Madonna's Living for Love music video premiers on snapchat

Madonna's Living for Love music video premiers on snapchat

Madonna's Living for Love music video is now premiering on snap channel in snapchat.

She is the first artist to premiere a music video on the snap channel in snapchat discover.

For the next 24 hours the snap channel is the only place in the world you can see the video

The "Living for Love" music video is directed by J.A.C.K. - Julien Choquart and Camille Hirigoyen.  It was edited by by Danny B. Tull, Styled by B. Akerlund and choreographed by Megan Lawson.

Rebel Heart is Madonna's 13th Studio Album and will be released on March 10th by Interscope Records.  Preorder Rebel Heart HERE. 

Madonna will be performing on the 57th Annual Grammy Awards, Sunday February 8th.  Madonna will be performing on the Brits Awards on February 25th in London, England.

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Ariana Grande Kicks off 2015 Highly Anticipated Arena Tour

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Ariana Grande Kicks off 2015 Highly Anticipated Arena Tour

Kicking off 2015 with a big bang, ARIANA GRANDE will give a very special performance at the Grammy Awards on Sunday February 8.That evening, her platinum-certified #1 album, My Everything [Republic Records] is also nominated for "Best Pop Vocal Album" and "Bang Bang"—her massive triple-platinum collaboration with Nicki Minaj and Jessie J—is up for "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance." 

A week prior, she'll perform on Jimmy Fallon's Super Bowl Special Sunday February 1, 2015 right after the big game. Next up, she headlines the Halftime Show at the 2015 NBA All-Star Game on February 15 with a medley of her biggest hits. Finally, her performance at Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life – An All-Star Grammy Salute airs February 16.

ARIANA also embarks on her highly anticipated first arena tour, The Honeymoon Tour, on February 25 in Kansas City, MO at the Independence Event Center. Covering the whole country, the tour touches down in New York for two shows at the legendary Madison Square Garden March 20 & 21 and in Los Angeles April 8 at the Forum. In May, ARIANA heads overseas for the European leg.

In other big ARIANA news, she also makes a special guest appearance on Ryan Murphy’s hotly anticipated new FOX series Scream Queens alongside Lea Michele, Joe Maganiello, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer, Emma Roberts, and Jamie Lee Curtis. In addition, she’s set to make her big screen debut this year as well with a voiceover performance in Underdogs.

2014 saw ARIANA formally claim her spot in pop history. My Everything became her second album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 in less than twelve months, eventually going platinum and becoming the year's biggest album in the process. It garnered a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Pop Vocal Album" and yielded four hit singles including the triple-platinum "Problem" featuring Iggy Azalea, "Break Free" featuring Zedd, the triple-platinum "Bang Bang" with Jessie J and Nicki Minaj, and "Love Me Harder" with The Weeknd. Along the way, she set the stage for an equally monumental 2015 with launch of her highly anticipated first arena headline tour, The Honeymoon Tour. 

ARIANA GRANDE - THE HONEYMOON TOUR
Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015                 Kansas City, MO Independence Event Center
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015                     Milwaukee, WI BMO Harris Bradley Center
Sunday, March 01, 2015                    Saint Paul, MN XcelEnergy Center
Tuesday, March 03, 2015                   Chicago, IL Allstate Arena
Thursday, March 05, 2015                 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
Saturday, March 07, 2015                  Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena
Sunday, March 08, 2015                    Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre
Tuesday, March 10, 2015                   Pittsburgh, PA Petersen Event Center
Thursday, March 12, 2015                 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
Saturday, March 14, 2015                  Uncasville, CT  Mohegan Sun Arena
Sunday, March 15, 2015                    Boston, MA DCU Center
Tuesday, March 17, 2015                   Houston, TX NRG Stadium
Friday, March 20, 2015                      New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Saturday, March 21, 2015                  New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Tuesday, March 24, 2015                   Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
Thursday, March 26, 2015                 Orlando, FL Amway Center
Saturday, March 28, 2015                  Miami, FL American Airlines Arena
Tuesday, March 31, 2015                   San Antonio, TX AT&T Center
Wednesday, April 01, 2015                 Dallas, TX American Airlines Center
Friday, April 03, 2015                          Oklahoma City, OK Cheseapeake Energy Arena
Monday, April 06, 2015                       Phoenix, AZ US Airways
Wednesday, April 08, 2015                 Los Angeles, CA TheForum
Friday, April 10, 2015                          Anaheim, CA Honda Center
Sunday, April 12, 2015                       San Jose, CA SAP Center
Tuesday, April 14, 2015                      Seattle, WA KeyArena

Allison Moorer announces new album Down To Believing

Allison Moorer announces new album Down To Believing

The Academy and Grammy Award nominated singer-songwriter Allison Moorer is set to release her Proper Records debut, Down To Believing, on March 16.   Produced by longtime friend and collaborator, guitarist Kenny Greenberg, the album was recorded over two years in Nashville while Moorer commuted back and forth from her home in New York City.  Her eighth studio recording since her 1998 debut Alabama Song, Down To Believing is her most personal collection of songs to date; one in which Rolling Stone has already called “brilliant and extraordinarily candid.”  

The 13-song set is in many ways a sequel to Moorer and Greenberg’s second collaboration, the acclaimed 2000 album The Hardest Part.   At the time of its release, Moorer often acknowledged the inspiration her parents’ relationship had on that album.  Fifteen years later, she’s sifting eloquently through her modern day life as the inspiration for Down To Believing’s intensely personal song cycle.

The recording of Down To Believing began in January of 2012, the same month her son John Henry received a formal diagnosis of autism.  The song “Mama Let The Wolf In,” is her response to that diagnosis.   Speaking to Rolling Stone, Moorer said of the song, “As a parent, whatever your children go through I think there’s a certain amount of it that you feel responsible for, even if you know that it has nothing to do with you…When you can’t protect them from going through something that’s hard, you feel responsible for it…Basically the song is channeling that energy and expressing that extreme frustration at not being able to protect him.  It makes me feel very powerless.”

Of the title track, one about the dissolution of her marriage to singer songwriter Steve Earle, Moorer says, ‘“Down To Believing’ is quite possibly one of my best songs, one of the most honest songs about marriage.”  She continues, “Obviously, this is a record about family and relationships.  ‘Blood’ is about my sister (singer songwriter Shelby Lynne).  It’s about loving someone unconditionally and always having your arms open to them no matter what.   Being able to reflect on your own experience and put it in a common language so that people can commune is what the job of a songwriter is.  I’m prouder of these songs than any I’ve ever written.”

Moorer’s 1998 song, “A Soft Place To Fall,” was included on the soundtrack to the feature film The Horse Whisperer, which led to an appearance in the film itself, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.  The opportunity gained her worldwide attention and set the stage for her career.  She has been featured on releases by Joan Baez, Kid Rock, The Chieftains, while her songs have appeared on records by Miranda Lambert, Steve Earle and more.

She starred in the 2008 play Rebel Voices, based on Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove’s best-selling book Voices of a People’s History of The United States and also appeared in the 2009 film The People Speak.  The film was presented by the History Channel and was inspired by Zinn’s A People’s History of The Unites States.   It also featured Bob Dylan, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Springsteen, Danny Glover, Matt Damon, and more.

Sam Smith receives six Grammy Nominations

Sam Smith receives six Grammy Nominations

Sam Smith is the first male artist in 34 years – and the first U.K. male artist ever – to receive nominations in the "big four" GRAMMY Awards® categories following the release of a debut album. As announced today, Smith's In The Lonely Hour (Capitol Records) was nominated for Album Of The Year while his 4x multi-Platinum single "Stay With Me" was nominated for Record and Song Of The Year. Smith also received a nod for Best New Artist. These four categories constitute the General Field of the GRAMMY nominations. In addition, he was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album (In The Lonely Hour) and Best Pop Solo Performance ("Stay With Me"), bringing his total nominations to six. The 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards telecast will take place live from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, February 8, 2015.

Smith made chart history in the U.S. with In The Lonely Hour, which sold more copies in its first week of release than any other U.K. male artist debut in the 23-year history of SoundScan. It entered the Billboard 200 at No. 2 and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. The Associated Press hailed it as "a passionate, heart-wrenching album" and The Washington Post observed, "'In the Lonely Hour' shows off every facet of Smith's voice to goose pimple-raising effect."

"I'm Not the Only One," Smith's new single, was recently certified Platinum in the US. It marks his third Top 10 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 this year, a feat unrivaled by any other male artist in 2014. It follows his 4x multi-Platinum breakthrough hit, "Stay With Me," which was played across eight radio formats and climbed to No. 1 at five formats.

Over the course of 2014, Smith has won the BRIT Critics' Choice award, the BBC Sound of 2014 prize, Favorite Male Artist – Pop/Rock honors at the American Music Awards, a Q award, four MOBOs and the VH1 2014 You Oughta Know Artist Of The Year award. He will return to the U.S. in January 2015 for his third North American headline tour in less than a year. The arena and theatre run includes a concert at Madison Square Garden and a two-night stand The Forum in Los Angeles.

SAM SMITH ARENA/THEATRE TOUR 2015

January 9 Atlanta, GA Fox Theatre

January 10 Nashville, TN Grand Ole Opry House

January 12 Fairfax, VA Patriot Center

January 13 Philadelphia, PA The Liacouras Center

January 15 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

January 17 Boston, MA Agganis Arena

January 19 Montreal, QC Bell Centre

January 20 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

January 22 Detroit, MI Masonic Temple Theatre

January 23 Chicago, IL UIC Pavilion

January 24 St. Paul, MN Roy Wilkins Auditorium

January 26 Broomfield, CO 1st Bank Center

January 29 Los Angeles, CA The Forum

January 30 Los Angeles, CA The Forum

January 31 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

February 2 Seattle, WA Key Arena

February 4 Vancouver, BC Rogers Arena