Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán has been found guilty on 10 federal charges, ranging from drug trafficking to conspiracy to commit murder. At his sentencing hearing, which is expected to take place in June, he’ll be facing life behind bars in the United States. But what happened in the trial of …
Read More »'Moscow': New Photo Book Goes Inside Everyday Life in the Russian Capital
For over 20 years, Boogie has made his career as a photographer exploring the back alleys of some of the world’s biggest cities, such as New York, Istanbul and Tokyo. He goes inside the crowds, finding images that can be stark or unsettling, yet whether he’s photographing a portrait or …
Read More »Grammys 2019: Watch Alicia Keys Kicks Things Off With Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga
Alicia Keys joked about the power of music and showed the crowd “who runs the world” during opening monologue for the 2019 Grammy Awards at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. Keys kicked things off by calling out her friends in the audience. “When you really want to say something, you say …
Read More »A Brief History of Catch and Kill
On Thursday, February 7th, in a post on Medium, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos published a series of emails from American Media Inc. (AMI), outlining what he called an “extortionate proposal.” Last month, The National Enquirer published intimate text messages exposing an affair between Bezos, who is married, and former TV …
Read More »Ariana Grande Skipping Grammys Because Producer 'Stifled' Her Creativity
Whether or not Ariana Grande wins any Grammy Awards this weekend, she won’t be there to personally collect them. Grande said that she’s skipping the event because she felt “creatively stifled” by the award show’s producer, Ken Ehrlich. She names him directly in a thread of tweetsthat stem from an …
Read More »Linda Ronstadt on New Live Album, Life With Parkinson's and Modern Country Music
“I feel if I were to organize it correctly I would try to sing like a Mexican and think like a German. You know what I mean? I get it mixed up,” Linda Ronstadt joked to Rolling Stone in 1978. The quip was a comical reference to her Mexican-German heritage …
Read More »Inside 'ReMastered': Netflix's Gritty New Music-Doc Series
Anyone who thinks making a music documentary is easy wasn’t in director Kief Davidson’s shoes when he was in Jamaica researching the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976. Davidson and his crew were taken to sketchy neighborhoods in Kingston, where a police station had been shot up the night …
Read More »Songs With Featured Artists Have a Better Shot at Being a Hit, Study Says
When Maroon 5 and Cardi B teamed up for the cross-genre hit “Girls Like You” last year, the collaboration got some raised eyebrows — but also more than a fair amount of interest from listeners, who helped the song scoot its way to the top of the charts. These kinds …
Read More »ASMR Goes Mainstream With Super Bowl Commercial
Sunday night’s Super Bowl audience watched the New England Patriots seize their sixth NFL championship and got an eyeful of Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine’s nipples, but at least one of the broadcast’s coveted ad spots was more essential to hear than to see. Michelob Ultra’s debut commercial for their …
Read More »Jordan Peele's 'Us' Reveals New Trailer Ahead of Super Bowl
Ahead of Super Bowl LIII, Jordan Peele has dropped the second trailer for his forthcoming horror film Us. The latest visual debuted Sunday alongside the launch of the Get Out director’s new subreddit for his company Monkeypaw Productions. The first trailer for Us, which dropped in December, highlights a typical …
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