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With Revenue Slowing, Twitter Teams With Live Nation to Stream Concerts

Along with 13 other media partners, Twitter has teamed up with Live Nation to stream concerts live. However, has the social network stretched itself too thin? Are Twitter’s plans too ambitious? Twitter surprised investors at last week’s earnings call. The social network posted better-than-expected earnings following several quarters of less-than-exciting results. The company also reported […]

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Russia’s Corrupt Music Industry Meets Its Match: Blockchain

  Russia’s notoriously corrupt music industry may have met its match.  But can blockchain really fix a broken business? Like most parts of the Russian ‘economy’ (if one dares calls it that), the country’s music industry is rife with corruption and fraud.  Case in point: just last year, general director of RAO (a PRO) Sergei […]

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Why Australia’s Order To Block KickAssTorrent Won’t Work

When you shut down popular torrent sites like KickAssTorrents, you’re bound to have to deal with clones. But Australia’s new court order probably won’t work at all. Here’s why. Last year, the US Department of Justice shut down popular torrent search indexing site, KickAssTorrents. The site was long chased after by top music labels. However, […]

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“Heartbroken” Ja Rule Sued For $100 Million Following Fyre Festival Scam

What happens when Ja Rule tries to create a luxury music festival scam dubbed Fyre Festival? Similar to Catching Fire, you get The Hunger Games, Bahamas style. Billy McFarland, along with Jeffrey Atkins (Ja Rule), promised fans an unmatched luxury music festival experience in the Bahamas. McFarland and Atkins remained true on that promise through […]

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Why I Didn’t Kill Myself After Spending 5 Hours at an EXO Kpop Concert

There wasn’t an earplug that could save me from the hours of relentless, high-pitched screaming.  I saw a girl crying in the presence of an EXO ‘idol’.  The threat of trampling hovered at any moment.  Here’s why I decided not to commit suicide and soldier through my first Kpop performance. “Do you like Kpop?” I turned […]

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The Most Calming Music for Dogs Ever Created

Music has been scientifically proven to calm anxious dogs.  Now, in honor of National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day, one artist set out to create some amazingly calming music for dogs. It started with a tense, stressed-out dog.  The owner of that dog is singer-songwriter gnash, best known for the hit, ‘i hate you, i love […]

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Will A Lawsuit Appeal Revive Rolling Stone’s False Rape Nightmare?

Rolling Stone magazine’s nightmare lawsuit appears to be far from over. In 2016, a federal judge quickly dismissed three fraternity brothers’ defamation claims against journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone magazine. However, that decision drew security today in the US Court of Appeals Second Circuit. First published in Rolling Stone in 2014, ‘A Rape […]

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T.I. Didn’t ‘Create’ Trap Music & Shouldn’t be Taking Credit for It…

T.I. says he invented Trap music.  Now, an ATL rap pioneer is checking those claims. It’s a grandiose claim that may be coming back to haunt T.I.  Earlier this month, the ATL rapper boldly stated that he invented Trap music back in 2003.  Here’s what he told Angie Martinez in a broadcast radio interview. “We […]

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[Updated] The Bahamas ‘Disappointed’ by Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival Scam

What does a $12,000 ticket to Ja Rule’s Fyre Festival get you? A weekend festival filled with shoddy tents, trash all over the place, and just for free, rabid dogs. Starting last December, Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid, and Emily Ratajkowski promised Instagram users a wonderful weekend in the Bahamas in April. Created by Ja Rule, […]

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A Vinyl Records Pressing Plant Is Opening In an Abandoned WWII Prison

Occupying German forces used the prison in World War II.  Now, the ‘Blokhuispoort’ prison in northern Holland is the site of an unexpected vinyl records pressing plant. It’s certainly a strange place for a vinyl records pressing plant.  Then again, nothing about the vinyl comeback has been expected, including the steady stream of new pressing […]

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