Streaming manipulation – the practice of artificially inflating stream counts to produce false listening data – is the music industry‘s hot-button issue at the moment. On Thursday, an assortment of music publishers, record labels, royalty-collection societies and other groups signed a code of conduct condemning fake streams and pledging to …
Read More »Watch Toots and the Maytals Cover Fleetwood Mac's Lovesick Blues 'Man of the World'
Toots and the Maytals transformed Fleetwood Mac‘s 1969 tune “Man of the World” into an aching reggae ballad for the upcoming compilation, Red, Gold, Green and Blue, out July 12th via Trojan Jamaica. The cover arrives with a video featuring live footage and clips of Toots and the Maytals recording …
Read More »Gloria Gaynor Preaches Survival on Inspiring New Gospel Album
“I’ve been telling people for 40 years that ‘I will survive,’” Gloria Gaynor tells Rolling Stone Country backstage at an intimate album release event at the Analog lounge in Nashville’s Hutton Hotel. “With this record, what I’m hoping to accomplish is to show people how to survive. How I survived …
Read More »Trump's Ireland Golf Course Visit Cost Taxpayers $3.6 Million
The president is rarely in a building, save for the White House, that doesn’t have his name on it. And that is costing the American taxpayer more than $100 million, according to HuffPost. Trump’s recent visit to his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, contributed $3.6 million to that total. The …
Read More »Jimmy Kimmel Unveils Song to Help You Remember Democratic Presidential Candidates
The 2020 Democratic presidential primary is shaping up to be an outsize field, with two dozen declared candidates in the running. On Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! unveiled a song to help voters remember them all. Kimmel’s jaunty piano singalong bounced through the names of all 24 major contenders, from party frontrunners …
Read More »Watch Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland in New 'Judy' Teaser Trailer
The new teaser trailer for the biopicJudy was released on Friday, featuring Renée Zellweger as Hollywood icon Judy Garland. The film takes place in winter 1968, six months before Garland’s untimely death; the singer and actress arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at famed nightclub The Talk …
Read More »Inside the Battle for Sex-Centric Cannabis
For all this talk about marijuana culture going mainstream, and corporate pot developing brands that appeal to everyone from soccer moms to achy grandparents, the truth is that, in the cannabis market, sex still sells. So, for that matter, do mansion parties, celebrities, private planes, custom cars and supermodels. This …
Read More »Bill Maher Destroys Special Counsel Robert Mueller
Bill Maher, host of HBO’s Real Time, went after Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday for not prosecuting “corrupt” President Donald Trump. The comedian criticized Mueller’s “Boy Scout” way of “playing it by the book” during a time when America is “off book.” Maher began his “New Rules” segment by …
Read More »Mike Rutherford on Reviving the Mechanics and the Future of Genesis
Mike Rutherford had a lot working against him when he revived Mike and the Mechanics in 2010. Not only had it been 15 years since the band — best known for their songs “The Living Years” and “All I Need Is a Miracle” — scored a hit, but original singer …
Read More »'Dogman' Review: Revenge, Served Italian and Off the Leash
The angry canine is bearing its teeth, barking loudly and ready to bite. Marcello (Marcello Fonte), however, isn’t the least bit phased. A dog groomer who plies his trade in a small beachside town in Southern Italy, he has the ability to calm the angriest of hounds; despite the quaint …
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