Officials in the White House have been making increasingly false statements to justify President Donald Trump‘s beloved border wall, including lying about terrorists coming across the United States border with Mexico. On Friday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that last year, 4,000 individuals“that came across our southern border”were detained …
Read More »Apple Just Bought a Company that Acts Like a Record Label. Why?
The plan was to sell flowers. Following a successful music-industry career throughout the Eighties and Nineties, working with the likes of Kenny Loggins and Paul Simon, Denzyl Feigelson moved to Hawaii. There, semiretired, the South African exec launched an online floral company (based on the the bones of a sluggish, …
Read More »Courtney Love, Frances Bean Cobain Granted Restraining Order Against Ex-Manager
A judge has granted Courtney Love and her daughter Frances Bean Cobain a permanent restraining order (PRO) against her ex-manager Sam Lutfi, the Blast reported Wednesday. Rolling Stone has confirmed the report.Love’s sisterJaimee was already protected under Monday’s ruling. On Wednesday, the judge overseeing the case – who remembered Lutfi …
Read More »Why Sony Is Launching a Hi-Res Streaming Service in Japan
Music streaming is coming up on its next frontier: audio quality. On Monday, that future loomed a bit closer when Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Rhapsody International announced, in partnership, a new service called Mora Qualitas, which will be Japan’s first on-demand high-resolution music streaming service. Sony Music Entertainment Japan …
Read More »Supreme Court Refuses to Hear a Case About Defunding Planned Parenthood
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a case that could have paved the way for Republican states around the country to defund Planned Parenthood. A lower court had previously blocked laws passed in Louisiana and Kansas that declared Medicaid funds couldn’t be used to receive services at the …
Read More »Soulja Boy Wants to Take Over the Gaming Industry One Console at a Time
Soulja Boy‘s voice is breaking up. He apologizes, the culprit is his house — it’s in the hills and possesses less than optimal reception — rapper problems. He’s already let his 5 million-plus followers on Twitter know that we’re going to talk: “Whoa I got rolling stone and Forbes requesting …
Read More »Grammys 2019: The 10 Biggest Snubs
What doAriana Grande, Travis Scott and J Balvin have in common? All were spurned to some degree by Grammy voters. The nominations for the 2019 awards ceremonywere announced on Friday morning, with Kendrick Lamar, Cardi B and Lady Gaga each picking up multiple nods in major categories. But each year, …
Read More »Primavera Sound: Cardi B, Janelle Monae, Interpol, Solange Lead 2019 Lineup
Cardi B, Janelle Monaé, Interpol, Solange, Erykah Badu, Future, Nas, Robyn, J Balvin, Rosalía and FKA Twigs lead the lineup for the 2019 Primavera Sound festival, which runs from May 30th to June 1st at Barcelona, Spain‘s Parc del Fòrum. Other Primavera performers include Mac DeMarco, Christine and the Queens, …
Read More »New Report of Cyberattacks on Leading Republican Campaign Group Raises Questions
WASHINGTON —Fresh off its shellacking in the 2018 midterm elections, House Republicans suffered another embarrassment on Tuesday when it was revealed that their flagship campaign group was hacked earlier this year and failed to tell senior party members about the attack. Politico reported that unknown hackers breached the National Republican …
Read More »Anderson .Paak to Embark on 'Andy's Beach Club World Tour'
Anderson .Paak is ready to take his latest album, Oxnard, on the road. On Monday, the SoCal musician announced the Andy’s Beach Club World Tour will begin in February and visit 11 cities in North America before heading to Europe in March. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, .Paak …
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