The Grammy Museum's August online programming includes a panel discussion on the upcoming Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect.
The panel discussion is scheduled to take place on August 12, on the eve of Respect's theatrical release in the U.S.
Moderated by Variety's Chris Willman, it will feature the film's star Jennifer Hudson, as well as Stephen Bray and Jason Michael Webb.
The film's release was delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Archived programs - from August 2019 at the Clive Davis Theater in the GRAMMY Museum - will also be released, featuring 311, Of Monsters & Men, Local Natives and Ernie Kovacs.
Those who want to tune in to the Grammy Museum's virtual programming should sign up for COLLECTION:live for $2.99/month or $29.99 a year. The proceeds will benefit the Museum's music education initiatives.
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Weezer's "All My Favorite Songs" has reached No. 1 on Billboard's Rock & Alternative Airplay Chart, earning the band their third leader on the list.
"All My Favorite Songs" rose from No. 2 to No. 1 on the tally dated July 31 after earnings 6.7 million audience impressions, up 5%, among multiple rock radio formats, according to MRC Data. The track also leads the Alternative Airplay and Adult Alternative Airplay charts.
"All My Favorite Songs" is the lead single from OK Human, Weezer's 14th studio album and the first of two released in 2021, ahead of Van Weezer. OK Human has earned 66,000 equivalent album units since its January release.
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New Joni Mitchell Box Set To Include Live Performance Recorded By Jimi Hendrix
The Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968 - 1971), due out on October 29, will include a 1968 Mitchell concert recorded by Jimi Hendrix.
The Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968 - 1971), due out on October 29, will include a 1968 Mitchell concert recorded by Jimi Hendrix.
The recording of Mitchell's March 19, 1968 show at the Le Hibou Coffee House in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, which was long considered lost, recently resurfaced in a private collection donated to the Library and Archives Canada and returned to the singer.
Mitchell performed 22 tracks that night. As part of a preview of the upcoming collection, "The Dawntreader," a track from the Hendrix-recorded set, was released on Wednesday.
The five-CD or 10-LP set will also include a complete rendering of Mitchell's 1969 Carnegie Hall debut, held shortly before she released her second album, Clouds, a live 1970 show from London originally broadcast over the BBC, and some previously unreleased tracks.
"They came and told me, 'Jimi Hendrix is here, and he's at the front door.' I went to meet him," Mitchell told filmmaker/journalist Cameron Crowe about how Hendrix happened to record the show that night. "He had a large box. He said to me, 'My name is Jimi Hendrix. I'm on the same label as you. Reprise Records.' We were both signed about the same time. He said, 'I'd like to record your show. Do you mind?' I said, 'no, not at all.' There was a large reel-to-reel tape recorder in the box."
She continued, "The stage was only about a foot off the ground. He knelt at edge of the stage, with a microphone, at my feet. All during the show, he kept twisting knobs. He was engineering it, I don't know what he was controlling, volume? He was watching the needles or something, messing with knobs. He beautifully recorded this tape. Of course I played part of the show to him. He was right below me."
"Talked with Joni Mitchell on the phone. I think I'll record her tonight with my excellent tape recorder (knock on wood). hmmm. can't find any wood. everything's plastic," Hendrix, who had performed at the Capitol Theatre earlier that evening, noted in his diary.
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Grammy Museum To Host Panel Discussion About Upcoming Aretha Franklin Biopic
Weezer's 'All My Favorite Songs' Reaches No. 1 On Rock & Alternative Airplay Chart
New Joni Mitchell Box Set To Include Live Performance Recorded By Jimi Hendrix