Catalogue

Midge Ure has announced a new 23-date UK tour, ‘Catalogue: The Hits Tour’ for November and December 2024. The new run follows his October 2023 show at the Royal Albert Hall, where the artist celebrated his 70th birthday. ‘Catalogue: The Hits Tour’ will see Midge showcasing his music from the past 50 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1JrRwKeAP4 Midge says “I performed live long before I was ever allowed anywhere near a recording studio and as much as I love spending time writing and recording, live…

Sony announced February's slate of games coming to PlayStation Plus game catalogue for Extra and Deluxe/Premium tier members last week. This month's PS Plus offerings, announced on the PlayStation blog, are headlined by Need for Speed: Unbound, The Outer Worlds, Tales of Arise and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The full list of games arriving to the PS Plus game catalogue this month will be playable starting February 20. Sony had also announced February's three free games coming to PS Plus across all membership tiers late…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCillian Murphy has reflected on his acting career, revealing which of his past movies he’s not so fond of.The Oppenheimer actor, 47, has starred in numerous blockbuster movies, including Inception, A Quiet Place Part II and Dunkirk.In a new interview with GQ, Murphy was asked about one of his lesser-seen roles, 2005’s Red Eye, in which he played charismatic assassin Jackson Rippner…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLeonardo DiCaprio was found “paging through a Victoria’s Secret catalogue” on the set of Blood Diamond, his director has claimed in a new memoir.The funny anecdote was recalled by filmmaker Edward Zwick, who has written the story of his life in a new book titled Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood. Zwick is best known for directing films including the…

Anne Luther, a digital heritage specialist and one of Digital Benin’s principal investigators, hopes the project will be a model for other communities that want to explore how technology can be used to help them reconnect with and reclaim stolen artifacts. “Before Digital Benin, digital restitution was not a conversation being had by larger institutions,” Luther says.  In building the catalogue, the team received more than 400 data sets from 131 institutions in 20 countries, which they then drew from in order to make…

Some books are peculiarly review-proof. I don’t mean that whatever one says will have no effect on their success, though in the case of James O’Brien’s How They Broke Britain, which comprises an extended “charge sheet” of the nine men and one woman its author believes set the UK on a course of unnecessary decline, this is indubitably the case. The book is already a bestseller; a recent event promoting it required a venue change, so great was the demand for tickets.No, what I mean is that some books, at least in the…

Eddie Van Halen was more than just a keyboard player. He was also pretty good at guitar, and throughout his long career, he proved himself an extraordinary technical innovator. Frequently, these innovations were extremely violent. He'd attack a guitar with a chisel to try fitting a new pickup or moving one around, or lay into it with a chainsaw to make it look like a shark. His most famous axe, the red, white and black "Frankenstrat" was a ragtag bitzer he built from parts, taking a humbucking pickup from a Gibson,…

Zee Music Company, a division of media firm Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL), on Friday announced the renewal of its licensing agreement with YouTube and Meta, Facebook's parent company.The deal with two of the world's largest digital content-streaming companies will allow them to access music content from Zee Music's catalogue of over 11,000 songs, said a statement.As part of the deal, users can continue to use Zee Music Company's entire catalogue to create multiple social experiences across YouTube as well as…

Justin Bieber reportedly wants to quit the music industry, as according to reports, the Canadian pop star is currently considering retirement after he sold his entire music catalogue for $200 million.Radar Online reported on Monday, March 27, that the ‘Sorry’ crooner, who revealed last year that he had been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which had partially paralysed his face, wants to focus on his health and his marriage to Hailey Bieber (Hailey Baldwin).‘Justin hasn`t felt right with the world…

Top 10 data catalog software tools that everyone must consider using in the year 2023. Many organizations are dealing with an increase in data sprawl across multiple databases and other repositories in on-premises systems, cloud services, and IoT infrastructure. This complicates data management, and BI and data analytics initiatives are less effective if data scientists, other data analysts, and business users can’t find and understand relevant data. In this article, we have explained the top 10 data catalog software…