About Matthew Allen

Matthew Allen is a Brooklyn-based TV producer, director and award-winning music journalist. He’s interviewed the likes of Quincy Jones, Jill Scott, Smokey Robinson and more for publications such as Ebony, Jet, The Root, Village Voice, Wax Poetics, Revive Music and Soulhead. His video work can be seen on PBS/All Arts, Brooklyn Free Speech TV and BRIC TV.

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June 23, 2022
BET officials say Lil Wayne has been added as a performer at the 2022 BET Awards, while Big Freedia is…
June 23, 2022
Is Drake's new album, 'Honestly, Nevermind,' an assault on the future of hip hop? TheGrio explores the history of hip…
75th Annual Tony Awards - Press Room
June 21, 2022
With Myles Frost winning the Tony Award for playing Michael Jackson in "MJ: The Musical," the global icon's legacy shines…
June 21, 2022
In honor of Black Music Month, theGrio highlights the Black music producers who’s innovative techniques had dramatic impact on music.
Amazon Music For Love
June 17, 2022
Dyana Williams spoke with theGrio about co-founding Black Music Month, and the importance of the business of Black music.
Activist Groups Protest Against Senate Majority Leader McConnell On National Reparations Day
June 17, 2022
theGrio highlights five ways that Juneteenth is being celebrated in the word of entertainment in New York, online and on…
Variety Studio at SXSW 2022 - Day 3
June 16, 2022
Netflix releases trailers for season two of "The Upshaws," Lena Waithe's film "Beauty," and Kid Cudi's animated series, "Entergalactic."
Beyoncé thegrio.com
June 16, 2022
Superstar singer Beyonce is set to release her seventh studio solo album, 'Renaissance' on July 29, as announced by Tidal.
2022 TIME100 Gala - Red Carpet
June 15, 2022
Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson, Grammy and Oscar winner, speaks to theGrio about working with New York Times' new campaign.
June 15, 2022
theGrio highlights 10 albums that have been reappraised as high quality and influential, despite not being positively received when released.
2022 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals x Empower Global Diddy
June 13, 2022
BET announced that music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs will receive its Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 BET Awards.
75th Annual Tony Awards - Arrivals
June 13, 2022
Matthew Allen speaks with Black artists at the 2022 Tony Awards and examines Broadway's Black renaissance and what the future…
Mike Tyson thegrio.com
June 10, 2022
Hulu releases the teaser trailer for its eight-episode limited series, "Mike," based on the life & career of former boxing…
2022 Jazz At Lincoln Center Gala:  Body and Soul: America Rises Through the Arts
June 8, 2022
The Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke, finds a theater home, announces…
June 8, 2022
OPINION: For Black Music Month, theGrio is featuring a weekly series in which our writers name the songs they believe…
2022 MTV Movie
June 6, 2022
Actress/singer Jennifer Lopez won the Generation Award at the 2022 MTV Movie and TV Awards, thanking those "who lied to…
Rappers Trouble and Rotimi, theGrio.com
June 6, 2022
Trouble, an Atlanta rapper who collaborated with Drake and The Weeknd, was killed on Sunday during a home invasion.
The Justin Combs 5th Annual Halloween Party Presented By Empire Genetics
June 6, 2022
Leslie Joanne Wayne, mother of platinum-selling music producer Metro Boomin, was allegedly killed by her husband in a murder-suicide.
Lil Nas X performs onstage during the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards theGrio.com
June 2, 2022
Music star Lil Nas X posted then deleted a Twitter thread calling out the 2022 BET Awards after receiving zero…
May 31, 2022
Eric Ronald Holder Jr. is accused of fatally shooting the Grammy Award-nominated rapper/entrepreneur in March 2019.