After a long day of panels, discussions and demos highlighting touring business trends at the Pollstar Live 2020 conference in Los Angeles, a keynote conversation between mega-mogul/manager Irving Azoff and the notoriously unabashed Nicki Minaj felt radical, refreshing and carefree. Plenty of previous guests talked in circles, providing fluffy, media-trained …
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Multi-platinum alt-rockers Goo Goo Dolls are plotting to hit the road this summer in support of their 2019 album, Miracle Pill. The Buffalo band teased their upcoming North American run on Tuesday morning with a brand new video for the song “Autumn Leaves.” The latest single off their pop-facing LP, …
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Maroon 5 performed at Miami’s American Airlines Arena on Sunday night and took the opportunity to pay their respects to Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash last month. The band, who played the show along Dan + Shay, took part in the Bud Light Super Bowl Music Fest, …
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Chuck D slammed the Recording Academy over their decision to part ways with their new CEO Deborah Dugan, a stunning move that occurred just 10 days before the Grammy Awards. “I salute Deborah Dugan for her truth and courage to try and effect change,” the Public Enemy rapper wrote on …
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Sam Elliott uses his incomparable drawl to recite the lyrics of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” in a Western saloon in a teaser for an upcoming Super Bowl LIV commercial. The spot finds Elliott in his full-on “Stranger from The Big Lebowski” cowboy persona as he sits down at …
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Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said in two separate interviews that Trump was in on the entire scheme to get Ukraine’s government to announce that they were investigating former Vice President Joe Biden. “President Trump knew exactly what was going on. He was …
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Before he became a cynical parody of himself, director Michael Bay made an efficient 1995 feature debut with Bad Boys, a buddy-cop flick that came in hot on the star power of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as Miami detectives who never learned how to play by the rules. By …
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UPDATE (1/30): A string of presenters have been announced this week for the 92nd Academy Awards.So far, the announced presenters include Zazie Beetz, Timothée Chalamet, Will Ferrell, Gal Gadot, Mindy Kaling, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Mark Ruffalo, Kelly Marie Tran, Kristen Wiig, James Corden, Penélope Cruz, Beanie Feldstein, …
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America is on the brink of war with Iran, largely as a result of President Trump’s reckless decision to assassinate Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani. An excellent way to understand how and why this happened is to read Peter Bergen’s new book, Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos …
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For the final Saturday Night Live of the decade, and Eddie Murphy’s first time hosting in 35 years, he was joined onstage during his opening monologue by Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Tracy Morgan, three comedians whose careers were greatly impacted by Murphy. “This is the last episode of 2019, …
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