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Beyoncé absolutely dominated the list of 67th Annual Grammy Awards nominees, earning 11 nominations including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Best Country Album. Charli xcx, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone each scored seven nominations, with Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter picking up six.

“Today we celebrate the amazing creative achievements of our music community,” stated Harvey Mason jr., CEO of the Recording Academy. “It was an incredible year in music and these nominations reflect the work of a voting body that is more representative of the music community than ever before. The Grammy became music’s most coveted award precisely because the recognition comes from one’s peers, and I’m so grateful for the Academy’s 13,000 voting members who take the time to evaluate all the amazing music, cast their votes and honor their peers.

The nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards have been announced!

The Recording Academy announced the nominees in a YouTube livestream on Friday (November 8).

It was once again a big year for women with Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Charli Xcx, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan receiving top nominations.

Keep reading to find out more…Beyoncé received the most nominations with a total of 11.

The 2025 Grammys will take place on February 2, 2025 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

Check out the full list of 2025 Grammys nominations below!

Record of the Year

“Now and Then,” The Beatles

“Texas Hold ‘Em,” Beyoncé

“Espresso,” Sabrina Carpenter

“360,” Charli xcx

“Birds Of A Feather,” Billie Eilish

“Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar

“Good Luck, Babe!,” Chappell Roan

“Fortnight,” Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone

Album of the Year

New Blue Sun, André 3000

Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé

Short n’ Sweet, Sabrina Carpenter

Brat, Charli xcx

Djesse Vol. 4, Jacob Collier

Hit Me Hard And Soft,...

Nominees for the 2025 Grammy Awards have been revealed, with Beyoncé, Post Malone, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Charli Xcx, Chappelle Roan, Taylor Swift, and Sabrina Carpenter leading the way.

Beyoncé leads all artists with 11 total nomination, including Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter, and Song and Record of the Year for “Texas ‘Hold Em.” Additionally, Beyoncé received nominations in all four country music categories, after being shut out of the CMAs. With her 11 nominations at the 2025 Grammys, Beyoncé now has 99 career nominations, breaking her tie with her husband Jay-Z for the most in Grammy history. She is already the most decorated artist in Grammy history with 32 wins, though she has yet to win Album of the Year

On the back of her latest release, Hit Me Hard and Soft,Eilish received seven nominations, and becomes the first artist to have her first three albums nominated for album of the year.

Idles stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday for a performance of their new song, “Gift Horse.”

The appearance comes one day after Idles’ electrifying show at The Bowery Ballroom in New York, where vocalist Joe Talbot dedicated “Gift Horse” to his daughter. The Fallon performance was just as high-energy as Idles’ usual live shows, and Talbot even changed the lyrics from “Fuck the king/ He ain’t the king, she’s the king” to “Fuck the king/ J Dilla is the king.” Watch their performance below.

Idles are gearing up to release their fifth studio album, Tangk, on February 16th. “Gift Horse” is the album’s third single, and followed the slow jam “Grace” and the LCD Soundsystem-featuring “Dancer.” The band has mapped out a lengthy 2024 tour throughout the US and Europe; get tickets to all US shows via StubHub and all international shows on viagogo.

Idles stopped by The Tonight Show to perform their recent single, “Gift Horse.” The punk-tinged song, released last month, is an intense rock number that is even more so live.

“Gift Horse” will appear on the U.K. group’s forthcoming fifth LP, Tangk, out Feb. 16 via Partisan Records. The LP was produced by Nigel Godrich, Kenny Beats, and Idles’ Mark Bowen, and follows the band’s 2021 LP Crawler. The band previewed the album with “Dancer,” a collaboration with LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy and Nancy Whang.

Frontman Joe Talbot...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, a great new one from rising country hero Megan Moroney, Green Day return with a subversive love song, Eladio Carrión hits big on his sixth studio album of explosive latin trap, and SISTAR19 reunite to release their first new single in seven years. Plus, new music from Madi Diaz, Kim Gordon, Sleater-Kinney

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To mark the release of the newly restored version of Gift Horse, out now, we’ve been given 2 copies to give away on Blu-ray.

In 1940, the Royal Navy is frantically recruiting for WWII so pulls Lieutenant Commander Fraser (Trevor Howard) out of retirement to captain the Hms Ballantrae, herself recently re-

commissioned and lent by the Americans to a seriously under-resourced British Navy.

Despite an inauspicious start and multiple repairs, Fraser crafts the ship and its crew into an efficient fighting force, culminating in a daring mission to destroy a French dockyard which is crucial to the Nazis in maintaining their formidable battleships.

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Following its Audience Award–winning debut at this year’s SXSW Festival, the coming of age sports drama “First Match” is now available to stream on Netflix. Directed by Olivia Newman, and starring Elvire Emanuelle as a teenage girl in foster care who joins an all-boys wrestling team to connect with her father, First Match is another in a long and impressive list of breakout independent features that were initially developed as short films.

Newman first tackled this story while a film student at Columbia in 2010 (you can watch that version here) before eventually expanding it into her acclaimed directorial debut, which you can watch here on Netflix. Newman translated the naturalistic and intimate feel of the short with help from Dp Ashley Connor’s lyrically expressive handheld camerawork and backed by a largely female crew. In fact, 60% of the crew was female, and 75% of the department heads were female.

My friend the actor John Forrest, who has died aged 80, combined a distinguished film career with work as a stage magician. He had his first success as a child actor, in David Lean's classic movie Great Expectations (1946), as the "pale young gentleman" – the young Herbert Pocket.

Known later for his many supporting roles playing very "British" characters such as Grassy Green in Very Important Person (1961), he was in fact born in the Us, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. His English mother, an artist, had married an American lawyer, and when the marriage broke up after a few years, she brought John and his sister to England where they lived in the village of Cookham, Berkshire. Their neighbours were the painter Stanley Spencer and his equally eccentric brother, Horace, who taught John magic.

Following his early film success, John acted alongside such distinguished actors as David Niven, in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948), Richard Attenborough,...