ZZ Top will celebrate their 50th anniversary with a “Texas Bash” featuring Cheap Trick and Bad Company. The three bands will play a trio of shows in May: the 17th at Dallas’ Don Equis Pavilion, the 18th at Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion and the 19th at Austin’s Austin360. Tickets …
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne Commemorates Bat-Biting Anniversary With Plush Toy
To commemorate one of the most infamous moments in Ozzy Osbourne‘s career – and one of the most notorious incidents in rock history – the singer has released a limited edition plush toy of a bat with a detachable head. The 12″ doll is a bizarre tribute to the winged …
Read More »Lady Gaga Apologizes for R. Kelly Collaboration: 'I'm Sorry … For Not Speaking Out Sooner'
Lady Gaga has apologized for working with R. Kelly in a Twitter statement. The singer, herself a victim of sexual assault, introduced the lengthy apology by noting, “I stand by anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault.”“I stand behind these women 1000%, believe them, know they are …
Read More »Legal Weed Already Facing Backlash in New Jersey
If all goes according to plan, legal recreational marijuana will soon be growing in the Garden State. This week, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is reportedly meeting with lawmakers to began hashing out the remaining sticking points of the “New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory and Expungement Aid Modernization Act,” a bill …
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 »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 »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 »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 …
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