Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, released the first week of 2025, set the tone for a year in which Latin music continued to be released at a fast and furious speed — but also, one in which key ...

NAT KING COLE: (Singing) Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose. The perfect Christmas song sets the mood right away. Our next guest wants to destroy all that. STEPHEN ...

Cheekface released their fifth album, Middle Spoon, back in February. It features McKinley Dixon, Jeff Rosenstock, JER, and ...

'No Place Like Home' and 'The Girl in the Bubble' in Wicked: For Good have received a mixed response from fans. Wicked: For Good introduces two new songs to the musical and now director Jon M. Chu has ...

Something “Wicked” this way comes not only at the movie theater, but in the music world as well. “Wicked: For Good – The Soundtrack” drops 11 songs nestled in the second volume of the film, with a ...

Wicked has long suffered with its pacing, especially in the second act of the musical. Ending the first half of both the musical and the first movie of Jon M Chu's two-part adaptation on the ...

The "Wicked: For Good" soundtrack is finally here, and with it comes the official cast recordings of two songs that are brand new to the musical. "No Place Like Home," sung by Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba ...

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are back as Elphaba and Glinda for “Wicked: For Good,” Jon M. Chu’s latest film which adapts the second act of Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s hit musical. Though ...

“March of the Witch Hunters” ominously spotlights the angry Ozians’ desire to burn Elphaba at the stake. The ensemble lets loose an intimidating wave of fury as people on the streets of the Emerald ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- One of the common criticisms of the Broadway musical “Wicked” is that its best songs are in Act I, leaving Act II to feel like a bit of letdown. By that logic, the same concern ...

Each witch gets a new number as part of an effort to flesh out the arc of the stage show’s second act. By Esther Zuckerman As the composer Stephen Schwartz was working on the 2003 stage musical ...

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