• The Best Choices for MLB Opening Day Anthems: Tinashe, Taylor Hicks, The Four Tops and More

    The Major League Baseball Season is upon us and fans are flocking to their hometown stadiums to check out their respective squads begin the 162-game (more, if you're good) slog that is professional baseball. Part of the appeal of Opening Day is its emphasis on otherwise typical a facets of game day, including bringing in bigger names to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner," as is tradition. Here are seven teams that brought in professional musical talent for the season's first rendition of the national anthem, including Tinashe, The Four Tops and Taylor Hicks.

  • Sean 'Diddy' Combs Making 'South Park'-Inspired FX Show 'Brightmoor'

    Sean "Diddy" Combs is taking his creative talents to television. According to 'Deadline,' the mogul is planning to executive produce a new animated series for FX titled 'Brightmoor.' The show will feature the writing talents of Chip Hall ('King of the Hill') and the comedic chops of Comedian CP, aka Chris Powell. The premise of Brightmoor has been described as 'South Park' set in inner-city Detroit.

  • Kaskade Releases "Never Sleep Alone": Lead Single From Upcoming Album

    After its world unveiling on Holy Ship! during his surprise back-to-back set with Skrillex in February, American electronic music icon Kaskade has released his new single "Never Sleep Alone." The new track features the soft female vocals of Salt Lake City-based singer Tess Comrie and is the lead single from the "Eyes" DJ's still-untitled upcoming album set to be released on Warner Music/Arkade.

  • Power 106's Powerhouse 2015 Lineup: Kanye West, Ludacris, Tinashe Included

    Los Angeles hip-hop station Power 106 FM has announced the lineup for its annual Powerhouse concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The 2015 edition will be headlined by Kanye West with supporting performances from Ludacris, Kid Ink, Tinashe, B.o.B., Ty Dolla $ign, Nipsey Hustle, G-Eazy, Logic, Tech N9ne and Casey Veggies.

  • Erykah Badu Drops 'They Die By Dawn,' An "All-Star Cast Black Western," On Jay Z's TIDAL [TRAILER]

    Since its launch last month, artists including Beyoncé and Rihanna have used Jay Z's new streaming service, TIDAL, to drop exclusive material. Now Erykah Badu has debuted new content in the form of a short Western film. Titled They Die By Dawn, the film is a "black western" with an "all-star cast" that includes Badu, Michael K. Williams, Rosario Dawson, Jesse Williams, Isaiah Washington, Giancarlo Esposito, Nate Parker, Bokeem Woodbine and Karry Lennix. Directed by The Bullitts' Jeymes Samuels, the 50-minute film explores the different types of characters that existed in the first Black settlements post-slavery.

  • NBC News Chief Andy Lack May Not Bring Brian Williams Back After All

    We have already talked quite a bit about Andy Lack, the former NBC News chief who recently returned to try and dig out the network from beneath scandal and miserably low ratings. He has his work cut out for him on so many levels, from trying to pull 'Meet the Press' out of its third-place standing to completely transforming MSNBC back into a credible news network. He also has to eventually figure out what to do about Brian Williams and 'NBC Nightly News.' While it was originally believed that one of Lack's main functions would be to figure out how to bring Williams back after being suspended for six months for lying to the American public, that may no longer be the case.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio to Turn Private Island Blackadore Caye Into a Resort

    Oscar-nominated actor Leonardo DiCaprio may not have won an Oscar just yet, but his achievements as an activist are on par and may even surpass his acting skills. Known for his deep involvement in ecological and world issues, the 'Wolf of Wall Street' star is planning to turn his private, 104-acre island into a resort. Blackadore Caye is an unpopulated landmass just 45 minutes off the coast of Belize. Once an extremely popular spot to fish, the land suffered an eroding coastline, the quick loss of mangrove trees, littering and overfishing. DiCaprio plans to turn Blackadore Caye into "Blackadore Caye, A Restorative Island" by 2018, reports 'Vanity Fair.'

  • 'The Panic Office' Exhibit to Feature Stanley Donwood's Radiohead Artwork

    Stanley Donwood -- aka Dan Rickwood -- responsible for all of Radiohead's captivating album artwork, will have his art displayed in the exhibit 'The Panic Office.' The Sydney, Australia, exhibit will run from May 21 to June 6 at Carraigeworks and will feature more than a thousand pieces involving Radiohead and Thom Yorke albums over a 25-year career.

  • Loren Mazzacane Connors on Tinnitus Music Series, Miles Davis' "He Loved Him Madly," Wife Suzanne Langille and Analog vs. Digital

    The one, true guitar hero, Loren Connors is nothing if not prolific: 50-plus records as far flung as Drag City to Ecstatic Peace/Father Yod to Table of the Elements, as well as countless more via his own imprints (Daggett, St. Joan, Black Label, etc.) under at least as many aliases (Loren MazzaCane Connors, Loren Mattei, Guitar Roberts, ad inf.). Despite being diagnosed with Parkinson's in the early 1990s, live and in-person, Connors continues pretty much unabated (cf. with Keiji Haino at the Whitney, with Tim Hecker at the Wick, that sold-out show at ISSUE Project with girl-in-a-band du jour Kim Gordon). Faster than Derek Bailey, more powerful than Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca combined, able to leapfrog over Ry Cooder with a single, boundless bar of blues, his 65-year-old l'éminence grise answered some of Classicalite's none too pressing queries via e-mail.
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