More than three months after filing its initial public offering request, Warner Music Group — owner of storied major labels like Atlantic, Warner Records, and Elektra, as well as music publisher Warner Chappell — has officially kicked off its IPO, the company announced on Tuesday. WMG, which is home to …
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In this week’s quarantine episode of ourUseful Idiotspodcast, hostsMatt Taibbi and Katie Halper are joined by Jimmy Dore, comedian and podcast extraordinaire. Matt and Katie explore the psyche of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who Katie believes might be a beta. “He’s always being out-alpha’d by Andrew Cuomo,” …
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John David Washington trains to prevent World War III in the latest trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s time-bending thriller, Tenet. The new trailer debuted on online video game Fortnite. The new clip is as enigmatic as the first trailer from December, and weaves some of the same footage into the mix, …
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SFJAZZ, the Bay Area venue and nonprofit, will livestream four Wayne Shorter tribute concerts from January 2019 to raise money for the saxophonist’s ongoing medical needs. The livestreams will mark the first time these concerts have been broadcast and will feature performances from Herbie Hancock, Kamasi Washington, Branford Marsalis and …
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Deftones have postponed their North American summer tour due to the coronavirus pandemic. The nearly 30-date trek was slated to be the band’s first full U.S. summer tour since 2017. Originally scheduled to kick off on July 27th in Portland, Oregon at Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center and …
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Kevin Mayer, the longtime Disney executive who oversaw the launches of Disney+ and ESPN+, is leaving the company to take over as CEO of TikTok, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance announced on Monday. Mayer’s appointment is a major development for TikTok, which now has an accomplished executive in the ultra-competitive video …
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This story appears in the June 2020 print edition of Rolling Stone. Not long ago, Rudy Giuliani was traveling in a car across New York City with Jon Sale, his longtime friend, when some construction workers saw the former mayor and approached the vehicle. Giuliani lowered the window. “One of …
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A tale of alien abduction, Proxmity serves as an in-and-out impressive calling card for debuting feature writer and director Eric Demeusy. His training in animation and visual effects helped Demeusy create the Emmy-winning title sequences for Stranger Things and Game of Thrones. So it’s a given that this L.A.-based filmmaker …
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To some movie industry forecasters, CGI neon trolls that love tohug and sing are also, quite possibly, harbingers of the end of the modern theater experience. Trolls: World Tour was supposed to be a simple sequel to the 2013 DreamWorks original, based on the toy line popularized in the early …
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Michael McDonald has released audio from his live rendition of “What the World Needs Now,” originally written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach in 1965. The timely concert recording premiered on Billboard alongside a lyric video, depicting heartwarming home videos of family and the outdoors. McDonald told Billboard that he likes …
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