Paradigm Talent Agency Lays off Hundreds of Staffers in Music and Other Divisions

coronavirus crisis, despite the government’s recent £1.57billion bailout for venues and arts spaces.“The Deaf Institute and Gorilla have been at the forefront of the music scene in Manchester for many years and it is with great sadness that we announce that we will not be reopening,” Roy Ellis, Mission Mars CEO and founder told Manchester Evening News.“This difficult decision has been made against the backdrop of COVID 19 and the enforced closure of all of our sites and with continued restrictions upon opening of live music venues.”Responding to the news on Twitter, Burnham assured a fan that he and Greater Manchester Night Time Economy Adviser, Sacha Lord, would do everything they can to save the venues.“Of course Shell,” he began his

Lionel Messi has lashed out at his team-mates and the club’s management on the night Real Madrid clinched La Liga while Barcelona lost to Osasuna.

Since getting her start through a chance meeting with Gucci Mane, Atlanta-based audio engineer Kesha Lee has worked on chart-toppers like Childish Gambino’s “This Is America” and Migos’ “Bad and Boujee” and is now the go-to audio engineer for rappers including Playboi Carti and Lil Uzi Vert. She spent the past two-and-a-half years working on Uzi’s Eternal Atake album in the artist’s native Philadelphia, before it was released on March 6 -- mere weeks before the near-national lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus began. As part of Billboard’s efforts to best cover the coronavirus pandemic

As numerous states grapple with increasing numbers of new cases of the novel coronavirus, there's been a concerted effort by numerous political officials, health experts and even Hollywood stars to encourage people to wear face masks in public to slow the spread of COVID-19. New York Gov.

If you're old enough to remember a time when Nazis were scary enough all by themselves, you may be a bit flummoxed by Ghosts of War. Combining war and horror movie tropes in an awkward manner more silly than scary, this belated sophomore feature from writer/director Eric Bress (2004's The Butterfly Effect) makes you long for the days when American G.I.s didn't have to fight supernatural beings as well as German soldiers.

HAVING sold millions of records and racked up a vast fortune in the process, Simon Cowell’s exit from his music company lays bare how dramatic his fall from grace has been. The nation’s most famous record boss, who once had pop’s Midas touch, decided to offload his stake in Syco to Sony — signalling the final surrender of his grasp on the charts.

known as the Dixie Chicks, lit a forest fire with an offhand insult about George W. Bush in 2003.

Zedd and Jasmine Thompson, we mean that literally.Today (July 16), the duo released "Funny" a brightly uplifting anthem that's Zedd's first track of 2020. The video is a must-watch, as it tracks Thompson ditching her jerkface ex-boyfriend then linking with Zedd (and his dogs) to work on the new music, utilizing Photo Booth, iMessage and Zoom to make musical magic at the speed of the internet.

Daft Punk's timeless dance anthem "One More Time."The 23-year-old college student from Saudi Arabia teamed up with the model for Gigi Journal II in collaboration with V Magazine, which openly calls for digital artist contributors for the editorial project conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic.Her reimagining of the French-house hit that "represented the new frontier of electronic music," according to the publication's IGTV music video, sonically and physically zaps Hadid out of this world and into the final frontier.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Bluff City Law star Caitlin McGee is set as a co-lead opposite Topher Grace in ABC’s Home Economics. Also cast as major characters in the single-camera family comedy pilot are How To Get Away With Murder alumna Karla Souza in her return to ABC, and Saturday Night Live alumna Sasheer Zamata.

V&A Dundee and the River Tay has opened for business on Dundee’s waterfront. Teaming up with the V&A, street food entrepreneurs Chris Heather and Melodie Paterson are now serving takeaway food and drink from a three-wheeled Piaggio van and converted horse box.

Lunay returns to the spotlight with his brand new single and video “Relaciones,” out Thursday (July 16).At the helm of his go-to production team, Chris Jeday, and Gaby Music, the 19-year-old Puerto Rican artist sings about a topic that many people will relate to— friends with benefits.With his melodic voice and captivating reggaeton beats, “Relaciones” tells the story of a person who wants everything besides the commitment.

MAN WITH A MISSION shared the new music video accompanying their latest track, "Rock Kingdom" featuring Tomoyasu Hotei.The rocking collaboration follows the two acts getting together for Hotei's track "Give It to the Universe," included on his album GUITARHYTHM VI, released last year.The collage-like video for "Rock Kingdom" features performances by the wolf-masked members and the veteran rocker shredding his iconic black and white guitar, apparently shot individually in their respective quarantine locations. Watch below:These visuals are intertwined with scenes of London -- where Hotei is based -- and Tokyo, with various imagery and stylized lyrics displayed throughout.

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentJohnny Depp’s security guard allegedly had to pay a homeless man $425 in cash and buy him three chicken tacos to retrieve the star’s cell phone after Depp’s former wife, Amber Heard, threw it from a balcony, the guard told a London court Thursday during Depp’s libel trial against the publisher of The Sun newspaper.Depp is suing News Group Newspapers and journalist Dan Wootton for an article on The Sun website that described him as a “wife beater.” Depp denies that he was violent toward Heard, to whom he was married from 2015 to 2017.The security guard, Starling Jenkins III, said it took him three and a half hours to locate the handset, eventually finding the man who’d picked it up.

Selena Quintanilla is back in the top five on the Top Latin Albums after the vinyl reissue of ‘Ones’. It also returns to the Top 5 on the Top Latin Albums Chart and to the Billboard 200 Chart.

Yungblud has just dropped a new single, and he’s looking back into the British punk in invasion of the late 1970s for inspiration.

Facebook page beginning at 10 a.m. ET on July 18, this event will raise money for charities including The Kolisi Foundation, which works with underserved communities in South Africa, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Shimza's own Shimuzic Foundation.While the show was originally intended to host an audience, due to the pandemic, Shimza will be performing solely for the camera, and the global house heads he will reach through it.

British labs working on a coronavirus vaccine have been targeted by Russian hackers, security chiefs have revealed.

A political committee named Kanye 2020 has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), possibly adding support to Kanye West’s claim he is running for president.

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Covid-19.Rebecca Parker plans to play for 100 days and is now nearing the end of her emotional musical challenge.Every morning since April, the pensioner plays through her arthritis the Baby Grand piano of McClymont House in Lanark.Rebecca is one of the oldest residents of the Lanarkshire care home and is determined to keep spirits of staff and fellow residents high in the face of lockdown restrictions.Now she has touched the hearts of people around the world and is raking in donations on her Gofundme page.The retired school teacher has raised almost £5500 for NHS Lanarkshire endowment fund with her piano skills.Speaking on National Care home day, two days off completing her challenge, Rebecca explained how the response has steeled her