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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? That classic line, delivered by Johnny Rotten in January 1978 during The Sex Pistols’ farewell show at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom, remains the stuff of legend. The frontman appeared to hint that the Pistols – for many, the purest distillation of the punk …
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Mrs. Smith was getting her nails done when she found out Kirk Hammett was game for a wah-off. In a January web interview, Smith, the Upper East Side socialite turned unlikely viral guitar hero, had thrown down a gauntlet before the famously wah-wah-pedal–happy Metallica member. “I’m the number-one wah-wah abuser,” …
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The cast of Reality Bites reunited Saturday at the Tribeca Film Festival to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary. As the end credits rolled during the special screening, Lisa Loeb made a surprise appearance to sing her “Stay (I Missed You),” the hit single from the Reality Bites soundtrack. Loeb tweeted …
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