TikTok has signed a new licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment, the company announced on Monday, granting the short-form video app a longer term deal for access to the extensive catalog of one of the biggest companies in the recorded music industry. TikTok declined to give specifics on the new …
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Ady Barkan spoke with just about all of them: Elizabeth. Cory. Bernie. Kamala. Julián. Pete. The only Democratic presidential candidate Barkan hadn’t spoken with? Joe. But after Biden edged out the rest of his party’s competition, that changed. Eventually, everyone wants to talk with Barkan. “When he won the nomination, …
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Liam Payne has teamed up with Dixie D’Amelio for new holiday song, “Naughty List.” On the pop track, which opens with sleigh bells befitting the season, the former One Direction member and the singer/TikTok star playfully sing about getting swept up in the heat of the moment in the midst …
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Some of Dayna Frank’s earliest childhood memories are of David Bowie, Madonna, and Michael Jackson tearing up concert stages. Her father worked in, and eventually ran, the popular Minneapolis venue First Avenue — and though she went to Los Angeles to work in film and television for a decade, she …
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Five years ago, Barry Bowman’s daughter brought him a box of his belongings that his ex-wife thought he might want to keep. The retired DJ went fishing through it, shuffling through old airchecks on cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes. “I jokingly said, ‘I wonder if that old Joni Mitchell tape is …
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Jeff Tweedy makes a point of working on music every single day, but lately he’s been a little distracted. “The election is making it harder than normal to focus,” he says over Zoom from Wilco’s Chicago recording space, the Loft. “It’s hard to play the guitar and check FiveThirtyEight at …
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The Breeders‘ Kim and Kelley Deal took part in conversation with Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown during an upcoming Rolling StoneFridays for Unity event, which is set to air this Friday, October 30th. “Has anybody ever told you you look like Robert Pollard from Guided by Voices?” the Dayton, Ohio twins …
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I n the spring of 2019, Khalifa Haftar went to a cafe in Cairo to plot a coup. At the meeting, the Libyan general was shown an $80 million plan to overthrow Libya’s U.N.-recognized government. In a PowerPoint presentation viewed by Rolling Stone, Haftar, a warlord with a power base …
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Bright Eyes have released a new song, “Miracle of Life,” to benefit Planned Parenthood. Along with the members of Bright Eyes (Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott), the song features contributions from Phoebe Bridgers, Jon Theodore, and Flea. In partnership with the 7-Inches for Planned Parenthood Collective, Bright Eyes …
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Paul Feig knows how to keep busy.He’s currently the executive producer of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and Love Life, and has a new series, This Country, underway. The actor and filmmaker appeared on Rolling Stone‘s The First Time to share his experiences. Feig kicked off with the first album he ever …
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