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The World According to Allee Willis, a documentary biography film, will have its world premiere at this year’s SXSW next month.
More info: HERE
Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life PeeWee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to tell you what she was about. But privately, Allee struggled with not fitting established gender and sexual norms.
She buried herself in her work, until true love manifested her ultimate masterpiece – self-acceptance.
Allee began filming her life in 1950s Detroit and never stopped. This film is the realization of her wish that her “final art piece be someone putting together the trail I have left behind.”
TO RECEIVE WORLD PREMIERE
IN PRINCE’S HOMETOWN, MINNEAPOLIS MN,
IN SPRING 2025
PRE-BROADWAY ENGAGEMENT TO PLAY HISTORIC STATE THEATRE
BASED ON THE FILM “PURPLE RAIN”
STORY BY PRINCE
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY PRINCE
SCREENPLAY BY ALBERT MAGNOLI and WILLIAM BLINN
BOOK BY BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS
DIRECTED BY LILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ
(February 6, 2024, New York, NY) – Producer Orin Wolf announced today that the pre-Broadway world premiere stage adaptation of Prince’s legendary film and album, PURPLE RAIN, will take place in Prince’s hometown, Minneapolis, MN, in Spring 2025.
The musical will be staged at Hennepin Theatre Trust’s historic State Theatre in Minneapolis as part of its 2024-2025 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin season. Exact production dates and additional production details will be announced in the coming weeks.
“Prince talked about adapting PURPLE RAIN for the stage for years. It’s only fitting that we launch this world premiere musical version in the city where it all began, Prince’s hometown, Minneapolis,” said L Londell McMillan, former Prince manager, attorney and Chairman of The NorthStar Group, and Larry Mestel, Founder & CEO of Primary Wave Music. “We’re very excited for the creative team to be inspired by the Minneapolis sound and the unparalleled and unique spirit of the city that Prince inspired.”
As previously announced, this stage …
What a night 🤩 from a CeeLo Green DJ set, to a star-studded dance floor, a Hi-Fi Mcintoshlabs audio bar, and more – here’s a first recap of our annual Pre-Grammy’s Party – hosted with Billboard 🤩
📸: @sarahatown
This February 28, Join Holly Knight at the Strand Book Store for an in-person book launch event with pioneering songwriter and producer for the release of her memoir, I Am The Warrior: My Crazy Life Writing The Hits and Rocking The MTV Eighties. 🤩
Tickets + info: HERE
Jon Bon Jovi, Bell Biv DeVoe & A CeeLo DJ Set: Inside Primary Wave x Billboard No. 1s Pre-Grammy Party
Melissa Etheridge, Grandmaster Flash and Fifth Harmony’s Ally Brooke & Dinah Jane were also among the guests at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills.
Primary Wave’s annual pre-Grammy party went down Saturday night at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, and this year, for the first time, it celebrated Billboard No. 1s.
Check out the coverage and photos HERE
UNIVERSAL MUSIC ENTERPRISES TO ISSUE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED JAMES BROWN SONG “WE GOT TO CHANGE” ON FEB. 16
Three-Track We Got To Change EP Features Storming J.B.’s Lineup Starring Brothers Catfish and Bootsy Collins and “Funky Drummer” Clyde Stubblefield
Set Will Preface Feb. 19-20 Premiere of Two-Night A&E Documentary Event James Brown: Say It Loud from Executive Producers Mick Jagger and Questlove
FEBRUARY 1, 2024 (Santa Monica, CA) – UMe/Republic Records will release James Brown’s We Got To Change, a three-track EP featuring the previously unheard title track, on Feb. 16. Pre-order HERE
“We Got To Change” was recorded August 16, 1970, at Criteria Studios in Miami, during a pivotal period in the world of James Brown, as longtime members of his famed James Brown Orchestra had walked out a few months earlier.
Brown quickly assembled a new group anchored by guitarist Phelps “Catfish” Collins and bassist William “Bootsy” Collins, two young brothers from Cincinnati. They brought a harder edge and a fresh identity to Brown’s music on such singles as “Get Up (I Feel Like Being) a Sex Machine,” “Super Bad,” and “Soul Power.” Brown called them The J.B.’s.
Their Criteria …
PRIMARY WAVE MUSIC PARTNERS WITH THE BRAZILIAN MUSIC COMPANY NAS NUVENS CATALOG
TERMS OF THE DEAL WILL SEE THE PUBLISHING GIANT INVEST IN FURTHER BRAZILIAN MUSIC PUBLISHING CATALOGS AND ACQUISITIONS
NEW YORK, N.Y. (February 1, 2024) – Primary Wave Music, the leading independent publisher of iconic and legendary music in the world, announces today their partnership with the Brazilian music company, Nas Nuvens Catalog. Brazil’s music market is one of the largest and fastest growing in the world, making this partnership a pivotal step in Primary Wave’s plan to expand further into international markets. Based in São Paulo, Nas Nuvens Catalog is the leading independent Brazilian company focusing on the acquisition, management, and marketing of music catalogs, and is one of the five largest music companies in Brazil. After researching the American catalog acquisition market, the company formed in 2021 from a partnership with the Brazilian private equity fund Starboard Partners and Liminha, a music market professional, to replicate Primary Wave’s model in Brazil.
Nas Nuvens Catalog has become one of the most successful music companies in the country. Much like Primary Wave, Nas Nuvens Catalog partners …
CRAFT RECORDINGS UNVEILS ISAAC HAYES’ GROUNDBREAKING 1969 ALBUM HOT BUTTERED SOUL AS LATEST TITLE IN ACCLAIMED SMALL BATCH VINYL SERIES
Available exclusively at CraftRecordings.com or AcousticSounds.com on March 1st and limited to 3,000 copies worldwide, the LP features all-analog, one-step mastering – delivering the highest-quality listening experience
Click here to pre-order
Los Angeles, CA (January 31, 2024)—Craft Recordings is pleased to announce an audiophile pressing of Hot Buttered Soul: the earth-shattering 1969 hit record from GRAMMY® and Academy Award®-winning singer, songwriter, producer, and actor, Isaac Hayes. The album—which marks the sixth reissue in Craft’s acclaimed Small Batch vinyl series—pushed the boundaries of soul music, while setting Hayes on the path to superstardom, thanks to such groundbreaking tracks as “Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic,” plus ambitious renditions of the Bacharach/David classic “Walk on By” and Jimmy Webb’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” Available March 1st and limited to just 3,000 copies worldwide, Hot Buttered Soul can be found exclusively at CraftRecordings.com and AcousticSounds.com.
Handpicked from Craft’s extensive catalog, each Small Batch release offers listeners the highest-quality, authentic sound—distilled to its purest form. As with all albums in the series, Hot Buttered Soul features lacquers cut from the original tapes (AAA) by Bernie Grundman and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at …
adidas and Malbon Golf Introduce The Crosby Collection
Limited-edition capsule features apparel and footwear for men and women inspired by Bing Crosby’s popular Clambake event and the fashion surrounding it
Collection includes two special footwear models: the MC87 and Stan Smith Golf
The collection will be exclusively available for purchase on com, malbongolf.com and at select adidas and Malbon Golf retail stores worldwide beginning Monday, January 29
Carlsbad, CA – January 25, 2024 – The list of people having an impact on the intersection of golf, fashion and entertainment isn’t long. One at the top of that list would certainly be legendary entertainer Bing Crosby, who in 1937 started the popular Crosby Clambake, an annual event that brought musicians, actors, celebrities, and professional golfers together for a friendly competition around a sport they all loved. Today, adidas and Malbon Golf are introducing a special capsule of product – The Crosby Collection – inspired by those early Clambakes and that camaraderie, spirit and fashion from an era that set the stage for what the golf landscape looks like today.
Taking design cues from the fashion that adorned the early days of Bing’s notorious Clambakes, adidas and Malbon Golf put together a range of product for men …
