Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been removed from Roku after the streaming platform faced fierce criticism from users, The New York Times reports. Last year, Jones’ InfoWars channel, as well as his other media projects, were scrubbed from most major social media platforms and streaming services for violating various rules …
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Samuel L. Jackson showed off his formidable poetry slam skills during The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he took on the government shutdown news and President Trump’s border wall. The Roots set the mood with a jazzy soundtrack as host Jimmy Fallon and Jackson took turns at the mic. …
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If you can judge an audience’s excitement by the number of camera phones hoisted into the air, then two moments stand out for the Los Angeles event dubbed Malibu Love Sesh. First, was when Jack Black made a cameo in the middle of Beck‘s set. The second was simply when …
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Missy Elliott, John Prine and Yusuf/Cat Stevens are among the 2019 inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Country great Tom T. Hall, R&B hitmaker Dallas Austin and “Peaceful Easy Feeling” writer Jack Tempchin will also be honored at the June 13th induction ceremony at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel. …
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Spotify surpassed 200 million monthly active users at the end of 2018, the 10-year-old streaming service announced during an interview at Las Vegas’s Consumer Electronics Show this week. In November, Spotify said in a financial disclosure to investors that it had 191 million monthly active users, 87 million of them …
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Shelby Svensen admitted to killing his wife Jamie Ivancic — but only after he was arrested for also killing three of her family members. Authorities believe Ivancic may have been dead for as long as a year, but Svensen convinced her friends and family that she was still alive by …
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Here’s music for the music business’s ears: U.S. consumers’ spending on audio entertainment is expected to rise significantly this year off of record spending in 2018. On-demand music services are expected to bring in 22 percent more revenue in 2019, rising to $7.7 billion, according to the Consumer Technology Association’s …
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Jimmy Page kept himself pretty busy in the Eighties. In addition to co-founding the short-lived supergroup XYZ, he composed the soundtrack to Death Wish II, launched the Firm with Free and Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers, reunited with Led Zeppelin for a couple high-profile one-offs, and guest-starred with everyone from …
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On May 7th, 2018, Richard Swift posted a black-and-white image of his recording studio, National Freedom, to Instagram. Situated in a converted barn behind his home in Cottage Grove, Oregon, the studio was full of the tools of his trade: a triple stack of keyboards, the custom C&C drum kit …
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“Intercourse can be wonderful,” Jean Milburn tells her son Otis. “But it can also cause tremendous pain. And if you’re not careful, sex can destroy lives.” Jean would know. She is a sex therapist and bestselling author on the subject, but her marriage to Otis’ father (also a sex therapist …
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