u201cHalloween\u201d music? A \u201cStar Wars\u201d compendium? It\u2019s no shock to see these show up on a list of soundtrack label Var\u00e8se Sarabande\u2019s historical 10 biggest selling albums. More surprising? Non-genre soundtracks like \u201cRudy\u201d and \u201cThe Man from Snowy River,\u201d which film music fans snatched up in numbers matching some of the more obvious […]
\u201cIt\u2019s one of the true pioneering enterprises in our business,\u201d says composer Alan Silvestri about the preeminent film music label, Var\u00e8se Sarabande, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Silvestri won a 2001 Grammy for instrumental composition for his theme for \u201cCast Away,\u201d a movie that has very little music and was an unlikely […]<\/p>\n