• Concert Cellphone Usage Data: The Newest Way to Scout New Boyfriends/Girlfriends?

    Everyone knows that concertgoers spend an awful amount of time scanning their phones at live music events. Your correspondent might be a tad snobbish, but he would consider the total amount of time as "obnoxious." Ticketfly recently teamed up with Harris Poll to figure out just how long we're spending looking at our phone versus at the stage, and then what we're using that phone time for.

  • Future Music Festival Has Been Canceled for 2016

    No, this is not some cruel post-April Fool's Day joke -- this is the real thing. Late last night, April 1, or this afternoon, April 2, for our Australian friends, Mushroom Group's largest festival Future Music Festival announced that it was canceling the long-standing dance music event. In a short Facebook post, the festival made the announcement reasoning that continuing the event "simply doesn't make financial sense anymore." The event, headlined by the likes of Drake, Avicii, 2 Chainz and The Prodigy, has called it quits after 10 years.

  • Lil B Banned by Facebook for 'Hate Speech' After Tweets About Racism

    Bay Area rapper Lil B claims he has been temporarily banned by Facebook for "hate speech" following tweets about racism weeks after his MIT lecture. The self-proclaimed "Based God" took to his Twitter account to share his thoughts on various things, including racism, animal rights and slavery. He called out America and those citizens who partake in or fail to defend the mistreatment of humans and animals. The tweets reportedly showed up on his Facebook page. With no hesitation, B began his series of tweets with: "If you were born in the 1950's or before and your family did not push to have segregation and slavery stop ur grandparents are p---y." Following the post, Facebook blocked the "Wonton Soup" rapper.

  • Richie Hawtin Pens Facebook Apology After Pushing Speaker on Fan

    Thanksgiving is a time for spending time with your family, stuffing your face with incredible food and being thankful for what we have. Over the weekend, dance music fans gave thanks to the techno gods for bringing German indoor dance music festival Time Warp stateside to the 39th Street Pier in Brooklyn for its 20th anniversary. Taking place on Friday, Nov. 28, and Saturday, Nov. 29, the two-day festival featured a lineup that included house and techno heavyweights like Richie Hawtin, Luciano, Dixon, Sven Väth, Joseph Capriati, Dubfire:liveHYBRID, The Martinez Brothers and others. The festival was seemingly successful, but one incident has caught headlines after the festival. One of the premiere DJs on the lineup, Richie Hawtin, was showing off his moves in the booth, and upon seeing a young woman standing there filming the whole thing on her iPhone, he vented his frustration by pushing a monitor onto the fan. After the dust settled and fans had seen the video of him pushing the speaker into the iPhone-wielding fan, Richie Hawtin took to his Facebook page to pen a public apology for the incident.

  • Communication Director for U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher Scolds Sasha And Malia Obama

    Sasha and Malia Obama made headlines this past holiday after they were caught displaying some very teen-like behavior during the president's "turkey pardoning" speech. Elizabeth Lauten, communication director for U.S. Rep. Stephen Fincher, took a special interests in the girl's behavior and jumped on Facebook to scold the First Children for it. She later returned to social media to apologize.

  • Garth Brooks Facebook, Twitter: Singer Personally Handles Posts

    Garth Brooks is now on Facebook and Twitter. In fact, he is showing a real enthusiasm for the whole social media thing, but he had good reasons for staying off the sites for several years. "Well, up till August of this year, you've gotta remember, I was in my children's life," Brooks told the "Sean & Richie Show," via The Boot. "That was everything. And, no offense, I didn't feel it was right to share that." Things have changed, though. "Pretty cool now, though: The kids are all gone, we're out on tour and people want to know about that?" he said. "Heck, yeah, I can talk about that all day long." Brooks said he is personally handling his own social media posts, marked "Love, g" at the bottom. "Team Garth" is still posting regularly on both sites.

  • Garth Brooks Breaks Own Ticket Sales Record In Tulsa

    Brooks is the king of Oklahoma. There's little room for argument. The living country legend — and OK native — just broke his own record for ticket sales in Tulsa, as he pushed 90,000 tickets in two hours on Friday. That number easily surpasses his previous high of 79,885 in 1997, when he performed a series of shows at Driller Park (KOCO).

  • Garth Brooks, Twitter: 'The Dance' Singer Gets 45 Followers Per Minute in 1st Day on Site

    Garth Brooks returned to recording with "Man Against Machine" Tuesday, Nov. 11, making the release his first since 2001's "Scarecrow." Now that he is back in the public eye, Brooks decided to join Twitter and Facebook to connect with fans, and "The Dance" singer's first-day numbers are pretty staggering. According to "CMT News," Brooks joined Twitter the morning of his album's release date, posting a selfie that currently boasts 2,141 retweets and 4,993 favorites. By Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 12, the country icon amassed 69,000 followers, which CMT figured out amounted to 45 followers every minute. As of today, Nov. 13, Brooks has more than 77,000 followers, but only follows nine people. Wife Trisha Yearwood and Brad Paisley made the cut, as well as actor Chris Pratt, "Good Morning America" host Robin Roberts — whom the singer brought to tears with a tender rendition of "Mom" — and TV personality Ellen DeGeneres.

  • Raven-Symoné Responds To Critics In Open Letter Posted To Facebook

    Earlier this month, former Disney star Raven-Symoné appeared on Oprah Winfrey's Where Are They Now and made some controversial comments regarding the labels "African-American" and "gay" that are often used to describe her. Symoné decided to respond to her critics in an open letter posted to Facebook.

  • Jada Pinkett Reflects on Losing Tupac in Letter Posted to Facebook

    The relationship between actress Jada Pinkett Smith and late rapper Tupac Shakur has been preserved through countless photos and poems that have made their way to the internet but Will Smith's wife recently took a moment to reflect the on the lost of Pac and other friends in a letter posted to Facebook.
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