Weezer paid tribute to Ric Ocasek, the former lead singer of the Cars and renowned rock producer, who helmed three of Weezer’s biggest albums, including their 1994 self-titled debut, better known as “The Blue Album.” Ocasek died Sunday at the age of 75. “The whole Weezer family is devastated by …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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If you ask LL Cool J, there is no “worst part” of being successful. “I think the worst part of life would be not going after your dreams and living a life of quiet desperation,” he tells Rolling Stone. The rapper, actor, and entrepreneur, born James Todd Smith, went after …
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Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie star as the women of Fox News in the trailer for Bombshell, Jay Roach’s new drama about the network and the scandal surrounding its founder, Roger Ailes. The film hits theaters in December. The trailer is a simple one, demonstrating the gendered hierarchy …
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This post contains full spoilers for Mindhunter Season Two, which Netflix released on Friday. “Seems to me, everything you know about serial killers has been gleaned from the ones who’ve been caught,” convicted murderer Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton) tells Mindhunter heroes Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) …
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Update 8/15/2019: Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein‘s alleged madam, was spotted (and photographed) at an In-N-Out Burger in Universal City, Los Angeles. After being spotted, the 57-year-old reportedly told a diner at the popular burger joint, “Well, I guess this is the last time I’ll be eating here!” She was also …
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Jack Black and Kyle Gass have released a new video blog documenting a recent meet-up with Jack White in Nashville, where the pair’s Tenacious D partnered with the musician to create a new song. Titled “Jack Gray,” the 17-minute video follows Tenacious D through their Nashville tour stop this summer …
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