Earlier this year, the app TikTok — which allows users to create short video clips set to music — helped shotgun Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” into the pop stratosphere. That accomplishment alone is cause for the app’s creators to celebrate. But that is just one way that TikTok …
Read More »Blood of Missing Mother of Five Found In Trash Can Following Arrests
The blood of missing New Canaan, Connecticut, woman Jennifer Dulos has been found on various items in trash cans in Hartford, such as clothing and a sponge, the New York Timesreports. According to surveillance footage, the items appear to have been disposed by Dulos’s estranged former husband, Fotis Dulos, and …
Read More »Ron Howard on the Making of 'Pavarotti'
Ron Howard doesn’t remember meeting Luciano Pavarotti so much as feeling his presence. “My memory has less to do with my brief handshake and fleeting eye contact with the maestro and more to do with the fact that it was at this giant Golden Globes event with major movie stars …
Read More »Bon Iver Reveal Two New Tracks, Plot North American Tour
Bon Iver released the two new songs, “Hey, Ma” and “U (Man Like),” which they played over the PA system following their headlining set at All Points East in London this weekend. The studio version of “Hey, Ma” arrives one year after the band premiered the track during their set …
Read More »Duff McKagan Mixes Guns N' Roses Deep Cuts, New Solo Songs at Tour Kickoff
Here’s a shocker: Duff McKagan‘s new solo album Tenderness, out today, is more country sounding than some mainstream Nashville releases joining it on record-store shelves. The Guns N’ Roses bassist embraced that rootsy, even twangy, vibe wholeheartedly when he kicked off his solo tour at Philadelphia’s Theatre of Living Arts …
Read More »Iggy Pop To Release Book of Lyrics and Photos in October
Iggy Pop will release a new lyric book collection, ‘Til Wrong Feels Right, October 1st. The book, which is currently available for preorder via Penguin Random House, will include lyrics, essays, photographs and artwork created by Pop throughout his career. An official description of the book reads, “Coinciding with the …
Read More »R. Kelly Charged With 11 More Counts of Sexual Assault
UPDATE 12/4: The Illinois judge overseeing Cook County’s case against R. Kelly assigned a tentative September 14th, 2020 start date for the singer’s trial on state charges, which would follow Kelly’s federal trials in New York and Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. At Wednesday’s hearing, when Kelly’s lawyer Steven Greenberg …
Read More »Watch Taron Egerton on Elton John's Emotional Reaction to 'Rocketman' on 'Kimmel'
Rocketman star Taron Egerton recalled nervously monitoring Elton John‘s reaction to the new biopic about him during its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday. Egerton, who plays John in the film, admitted to some anxiety leading up to the premiere, noting Cannes audiences have a …
Read More »Flashback: Ricky Martin Drives American Talk Show Hosts 'Loca' in 1999
This month marks 20 years since Ricky Martin dropped his self-titled, English-language LP — forever shifting the course of American pop music. Released May 11th, 1999, Ricky Martin would sell nearly ten million copies worldwide within its first month. Its astronomical success was due in no small part to its …
Read More »National Rifle Association Hit with $100 Million Counter-Suit
Ackerman McQueen is biting the hand that feeds it. The longtime PR firm for the National Rifle Association is counter-suing the gun group for a staggering $100 million, alleging the NRA is dishonestly attempting to sever business ties — for the benefit of the gun group’s top-dollar legal firm. The …
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