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M exico’s current musical identity might be rooted by the strums of the requinto and the international popularity of corridos tumbados, but even with the dominance of regional Mexican music, a pop renaissance is brewing — and singer Kenia Os is leading the charge. At 27, the artist comes across like a life-size Bratz doll, armed with sugary vocals and upbeat melodies. She started out as a teenage beauty YouTuber in 2015, before transitioning into music. Over the past four years, she’s helped make Latin pop a musical export worth taking seriously, thanks to breakthrough hits like 2022’s “Malas Decisiones.”…

Mark Kermode believed in God, the devil, and the movies. He didn’t have faith in the concept of miracles, however. Until, like the saints, he experienced one himself. Long before the 63-year-old writer, musician, and TV personality became one of the most recognizable film critics in the United Kingdom, Kermode was just another British kid infatuated with rockabilly and horror flicks. One Friday night in the early 1980s, the power of cinema compelled him to go to the Phoenix Theater in East Finchley, London, to check out a late-night double feature with a bandmate. The second half of the bill…

Singer’s four-song set at star-studded event also featured “Blank Space,” “Love Story,” and “I Knew It, I Knew You” Taylor Swift performed “The Fate of Ophelia” live for the first time Saturday at the star-studded Academy Museum Gala. Conan O’Brien introduced Swift prior to her four-song set, calling her “John, Paul, George, and Ringo all in one” before she and her band launched in “Blank Space.” Following that, Swift told the audience that they were about to witness the debut performance of a Life of a Showgirl track. “This song, which we are playing for the very first time for…

Taylor Swift took the stage last night at the sixth annual Academy Museum Gala, a Los Angeles fundraising event benefitting the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The singer-songwriter gave her The Life of a Showgirl track “The Fate of Ophelia” a live debut, and also performed “Blank Space,” “Love Story,” and “I Knew It, I Knew You,” the original song she wrote for Toy Story 5 earlier this year. Watch videos from the night below.Conan O’Brian introduced Swift’s performance—O’Brian and Swift both worked on Toy Story 5, with O’Brian voicing the film’s potty training gadget Smarty Pants. “It’s an insane,…

Bob Dylan kicked off his Lights of Autumn Tour Saturday evening at the Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway, with a stunning set that featured rarities, surprise covers, new arrangements of old favorites, and even the unveiling of yet another new guitarist, which is now his sixth in just the past five months.  The show began in familiar fashion with “To Be Alone With You” and “Man in the Long Black Coat,” but he then played the Basement Tapes classic “Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)” for the first time since 2005. And then four songs later, he broke…

Madonna was as ambitious as she’s ever been in the studio sessions for July 3’s Confessions II, which is saying a lot. For the sequel to 2005’s Confessions on a Dance Floor, she reunited with that album’s producer, Stuart Price, and crafted a relentless DJ set of an album that also includes some of her most emotionally bare songs: a duet with her daughter Lola (“The Test”) and wrenching songs about her late stepmother (“Betrayal”) and her late brother, Christopher Ciccone (“Fragile”). She brings her full pop firepower, too, on songs from the Sabrina Carpenter duet “Bring Your Love” to the…

A Harry Styles tour documentary directed by John Wilson is on the way. Variety reports that The History of Concrete director and creator of HBO’s How To With John Wilson has been filming Styles’ 30-night residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden for a forthcoming project produced by Universal Pictures Content Group, Peanut World Pictures and Styles.Styles’ current run at Madison Square Garden kicked off back in August and concludes at the end of this month—it’s the longest single-engagement residency the venue has ever hosted. He’s supporting his latest album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, which he released back…

Singer also brings out guests PinkPantheress and the Dare at Kia Forum show Charli XCX’s Music, Fashion, Film Tour touched down this weekend in Los Angeles, where the singer welcomed surprise guest Chappell Roan to the stage. The two singers linked up to duet on Charli’s breakthrough solo single “Boom Clap,” marking the first time she has performed the 2014 song live in the Brat/Music, Fashion, Film era: “Every night on tour, I play an old song. I asked a friend of mine if she would come and sing an old song of mine with me, and they said, ‘The only…

Amici 26 in diretta: la seconda puntata va in onda oggi, domenica 18 ottobre, dalle 14 su Canale 5. Qui trovate, durante la puntata, le gare di canto e di ballo, la sfida degli atleti e i verdetti. La puntata è stata registrata giovedì 15 ottobre. Articolo in aggiornamento durante la puntata. Le pagelle di Luca Jurman arrivano in serata. Orari e streaming: a che ora e dove vedere Amici 26.Leggi ancheAmici 26, presenta i vocal coach: Lalla Francia, Caterina Magliozzi e Lorenzo Ricci Amici 26: i responsabili artistici, la classe e tutte le notizie · le anticipazioni della seconda…

The History of Concrete documentarian has been quietly filming singer’s historic Together, Together residency since August Harry Styles has enlisted filmmaker John Wilson to make a documentary about the singer’s current Madison Square Garden residency. In recent days, photos of Wilson — the offbeat documentarian behind his own How To With John Wilson HBO series and The History of Concrete — trailing Styles with camera in hand emerged on social media, leading fans to wonder if the two were collaborating on some sort of project. Variety has confirmed that the project in question is a documentary about Styles’ Together, Together…