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“I will not allow Justin Bieber to taint an entire genre for me,” said the street artist and Obey founder in a video for Hypebeast which is interestingly not at all ironic. “If you’re gonna wear a band tee, you better know about that band,” says Shepard Fairey, forty-nine seconds into a video interview for Hypebeast spectacularly…
Band imagines America under brutal rule in song from new ‘xxx’ EP Pussy Riot imagine a brutal world ruled by Donald Trump in their new “Make America Great Again” video. Pussy Riot launch a no-holds-barred assault on Donald Trump’s candidacy in their new video for “Make America Great Again.” “YOU decide elections,” the video’s…
67 diggs Save Share Tweet WHERE THE WILD SYNTH ARE What ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ Would Sound Like In The 1980s Swap out a couple of instruments and throw in a few chords and suddenly a newish song is swimming in nostalgia. What 'Somebody That I Used To Know' Would Sound Like In…
Apple Music isn’t the most perfect music streaming service, but I like it fine. What I cannot tolerate, however, is shelling out $9.99 each month to a company which does business with the offensively mediocre James Corden. So with a heavy heart, I must announce that I am cancelling my Apple Music subscription. I just…
Philip Anschutz. Image via AP. This week, the 2017 Coachella line-up was released to a typical flurry of excitement. Along with headliners Kendrick Lamar and Radiohead, the big news was that the popular Indio, California festival was finally able to nab Beyoncé for an official spot—as the first woman headliner in ten years. Coachella is…
After years of trading physical dollars for digital dimes, the music industry is finally seeing a payoff. Subscriptions to streaming music services jumped about 50 percent in 2016, topping 92 million. For the first time since the heyday of CDs, revenue for the largest record labels is consistently rising. But things don’t look as bright…
The president-elect says that the 16-year-old’s album sales have ‘skyrocketed’ since her inauguration announcement. Have they? On Wednesday (Jan. 4), president-elect Donald Trump posted on Twitter that Jackie Evancho’s album sales have “skyrocketed” since the 16-year-old singer was announced to be performing the national anthem at his presidential inauguration later this month. “Some people just…
Photo: Getty Mariah Carey’s New Year’s Eve saga is simply unending, dahling, and it’s all her team’s fault. On Tuesday, Entertainment Tonight reported that Carey fired her creative director Anthony Burrell as a direct result of the disastrous performance that aired live on ABC. Per “a source close to Carey,” “part of the reason for…
Mariah Carey performed at the New Year’s Eve celebration in New York’s Times Square on Saturday. Credit Greg Allen/Invision, via Associated Press Mariah Carey suffered through a performance train wreck in Times Square on New Year’s Eve as malfunctions left her at a loss vocally during her hit song “Emotions,” struggling to reach notes and…
IN LATE 1994, LUCASFILM HELD A SERIES OF TOP-SECRET MEETINGS with Star Warslicensees. On the agenda: how to invigorate a lucrative movie franchise that hadn’t released a movie for more than a decade. Out of those brainstorming sessions — attended by Bantam author Steve Perry and representatives from LucasArts, among others — emerged a 25-page outline for…