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Katy Perry Is the Highest Paid Woman in Music, Despite Album Flop

Despite the fact that her recent album Witness was a critical flop (which she knows), Katy Perry still managed to become this year’s highest paid woman in music through persistence, touring, and American Idol. According to Forbes, she beat out both Beyoncé (who was 2017's top earner) and Taylor Swift (2016's highest paid) to take the top spot this year. Perry pulled in a reported $83 million pretax in 2018, a combination of touring her failed attempt at “purposeful pop,” 2017's Witness (that’s […]

todayNovember 21, 2018

Music

Bob Dylan Debuts James Brown Cover In Augusta

Just one night after busting out “Moon River” in Savannah, Bob Dylan had another surprise in store for fans. Dylan led his band through a debut cover of James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World” at Bell Auditorium in Augusta on Wednesday night. Augusta was James Brown’s longtime home, so the city was fitting place for Bob’s first ever cover of the King Of Soul. Dylan’s rendition of “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s […]

todayNovember 10, 2018

Music

Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ Returns to Hot 100, Thanks to Halloween Gains

The track reaches its highest mark since 1984. Michael Jackson's horror pop classic "Thriller" re-enters the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 31, thanks to its annual Halloween gains. "Thriller" returns with 15,000 downloads sold, surging by 189 percent from the prior week, and 15.2 million U.S. streams, up 198 percent, in the week ending Nov. 1, according to Nielsen Music. The gains also help the song re-enter both the Digital Song Sales and Streaming Songs charts at Nos. 11 and 30, […]

todayNovember 7, 2018

Entertainment

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ called out for factual inaccuracies

“Bohemian Rhapsody” overcame some disastrous reviews to conquer the box office with an impressive $50 million opening, but moviegoers shouldn’t believe everything they see in Bryan Singer’s Freddie Mercury biopic. The script, written by Anthony McCarten with approval from Queen band members Brian May and Roger Taylor, is being called out by film critics and writers for twisting Queen’s actual timeline to create convenient drama for the movie. The numerous factual inaccuracies in “Bohemian Rhapsody” […]

todayNovember 7, 2018

Miscellaneous

Pet sounds: why your dog loves listening to Bob Marley

With fireworks season upon us, an explosion of dog-friendly music is on hand to help soothe stressed canines. But who knew reggae is such a hit? It starts with an elegiac sweep of strings, softly playing in a minor key, before chirruping into birdsong, and then back to ambient strings. This continues for 12 hours. To the untrained ear, this may sound like one of the sleep playlists that have […]

todayNovember 2, 2018

Music

Google Home will play music and sound effects when you read Disney storybooks

Google has partnered with Disney to enhance story time reading with the Google Home. Now you can start reading one of Disney’s Little Golden Books out loud and your Google Home device will play music and relevant sound effects along with you. To use the new feature, just say, “Hey Google, let’s read along with Disney.” Then the Google Home will use voice recognition to sense where you are in […]

todayOctober 29, 2018

Music

Mark Knopfler plots summer North American tour

Dire Straits frontman books 27 headlining dates for 2019 promoting new LP ‘Down the Road Wherever’. Mark Knopfler announced a headlining North American tour for summer 2019. The Dire Straits frontman will kick off the 28-date trek on August 16th in Mashantucket, Connecticut and conclude September 22nd in Los Angeles, California. Tickets for most shows will be available to pre-order on Monday, October 29th via Knopfler’s official site. The guitarist’s two dates […]

todayOctober 22, 2018

Music

Unheard versions of the Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps released

Three unheard versions of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, regarded by many as George Harrison’s greatest contribution to the Beatles, have been released online. The song was written by Harrison in 1968, after he had studied transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. There are two completely unheard versions: The Esher Demo is an acoustic version, complete with beautiful multitracked vocals, recorded at Harrison’s house in Surrey, in May 1968, […]

todayOctober 19, 2018

Music

13 Things We Learned Hanging Out With Steve Perry

He’s gotten into spiritual matters, gets the same enjoyment from baseball that he used to get from music and almost didn’t let The Sopranos use ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.” It’s a punishingly hot August day and Steve Perry is tucked into a corner table at a Lower Manhattan Italian spot taking a quick breather between a long round of radio interviews promoting Traces, his new comeback album that he spent the last five years […]

todayOctober 17, 2018

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