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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H3C3x7zKMANBC’s “The Sound of Music Live!” aired Thursday night and predictably sent social media snarking, followed by more tempered reviews from TV critics and theater lovers.Although the show might not have been one of everybody’s favorite things, NBC got big props for making the effort to stage a live three-hour, multi-set musical. Early ratings indications are that NBC has a hit.Reaction to individual performances was mixed, to be kind, but one common sentiment was that a high point…

Victoria Monét, it’s safe to say, has left her songwriter-to-the-stars era behind and graduated to pop stardom. When we meet in the London offices of her record label, Sony, she is immaculately formed: long, poker-straight blond hair runs down to her stiletto-heeled boots, and she is flanked by makeup and hair stylists touching up her look at random intervals.The week before we speak, the 34-year-old received seven Grammy nominations, making her the second most-nominated artist of the year. Waving off jetlag and hunger…

Recorded in 1958, Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree has long since joined the select group of festive songs that boom out of radios, shops and pubs at this time of year. The song – which also featured in the hit 1990 film Home Alone – is definitively seasonal, from its gentle rock’n’rolling groove to its: “Deck the halls with boughs of holly”.Now, 65 years after its first release, Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree has finally reached No 1 in the US chart. “It’s been a week, I tell you!” says Lee over a Zoom…

THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer. On The Masked Singer Season 10’s “Soundtrack to My Life” episode, Anteater, who added a raspy twang throughout the show, was revealed as Hall & Oates’ John Oates.  “In keeping with this episode, you were the soundtrack of my life,” panelist Ken Jeong said to Oates after the reveal. “I just grew up on you, man. I’m literally starstruck right now.” After a head-to-head performance against Donut, Candelabra was the second…

Singer also talks about her MTV VMA performance and being a role model for those struggling with mental health on Thursday's episode Demi Lovato gets into the holiday spirit on Thursday’s episode of the Jennifer Hudson Show, joining the host for a seasonal riff off. In a game titled “You Say It, We’ll Sing It,” Lovato and Hudson turned the audience’s responses to holiday-themed queries. For example, the singers turned one audience member’s presumed Christmas gift — “a lump of coal, because I’ve…

THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer. The Masked Singer panelists dressed the part riding Harleys, smearing red lipstick over dressing room mirrors, and chucking hand horns to the sky during a special rock and roll-themed night. While Group B finalists Tiki, Husky, and Sea Queen gave head-banging performances only Sea Queen would head to the finale. Husky was the first to be sent home and was revealed as R&B legend Ginuwine.  Tiki didn’t go home without a fight,…

When Canadian producer Jordan Young started playing around with AI voice-cloning technology — ultimately creating a fake Kanye West song that sounded, well, just like Kanye West — it immediately prompted him to think about the ethical implications of the technology. "As soon as I made it, I started to think ... if anybody can make music with anyone's voice, what does this mean for artists? What does this mean for music?" said Young, who has worked with Beyoncé, BTS and Dua Lipa.He and his company Hooky recently developed…

Nashy-Nashai and Wanda Original also join for a mix of Christmas covers and new tracks on A Neon Christmas The rising musicians signed to Lex Borrero and Tainy‘s Neon16 label are providing a new soundtrack for this holiday season. On Thursday, the Latin record label released A Neon Christmas, featuring original holiday tracks by its stars such as Alex Ponce and RMAND. On the EP, Ponce provides a synth-infused original pop song, “Gracias Navidad.” Dominican star RMAND joins for “Está Brillando…

Song became a surprising Christmas staple thanks, in part, to the singers' dramatic performance Nobody in the history of music ever sounded quite as decadently downtrodden (or whiskey-drowned, -sodden) as Shane MacGowan on “Fairytale of New York,” the soppy Christmas carol the Pogues‘ first released as a single in 1987. But as the luck of the Irish would have it, Kirsty MacColl was fortuitously available to take the piss right out of him. When he sings, “I could have been someone,” she rejoins with…

THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer. On The Masked Singer Season 10’s disco-night episode, it seemed fitting to begin with the Saturday Night Fever hit “Disco Inferno” by The Trammps. During the Group A finals Wednesday night, S’More, Cow, and Gazelle took audiences to funkytown with upbeat tunes, glittering pantsuits, and disco-decorated dancers. In the end, S’More lost his groove and was revealed as O-Town’s Ashley Parker Angel, which panelist Jenny McCarthy guessed…