Camp Flog Gnaw 2024 Review: Improved On Perfection

Camp Flog Gnaw 2024 Review: Improved On Perfection

Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival is already one of the best festivals in the world. So, for the festival’s tenth anniversary, how could the rebellious Los Angeles native possibly improve what is as […]

Diddy Has Contact With Female Prisoners Inside Jail

Diddy performs at O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

Getty Image Despite being locked up in the 4 North unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, Sean Combs, AKA Diddy, apparently still has contact with women. According to two ex-convicts who have […]

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Kamasi Washington

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To say that jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington is a fan of Los Angeles is an understatement. “I love how big L.A. is and how it’s like 10 different cities in one,” said the Grammy-nominated Washington, […]

Elvis Costello to Make Visual Artist Debut with Wentworth Gallery

Elvis Costello to Make Visual Artist Debut with Wentworth Gallery

Photo Credit: Bill Kelly In January, iconic singer-songwriter, producer, author, activist, actor, and TV personality Elvis Costello will add another feather to his cap with his first-ever visual art appearance. After five decades of advancing […]

APOCALYPTICA’s PERTTU KIVILAAKSO Had ‘Tears’ In The Studio While Playing Along To CLIFF BURTON’s ‘The Call Of Ktulu’ Tracks

APOCALYPTICA Releases Cover Of METALLICA's 'The Call Of Ktulu' Featuring CLIFF BURTON's Original Bassline

APOCALYPTICA‘s lead cellist Perttu Kivilaakso spoke to Australia’s Metal-Roos about the band’s cover of METALLICA‘s “The Call Of Ktulu” which features the original bassline laid down by METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton, who tragically lost his […]

Snap bets big on augmented reality glasses as tech race heats up

Augmented reality glasses from Los Angeles-based tech company Snap Inc.

In its relentless search for ways to weave digital products into people’s lives, Big Tech has achieved some big wins. Smart phones are ubiquitous. Apple Watch users talk to their wrists. Artificial intelligence-powered assistants are […]

Turntable.fm Creators to Launch Social Listening Platform, Hangout, Following $8.2M Funding Round

Turntable.fm Creators to Launch Social Listening Platform, Hangout, Following $8.2M Funding Round

What was once a raging inferno of music tech that flickered out too soon is being rekindled with a spark of innovation and a hefty dose of capital.  Turntable Labs, the brainchild of the original […]

Gen Z buying vintage cassette tapes en masse — but doesn’t know how to play them: ‘I struggled’

Gen Z buying vintage cassette tapes en masse — but doesn't know how to play them: 'I struggled'

The streaming generation is trading Spotify for cassette tapes. But despite Gen Z’s obsession with all things vintage — from flip phones to Y2K fashion reboots like Ed Hardy and Von Dutch — the integration of […]

17 Olympic 2024 Athletes Who Have “Real Jobs” Back Home

Nic Fink of Team United States gestures as he walks out ahead of the Men's 100m Breaststroke Final on day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Paris La Defense Arena on July 28, 2024 in Nanterre, France.

Many Olympic athletes have highly impressive careers outside of sports, which they continued with while training for Paris 2024. “It’s not ideal, certainly,” sports psychologist Mark Aoyagi tells NBC News. “That’s particularly if you’re comparing […]

Dua Lipa headlines opening day as 200K revelers descend on the Glastonbury Festival 2024: photos

Dua Lipa performs on the iconic Pyramid Stage at the Glastonbury Festival 2024 on June 28, 2024.

Dua Lipa headlines the opening day of the Glastonbury Festival in England on Friday, June 28th, 2024. Over 200,000 revelers will attend this weekend’s festival, one of the most famous and longest-running music events in […]

Generative AI Music Service Udio Responds to Major Labels' Explosive Copyright Lawsuit

Generative AI Music Service Udio Responds to Major Labels' Explosive Copyright Lawsuit

All eyes are on the music industry at the moment with regards to AI’s impact on copyright law. Udio, a generative AI music service that was recently sued by the three major labels, has now […]

Nation Beat brings its global groove to NYC’s Joe’s Pub for album release show

Nation Beat brings its global groove to NYC's Joe's Pub for album release show

For Nation Beat, their globe-trotting groove has crossed not only countries, but continents. And the band’s Brazil-to-New Orleans flight of beats and brass will stop at NYC’s Joe’s Pub on Saturday for an album release […]

APOCALYPTICA Announces February/March 2025 North American Tour With NITA STRAUSS

APOCALYPTICA Announces February/March 2025 North American Tour With NITA STRAUSS

Finnish cello rockers APOCALYPTICA have announced the “Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2” North American tour, featuring support from guitar virtuoso Nita Strauss. The trek will kick off on February 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C., and […]