Joan Baez: Last News

Notorious B.I.G., Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre, has died aged 88.He passed away last Friday (December 29) at a hospital in LA and although his cause of death has not been disclosed, his manager Alan Abrahams told NBC News McCann developed pneumonia a week ago.McCann, who is best remembered for 1967 protest song ‘Compared To What’, alongside saxophonist Eddie Harris, was also famous for being sampled by over 300 artists including Warren G., Slick Rick, Cypress Hill, and Nas.Some of his most famous samples include Notorious B.I.G.’s ’10 Crack Commandments’, which uses McCann’s composition ‘Vallarta’, Snoop Dogg and Dr.

Neil Young and Joan Baez are set to join Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for an anti-oligarchy event later this month.Both Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez have been holding ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ rallies in predominantly Republican cities across the US, and have recruited Young and Baez for an upcoming stop in Los Angeles.The senator and congressperson will be joined at LA’s Grand Park by line-up of musicians including Maggie Rogers, Indigo de Souza, Jeff Rosenstock, the Red Pears and Raise Gospel Choir on April 12.As detailed on his website, Sanders will be hitting the road to have “real discussions across America on how we move forward to take on the Oligarchs and corporate interests who have so much power and influence in this country”. Admission to the event is free, and you can sign up here.A post shared by Bernie Sanders (@berniesanders)Much like Sanders, Young has been a vocal critic of billionaire President Donald Trump in recent years, calling him “the worst president in the history [of] our great country”.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been holding “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies in cities across the U.S., and, perhaps not surprisingly, they are pulling in a bit more musical firepower at an upcoming stop in Los Angeles than at the appearances scheduled for Boise or Tempe. At a tour stop at L.A.’s Grand Park on April 12, the senators will be joined by a potent lineup of musicians that includes Neil Young, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers. Admission for the event is free with sign-up on Sanders’ website.

After a 92-day theatrical window that is hearty for an independent movie, Searchlight’s Oscar-nominated A Complete Unknown will hit Hulu on March 27.

Matt Minton mminton@variety.com “A Complete Unknown,” the musical biopic about Bob Dylan that garnered eight Academy Award nominations, including best picture, and $127 million worldwide at the box office, will begin streaming March 27 on Hulu. The film takes place in the early ’60s as Dylan, played by “Call Me by Your Name” star Timothée Chalamet, takes on New York City and causes a rift in the musical community after he challenges the lines between folk and electric music.

Singer-songwriter Joan Baez still has the fierce sense of outrage that’s long fueled her career, and she gave voice to it, however briefly, last night on Netflix’s Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.

The 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards celebrated the best performances of the year in both movies and television.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor James Mangold has spent decades making some of Hollywood’s most emotionally rich and visually striking films. From the musical biopic “Walk the Line” to the superhero drama “Logan” to the action-packed “Ford v Ferrari,” his body of work has shown his versatility as a filmmaker.

Joan Baez “said lovely things” to her over her portrayal of Baez in the Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown.Barbaro played the legendary folk singer in the film alongside Timothée Chalamet who played Dylan. Barbaro has earned much praise for her performance as Baez, which has been lauded by critics and fans alike and recently, it was announced that Barbaro also earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal. Speaking to Variety, Barbaro revealed that Baez left her a voicemail after watching the film saying she expressed a “wonderful kindness to me.”She explained: “We’d had some correspondence, and she told me she planned on watching it over the break with a group of friends, but I didn’t know the day; I would have had a panic attack.

Last week, Monica Barbaro met Joan Baez in person for the first time. For Barbaro, this was a big step in an extraordinary journey that first began in 2020, back when Barbaro couldn’t play guitar at all, but sang at her audition to play Baez in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown. Fast-forward five years, and Barbaro has successfully, and beautifully, embodied Baez’s story and performed her music—with the Oscar and SAG nominations to prove it.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Two years ago, Monica Barbaro attended the Academy Awards with the cast of “Top Gun: Maverick.” It was the actor’s first time at the ceremony. “I wanted to embrace every moment and enjoy it,” Barbaro recalls. “I remember looking around and going, ‘I may never be in this room again in my entire life.

the new movie “A Complete Unknown.”Barbaro, 34, captured her sweet encounter with Baez, 84, in photos she shared Monday on Instagram.“A beautiful night in so many ways,” the “Top Gun: Maverick” star captioned the post. “Absolutely surreal. Joan.

EXCLUSIVE: As NBC prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, it’s interesting to recall the show’s second official musical guest – singer-songwriter Janis Ian. On October 11, 1975, she riveted the audience with a performance of her smash hit “At 17,” a ballad of high school heartbreak and rejection.

also doing press for A Complete Unknown and nobody told me about it? Because this suede jacket, big scarf, newsboy cap look is giving pure 1960s Bob Dylan. Or perhaps Joan Baez. Not that I’m mad at any of it.

A Complete Unknown” will become available to watch from home later this month. The Bob Dylan biopic will release on digital platforms, such as Prime Video and Apple TV, on Feb. 25.

Bob Dylan gets the biopic treatment in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown.Starring Timothée Chalamet as the iconic singer-songwriter, the film portrays Dylan through his early days as a folk musician until his renowned switch to electrical instruments at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.Other cast members in the biopic include Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, and Elle Fanning as Dylan’s then-girlfriend Sylvie Russo, who is based on Suze Rotolo.A Complete Unknown picked up eight nominations at the 2025 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Chalamet’s performance.At the time of writing, the film doesn’t have a release date on streaming services. We do know, however, that it will stream first on Disney+ in the UK and Hulu in the US.While Disney has yet to confirm a release date, films typically take around three months to land on streaming platforms after they arrive in cinemas.

Joan Baez has given actress Monica Barbaro props for her portrayal of the musician in A Complete Unknown – see what Baez had to say below.Speaking to the Marin Independent Journal, Baez spoke about Barbaro’s portrayal of herself in the acclaimed Bob Dylan biopic. Baez revealed she was a fan of Barbaro’s take on the role: “I loved what she did in the film.”She continued: “If I didn’t think she was good at it, I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed it in general.

During Saturday Night Live‘s opening monologue by host and musical performer Timothée Chalamet, he revealed he would be singing more obscure Bob Dylan songs that are his personal favorites.

have finally been revealed, and among the and are a slew of first-time Oscar nominees, including Demi Moore, Zoe Saldaña, and the . The nominations were announced by Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang on January 23 from LA.See the complete list of nominees here.As they say, the first time is the sweetest, and judging by the first-time nominees' reactions, we'd say that's no less true when it comes an Oscar nomination.

On Thursday morning, James Mangold was celebrating eight Oscar nominations for his film A Complete Unknown. He watched the announcement at 5.30am L.A. time on his cellphone “with one bar of data” because he was without power due to the L.A. fires. “We were evacuated a couple weeks ago,” he said. “Our house is fine, but we have been without power and even gas for extended periods.”

With a total of eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, A Complete Unknown has taken its place as a major Academy frontrunner— (Emilia Pérez, the most-nominated film, got 13, while Wicked and The Brutalist tied for 10). one of those eight was for Monica Barbaro‘s turn as Joan Baez.

A Complete Unknown is in cinemas now, but what really happened between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez? Read on for the real-life version of their relationship.The two folk icons are portrayed by Timothée Chalamet and Monica Barbaro in the film, which finally hit UK cinemas on Friday (January 17). It tells the story of Dylan’s rise as a breakout star of Greenwich Village’s folk scene in the early 1960s to his controversial performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, where he performed live with electric instruments for the first time.NME has launched a special print edition magazine celebrating the film and the legacy of Dylan.