Want to watch Questlove‘s Oscar-nominated documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), but don’t have Hulu or Disney+? You’re in luck.
The acclaimed film, which documents the six-week-long, star-studded 1969 event The Harlem Cultural Festival, will have its broadcast television premiere on Sunday, February 20 at 8 p.m. EST on ABC.
The festival, the tapes of which sat on a shelf for decades, featured huge stars of soul, blues, Latin, jazz and R&B. Among the artists you’ll see performing in the film are Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Sly and the Family Stone, The 5th Dimension, The Staple Singers, B.B. King and more.
In related news, while a digital and CD version of the movie’s soundtrack is out now, an expanded two-LP version of the soundtrack will be out June 17. It includes 17 songs selected by Questlove. Target will offer a single LP version pressed on red vinyl. You can pre-order both now.
The LP’s track listing gives you an idea of how varied the lineup was at the festival, which was all but forgotten because it was overshadowed by Woodstock, which took place around the same time:
The Chambers Brothers — “Uptown”
B.B. King — “Why I Sing The Blues”
The 5th Dimension — “Don’t Cha Hear Me Callin’ To Ya”
The 5th Dimension — “Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)”
David Ruffin — “My Girl”
The Edwin Hawkins Singers — “Oh Happy Day”
The Staple Singers — “It’s Been A Change”
The Operation Breadbasket Orchestra & Choir Featuring Mahalia Jackson and Mavis Staples — “Precious Lord Take My Hand”
Gladys Knight & The Pips — “I Heard It Through The Grapevine”
Mongo Santamaria — “Watermelon Man”
Ray Barretto — “Together”
Herbie Mann — “Hold On, I’m Comin’”
Sly & The Family Stone — “Sing A Simple Song”
Sly & The Family Stone — “Everyday People”
Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach — “Africa”
Nina Simone — “Backlash Blues”
Nina Simone — “Are You Ready”
Britney Spears appears poised to restart her music career now that her conservatorship is a thing of the past.
The singer shared a new Instagram video of her dancing in a tight, red bathing suit and black strappy heels to one of her favorite songs she’s recorded.
“This is a tease [devil smile emoji] of what’s to come !!!! My song ‘Get Naked’ [headphone emoji] !!!” Britney cryptically captioned. “Just PLAYING around folks !!!!” The video depicts the Grammy winner using ballet barres to spin her head and gyrate her hips before she seductively struts toward the camera and busts out her signature full body twirl.
“Get Naked” was a single Britney recorded for her 2007 album, Blackout, which was released a few months before she was placed in her controversial 13-year conservatorship.
Among those praising the singer’s new post was pal Paris Hilton, actress Lily James, Queer Eye star Bobby Berk and many others.
It is unknown what exactly Britney is teasing here, but some fans are hoping we’re about to get Blackout 2.0.
All six members of New Edition will join Tamron Hall next week for an hour-long interview.
Ricky Bell, Bobby Brown, Ronnie DeVoe, Johnny Gill, Ralph Tresvant and Michael Bivins will appear on the syndicated daytime talk show on Tuesday, February 15. They’ll chat about their history, their personal and professional struggles, and reveal “stories they’ve never shared,” according to ABC.
Most exciting for fans, though, will be a special performance and a sneak peek of the group’s upcoming 30-city The Culture Tour with Charlie Wilson and special guest Jodeci. It kicks off February 16 in Columbia, Georgia and is set to wrap up April 10 in Miami.
(WASHINGTON) — A bill that would eliminate forced arbitration agreements for sexual assault and harassment survivors in the workplace was approved in the Senate in a voice vote Thursday, and it now heads to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
The legislation ushers in some of the most significant workplace reforms in decades.
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who has long championed the bill and is one if its lead authors, said the bill “will give survivors their day in court, allow them to discuss their cases publicly and end the days of institutional protection for harassers.”
“It will help us fix a broken system that protects perpetrators and corporations and end the days of silencing survivors,” Gillibrand said on the Senate floor Thursday.
An aide to the senator told ABC News that the bill will go into effect immediately after Biden signs it into law.
The bill’s passage comes a few years after the #MeToo movement launched cases of sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace into the public sphere, revealing just how often men in positions of power settle cases and silence victims by using secretive processes.
These practices have allowed some men to move on to new jobs without having to reveal to the public that claims had ever been filed against them.
This bill would for the first time ensure that survivors of sexual harassment and assault have the option of suing their abusers in state, tribal or federal court.
The House voted on the bill in a bipartisan 335-97 vote earlier in the week. All the votes against it came from Republicans.
“Today, the House took a key step toward ending the shameful practice of forced arbitration of sexual assault and harassment in the workplace. This landmark legislation will void agreements currently silencing more than 60 million workers as well as countless more consumers, who have been denied the freedom to pursue recourse for sexual assault and harassment by nursing home contracts, property leases and other legal agreements,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement.
“With today’s strong, bipartisan vote, the House sent a clear signal to survivors across our nation that they deserve the freedom to seek justice and to make their voices heard,” she added.
According to a summary of the bill, H.R. 4445, the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act “would allow sexual harassment and sexual assault survivors to elect to file a case in a court of law rather than be subject to mandatory, forced arbitration provisions in cases involving sexual harassment or sexual assault disputes.”
By voiding forced arbitration clauses in the case of sexual assault and harassment, “survivors are provided the freedom to decide what legal path works best for them — that can include bringing a claim in court, discussing their case publicly, or seeking another kind of legal remedy. It will eliminate institutional protection for harassers and abusers and give survivors the chance to pursue justice,” according to the bill summary.
Proponents of the bill say the point of the legislation is to get cases of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace out in the open so that predators are punished and unable to repeat their offenses. Typically, in arbitration cases, the facts of a case don’t become public, and the accused can often move on to their next place of employment without any public recourse.
Just before the bill passed, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said it was “long overdue.”
“It is an outrage that women and men who are abused can not seek justice are forced to be quiet are forced to keep the agony inside themselves, it is outrageous,” Schumer said. “For decades, this forced arbitration has deprived millions of people form the basic right to justice.”
Republicans who have opposed the bill say it’s an overreach by the federal government in workplace matters.
One of the most prominent advocates for ending forced arbitration in sexual misconduct cases, however, is Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host who filed a lawsuit against the late Roger Ailes, the former head of the cable network.
“Yes we will make history and have all women’s voices lifted up!” Carlson tweeted ahead of Monday’s vote.
In a statement earlier this month, the White House’s budget backed the bill.
“This bipartisan, bicameral legislation empowers survivors of sexual assault and sexual harassment by giving them a choice to go to court instead of being forced into arbitration,” the White House’s budget office, the Office of Management and Budget, said.
(WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has found sparse call records and gaps in the White House telephone logs from Jan. 6, according to two sources familiar with the investigation.
One source indicated to ABC News that the logs do not reflect all the calls they understand former President Donald Trump was making that day.
Investigators have not uncovered any evidence that records were deleted or changed.
It’s public knowledge that Trump used not only his personal cell phone to make calls but also the phones of his aides.
The apparent gaps in the calls records is the latest challenge for the committee as they try to paint a complete picture of what Trump was doing and who he was talking to that day.
The call logs obtained by the committee detail incoming and outgoing calls through the White House switchboard.
A spokesperson for the select committee declined to comment.
You can watch now Foo Fighters‘ trip to Fraggle Rock without an Apple TV+ subscription.
As previously reported, Dave Grohl and company appear on an episode of the new Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock series, which brings back the beloved music-loving puppets created by the late Jim Henson. The series premiered on Apple TV+ in January, but the streamer has now released a clip of the Foos’ performance.
The video, which you can watch now on YouTube, finds the “Everlong” outfit playing an original song, fittingly titled “Fraggle Rock Rock.” The tune also appears on the Back to the Rock soundtrack, which is out now.
By the way, Fraggle Rock isn’t Grohl’s first foray into the wacky world of Henson’s creations. He also had a cameo in the 2011 The Muppets movie, and guested on a 2015 episode of the ABC sitcom The Muppets.
Chris Young is a frontrunner after the 2022 ACM Awards nominees were announced Thursday morning. He earned the most nominations of any artist, thanks largely to his mega-hit duet with Kane Brown, “Famous Friends.”
Chris earned seven mentions in total over four categories. He’s double-nominated in three of those, due to his role as both a producer and artist on the single and its album, also titled Famous Friends. He’s a bit of a dark horse at the awards show, having never won an ACM trophy in the past.
Behind Chris, the most-nominated artists are Walker Hayes, Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton, who are tied for second place, with five mentions apiece. Carrie Underwood, Carly Pearce and Jordan Davis also made a splash on the nominees list, coming in with four nods each.
Also scoring four nods was Morgan Wallen, who returns to the awards show pool after having been disqualified at the ACMs in 2021. His removal from consideration came after video footage emerged showing Morgan yelling a racist slur; he was also barred from all the other major awards shows that year.
But in 2022, the ACMs seem to be welcoming Morgan back. He’s nominated for Male Artist of the Year, also scoring a mention in the Album of the Year category, and two nods for Song of the Year, as both an artist and songwriter on his nominated “7 Summers.”
The 2022 ACMs will stream on Amazon Prime Video on March 7 at 8 p.m. EST.
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This year’s Super Bowl is again bringing on the star power for its lineup of famous commercials. Miley Cyrus is the latest star who’ll make a cameo appearance in a Big Game ad for T-Mobile — and she’ll also be reuniting with her godmother, Dolly Parton.
Dolly teased a clip on Wednesday, which shows her telling her protégé over FaceTime, “You got a voice, Miley. Use it.” As Miley appears struck by inspiration, Survivor’s 1982 hit “Eye of the Tiger” plays in the background.
In a brief montage, Miley toils over song lyrics, plays some notes on a piano and scribbles notes into a notepad before asking out loud, “What would Dolly do?” The teaser abruptly ends with a message telling fans to tune in on Sunday, February 13, to catch the Big Game ad in full.
Dolly seemingly teased the commercial is going to pull some memorable stunts by writing, “There’s big stuff on the way from me,” followed by a winking face emoji.
The Super Bowl, where the Los Angeles Rams take on the Cincinnati Bengals at California’s SoFi Stadium, kicks off this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. ET on NBC.
Congratulations to Eve — she’s a mom. On Instagram, the rapper, actress and TV host announced that she and husband Maximillion Cooper welcomed a son on February 1.
Along with a picture of the baby sleeping peacefully in a floral-print basket, Eve wrote, “Our Beautiful boy was born Feb 1st 2022. Wilde Wolf Fife Alexander Somers Cooper. Words can’t describe this feeling.”
Eve and Cooper have been married since 2014; she’s a stepmom to his four teenage children from his previous marriage. Last October, she announced that she was expecting, writing, “You all know how long we’ve been waiting for this blessing!!!”
The Grammy winner had spoken in the past of her struggles to get pregnant; in 2020, she had fibroid tumors removed to improve her chance of becoming a mother.
In the comments on her Instagram post, Naomi Campbell congratulated Eve, and wrote, “Welcome to the world precious Wilde, play dates please.”
Eve’s Queens co-star Nadine Velazquez, who attended Eve’s baby shower last year, wrote “Welcome to Earth, The Liddle Wolfe. I can’t wait to meet him and see u again!”
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Jack Antonoff has further responded to Damon Albarn‘s comments on Taylor Swift, likening the Blur frontman’s assertion that the pop star “doesn’t write her own songs” to a “Trumpian approach of just making things up.”
“You’re talking about one of the greatest songwriters of our generation who has her name as the only name on many songs,” Antonoff says of Swift. “You don’t need me to explain it; it’s fact.”
“I don’t care if Damon Albarn or anyone likes or doesn’t like something, but to unequivocally make a statement that isn’t true, that you actually have no idea about, and not to get to deep on it, but isn’t that kind of everything that’s wrong with our world at the moment?” he added. “People talking about s*** that they have no clue about?”
Following the LA Times interview — during which Albarn also dismissed the idea of Swift “co-writing” songs, which he said “doesn’t count” — the “Shake It Off” artist tweeted, “I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging.”
“You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really f***ed up to try and discredit my writing,” Swift added. Antonoff, who’s long worked with Swift as a producer, also commented, “I’ve never met Damon Albarn and he’s never been to my studio but apparently he knows more than the rest of us about all those songs Taylor writes and brings in.”
Albarn soon apologized “unreservedly and unconditionally,” claiming his comments were “reduced to clickbait.”
“The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting,” he said. “I hope you understand.”
