David Hasselhoff has unveiled a cheekily dramatic rendition of the Lord of the New Church’s 1982 song, “Open Your Eyes.” The track will appear on the singer’s album titled after the tune, set for release on September 27th via Cleopatra. Hasselhoff stays faithful to the original’s foreboding melodies and lyrics …
Read More »Hear Lana Del Rey Cover Ariana Grande's 'Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored'
Lana Del Rey has already professed her admiration of Ariana Grande, and will release a collaboration with her and Miley Cyrus later this week as a tie-in to the new Charlie’s Angels reboot. On Monday, Lana took her fandom a step further and covered Grande’s “Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored” …
Read More »NOAA Staff Instructed Not to Contradict the President's Sharpie Hurricane Forecasts
After President Donald Trump falsely claimed in a tweet that Hurricane Dorian would hit the state of Alabama “(much) harder than anticipated,” National Weather Service staff were directed not to contradict his assertion. In an agencywide directive, employees were instructed to “only stick with official National Hurricane Center forecasts if …
Read More »Vinyl Is Poised to Outsell CDs For the First Time Since 1986
Sales of vinyl records have enjoyed constant growth in recent years. At the same time, CD sales are in a nosedive. Last year, the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) mid-year report suggested that CD sales were declining three times as fast as vinyl sales were growing. In February, the …
Read More »FCC Commissioner Asks RIAA to Investigate Payola Allegations
As detailed last month in Rolling Stone, pay-for-play continues to be a common feature of the radio business, with money or goods passing from the record labels to the radio stations to influence airplay. “Enough time has passed [since the last payola lawsuits in the mid-2000s], nobody’s gotten in trouble …
Read More »'They Legitimized Buying Views': YouTube Ads Divide Latin Music Industry
Major music companies are allegedly spending tens of thousands of dollars to boost view counts on the world’s largest streaming service. How the companies are doing it, though, is entirely legal on YouTube, thanks to a type of Google advertising that one digital marketer describes as “the legit way of …
Read More »Flashback: Watch Waylon Jennings Sing 'Dreaming My Dreams With You' on 'Austin City Limits'
“There’s an angel missing in heaven and his name is Allen Reynolds,” Garth Brooks told author Patsi Bale Cox in 1990. In the early Nineties, Brooks, with Reynolds as his producer, was on one of the hottest streaks in country-music history, topping the charts, earning dozens of industry honors, and …
Read More »Hear Neil Young and Crazy Horse's New Song 'Milky Way'
Neil Young and Crazy Horse have shared the first song from their upcoming album Colorado, a gentle love ballad (especially by Crazy Horse standards) titled “Milky Way.” Young has performed the song several times at concerts over the past few months – both solo acoustic and with Promise of the …
Read More »See Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones Take to the Skies in 'The Aeronauts' Trailer
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones pilot a massive balloon in the trailer for the new movie The Aeronauts, coming to theaters December 6th. The film, set in 1862 and inspired by true events, stars Jones as daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren, who teams up with meteorologist James Glaisher (Redmayne) to achieve …
Read More »Meryl Streep Exposes Worldwide Fraud in Steven Soderbergh's 'The Laundromat' Trailer
Meryl Streep plays a widow who helps expose worldwide fraud in the dizzying first trailer for The Laundromat, director Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming Netflix film about the Panama Papers scandal. The clip opens with a pair of shady law firm partners, Jürgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramón Mora (Antonio Banderas), breaking …
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