A recent Saudi Arabian electronic dance music festival called MDL Beast drew lots of controversy, but it also drew a lot of fans, too: a whopping 400,000 of them. The last day of the festival alone drew 115,000 people. According to the Saudi Gazette, t…
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Damon Dash Faces $50 Million Sexual Battery Lawsuit
A photographer has filed a $50 million lawsuit against producer Damon Dash, claiming that he sexually assaulted her. In a filing that TheWrap has seen, Monique Bunn accused the co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records of assaulting him in his home in April of…
YouTube Blocks Chanukah-Themed Parody of Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’
It is being reported that YouTube took down a Chanukkah parody video because of copyright violations, despite the claimant allegedly not providing what content the video infringed. A Capella Orthodox Jewish group called the Maccabeats produced the vide…
XXXTentacion Lawsuit: Mother Countersues Producer as Ugly Court Battle Escalates
The mother of the late rapper XXXTentacion has filed a countersuit against a music producer and former friend of the rapper who is suing his estate for $2 million. The original lawsuit was filed by producer Duval, whose real name is Jimmy Duval. He fil…
Emily Ratajkowski Turned Down Big Money from Saudi Arabian Music Festival While Others Accepted
It is being reported that famed model Emily Ratajkowski turned down the Saudi Arabian music festival MDL Beast, which many celebrities and Instagram influencers controversially attended in exchange for six-figure payouts. Among those who were paid to a…
Ed Sheeran Is Going Off-Grid for an Indefinite Period
Singer Ed Sheeran announced on Instagram that he is taking another hiatus from both music and social media. In a Christmas Eve post, he wrote: Hello all. Gonna go on another break again. The Divide era and tour changed my life in so many ways, but now …
Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Video Crosses 1 Billion Views
The video for Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” recently reached an important milestone: it surpassed one billion views on YouTube. The song is only the second one recorded in the 1990s that has passed one billion views on the platf…
YouTube Update Makes It Easier To Deal with Copyright Claims
YouTube has updated its Studio platform to allow video creators the ability to more easily deal with copyright disputes. Creators now can directly respond to copyright claims in the platform’s interface. They will see the following information th…
Juice WRLD Freestyle Recording Surfaces — “One of the Greatest Freestyles Ever”
A British radio DJ has released a clip of Juice WRLD performing a 14-minute freestyle only weeks after the rapper’s tragic death. Charlie Sloth released the recording as part of a series that he has been running called Fire in the Booth. The rapp…
Grammy-Winning Songwriter Allee Willis Dies at 72
Grammy-Award songwriter Allee Willis, who wrote hit songs as well as the theme song to Friends, has died at the age of 72 of cardiac arrest. While Willis co-wrote several classic Earth, Wind & Fire songs such as “September” and “B…