Spotify announced today the launch of a new tool called Line-In that will allow its community members to offer input about the music data it has on file, like genre, mood, explicitness and more. The goal is to leverage the wisdom of the crowds in correcting and expanding Spotify’s data over time, which could give it a competitive advantage against rival services like Apple or Pandora, for example. Notes Spotify in its FAQ, by […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sEaYB4rLFQ Warner Bros. put a spell on Harry Potter fans Tuesday with the release of the first trailer for “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.” In the trailer, Eddie Redmayne returns as the charmingly clumsy Newt Scamander, while Jude Law makes his Wizarding World debut as a young Albus Dumbledore. It’s teased that Scamander is acting under orders from Dumbledore to head to Paris, but as the future-Hogwarts headmaster notes, Scamander isn’t […]
Apple announced today that it signed an agreement to acquire the digital magazine service Texture, which serves articles from more than 200 magazines digitally on iOS, Windows, Amazon, and Android devices for a flat monthly fee. Apple has acquired the entire company, including staff, and has assured users that the Android version of the app will still be supported. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Texture was founded in 2010 […]
You may want to check your bank account balance and kick your penny-pinching into high gear, because the long-rumored Beyoncé and Jay-Z joint tour is officially happening. The powerhouse couple announced Monday that their On the Run II tour will start June 6 in the United Kingdom and July 25 in North America. (A full list of North American stadium tour dates is below.) Presale starts Wednesday, with tickets going on sale March 19. Beyoncé […]
A pair of emperor penguins in Antarctica filmed themselves with a camera that had been left on the ice by an explorer. In the short video, posted by the Australian Antarctic Division, you can see one penguin approach the camera, somehow flick it up so that it’s focused on its face, and then a second penguin joins. They both curiously stare down at the lens before losing interest. One of the […]
Whitney Houston’s life and legacy will live on in theaters across the country later this year. Miramax and Roadside Attractions announced Friday they will release the feature-length documentary Whitney, an “intimate, definitive account of the superstar’s life and career” and “the only film officially supported by the late singer’s estate” across the nation on July 6. “I approached Whitney’s life like a mystery story; why did someone with so much raw […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB6B58z6MUo To mark today's release of the Jimi Hendrix posthumous album Both Sides of the Sky, Experience Hendrix has unveiled a new video for the guitar god's previously unreleased version of "Lover Man." The John Vondracek-directed video features archival footage of Hendrix performing the song with his Band of Gypsys alongsode a montage of the guitarist's home movies, photographs from the studio and psychedelic imagery. Hendrix and Band of Gypsys bassist Billy Cox […]
Not too long ago, the 14-year-old was “fangirling” over her favorite actresses; now she’s chilling at Oprah’s house and tweeting with Zendaya. Storm Reid, the 14-year-old kid starring in the $100 million Disney movie A Wrinkle in Time, has watched her life snap into a surreal dimension. She’s spent the last year, give or take, pretending to tesser across the universe, whisked from one green screen to the next and from sets in […]
The veteran character actor looks back on years of side jobs and failed auditions, learning to make the most of parts of any size and landing the role of a lifetime — for which he is now favored to win the best supporting actor Oscar — in Martin McDonagh’s acclaimed dramedy. "I've turned down a lot of money because I can't do it for just the money," the veteran character […]
