Fox Corporation has entered into an agreement to buy a majority stake in the consumer finance marketplace Credible Labs Inc., the company announced Sunday. As part of the merger agreement, Fox Corp. will pay $265 million for 67% of the company in addition to a $75 million growth capital commitment to Credible Labs over approximately […]
As “Supernatural” prepares to sign off this year, the men behind the show are trying not to let “the weight of what this season is creep into” their daily work on-set, series star Jensen Ackles said at the farewell panel for the CW demon-hunting drama at the Television Critics Assn. press tour Sunday. Instead, they […]
Cloudflare, a company providing security and performance services for some of the world’s most popular websites, will stop providing these services for the controversial message board 8chan, announced Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince in a blog post Sunday evening. The step comes after the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, whose perpetrator had announced the attack […]
Tonight, Lil Wayne took the stage at Chicago’s Grant Park for Lollapalooza 2019. During his set, Weezy busted out a remix of Lil Nas X’s No.1 single “Old Town Road.” Lil Wayne also performed “No Problem,” his 2016 track with Chance the Rapper and 2 Chainz, Young Money’s “Bed Rock” from 2009, and more. Watch […]
Yesterday (August 3), Gilles Peterson paid tribute to the late Ras G on his BBC Radio 6 Music show. On the episode, titled “Celebrating Ras G,” Peterson played music by Ras G and his peers. At one point, Flying Lotus joined the program to talk about his late friend and collaborator. He also played a […]
Earlier this week, Billboard noted that Chance the Rapper’s The Big Day was on track to potentially become his first No. 1 album. However, The Big Day is the No. 2 album this week behind the rapper NF’s new album The Search. The Search earned 130,000 equivalent units with 84,000 of those in album sales, […]
Plus: Chance the Rapper, Key Glock & Young Dolph, and Of Monsters & Men debut in top 10. NF scores his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as the rapper’s latest studio effort, The Search, enters atop the tally. The set, which was released on July 26 via NF Real Music/Caroline, starts […]
Justin Bieber loves sports, but he’s never played them professionally — just don’t tell Topps that. A copywriter at the baseball card company seems to have gotten their Biebers confused, as the back of Cleveland Indians pitcher Shane Bieber bears the name of the pop star, not the player. On Sunday (Aug. 4), Shane posted a […]
Billboard Korea announced a new endeavor, with plans to launch its first-ever print edition of Billboard Korea magazine. The Korean-language magazine is expected to launch in September. K-pop fans can look forward to exclusive industry news and analysis, interviews, full chart reports and original photography. In addition to a featured Korean cover star, each bi-monthly […]
The duo the Bird and the Bee released an album Friday that imagines what happens to the catalog of Van Halen, as guitar-centric a band as ever walked the earth, if you take out all the guitars. Not to mention what happens when you have a woman with one of the lovelier voices in pop, […]
D.A. Pennebaker had already been making documentaries for 12 years when he got a historic assignment in 1965 to document Bob Dylan at his most mercurial. Once “Don’t Look Back” was released in 1967, followed a year later by “Monterey Pop,” Pennebaker’s path as popular music’s preeminent documentarian was set — or at least the […]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s auteur comedy, “Fleabag,” took home three top prizes at the 35th Annual TCA Awards, presented by the Television Critics Assn. (TCA) on Saturday. “Fleabag” was celebrated in the comedy series category, as well as the coveted program of the year category, and individual achievement in comedy for Waller-Bridge herself. The series, which streams […]
Japanese Breakfast performed at Lollapalooza last night, where they delivered a cover of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot cut “Jesus, Etc.,” as Brooklyn Vegan points out. Watch footage of that go down below. Earlier in the day, the band teased the cover with a screenshot of the guitar tablature. [embedded content] Japanese Breakfast’s most recent album […]
Filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, whose work includes the 1967 Bob Dylan tour film Don’t Look Back and the 1973 David Bowie documentary Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars—has died. He was 94 years old, according to Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Variety reports that Pennebaker died Thursday night (August 1) of natural causes. Donn Alan […]
Tonight, Lil Wayne took the stage at Chicago’s Grant Park for Lollapalooza 2019. During his set, Weezy busted out a remix of Lil Nas X’s No.1 single “Old Town Road.” Lil Wayne also performed “No Problem,” his 2016 track with Chance the Rapper and 2 Chainz, Young Money’s “Bed Rock” from 2009, and more. Watch […]
In Remember My Name, the new Cameron Crowe-helmed documentary about David Crosby‘s life and music, the seasoned rocker offered his side of the story regarding some of his former friendships with fellow musicians and collaborators. Crosby has been feuding with Neil Young, Graham Nash and others for years, and he broaches the topic in the film, noting that […]
The documentarian trained his lens on a 1965 Bob Dylan tour, Bill Clinton’s war room and the cast of Sondheim’s ‘Company’ recording the original cast album. D.A. Pennebaker, documentary’s master of cinema verite who unassumingly brought viewers inside Bob Dylan’s mythical 1965 tour of England in Don’t Look Back and Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign in The War […]
Camila Cabello got on social media to celebrate the two-year anniversary of her hit single “Havana” on Saturday (Aug. 3) but found herself sidetracked by messages that were criticizing her body. The singer responded by penning an empowering letter to all the “young girls growing up in an airbrushed world,” reminding them that many of the photos […]
Mindfulness, once a fringe activity considered a flower-powered remnant of the druggy 1960s, has officially entered the mainstream. Meditation is trendy, it sports endorsements by everyone from Cardi B to the late Steve Jobs, and there are a bazillion apps dedicated to helping folks decompress in this stressed-out world. One of the most successful of […]
August 2, 2019 8:46PM PT Top animation directors, Yasuhiro Takemoto and Futoshi Nishiya were among the talent killed by last month’s arson attack on Kyoto Animation, city police have confirmed. Revealing the names of 10 of the 35 victims of the fire that ravaged the three-story studio, police also said that veteran animator Yoshiji Kigami […]
August 2, 2019 9:14PM PT The Filipino Aswang legend is spun into a proto-feminist tale of colonial-era rape and revenge in this atmospheric but turgid fantasy. Prolific Filipino helmer Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.’s latest big-screen endeavor “Mystery of the Night” is a supernatural folktale so beautifully atmospheric that one can almost overlook its escalating problems […]
The trailer for season two of Jim Carrey’s Showtime series “Kidding” has arrived, and it features a (very) brief cameo by Ariana Grande. Grande appears in a green fairy costume complete with giant pickle wings (possibly a reference to Carrey’s character: a children’s television host named Mr. Pickles). Check out the clip below. [embedded content] […]
Electronic musician Helena Hauff has announced a new four-track EP: Living With Ants. It arrives September 9 via the Hamburg producer’s own Return to Disorder record label. Check out a teaser below. Hauff’s last release, her full-length album Qualm, was released in 2018 on Ninja Tune. Prior to that, she released another EP for the […]
Tonight at Lollapalooza 2019, Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) hopped onstage during 21 Savage’s set for a rendition of their joint track “Monster.” They rapped in front of a large pyramid staircase—Donald wearing a neck brace and a sling on his arm. Watch 21 and Donald onstage in Chicago’s Grant Park below. “Monster” appeared on […]
A U.S. District Court judge has rejected DJ Spinderella’s requests for immediate relief against former bandmates Salt-N-Pepa over alleged unpaid royalties, a spokesperson for the duo revealed Friday (Aug. 2). The judge has instead ordered the case to mediation. “We are grateful for the judge’s ruling as Salt-N-Pepa have been extremely generous to Spin over […]
The Baz Luhrmann film will hit theaters Oct. 1, 2021, while ‘Dune’ has been pushed back one month to Dec. 18, 2020. Warner Bros. is setting a date with Elvis. The untitled Elvis Presley biopic from director Baz Luhrmann will open Oct. 1, 2021, the studio said Friday. Austin Butler is playing the King of Rock […]
Tory Lanez gets caught up in a dangerous situation in his new video for “Forever,” released on Friday (Aug. 2). The vignette portrays the rapper lounging with his crew, celebrating a massive cash income. “If you my dawg, then n—-, my dawg/Then we gon’ get money together/You go through a trial, you duckin’ the law/So […]
CBS All Access is ramping up its offerings to at least 12 original series in 2020, said streaming service execs at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour Thursday, with additional plans to expand programming into sports, movies and nonfiction titles, and series acquisitions. Part of that early selection includes World Series of Poker bracelet […]
August 1, 2019 7:43PM PT Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, died Thursday afternoon at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. of an apparent overdose, the New York Times has reported. She was 22. A spokesperson for the Kennedy family also confirmed the death in a statement; however, the […]
In today’s film news roundup, the Gotham Awards have been set for Dec. 2, “The Twentieth Century” and “Feast of the Seven Fishes” are acquired and The Writers Lab selects a dozen participants. AWARDS DATE The Independent Filmmaker Project announced that the 29th IFP Gotham Awards will take place this year at Cipriani in New […]