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Macklemore Stands With Pro-Palestine Protesters, Calls Out Biden in New Song
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Neil Portnow Sexual Assault Accuser Moves to Dismiss Lawsuit Due to Fear of Public Identification
The court was likely to grant an order from Portnow that would've forced the woman to reveal her name. She cited concerns for her safety and career.
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Critic’s Notebook: Everything to Know Behind the Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar Rap War
The musical conflict between Drake and Kendrick Lamar has escalated from a battle to an all-out hip-hop war that has the world keeping score.
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Steve Albini, Legendary Engineer-Producer of Nirvana, Pixies Albums, Dies at 61
The beloved, dogmatic music purist suffered a fatal heart attack on Wednesday.
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Why Hollywood Can’t Finish a Janis Joplin Biopic
Hollywood Tries (Just a Little Bit Harder) But Can’t Make a Janis Joplin Film Jim Morrison got one. Jimi Hendrix, too. And Kurt Cobain. And now, with Back to Black, Amy Winehouse is getting one as well. But there is one member of the so-called 27 Club — artists who share the same tragically young […]
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Andra Day on New Album, Imposter Syndrome and How Less People-Pleasing Healed Her Voice
Early in her career, Andra Day was asked by a reporter which singer she wanted to model her career after. Her answer was Sade. “The person was like, ‘OK, but Sade only releases albums like every nine years,’ and I was like, ‘Well, I’m not going to do that, of course, I’m going to release […]
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Eurovision 2024: What to Know Ahead of the Beloved But Controversial Song Contest
The world’s largest live music contest is back. The Eurovision Song Contest, a springboard to fame for some of the biggest acts in the world – legendary Swedish band ABBA, or more recently, Italian glam rock band Måneskin, for example – will return to screens on Saturday, May 11, to do what it does best: […]
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South by Southwest Heading to London in 2025
South by Southwest is heading to London. The event, which bills itself as “the world’s leading festival celebrating the convergence of creativity, culture and technology,” is expanding with SXSW London in June 2025. The move gives SXSW, which was founded in 1987 in Austin, a presence in Europe. SXSW previously expanded into the Asia Pacific […]
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Charli XCX Confirms Rumor She Was Asked to Work on Songs for Britney Spears
Charli XCX has confirmed past rumors that she was working on writing music for a potential new Britney Spears album at one point. However, the English singer-songwriter admitted in a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live that she wasn’t too sure how involved Spears was in the process, as the “Toxic” singer had previously shut […]
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Lily Allen Says “Nepo Baby” Is a Term “Almost Exclusively Used for Women”
Lily Allen took a moment this week to interrogate the “nepo baby” terminology that has become widespread in its use to denote Hollywood professionals whose parents are also famous. “Nepo babies, I think it’s quite like ‘Karen’, in the sense that it’s just a word that is basically used for women who are taking up […]
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Stormy Daniels Describes Meeting Trump During Occasionally Graphic Testimony in Hush Money Trial
With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president’s hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid to keep silent during the presidential race 10 years later. Jurors appeared riveted as Daniels offered a detailed and at times graphic account […]
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Ethan Hawke Recalls Thinking “We’re Going to Meet the Queen” Before Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” Music Video
Ethan Hawke took a moment to recount how he ended up in Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” music video. The Wildcat director stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to promote the film, which stars his daughter, Maya Hawke. Ahead of their conversation about the project, the late night host asked Hawke about his experience working […]
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Tiffany Haddish Explains Her Stand-Up Comments Over University Protests: “Do It Better. Really Be Effective”
Tiffany Haddish has addressed a viral moment from her stand-up performance at this weekend’s Netflix Is a Joke Festival, where she called out the protests happening on college campuses against the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. When speaking to TMZ in a video on Monday, Haddish acknowledged the response to her comments and said, “I think if […]
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Dozens of Pro-Palestine Protesters Arrested Near Met Gala
Over two dozen pro-Palestine protesters were arrested on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Monday evening while marching from a midtown college campus to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to demonstrate in front of the Met Gala, one of the most high-profile events of the year in the city. The New York Police Department confirmed to […]
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Drake’s Security Guard Shot Outside Rapper’s Toronto Home Amid Kendrick Lamar Beef
Drake’s Toronto mansion was the scene of a drive-by shooting early Tuesday, but the Canadian rap sensation is safe and cooperating with a police investigation that as yet has no motive. Toronto Police in a post on X, formerly Twitter, said the shooting at Bayview Avenue and Lawrence Avenue in the city’s Bridle Path district […]
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Murder in Paradise: The Killing of a VFX Legend
Deep in the lush mountains of the Caribbean island of Dominica, amid stands of lemongrass, giant ferns and palms, three roads converge where two lives ended, violently. A few weeks before Christmas, the bodies of Daniel Langlois, a French-Canadian philanthropist and Hollywood animation centi-millionaire, and his partner, Dominique Marchand, were found at that spot, in […]
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