YouTube announced one of this year’s most significant artificial intelligence developments in the music industry this week when it launched its new experimental AI feature that will allow select users to make song clips featuring AI-generated vocals of superstars including Demi Lovato, Sia and John Legend. Dream Track officially launched …
Read More »Neil Young and Stephen Stills Honor David Crosby, Revive Buffalo Springfield at Light Up The Blues
Nobody knew quite what to expect when Neil Young walked onstage Saturday night at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles to wrap up Light Up The Blues, a fundraising event organized by Stephen Stills and his wife Kristen Stills to benefit Autism Speaks. Discounting a surprise, two-song acoustic set at …
Read More »'To Love Tupac Was to Fight With Tupac': Why Allen Hughes Needed to Make 'Dear Mama'
WHEN TUPAC SHAKUR‘S estate approached Allen Hughes to make a documentary about the iconic rapper, Hughes said thanks, but no. Sure, the Defiant Ones filmmaker and his brother, Albert, had co-directed Shakur’s first music videos; Hughes had also been violently attacked by Shakur and his entourage in the early Nineties. …
Read More »George Santos Announces Bid for Two More Years of Public Humiliation
Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has announced that he’s running for reelection. The embattled Long Island congressman, who more than 70 percent of voters in his district think should resign, officially announced his 2024 campaign on Monday. “As a first-generation American, I am no stranger to the issues affecting my district. …
Read More »Bill Russell, Boston Celtics Legend and Social Justice Champion, Dead at 88
Bill Russell — Boston Celtics legend, one of the greatest NBA players ever, and a champion of civil rights and social justice — has died at the age of 88. Russell’s family the basketball great’s death Sunday on social media, saying he “passed away peacefully” with his wife Jeannine by …
Read More »Travis Scott, Dior Collaboration to Retail in July
Travis Scott and House of Dior in Paris’ capsule collaboration, Cactus Jack Dior, will hit retail on July 13, Women’s Wear Daily reports. The skate wear-inspired line will include sneakers, backpacks and men’s ready to wear. The pairing was initially paused following the Astroworld tragedy, but the collaboration will now …
Read More »'Dark Winds': A Pulpy Mystery That Makes Native Characters the Stars of Their Own Story
AMC‘s new drama Dark Winds, based on Tony Hillerman’s bestselling series of buddy-cop mystery novels set on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico, is not the first television attempt at the property. Twenty years ago, PBS made a trio of TV-movies adapted from Hillerman’s books, starring Wes Studi as veteran …
Read More »Sweet Sweet NFT Baby: Mariah Carey Enters Web3 World With Her Latest Release
Mariah Carey is entering the crypto space with the launch of her very first NFT, and in true diva fashion, the winner of the NFT will get a full-on experience. Designed like a boarding pass (on “Butterfly Airways,” natch), the NFT includes an opportunity to meet Carey and fly with …
Read More »Herschel Walker's Response to the Uvalde Shooting Was Incoherent. So Is His Senate Bid
“What I like to do is see it and everything and stuff.” This is how Hershel Walker responded on Tuesday night when asked about gun control in the wake of a shooter killing 21 people, including 19 children, at an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school hours earlier. Walker didn’t make much …
Read More »Watch Eminem Disrupt Pete Davidson's Final 'SNL' Music Video, a Lorne Michaels Tribute
Pete Davidson’s Weekend Update sendoff wasn’t the departing Saturday Night Live star’s only farewell to the series: In a Cut for Time sketch, Davidson unleashed one last Eminem parody dedicated to showrunner Lorne Michaels, much to the chagrin of Slim Shady himself. While Davidson thanked Michaels in his Weekend Update …
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