• Ariana Grande Dissed By Host After Bailing On Talk Show Appearance

    Ariana Grande has been dissed by a host after bailing on a talk-show appearance. The young singer was scheduled to be featured on 'The Jonathan Ross Show' but backed out at the last possible second. Host Jonathan Ross was not pleased but did manage to scramble together the other guests Joan Collins, Danny DeVito and Sheridan Smith for a rendition of "Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton in lieu of Grande's performance.

  • Time Warp Techno Festival Faces Opposition From Brooklyn Community

    The second US edition of Time Warp, Germany's longest-running techno festival, is scheduled to bring some of the world's best techno, deep house, and minimal producers and DJs to the Bedford Armory in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in two weeks. However, the festival is facing some serious opposition from the community: local residents and elected representatives including Assemblymember Walter Mosley have been voicing concerns regarding various quality of life issues and lobbying City Hall to shut the event down. As Mosley stated to local news outlet DNAinfo, his constituents are mostly worried about parking and "potentially intoxicated" ravers meandering the neighborhood after the event.

  • SXSW Hit-and-Run Drunk Driver Who Killed 4 Sentenced to Life

    Rashad Charjuan Owens, the hit-and-run driver who killed four people when he plowed through a crowd of people at 2014's South by Southwest festival in Austin, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. A Travis County jury convicted the 23 year old of capital murder after relatively brief deliberations.

  • Riff Raff Just Leaked New ‘Trench Coat Towers’ EP, Poetry Book Coming Soon

    Riff Raff has just leaked his new mini-EP entitled 'Trench Coat Towers,' which is set to officially drop next week on iTunes. His new poetry book, "NEON ViBES," is also due out next week. After teasing new music all over his social media accounts all week, the rapper finally shared the four-track EP (it's actually eight tracks if you count the instrumental versions) via his Jody Highroller alter-ego's Spotify.

  • Björk Calls For Global Protest Against Planned Construction in Iceland's Highlands

    Icelandic experimental musician Björk, along with environmentalist group the Heart of Iceland, held an unannounced press conference in Reyjkavík, Iceland this morning (Nov. 6) to ask the world for help in supporting an environmental protest against their government who plans to build power lines through the Iceland Highlands.

  • Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby, One More Time” Meaning Debunked in 'The Song Machine'

    Britney Spears first stormed the pop scene with her debut hit, "Baby One More Time." In the 17 years since its release, the lyrics "hit me baby, one more time" still confuses listeners as to what it could possibly mean. Were 90s kids everywhere singing of battery in relationships? A kinky sexual advance? The song's hook has finally been properly debunked in John Seabrook's latest book centered on pop music history, 'The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory.'
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