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British electronic duo Broads have announced their new 6-track 'Ollust' LP, a spacious and upflifting ambient offering set for release on March 6 via Humm Recordings. Ahead of this, they revealed the lead single 'Happisburgh', along with B-side 'Red Pits'.

Manchester-based indie music stalwart Harry Stafford presents his new single 'Painted Ocean', inspired by the musings of such Jazz and blues stalwarts as Mose Allison and Hoagy Carmichael. Painted Ocean' is a smokey, barroom piano-blues, lament.

Deadline reports that actor Ryan Phillippe has joined the cast of David E. Kelley's 'The Big Sky' on ABC.

For as long as it's existed, the American music industry has obsessed over Black music, co-opting it into a package to be marketed and resold. Many Black perspectives deemed too threatening were defanged or erased in the process—particularly in genres like country, bluegrass, and folk, which draw on African-American sources but are usually performed by and for white people. Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount resurrects those perspectives on his new album, Spider Tales, out May 29, 2020 on Free Dirt Records. He's digging deep into the roots of the music, pushing all the way back to Africa; the album's title, Spider Tales, is a nod to the great trickster of Akan mythology, Anansi. “The Anansi stories were tales that celebrated unseating the oppressor,” Blount says, “and finding ways to undermine those in power even if you're not in a position to initiate a direct conflict.” Blount is also drawing out the coded pain and anger in the songs to give voice to those who were shunned from America's musical canon. “There's a long history of expressions of pain in the African-American tradition,” Blount says. “Often those things couldn't be stated outright. If you said the wrong thing to the wrong person back then you could die from it, but the anger and the desire for justice are still there. They're just hidden. The songs deal with intense emotion but couch it in a love song or in religious imagery so that it wasn't something you could be called out about. These ideas survived because people in power weren't perceiving the messages, but they're there if you know where to look.” Blount is determined to show that this music didn't form in a vacuum, but in the face of ruinous hardship.

NBC and dick clark productions announced today that Kelly Clarkson will return once again to host NBC's three-hour live telecast of the “2020 Billboard Music Awards” on Wednesday, April 29 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. This will mark Clarkson's third time hosting the hugely popular award show after receiving unanimous acclaim as host in 2018 and 2019.

Variety reports that Macaulay Culkin has joined the cast of 'American Horror Story.' This marks Culkin's first series regular role on television.

GRAMMY® award-winning band, The SteelDrivers will perform at the City Winery in New York City on Friday, April 17, 2020 as part of their Bad For You U.S. tour. The band will bring their unique bluegrass sound to fans around the country following the release of their fifth studio album, Bad For You.

Grammy-winning artist Maren Morris will embark on “RSVP: The Tour” throughout North America, including festival dates at Governors Ball Music Festival and Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience and headline stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Colorado's storied Red Rocks Amphitheatre and many more. Supporting acts James Arthur, Ryan Hurd and Caitlyn Smith are confirmed for select dates. The tour kicks off in June following Maren's headlining appearance at the Houston Rodeo on March 7, her biggest show to date.

New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) is pleased to announce the presentation of the Loreen Arbus Disability Awareness Grant to Ashley Eakin for her narrative short film Single. The film completion grant, now in its 13th year, is provided through the generosity of longtime disability rights advocate Loreen Arbus and awards $7,500 to a woman filmmaker for a film on physical or developmental disability issues.

“The Bachelor: The Women Tell All” – Peter's dramatic and emotional journey is about to come to an end. But first, he must come to grips with Madison turning away from the strong relationship they have developed until the fantasy suites. Will Madison even show up to the rose ceremony? And then it's a sensational and shocking “The Bachelor: The Women Tell All,” MONDAY, MARCH 2 (8:00-10:00 p.m. EST), on ABC. (TV-14, DL) Episodes can also be viewed next day on demand and on Hulu.

Producer, guitarist and keyboardist David Roback, best known as the co-founder – with Hope Sandoval – of seminal west coast musical group Mazzy Star, has died.

Deadline reports that Liza Lapira has joined 'The Equalizer,' which also stars Queen Latifah. The series is described as a re-imagining of the one from the 1980s.

'At the time when I was writing 'Cursed,' I was feeling defeated and I was dealing with a lot of mixed emotions,' Posa shares about the new release. 'Everything was going wrong, 'I was cursed.' I needed people to see my words instead of hearing them, so I shot the video as if it was going on right then in the most common small place, a hotel.'

Variety reports that 'Rebel Ridge,' starring John Boyega, has rounded out its cast at Netflix.

The Feb. 24 “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” featuring the superstar Korean pop band BTS, has generated 4.2 million Total Interactions across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, to rank as the #1 most-social episode of any entertainment program for the year to date across all dayparts and genres (Source: Nielsen Social SCR; Series Only, Linear Window, 01/01/20-02/24/20 excludes Sports and News).

Keeping up a tradition of innovative, exclusive performances and content, preeminent artist-first music streaming platform Audiomack welcomes multiplatinum New York rap superstar A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie as its latest “Fine Tuned” artist. As part of this one-of-a-kind feature, rappers break down some of their most notable hits in an intimate performance, reimagining the structure and style all at once. This time around, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie performed a medley of “Me and My Guitar” and “DTB 4 Life” from his recent blockbuster album, Artist 2.0.

Variety reports that Universal Pictures has bought the rights to 'The Mister,' a 2019 romance novel by 'Fifty Shades of Grey' scribe E.L. James.

Rachelle Garniez has been much admired as a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, a veteran of New York's cabaret scene who has worked with everyone from Jack White to Taylor Mac. Her forthcoming album, Gone to Glory, chronicles her interpretation of songs written or made famous by a variety of dearly beloved artists, all recently departed.

Variety reports that Michael Rooker has been made a series regular on the upcoming series 'The President is Missing.'

ABC's “The View” averaged 2.605 million Total Viewers, 349,000 Women 25-54 and 250,000 Women 18-49, during the week of Feb. 17, 2020, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.