Month: August 2020

As we head into yet another week of quarantine, Billboard's Live At-Home concert series will feature more livestreamed performances for your entertainment. This week's performances kick off Tuesday (Aug. 18), with a set from indie pop group Lovelytheband. Next up is English singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, and country crooner Danielle Bradbery will close out the week. The shows will stream live via Billboard's Facebook page. Check out this week's full schedule below. We'll also embed each video below once the performance takes place. Tuesday (Aug. 18)Lovelytheband -- 1 p.m. ET Wednesday (Aug. 19)Declan Mckenna -- 1 p.m. ET Thursday (Aug. 20)Danielle Bradbery -- 1 p.m. ET Billboard's Live At-Home series launched in March as the global coronavirus pandemic led to musi...

As we head into yet another week of quarantine, Billboard's Live At-Home concert series will feature more livestreamed performances for your entertainment. This week's performances kick off Tuesday (Aug. 18), with a set from indie pop group Lovelytheband. Next up is English singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, and country crooner Danielle Bradbery will close out the week. The shows will stream live via Billboard's Facebook page. Check out this week's full schedule below. We'll also embed each video below once the performance takes place. Tuesday (Aug. 18)Lovelytheband -- 1 p.m. ET Wednesday (Aug. 19)Declan Mckenna -- 1 p.m. ET Thursday (Aug. 20)Danielle Bradbery -- 1 p.m. ET Billboard's Live At-Home series launched in March as the global coronavirus pandemic led to musi...

As we head into yet another week of quarantine, Billboard's Live At-Home concert series will feature more livestreamed performances for your entertainment. This week's performances kick off Tuesday (Aug. 18), with a set from indie pop group Lovelytheband. Next up is English singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, and country crooner Danielle Bradbery will close out the week. The shows will stream live via Billboard's Facebook page. Check out this week's full schedule below. We'll also embed each video below once the performance takes place. Tuesday (Aug. 18)Lovelytheband -- 1 p.m. ET Wednesday (Aug. 19)Declan Mckenna -- 1 p.m. ET Thursday (Aug. 20)Danielle Bradbery -- 1 p.m. ET Billboard's Live At-Home series launched in March as the global coronavirus pandemic led to musi...

Former Saturday Night Live all-star Jason Sudeikis is making the rounds to promote his latest project, Ted Lasso. He popped by Good Morning America to share a few details about the gig. Jason Sudeikis | JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/AFP via Getty Images‘Ted Lasso’ is a fish-out-of-water story Billed as a sports comedy-drama, Ted Lasso revolves around a US American football coach who moves to London to manage an underperforming soccer team. Sudeikis shows off a very authentic Southern American accent as the title character. The promotional trailer teases a few fish-out-of-water bits, including Lasso adjusting to left lane driving. The character also expresses confusion over the Wales and England dynamics. He ponders to his UK cohorts, “How many countries are in this coun...

As we head into yet another week of quarantine, Billboard's Live At-Home concert series will feature more livestreamed performances for your entertainment. This week's performances kick off Tuesday (Aug. 18), with a set from indie pop group Lovelytheband. Next up is English singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, and country crooner Danielle Bradbery will close out the week. The shows will stream live via Billboard's Facebook page. Check out this week's full schedule below. We'll also embed each video below once the performance takes place. Tuesday (Aug. 18)Lovelytheband -- 1 p.m. ET Wednesday (Aug. 19)Declan Mckenna -- 1 p.m. ET Thursday (Aug. 20)Danielle Bradbery -- 1 p.m. ET Billboard's Live At-Home series launched in March as the global coronavirus pandemic led to musi...

As Meghan Markle returned to the United States in the spring, royal husband Prince Harry in tow, the country had shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic and protestors filled the streets to call out systemic racism and police brutality. “To come back and to just see that state of affairs, I think at the onset, if I’m being honest, was just devastating,” Markle, who’d spent several years working as an actress in Canada before relocating to England with Prince Harry, said Friday during news organization the 19th’s virtual summit. “[It was] so sad to see where our country was in that moment.” The Duchess of Sussex, who stepped back from royal life in January, appeared in conversation with Emily Ramshaw, co-founder and CEO of the publication, which focuses on the intersection of gender an...

In the second episode of Lovecraft Country, HBO’s engrossing new pulp horror series, one character, George (Courtney B. Vance), keeps thinking about a book. The book in question is the 1903 horror fantasy The House on the Borderland, and its plot is eerily similar to George’s present situation: He’s a Black man trapped in a strange mansion along with his friends, presented with various temptations and hallucinogenic visions — including dancing with a woman he knows to be a figment of his imagination. “Do the lovers stay together at the end?” his ghostly date asks of the story. “Yes,” he responds — but only because the giant house they're in collapses. There’s an obvious metaphor in the scene about the work Lovecraft Country is trying to do. The show’s story closely follows Matt Ru...