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Joni Mitchell led a Joni Jam session onstage at the Hollywood Bowl over the weekend — but also backstage. On Tuesday, Brandi Carlile shared a video of numerous stars, including Mitchell, Lucy Dacus, Chappell Roan, and Elton John himself, singing along to the Rocket Man’s “I’m Still Standing.”

Tim Hanseroth, Blake Mills, and Allison Russell also joined Roan, Dacus, and John. They clapped along and played guitar to the classic 1983 song. In the video, Mitchell could be seen dancing with her cane, as Roan and Carlile snapped their fingers.

The moon is shining bright over the Hollywood Bowl and Joni Mitchell lets out a laugh.

It’s the first of two sold-out Joni Jam concerts at the outdoor venue, her first headlining concert in Los Angeles in over 24 years; a couple years since Mitchell returned to the stage at the Newport Folk Festival, a year after her first ticketed concert in two decades at the Gorge — and about nine years after a brain aneurysm nearly killed her and sent her to the hospital. But for close to three hours on Saturday night,...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Prince’s classic film Purple Rain and its accompanying soundtrack album. To celebrate the occasion, members of his backing band The Revolution have listed the newly restored home from the movie on Airbnb.

The Purple Rain house, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, will be open for 25 total one-night stays from October 26th to December 14th. Up to four guests will be allowed at a time, with each stay priced at just $7 per person in a nod to Prince’s favorite number. Try your luck with booking it here starting on October 2nd at 6:00 a.m. Pt through October 6th at 11:59 p.m. Pt.

Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman of The Revolution curated the space with exclusive pieces and memorabilia from the Purple One’s personal collection, including unreleased tracks. Besides a spa decorated as a tribute to the “When Doves Cry” video,...

As chronicled in Michaelangelo Matos’s Can’t Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop’s Blockbuster Year, pop music as a cultural force was already reaching new and unheralded heights as 1984 got underway. That was thanks not only to the resurgence of the blockbuster album, but also the sea change caused by the birth of MTV, and the emergence of Michael Jackson, Madonna, and others as avatars for the cable network’s new confluence of music, filmmaking, style, and celebrity into arguably the decade’s most powerful cultural flame-thrower.

And then there was Prince, who commanded, “Take a picture, sweetie! I ain’t got time to waste!” Even as the artist’s death in 2016 cemented his reputation as one of rock’s all-time legends, it’s still easy to underestimate how massive the impact of Purple Rain was upon its arrival in the summer of 1984, especially as its key tracks have...

Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, Fantasia Barrino and Jon Batiste helped pay tribute to late musical icons during Sunday’s 2024 Grammys.

Tina Turner, Tony Bennett, Sinead O’Connor and Clarence Avant were remembered in emotional performances by the group of singers, each performing a hit song from each of the artists.

Wonder kicked off the tribute to Bennett onstage with a mash-up performance of “For Once In My Life” and “The Best Is Yet To Come.”

Sinead O’Connor was honored by Lennox with a performance of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” who was also joined by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, the Grammy-and-Emmy-winning musicians who played in Prince’s band The Revolution. (Prince also wrote the song.) At the end of her performance, Lennox called for a ceasefire and peace in the world.

Batiste honored music executive Clarence Avant with a performance introduced by Lenny Kravitz. Batiste performed a medley of “Ain’t No Sunshine,...

Music icons who died in the last year — from Tina Turner to Tony Bennett — will be honored at Sunday’s 2024 Grammys with performances by Stevie Wonder, Annie Lennox, Fantasia Barrino and Jon Batiste.

A source close to the situation tells The Hollywood Reporter that Barrino, on the heels of her success in The Color Purple, will honor Turner with a performance, which will be introduced by Color Purple producer Oprah Winfrey, who was announced as a Grammy presenter earlier this week. Wonder will pay tribute to Bennett onstage, while Batiste will remember music executive Clarence Avant with a performance to be introduced by Lenny Kravitz.

Lennox will honor Sinead O’Connor and will be joined by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, the Grammy- and Emmy-winning musicians who played in Prince’s band The Revolution (Prince also wrote O’Connor’s biggest hit “Nothing Compares 2 U.”)

The performances will take place during...

The Guild of Music Supervisors held its 12th annual awards ceremony virtually on March 20.

Recognizing those who excel at the craft of music supervision in film, television, documentaries, games, advertising and trailers, the night’s big winners included HBO’s “The White Lotus,” supervised by Janet Lopez, who gave an impassioned acceptance speech, thanking the music makers of Hawaii for taking her call, and Liza Richardson for “Lovecraft Country” season 1. The Netflix film “Tick, Tick… Boom!,” supervised by Steven Gizicki, took home the prize for film budgeted over $25 million. Mandi Collier won twice for her work on “Sylie’s Love & Zola,” and “Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto,” by Lin-Manuel Miranda and sung by Sebastian Yatra (and nominated for an Academy Award), won for best song written and/or recorded for a film.

Receiving special honors were Diane Warren (the Icon Award), for her numerous songs to soundtrack major films, and Mitchell Leib...

Javier Bardem, Jessica Chastain, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kristen Wiig and Ryan Tedder have been named as some of the presenters for the 12th annual Guild Of Music Supervisors Awards.

Additional presenters include Annie Mumolo, Marlon Wayans, Dave Burd (aka Lil Dicky), Rafael Casual, Rickey Minor, Rufus Wainwright, Wendy Melvoin & Lisa Coleman, Laura Karpman, Glen Hansard and Steve Burns.

Aloe Blacc, Goapele and Bahari will be performing.

The ceremony will be held virtually on March 20 and is open to nominees, presenters, special guests and Gms members. The Gms Awards Ceremony will be immediately followed by an official after-party featuring live-streamed DJ sets by Paul Oakenfold, Thomas Golubić, and Moonbaby. Tickets are on sale March 14. An additional after-party ticket is required.

Among the film nominees for the 2022 edition of the Gms Awards are “Encanto,” “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and “Being the Ricardos,” each of which also scored Oscar nominations this week. Television...

Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Jewel, Colin Stetson, DJ Shadow, Pos (De La Soul), Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman are a few of the artists set to make virtual appearances at the 6th Annual ‘State of Music in Media’ Conference, taking place on Feb. 19 and 20.

The virtual event is free to all members of the Guild of Music Supervisors. The conference grants participants the opportunity to network with some of the industry’s top leaders, plus attend a variety of informative panels on subjects covering music in film, television, advertising, games, trailers and more.

Gms President Joel C. High and Vice President Madonna Wade Reed will open the conference, which announced its lineup today. Beyond the panels, Lainey Wilson and Ashley Nicole Greene will be performing.

Program highlights include:

Navigating Unions in Music Supervision

Panelists: Janee Lynch (Business representative for Music at SAG-AFTRA), Casey Bocobo (Business representative for Music at SAG-AFTRA...

In the new book This Thing Called Life, journalist Neal Karlen tells the story not just of Prince’s life, but of a rare, decades-long friendship between a writer and an iconic artist. Karlen knew Prince growing up in Minneapolis and was his only confidant in the press for more than a decade at the height of his fame, a partnership that yielded three Rolling Stone cover stories. In this chapter from the book, entitled “Last Call,” Karlen looks back on the last time he ever talked to Prince. This...

Prince’s unheard work-in-progress version of “Forever in My Life” is the latest preview from the upcoming Sign O’ the Times reissue.

The “early” in “Forever in My Life (Early Vocal Studio Run-Through)” refers not to when the version was recorded — August 8th, 1986 in Prince’s Galpin Boulevard home studio — but what time of day the vocal track was first laid down.

“He had been up all night and he came upstairs. It was like 7:00 in the morning and he grabbed my hand and said ‘follow me’, and so I followed him downstairs,...

Vanity

Denise Katrina Matthews was a model and actress redubbed Vanity by Prince, who encouraged her to become a musician.

Wendy and Lisa

Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman were members of The Revolution who went on to great success as a solo act.

Apollonia

Model-actress-singer Apollonia Kotero landed the lead role opposite Prince in “Purple Rain” after Vanity dropped out, propelling her own music career.

Kim Basinger

The actress dated the Purple One after they met while working on “Batman.”

Sheila E.

Sheila Escovedo was an accomplished percussionist in her own right when she met Prince, to whom she was engaged in the 1980s.

Bria Valente

Valente was a model, dancer and singer who came under Prince’s tutelage, eventually dating the singer in 2010.

Sheena Easton

Easton and Prince collaborated on several hit songs, including Easton’s “Sugar Walls,” which Prince wrote for the Scottish singer.

Misty Copeland

The celebrated...

Keyboardist Lisa Coleman, who joined Prince’s band in 1980 for the Dirty Mind tour and was a member of his backing band the Revolution, has put out her first solo album. Collage contains 11 mostly short, sometimes ethereal, sometimes jammy instrumental piano improvisations with titles like “Piano Improv 77” and “Unused1” that she recorded over the past few years at home and in the studio she shares with her partner, Wendy Melvoin.

“Collage is a collection of improvs done over the last few years of high contrast living,” Coleman said in a statement.

Bob Christgau and I have known each other since 1969, when he’d just moved from Esquire to his first tour at The Village Voice and I was writing for the San Francisco Express Times and Rolling Stone. Since then we have never stopped talking — we’ve disagreed about half of everything, argued, fought, and in some way or another always made common cause. This interview marks the publication of Bob’s new book Is It Still Good To Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism 1967-2017, but it’s also part of that ongoing conversation.

“I was always hoping that these recordings were still around because of the feeling that’s in them,” Don Batts, Prince’s personal recording engineer in the early Eighties, tells Rolling Stone. He’s reflecting on a demo cassette he made with the artist released Friday as Piano & a Microphone 1983, 34 minutes of Prince sketching out song ideas by himself. “It’s just him pounding this idea out so he could come back later and fill in the blanks. These were his little grooves.”

Beginning with an airy recital of the “When Doves Cry” B side,...

The Revolution didn’t plan on reunion tours after Prince’s death from an accidental drug overdose in April of 2016. But as they performed more tribute concerts together, the shows gradually morphed into a tour last year that’s turned into more tours, and the experience has been celebratory enough for both them and the audiences that the group will continue doing it for as long as it feels right. To that end, they’ve recruited managers Richard Bishop of Red Light and Jeff Jampol of Jam Inc..”)

Variety caught up with the group’s Lisa Coleman and Bobby Z after the Revolution’s show-stealing set at the Arroyo Seco concert in Los Angeles last month to talk about the tours, the legacy, the music, and what’s next.

How have these songs changed for you in this format?

Lisa Coleman: We started out trying to stay kind of close...

Kendrick Lamar, Questlove, Chuck D and Melissa Etheridge are among the record-setting 928 members invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that oversees the Oscars.

Other new members from the music world include Prince & The Revolution's Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin, Sufjan Stevens, German pianist Hauschka, French composer Eric Serra and singer Ester Dean.

Of the 928 new members, 49 percent are women, pushing the Academy's total female membership to 31 percent. Thirty-eight percent of the new members are people of color, improving the Academy's overall percentage to 16 percent.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday a record-breaking number of new member invitees that puts the organization on track to reach its 2016 goals of doubling the number of non-white and female members.

Some of the 928 invitees were quite curious, either because it was surprising they weren’t already members — or that the Academy would even think to induct them.

Consider French-born filmmaker Michel Gondry, who won an Oscar for co-writing his 2004 film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” but somehow never snagged an invite from the Academy until now.

Also Read: Oscars Academy Has Doubled Non-White Members Since 2016, on Track to Double Women Too

Or Jonathan Nolan, who earned a nomination with his brother Christopher for 2000’s “Memento,” but has been passed over all these years despite his acclaimed scripts for “The Dark Knight,” “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Interstellar.”

Then there’s “Harry Potter” creator J.K. Rowling.

Forty-four were invited to join the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, including Kendrick Lamar, whose contributions to the “Black Panther” soundtrack are riding high on the album charts; songwriter Melissa Etheridge, who won an Oscar for her song for “An Inconvenient Truth”; and recent Oscar nominees Dustin O’Halloran and Hauschka (“Lion”), Sufjan Stevens (“Call Me By Your Name”), Carlinhos Brown (“Rio”) and Benoit Charest (“The Triplets of Belleville”).

Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, whose work with Prince catapulted them into the limelight and who have gone on to do films (“Dangerous Minds”) and considerable television, were also invited, as were composers Jeff Beal, Fil Eisler and Sharon Farber, whose best-known feature-film credits are in the documentary arena.

Classical composers Osvaldo Golijov and Joanna Bruzdowicz are on the list, as are other composers from England and the Continent: Daniel Pemberton (“Steve Jobs”), Eric Serra (“The Fifth Element...

Tracy Beaker will be back in the new Cbbc drama series Tracy Beaker Returns (13 episodes), once again featuring Dani Harmer in the title role. The series is set to premiere in early 2010. Picking up five year after the last series, Tracy is now a young adult and living with her foster Mom, Cam, and writing a book about her life. Following a series of disasters, Tracy must find a job and winds up working at the home where she grew up, the Dumping Ground. Both of the Tracy Beaker series were created by kid's author Jacqueline Wilson, who also serves as executive producer on Tracy Beaker Returns. A Cbbc Production, the new series also stars Connor Byrne and Lisa Coleman, reprising their roles as Mike and Cam respectively, along with a new cast of characters.

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