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The Ballad of Wallis Island is an upcoming comedy directed by James Griffiths. Carey Mulligan plays a lead role in the film, which focuses on a musician facing unexpected challenges during a performance on a remote island. The movie is scheduled for release on March 28, 2025.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.To call Varijashree Venugopal, 35, “multifaceted” feels like compressing a wide canvas into a tiny capsule. A child prodigy who started performing when she was four, the Bengalurean is today a flautist, singer, music composer and a serial collaborator who’s worked with eminent musicians like Rajesh Vaidya, Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin and Michael League. In 2024, she was nominated along with Jacob Collier and Anoushka Shankar for the Grammy for Best Global Music Performance for the track A Rock Somewhere, featured on the album Djesse Vol. 4. She is also attributed as the creator of “Carnatic Scat” singing, a vocal style that blends carnatic singing with jazz.“As a musician I am a lot into improvisation and experimentation and it applies across projects and collaborations.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.This week, we’re bringing you stories about the financial impact of divorce.Olivia Kelly grew up watching her mother make her pizza and chicken enchiladas. Then, in middle school, her parents got divorced, and the kitchen transformed into a small business.Her mother went from stay-at-home mom to working parent with a handful of side hustles. The home-cooked dinners became workweek to-go meals that friends and their nannies would buy for around $35 apiece.As Kelly’s mother changed, so did she.

Mint. “This let the impersonator collect the publishing royalties, while my artist page absorbed the poor performance signals from the fake streams.”Tewari says the tracks weren’t just misattributed but appeared to be generated and uploaded at scale.

Where to watch: HBO Max or Amazon Prime VideoOne thing to know: Michael B. Jordan has appeared in all of director Ryan Coogler’s features, but in this saga of a Mississippi juke joint beset by vampires Jordan plays two characters: twins Smoke and Stack.Insider info: Miles Caton sung alongside the musician H.E.R.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the summer of 2022, musician, dancer and actor FKA Twigs found transcendence on a Prague dance floor. Twigs—born Tahliah Debrett Barnett—was in the Czech capital to film for a remake of 1994 cult superhero film The Crow.

Chennai after experiencing an unexpected bout of chest discomfort. The legendary musician and Academy Award-winning composer is currently receiving treatment at Apollo Hospital, where a team of doctors is attentively monitoring his condition. According to medical sources, Rahman is responding well to treatment and is likely to be discharged by midday. Reports indicate that he initially complained of pain in his neck and opted to undergo a medical examination upon returning from an international trip. Further updates regarding his health are anticipated soon. This development follows a recent health scare involving Rahman’s former spouse, Saira Banu, who was hospitalized a few weeks ago due to a medical crisis. It has been reported that she had to undergo a surgical procedure as part of her treatment. After her hospitalization, Saira issued an official health update through a statement released by her legal representative, Vandana Shah.

A Japanese rock band opened for a German post-punk trio followed by an alternative group from New Zealand. And that was just day one at the New Colossus Festival, held last week. The six-day event takes its name from the poem cast on the Statue of Liberty, viewed as a welcome message for new immigrants: «Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses....»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 2023, Bengaluru-based singer-songwriter Abhi Tambe released an Extended Play, or EP, Portal Waiting. Created during the nationwide lockdown brought about by the covid-19 pandemic, the six-track album had an end-of-the-world sort of apocalyptic feel, probably stemming from the collective anxiety and panic felt globally at the time.

Bob Marley, you know that things have considerably changed in Buck Pal. In an Apple podcast, Charles Mountbatten-Windsor, who goes by the nom de guerre of Charles III, described the musician's 'marvellous, infectious energy' after playing Marley's 1980 classic 'Could You Be Loved'.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The copyright suit filed by top music labels such as Saregama, T-Series and Sony, concerned about the unauthorized use of their sound recordings by Microsoft-backed Open AI, reflects the broader challenges posed to India’s music business. Entertainment and legal industry experts say labels which hold the rights to extensive music catalogues face the risk of their content being used without proper compensation or acknowledgement.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Dressed in a claret-coloured shirt and dark slacks, K.P. Singh is just back in New Delhi from Lynndale, his 110-acre home in Mussoorie, where he brought in his 95th birthday with family and friends, and musicians flown in for the occasion.

On March 1, 2025, Zilis took to X to confirm the birth of their son, sharing, «Discussed with Elon and, in light of beautiful Arcadia’s birthday, we felt it was better to also just share directly about our wonderful and incredible son Seldon Lycurgus. Built like a juggernaut, with a solid heart of gold. Love him so much.» Musk responded to her post with a heart emoji. The couple, who had previously kept their third child’s gender and name undisclosed, are now parents to four children: twins Strider and Azure, Arcadia, and the newborn, Seldon Lycurgus.

richest female musician. The 35-year-old recently witnessed the blockbuster success of her Eras Tour, which sold a total of over $2 billion in tickets — double the number of ticket sales of any other concert tour in the history of music industry. Spanning 149 shows, the historic tour started on March 17, 2023 in Arizona's Glendale, while the singer held her final show in Vancouver, British Columbia, on December 8 last year.

Ed Sheeran was stopped by police from an impromptu acoustic one-man performance earlier this month on Bengaluru's Church Street, much confusion ensued. While the police insisted no permission was given, the musician announced he had got the go-ahead. Publicity stunt or cross-connection, it provided a snapshot of the difficulties officialese pose to having musical gigs in our cities. For a country not comfortable with default silence — evident from pervasive honking and smartphones playing loudly on the metro, to blaring loudspeakers that are part of our city soundscape — organising music shows in engaging spaces can be remarkably tedious.

Grimes has publicly called out her ex-partner, billionaire Elon Musk, for his lack of response to a “medical crisis” involving one of their children.

Elon Musk is no stranger to making headlines—whether it’s for launching rockets, stirring controversy on X (formerly Twitter), or expanding his ever-growing brood of children. But now, the internet has found an unexpected parallel for Musk’s personal life: a Chinese imperial drama.