Summer Walker Sets Her First Live Performance of the Year: ‘Atlanta, I’m Home’

Summer Walker is gearing up to perform at Georgia’s Coca-Cola Roxy venue in her Atlanta hometown.

The songstress will grace the stage Feb. 18, in support of her sophomore album Still Over It, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in November, becoming her first project to top the chart. Tickets for the show are available for purchase via Walker’s official website.

Still Over It, which follows her 2019 debut album Over It, earned 166,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 11, according to MRC Data. Thanks to the support of Walker’s longtime listeners, 90% of the album’s first-week units were driven by streaming activity. Still Over It marks both the first R&B album by a woman to top the Billboard 200 in more than five years and the largest streaming week ever for an R&B album by a woman.

Last week, Walker joined Usher for a performance at his Las Vegas residency to deliver a live rendition of their fan-favorite duet “Come Thru.”

Walker also impressed viewers during her performance at the 2021 BET Soul Train Awards in November alongside fellow hitmaker Ari Lennox. The pair performed their hit song “Unloyal” together.

With the success of Still Over It, Walker rose to No. 1 on the Artist 100 chart for the first time in her musical career. Walker tied Taylor Swift for the most simultaneously charted titles among women on the Billboard Hot 100 with 18, all from Still Over It, led by “No Love” with SZA.

See Walker’s Instagram announcement below:

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Here’s the New Date of the 2022 SCL Awards

The 2022 SCL Awards, presented by the Society of Composers & Lyricists, have been rescheduled to March 8 and will be held at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The awards were originally slated to be presented on Feb. 1 at the Skirball, with Emmy winner Darren Criss hosting, but on Jan. 7 they were postponed due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant.

The postponement came two days after the 64th annual Grammy Awards were postponed from Jan. 31 to a still-unspecified date in the spring.

The SCL is waiting to hear if Criss will be able to host the rescheduled show.

The rescheduled March 8 date still puts the show before final-round voting for the 2022 Academy Awards, which extends from March 17-22. The SCL Awards, like other film and TV music awards, aim to have an impact on Oscar voting.

“After much deliberation, we have also decided to extend our final voting period,” Ashley Irwin, president of the SCL, said in a statement. “This will allow our many members who have been impacted by the surge in COVID-19 additional time to review all the nominees’ excellent work.”

The final voting period will run from Monday, Jan. 17, to Friday, Feb. 25.

Nicholas Britell is the SCL top nominee with three nods: best score for a studio film for the Netflix film Don’t Look Up, best song from a musical or comedy for “Just Look Up” from that film, and best television score for HBO’s Succession.

Germaine Franco, Jonny Greenwood, Scott Mescudi (better known as Kid Cudi) and Diane Warren each received two nominations.

Oscar-nominated composer Carter Burwell and Oscar-winning filmmakers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen are set to receive the spirit of collaboration award. That award to composers and filmmakers who have worked together harmoniously is the SCL Awards’ most distinctive honor. Burwell and the Coen Brothers have collaborated on 17 films including Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, Fargo and The Tragedy of Macbeth, which was directed and adapted by Joel Coen.

Seven awards will be presented for music in visual media (film, TV, streaming, interactive) in addition to the the David Raksin award for emerging talent.

The Society of Composers & Lyricists is the primary organization for professional film, television, video game and musical theater composers and lyricists. The organization is focused on education and addressing the creative, technological, legal and newsworthy issues affecting the music for visual media community.

For more information, visit the SCL’s website.

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Kendrick Lamar & Dave Free to Produce Comedy Film With ‘South Park’ Creators

Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free are teaming up with South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker to produce a comedy film for Paramount Pictures.

The yet-untitled, live-action comedy, written by Vernon Chatman, will “depict the past and present coming to a head when a young Black man, who is interning as a slave re-enactor at a living history museum, discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his,” according to a press statement.

The movie marks the first feature produced under Lamar and Free’s pgLang company, which they announced in 2020. They launched pgLang as a multilingual, artist-friendly service company that’s a record label, movie studio and publishing house combined. Lamar’s younger cousin and rapper Baby Keem became the first artist signed to the pgLang label service. Stone and Parker will be producing for their Park County banner.

Production is slated to kick off this spring. A director has not yet been attached to the film. Paramount Pictures will be responsible for theatrical distribution, home entertainment and television licensing rights on the project, and Paramount Plus will acquire the streaming rights.

“On behalf of Paramount Pictures and the wider ViacomCBS family, we look forward to ushering in the first theatrical collaboration from these creative visionaries, and galvanizing audiences worldwide around a powerful storytelling experience,” said Paramount Pictures president and CEO Brian Robbins in a statement.

The 13-time Grammy-winning MC announced this past summer that he will be leaving his longtime label Top Dawg Entertainment after 17 years and that he was working on his “final TDE album.” His last solo album, the critically acclaimed DAMN from 2017, topped the Billboard 200 with 603,000 album-equivalent units in its opening week. It also won five Grammys and earned him the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Music. He curated Black Panther: The Album in 2018, which nabbed eight nominations at the Grammy Awards the following year, including best rap performance winner “King’s Dead.” Lamar gave a career-spanning live performance, his first in over two years, at the 2021 Day N Vegas music festival.

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Here Are Harry Styles’ 11 Best Live Performances

Harry Styles is officially heading to Indio, Calif. in April as the Friday headliner of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

The singer, who recently wrapped up his Love on Tour, will be performing at the festival for the first time, and based on the glittery, colorful nature of his sold-out tour, fans are already excited to see what Styles will perform.

To celebrate his big 2022 gig, we’ve compiled our favorite Harry Styles performances of all time. See them, in no particular order, below.

“Juice” Cover on BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge

Styles paid tribute to his pal Lizzo with a groovy cover of her self-love anthem “Juice” while performing at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge in December 2019. The two went on to perform the song together in Miami before the 2020 Super Bowl.

Highlight: The ear-to-ear smile as he sings the playful bridge lyrics, “You better come get your man, I think he wanna be way more than friends,” before he heads into a high pitched “It ain’t my fault” for the last chorus.

“Sign of the Times” on The Graham Norton Show

Just weeks after releasing his debut solo single in 2017, Styles nailed a performance of “Sign of the Times” on The Graham Norton Show.

Highlight: The smirk during the first chorus, a physical representation of the joy he probably felt performing his own solo music for the first time in his career.

“Landslide” With Stevie Nicks at Los Angeles’ Troubadour

“I’m losing my s—, in a cool way,” Styles told the crowd when he brought out Stevie Nicks at his 2017 show at the Troubadour. The duo went on to perform a touching duet of Fleetwood Mac’s classic “Landslide.”

Highlight: Styles bursting into tears at the last line of the song. So sweet.

“Ever Since New York” on Saturday Night Live

Decked out in a mesh white top and plaid pants, Styles performed the underrated deep cut from his self-titled debut on SNL, guitar in hand and backed by a full band.

Highlight: The soaring, folk-inspired harmonies in the second chorus.

“Watermelon Sugar” at the 2021 Grammy Awards

Just before winning the best pop solo performance Grammy for “Watermelon Sugar,” Styles performed the sun-soaked hit, complete with a horn section and that incredible leather suit and feather boa combo.

Highlight: Style’s hip-swaying dance during the instrumental break, followed by a funky bass solo.

“Sweet Creature” on The One Show in London, England

Styles performed the fittingly sweet ballad outdoors, surrounded by fans singing along to every word.

Highlight: Harry’s swoon-worthy, heartfelt vocals throughout the romantic, lullaby-esque song.

“You’re Still the One” Cover With Kacey Musgraves at Madison Square Garden

Kacey Musgraves brought out her tour mate Harry Styles at her 2018 Madison Square Garden show, where the duo performed a duet of Shania Twain’s 1997 record “You’re Still the One.”

Highlight: Styles’ entire second verse, as he played along with an acoustic guitar.

“Woman” (Live in Studio)

As part of his “Live in Studio” series, Styles belted a full band version of his sultry hit, “Woman,” in 2017.

Highlight: Styles little dance up against his guitarist, before getting in the zone and executing the performance flawlessly.

“Falling” at the 2020 Brit Awards

Styles took the stage in a full lace suit at the 2020 Brit Awards, and performed “Falling” while surrounded by a pool of water as the stage emulated the underwater scene in the song’s official music video.

Highlight: The emotional vocal run in “faaaalling” in the second chorus.

“She” at Harryween 2021 

Dressed as The Wizard of Oz‘s Dorothy, Styles delivered a rocked out performance of his Fine Line fan-favorite hit, “She.”

Highlight: The run when Styles sings, “And she sleeps in his bed,” before the fans cheer and take over singing the next chorus.

“Treat People With Kindness” for Live on Tour in Los Angeles, California

Styles’ “Treat People With Kindness” performance at every Love on Tour stop was a big ol’ celebration, complete with colorful lights, a dancing Harry and a fan-made conga line.

Highlight: Styles running and dancing around the stage waving a LGBTQ+ pride flag, which fits perfectly with the song’s theme.

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Kanye West & Julia Fox Cuddle Up on a Couch While Partying With Madonna

Kanye West (who now goes by Ye) and Julia Fox are still going strong.

The rapper and model packed on some PDA during a night out at Delilah in West Hollywood, Calif., on Wednesday (Jan. 12) where they spent time with a diverse group of A-listers including Madonna, Floyd Mayweather, Antonio Brown and Evan Ross.

Ross shared a series of black-and-white moments from the night on Instagram, including a video in which the entire group is jamming out to Drake’s “Come Thru,” as Julia is seen sitting on Ye’s lap sat with her arm around him.

See the post here.

Another video captured by the paparazzi finds the couple leaving the restaurant, sharing a quick hug and kiss goodbye before Ye gets in his car.

The two met in December, less than a year after Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from the rapper in February 2021 following months of speculation that a split was imminent. Both cited irreconcilable differences for the split and asked for joint legal and physical custody of their four kids. Meanwhile, the Uncut Gems actress married pilot Peter Artemiev in November 2018 and announced they had separated three years later, in November 2021. The two welcomed a son in January 2021.

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