Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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Michael Jackson's Thriller has become the first album in RIAA Gold & Platinum Program history to be certified 33x Diamond for United States sales and streams, it was announced by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA), the Estate of Michael Jackson, Epic Records and Legacy Recordings (the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment). Thriller is still the ONLY album ever to have surpassed the RIAA's 30x million mark in U.S. sales. "Thirty five years later, Michael...
The 59th annual Grammy awards were held this year on February 12, 2017 at the STAPLES center in Los Angeles and was enjoyed by all. Once again, premiere `Entertainment marketing company, Distinctive assets has hosted the Annual Grammy gifting lounge. As every year, nominees, presenters and music celebrities were presented with fabulous gifts in honor of their nominations and participation for this year’s incredible event. This year’s lounge was showered with some inc...
This year sees one of the most anticipated Oscar race for categories including best actor, Actress and best picture. Similar to this, an array of strong contenders can also be seen amongst the various Oscar viewing parties and events around town come 26th February. Every year, by far one of the most prestigious and exclusive Oscar parties is the infamous "Night of a 100 stars" Gala. Housed once again in the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton, this event sees guests...
Universal Music Group (UMG) today announced a multi-year agreement with the Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson and NPG Records Inc., effective immediately, that grants UMG exclusive licensing rights to the iconic artist's Grammy-winning NPG recordings, including a library of 25 albums and his highly anticipated trove of unreleased works. With this agreement, UMG becomes the home for Prince's music publishing, merchandise and much of Prince's recorded music. The deal provides an...
Capitol Records has released "Chained to the Rhythm," the first single from Katy Perry's forthcoming album. She will perform the song live for the very first time at the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards, which will air on CBS this Sunday, February 12, at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT. Katy co-wrote "Chained to the Rhythm" with Max Martin, Sia Furler, Ali Payami and Skip Marley. The song is available everywhere for streaming and download. Visit http://Katy.to/CTTR. The lyric video can be...
Richard Hatch died Tuesday. The Santa Monica born actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series, and also as Tom Zarek in the 2003 remake of Battlestar Galactica. Richard Hatch, star of the original "Battlestar Galactica" and the Syfy remake, died on Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his manger confirmed to Variety. Hatch died around 1:30 p.m. at his home in Santa Clarita, Calif., with...
Lady Gaga will be traveling the globe with the Joanne World Tour starting on August 1st in Vancouver, BC and September 22nd in Barcelona with a series of concert dates throughout Europe and the UK before returning to North America in November and December this year. Grammy and Golden Globe winner and Academy Award-nominated Lady Gaga is a one-of-a kind artist and performer. She has amassed an outstanding 30 million global album sales and 150 million single sales, making h...
Academy Award nominee Ruth Negga will be honored at the US-Ireland Alliance's Oscar Wilde Awards on 23 February at J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot in Santa Monica. The actress, who grew up in Limerick, Ireland, will be honored along with Caitriona Balfe, Glen Hansard, Zachary Quinto, and Martin Short. Abrams will emcee. It has also been announced that Chris Pine and Catherine O'Hara will be presenters. For her role in Loving, Ruth's accolades include Academy Award, Golden Globe and...
Music history will be made when Deep Purple and Alice Cooper, joined by special guest, The Edgar Winter Band, visit 19 cities across America this summer on an epic rock tour. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will also serve as the Long Goodbye Tour for Deep Purple, and begins Saturday, August 12 in Las Vegas, with stops in Los Angeles, Boston, including Cooper's hometown of Detroit, and more. More information can be found at www.livenation.com and itinerary is below. Tickets...
God's Problem Child, Willie Nelson's new studio album, will be released on Friday, April 28 by Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment. An album of all-new recordings, God's Problem Child adds 13 new songs to the artist's repertoire, including seven recently written by Willie and Buddy Cannon, his longtime collaborator and producer. The album is Willie's first to debut all-new songs since Band of Brothers reached #1 on the Billboard Country chart and #5 on...
Multi-Grammy Award® winners Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars and The Weeknd will perform on THE VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW, which will film in Paris for the first time, for broadcast Monday, Dec. 5 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The world's most-watched fashion show will be seen in more than 190 countries. Merging fashion, fantasy and entertainment, the lingerie runway show will include pink carpet interviews, model profiles and a behind-the-scenes look...
As part of Bud Light's ongoing efforts to bring people together, the number one beer in America is partnering with global superstar, Lady Gaga, to give fans a first listen of her new album "Joanne." The partnership will come to life through the Bud Light x Lady Gaga Dive Bar Tour, a unique experience where fans will witness small, one-of-a-kind performances of her new album. Instead of playing huge arenas, Lady Gaga will be playing at intimate dive bars, as a nod to the "raw...
UME and CMG have announced the March 31st worldwide release of Neil Diamond 50 - The 50th Anniversary Collection, a 3 CD Anniversary set, coinciding with the legendary entertainer's birthday. This upcoming celebratory music package marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic, Grammy Award-winning and Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame member's first hit "Solitary Man," that began his trajectory as a legendary songwriter, prolific musician and celebrated performer with a time span that ha...
On April 21st, Ray Davies will release his first new album in over nine years – 'Americana' – via Legacy Recordings (a division of Sony Music Entertainment). The 15-track collection of originals serves as a master-crafted return for one of the most acclaimed and iconic songwriters of the past 50 years, and follows Davies' 2013 memoir of the same name, using the book as both source material and creative catalyst. Davies enlisted The Jayhawks as backing band, and recorded the...
Last Thursday, while the media worried about whether a Springsteen tribute band might play for Trump's inauguration, The Boss, himself, slipped into the White House to give a small concert in honor of the staff who have stood with the Obamas during the last eight years. A unnamed contributer at fan blog backstreets.com was one of the staff in attendance as Springsteen performed 15 songs for a group of no more than 250 people. According to the writer, the group filed in for a r...
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is celebrating the 90th birthday of the iconic American singer/songwriter/actor/social activist/cultural ambassador Harry Belafonte (born March 1, 1927) with the release of When Colors Come Together... The Legacy of Harry Belafonte on Friday, February 24, 2017. Preorder available here: http://smarturl.it/belafonte_wcct_amzn Harry Belafonte broke into both mainstream success and musical immortality in 1956...
Artist Mike McNeilly has a new mural installation in West Hollywood paying tribute to legends Carrie Fisher and David Bowie, whose untimely deaths in 2016 (Bowie on January 10th and Fisher on December 25th) book-ended a year that saw the passing of several beloved entertainment icons. Created on the side of the Sofitel Hotel Los Angeles at the intersection of La Cienega and Beverly Boulevards, McNeilly's portraits of Bowie as his alter ego Ziggy Stardust, and Fisher as...
The Harrison family is proud to announce the release of George Harrison - The Vinyl Collection (UMe) box set featuring all of George Harrison's solo studio albums in one collection for the first time. The vinyl box set includes all twelve of George's studio albums with exact replicas of the original release track listing and artwork. Also included in the box set are George's classic live album Live In Japan (2LP), and two 12" single picture discs of 'When We Was Fab' and 'Got...
Live Nation today announced that U2 will return to select stadiums this year with U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the band's classic album. Each show will include a performance of The Joshua Tree in its entirety, with support from one of a number of special guests including Mumford & Sons, OneRepublic and The Lumineers in North America and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds in Europe. Released to universal acclaim on March 9th,1987 and...
Fresh off winning their fan voted Classic Rock Magazine Album of the Year award, Def Leppard announce they will return to the road this spring for a three month run across North America. The Live Nation promoted outing will storm through cities across parts of the U.S. and Canada. This new leg of dates follows the groups massive 70+ city 2016 tour and is set to kick off on April 8th in Manchester, NH and wrap on June 25th in Indianapolis, IN. Joining Def Leppard on select...
The Tuareg people inhabit the Sahara desert, in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. It is one of the world's most remote and little known countries. Santa Monica Dance Studio's Benedicte Schoyen Clark recently travelled to Niger to visit Leslie Clark, Ned Clark's aunt, and the founder of The Nomad Foundation. Bringing their friend, Cooper Bates, the three of them completed a 4-week journey into the poorest,...
(Los Angeles, CA / January 12, 2016) -- Blanc/Biehn Productions (BBP), the powerhouse indie film studio founded by actors/filmmakers Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, announces that principal shooting for Killer Weekend has begun in Los Angeles. Jamielyn Lippman (When the Bough Breaks) will direct the thriller, with an original screenplay by Travis Romero, who wrote the story with Lony Ruhmann; Romero and Ruhmann have also collaborated on behalf of BBP in the 2013...
Mountain lions have been much in the news recently. In November, P-45, a radio-collared male mountain lion in the Santa Monica mountains broke into a pen and killed ten alpacas. Earlier this month, P-39, a female mountain lion, and the mother of three kittens, was killed trying to cross the 118 freeway near Chatsworth. Both incidents highlight the issues of urbanization, connectivity and fragmentation facing our mountain lions living in the Greater Los Angeles area. It is...
The roots run very deep for the "The King and I" starting with the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the 1860's. Those compelling memoirs were molded into the novel "Anna and the King of Siam" written by Margaret Landon in 1944. By 1951 the Rogers and Hammerstein Tony Award winning Broadway hit "The King and I" was launched. Since then the story has been told many times on Broadway, London's West End and on national U.S. tour. Only...
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), today announced the twelve films nominated for the 6th AACTA International Awards across seven categories – Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. MANCHESTER BY THE SEA leads the way with six nominations, followed closely by LA LA LAND and Australian films LION and HACKSAW RIDGE (fresh from receiving nine Awards at the 6th AA...
