Jack Antonoff: Last News

Sabrina Carpenter is opening up about dating prospects for the first time after breaking up with Barry Keoghan.

READ MORE: Dimes Square: meet the new artists reinvigorating NYC’s music sceneComing to the city’s East Village early next year, the new venue is opened by the team behind Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right. The new space, named after its address at 101 Avenue A, will have events spanning every genre – from jazz to indie to electronic.There will also be themed club nights, art exhibitions and other shows at the venue, Pitchfork reports.Billy Jones and Tom Moore, the team behind Baby’s All Right, worked in partnership with Knitting Factory to open the space.“This space holds so much history, and we’re excited to pay homage to its incredible legacy of course,” Jones shared in a press release.

Bleachers, Sabrina Carpenter, Remi Wolf and more served as surprise performers at the 10th annual Ally Coalition Talent Show in New York last night (Thursday December 17). Check out photos and footage below.Jack Antonoff hosted the 10th edition of the intimate star-studded fundraising gig for The Ally Coalition, the non-profit organisation he created with his sister Rachel, which supports at-risk LGBTQ+ youth, at NYU’s Skirball Center in NYC.To kick off the night, Antonoff was joined by his previous band Steel Train and treated the crowd to renditions of their songs ‘Kill Monsters In The Rain ‘ and ‘Bullet’.

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Eminem has an “insane” and “funny as hell” cameo in Adam Sandler‘s Happy Gilmore 2 – find out more below.That’s according to Sandler himself, who will reprise his iconic role for an upcoming sequel to the beloved 1996 comedy film. Speaking on The Dan Patrick Show, Sandler revealed that Eminem filmed a day’s worth of footage for the comedy sequel.While Sandler did not reveal the role Eminem plays or the extent of the rapper’s involvement in the film’s plot, he said: “Eminem was cool. He came by, he was great.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It may come as no surprise that Jack Antonoff — polymath collaborator with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Lorde and most recently Kendrick Lamar — thinks of his brain as a hard drive. “Yeah, it’s full of folders,” he says, in the middle of talking about the new Christmas single from his band, Bleachers (and a long digression about Christmas songs in general).

Lana Del Rey has opened up about her recent marriage, and said that the move was inspired by producer and collaborator Jack Antonoff.The singer made headlines earlier this year when rumours emerged that she had tied the knot in September – reportedly marrying alligator tour boat guide Jeremy Dufrene.Speculation about the two began after the singer was seen holding hands with Dufrene at Reading Festival 2024, and on September 26, the Mail Online claimed that the two got married at a ceremony in Des Allemands, Louisiana – reportedly on the same bayou where Dufrene operates his swamp boat tours.The outlet later published a series of photographs and video footage from the event, where Del Rey’s father Rob Grant was seen walking her down the aisle, and the news was confirmed in October when the couple’s marriage license was signed and returned to Louisiana’s Lafourche Parish Clerk of Court.Now, Del Rey has spoken about the decision to get married while at the Variety Hitmakers ceremony over the weekend, and confirmed that it was inspired by Jack Antonoff.While presenting the Bleachers frontman and producer with the Producer Of The Decade award on Saturday (December 7), the singer said that it was Antonoff’s marriage to actor Margaret Qualley that pushed her to wait for the right person to settle down with.Lana Del Rey says Jack Antonoff is a "big reason why I waited so long to get married and why I met my amazing husband.

Charli XCX has declared her love for the 1967 album ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’, calling it “the apex of fine art”.She namechecked the debut album by the influential New York City underground rock band in her acceptance speech at Variety’s Hitmakers Awards on Saturday (December 7), where she picked up the Hitmaker of the Year prize.As well as naming some of her other musical inspirations – Lana Del Rey, Caroline Polachek, Jack Antonoff – she singled out the seminal LP and its famous Andy Warhol-designed sleeve as a big contributor to her aesthetic.“In March 1967, The Velvet Underground released their album ‘The Velvet Underground And Nico’,” she said. “It debuted on the Billboard 200 at Number 199. And a few weeks later, it rose to its peak position of 195.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Charli xcx delivered a heartfelt salute to “The Velvet Underground & Nico.” Jack Antonoff cheekily told a roomful of music industry insiders that “some of you care more about Pop Crave than Pitchfork.” Lana Del Rey confessed she didn’t submit her music for Grammy nominations early on because she didn’t know how. Olivia Rodrigo outed producer Dan Nigro as “the man who finally taught me how to parallel park.” And Lainey Wilson spoke from the heart about her journey that began in a tiny Louisiana town “writing about tequila and cigarettes at 10 years old” on Saturday during Variety’s eight annual Hitmakers Brunch saluting the artists and industry insiders behind the year’s 25 top songs.

Lana Del Rey spoke very candidly about her marriage to Jeremy Dufrene and the celebrity who inspired her to pursue her own love story.

Jack Dunn While presenting producer and long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff with the Producer of the Decade award at Variety’s eighth-annual Hitmakers event, Lana Del Rey made a rare mention of her husband Jeremy Dufrene, crediting Antonoff’s marriage to actress Margaret Qualley as “a big reason” why she married the 49-year-old Louisiana boat captain. “I’m grateful for [Antonoff] for the example he gave me in his marriage to [Margaret Qualley],” Del Rey said. “I saw the way he looked at her when he met her, and he’s a big reason why I waited so long to get married, and why I met my amazing husband.” Del Rey officially introduced Dufrene to the media in September, when she brought him as her plus-one to the glitzy New York wedding between model Karen Elson and Lee Foster.

Charli xcx made a daring fashion statement while attending Variety’s Hitmakers Brunch at NYA WEST on Saturday (December 7) in Los Angeles.

Taylor Swift will bring her historic Eras Tour to a close this weekend at BC Place stadium in Vancouver, Canada.Changing the concert business — and changing the culture period — the blockbuster trek will go down as the highest-grossing tour of all time, becoming the first to haul in over $1 billion.“From attendance to size, it just kind of captured the imagination of the world for two years,” said Dave Brooks, Billboard senior director of live music and touring. “There’s really nothing [like it] that we’ve ever seen before.”In fact, Brooks credits the Eras Tour with helping to “restart the economy” after the pandemic.“It had a huge impact — from hotels to transportation to restaurants,” he said.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The common perception of a professional songwriter (if there is one) is that they’re usually working behind the scenes while a superstar artist is mobbed by adoring fans. But in October, Amy Allen — Variety’s Hitmakers Songwriter of the Year and a nominee for the 2025 Grammy award of the same name — played Madison Square Garden.

Sabrina Carpenter has been announced as a headliner for BST Hyde Park 2025.The ‘Espresso’ singer will perform in London on Saturday, July 5 next year, making her the sixth artist to join BST’s line-up of confirmed headliners after Olivia Rodrigo, Noah Kahan, Jeff Lynne’s ELO, Zach Bryan and Hugh Jackman.Support will come from Clairo and beabadoobee, with more acts to be announced in the coming weeks.

Jack Antonoff has credited Taylor Swift for starting his production career, saying he “was sort of shocked” during their first collaboration together.In an interview with Variety, published yesterday (December 5), Antonoff talked about how his career as a producer first began. Antonoff was awarded ‘Producer Of The Decade’ by the publication.“I actually would say she’s the first person who allowed me to produce, really, because I was already doing it,” Antonoff told Variety.While the former fun.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music With no shade to anyone, there really is no other choice for Variety’s Hitmakers Producer of the Decade than Jack Antonoff. Yes, he’s won the Grammy producer of the year award for three consecutive trips around the sun, but that’s just one indication of his culture-shifting collaborations with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, St.

Thania Garcia Kendrick Lamar’s “GNX” has debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the California rapper’s fourth consecutive chart-topping effort. The surprise-released set sold a total of 319,000 album units following its Nov.

Kendrick Lamar is gearing up to release a deluxe version of his sixth album ‘GNX’, according to Lefty Gunplay.Last Friday (November 22), the Compton rapper surprised the world with ‘GNX’ – his follow-up to the Grammy-winning ‘Mr Morales & The Big Steppers’ and his first release under his new label, pgLang.The record features his former Top Dawg Entertainment labelmate SZA as well as production from Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, Mustard, Terrace Martin and Sounwave.Gunplay also appeared on the viral track ‘TV Off’ from the album and, in a recent interview with Bootleg Kev, he said he’s sure Lamar has “some stuff in the chamber”, adding: “I know he’s got a deluxe version coming out. He’s very secretive.”He also revealed the “secretive” process behind his collaboration with the ‘Not Like Us’ star, for which he had to sign non-disclosure agreements before stepping into the studio and making “two, three songs” with Lamar.Gunplay explained: “Everybody thought I was playing – I wasn’t.

Questlove has thanked Kendrick Lamar for referencing the Roots in the music video for ‘Squabble Up’, while teasing a new album from the group.Lamar dropped his sixth album ‘GNX‘ without warning on Friday (November 22), his first release since 2022’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’.

Lana Del Rey has some plans for the spring.