A Tribe Called Quest have released an epic new music video for "The Space Program," from their 2016 album We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service. Befitting the song's title and central metaphor, the video shows the group in a spaceship of sorts, watching images from throughout American history on screens. Q-Tip…
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Five months after the premiere of a wildly successful second season, the cast and creatives behind Netflix's Stranger Things gathered at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday night to discuss their on-set dynamics and the pressure they feel after the success of the first season, between screams and shrieks from an enthusiastic audience.
But first,… What the hell kind of hitman is Barry Berkman? If you're using pop culture as a yardstick, the life of a murderer for hire is supposed to be pretty sweet, aside from all the murder. Consider the titular Bill from Kill Bill, who chastises The Bride for leaving the world of contract killing and describes…
They did “Backseat” and “Cut to the Feeling” at Charli's Pop 2 Los Angeles show
“It's kind of a sci-fi thing about a guy who gets busted for a crime.”
Golden is the upcoming album from Kylie Minogue, due out in stores April 6th through BMG. The Aussie artist's first in four years was recorded in Nashville, and the Music City's country roots were said to have made a big impact on her material. Already we've heard her tap into that Southern twang on lead single “Dancing”. Its follow-up, “Stop Me From Falling”, is a fun and contagious country pop cut that'll have you slapping your knee. It's like Miley Cyrus going country (again), except Down Under. Take a listen below. Billy McFarland, founder of the debacle known as Fyre Festival, has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud, according to TMZ. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. In June 2017, McFarland was arrested and accused by Acting Manhattan U.S. Attorney Joon Kim of providing false financial information to at least two investors from whom he raised over $1.2 million for the festival. During at least two incidents, McFarland allegedly “perpetrated a scheme to defraud” in order to secure investments for his company, Fyre Media. He allegedly misrepresented the company's revenue to be in the millions when it actually earned less than $60,000. In a separate event, he purportedly provided an investor with an altered brokerage statement. The 2017 Bahamas music festival was billed as an upscale boutique experience providing luxury villas and catered meals with performances from artists such as Migos, Major Lazer, Blink-182, and Disclosure. However, festival-goers instead arrived on the island in April to a post-apocalyptic tent city and little more than bread and cheese provided for their meals. McFarland's sentencing hearing is set for June 21st. In addition to the criminal charges, McFarland and co-founder Ja Rule have also been named in multiple civil lawsuits - one of which accuses them of running a Ponzi scheme. Russ Solomon, the founder of Tower Records, died Sunday at the age of 92. According to the Sacramento Bee, Solomon suffered a heart attack while watching the Academy Awards. “Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to refill his whisky,” Solomon's son, Michael Solomon, told the Sacramento Bee. When his wife returned, Solomon had passed away. In 1941, at the age of 16, Solomon began selling used jukebox records at his father's drug store in Sacramento's Tower Theater building. He opened his first standalone Tower Records store in 1960 and by the early 1970s, he had expanded to San Francisco and West Hollywood. At its peak in the mid-1990's, Tower Records boasted over 200 stores around the globe, generation annual sales of over $1 billion. Like many other music retailers, Tower Records struggled to adapted to the digital revolution of the 2000's, twice filing for bankruptcy before going out of business in late 2006. Solomon's story was chronicled in Colin Hanks' 2015 documentary All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records. |
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