Arts News

Last night the 2013 BillBoard Music Awards took place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and was packed with several performance highlights. Chris Brown gave a performance of his current single “Fine China,” with a rendition riddled with bum notes but high in energy and action; including a dubious fight-dance break. Nicki Minaj left [...]

Iconic actor and comedian Chris Tucker will be hosting this year’s BET Awards, taking place at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday June 30th. [...]

Still to this day Marvin Gaye‘s music moves people’s souls and feet. At the 22nd annual Trumpet Awards, which aired on TV One on March 31, powerful singers Fantasia and Luke Jones came together to pay tribute to the soul legend by performing a medley of his hits; including “You’re All I Need To Get [...]

UK live arts festival Streetfest returns this May for its sixth year, taking place in the soul of East London, Shoreditch; the home of creatives and free spirits. For one day only, on Sunday, May 5th a variety of artists, musicians and more will unite to celebrate British Street culture; with attractions covering a spectrum [...]

Chinua Achebe was my hero. As a second generation Nigerian immigrant growing up in England, role models who I could genuinely identify with were few and far between – especially in the 1980s, when it was still a big deal to see a black face on TV. So much so that we’d receive phone calls [...]

Last night the 85th Academy Awards took place in Los Angeles with the biggest winners of the night being Life Of Pi and Ben Affleck‘s Argo, which took home the coveted Best Motion Picture Oscar . Other notable winners included Adele who won the Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) for “Skyfall”, [...]

Last night the 2013 Brit Awards took place at the London O2 Arena and saw Emeli Sandé taking home two awards including the prestigious Album Of The Year for her flawless debut album Our Version Of Events, Frank Ocean also took home the International Male Solo Artist award and Adele snatched the British Single accolade [...]

The EE British Academy Film Awards took place last night, and Argo continued it’s string of award successes picking up three awards, including best film and best director for Ben Affleck. Best Actor went to Daniel Day-Lewis for his portrayal of the iconic US president in the eponymous film Lincoln, while best actress went to [...]

The 55th GRAMMY Award are currently in full swing and with acts like Ed Sheeran, Elton John, Miguel, Wiz Khalifa, Justin Timberlake and many more taking the stage tonight, we will be bringing you some of the biggest performances of of the night as they become available. Watch the performances after the jump… Watch: Ed [...]

Even though I still don’t understand why the majority of the Rap and R&B awards aren’t televised during the main show *side eye*, we have a full list of the award winners from those categories which were given at the Pre-Telecast of The 55th GRAMMY Awards. The Throne aka Jay-Z & Kanye West took home [...]