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On October 10th, Apple will perform and take part in conversation with the magazine’s staff writer Emily Nussbaum, who won a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2016. Nussbaum recently wrote a feature on Apple last March, in which she went to the singer’s Venice Beach home and discussed Fetch the Bolt Cutters.  … [Read more...] about Fiona Apple to Perform at 2020 New Yorker Festival

“I don’t like all the sniping back and forth, though mostly it’s been forth,” says Peresman. “And I totally understand his point of view. What he’s failing to understand is that there are certain acts that are nominated and brought in on their entire body of work, up until the day before the nominating committee meets. They are still evolving bands that are breaking new ground. With Kiss, there wasn’t a single person we spoke to that didn’t feel the reason these guys were being inducted was because of the four original members. It’s an incredibly unique situation. I can’t think of another band, outside of Gwar, that has members that are dressed up in costumes. You basically have these new members that are replicating exactly and playing the music that was created by the two other members that are being inducted.” … [Read more...] about Rock Hall Induction 2014: Inside the Fights, Performances, Kiss’ Wrath

In the highly coveted post Super Bowl slot, The Blacklist got an 8.7 rating among adults 18-49 and 26.5 million viewers. Not only is that a series high in both viewership and demo of 111% and 129% respectively for the James Spader starring show but it is the most watched scripted show on NBC since ER pulled in 28.3 million on the night of the Friends finale on May 6, 2004. While up 11% in the demo and up almost 6 million more than 20.800 million tht CBS’s Elementary got in 2013, which was the last time a drama aired post Super Bowl, last night’s Blacklist was still down from the 37.881 million who watched Grey’s Anatomy after the 2006 Big Game on ABC. As has been said before, unscripted just seem to do better post Super Bowl as the 37.611 million that The Voice drew for NBC in 2012 shows. … [Read more...] about Touchdown! NBC’s Super Bowl Scores Record-Smashing Viewership – Update

Like the director’s New York-set In Jackson Heights from 2015, City Hall is a paean to a place where folks from all parts of the world — “they feel like they never left their country,” is how the owner of a local supermarket chain appeals to customers — and from different sexual orientations manage to get together and make things happen. For all those people (you know who I’m talking about) trying to paint a picture of Democrat-run cities steeped in crime and chaos, Wiseman’s film provides extensive proof that not only is this untrue, but that places like Boston, where the pre-pandemic unemployment rate hovered around 2.5%, are in fact thriving. … [Read more...] about ‘City Hall’: Film Review | Venice 2020

Every one of them is a blast to watch, but I especially couldn't get enough of the fabulous yin-yang symbiosis of Angie Swan on guitar and Bobby Wooten III on bass, the former a cool, commanding shredder, the latter emanating wildly infectious euphoria in his playing and dance moves. Likewise, the astounding dancing percussionists, Mauro Refosco, Gustavo Di Dalva, Daniel Freedman, Tim Keiper, Stéphane San Juan and Jacquelene Acevedo, wielding an assortment of drums, both hand- and stick-played, and building an ecstatic sonic landscape that extends from rock through Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean rhythms. … [Read more...] about David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’: Film Review | TIFF 2020