Warner Music, Crush Music Invest in Metaverse Startup Authentic Artists

Warner Music Authentic Artists

Photo Credit: Authentic Artists San Francisco-based startup Authentic Artists has closed a strategic funding round. Warner Music and Crush Music were among the participants. Authentic Artists says the funding round will help accelerate the development […]

Adam Scott On ‘Severance’ And Why Ben And Leslie Worked

Adam Scott desk

Severance star and prospective Emmy nominee Adam Scott didn’t really feel like he was established until a triangle of notable comedic roles came his way nearly 15 years into his career with Step Brothers, Party […]

Universal Music Group Issues Over $1 Billion In ‘Eurobond’ Notes

Universal Music Publishing Group Inks Administration Deal With Univision

Universal Music Group (UMG) has officially issued €1 billion (currently $1.06 billion) worth of “Eurobond” notes. The Big Three record label, which listed shares on the Euronext Amsterdam last September, just recently unveiled the more […]

Final Fantasy XVI’s director wants to shake up the series with epic monster battles

Image of Final Fantasy XVI featuring ice summon Shiva fighting against a Final Fantasy cat monster

The thing Naoki Yoshida is most excited about in Final Fantasy XVI is the eikon battles. In speaking to The Verge, Yoshida, the game’s director, talked about how earth-shattering, knock-down, drag-out fights between some of […]

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Rumored to Be Working On Music With Lil Nas X – EDM.com

Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter Rumored to Be Working On Music With Lil Nas X - EDM.com

Cue the Daft Punk rumor mill. The electronic music community has been waiting on bated breath for some semblance of a comeback by the legendary duo, who shockingly disbanded in early 2021 after 28 years […]

JUDAS PRIEST Announces Fall 2022 U.S. Tour With QUEENSRŸCHE

JUDAS PRIEST Announces Fall 2022 U.S. Tour With QUEENSRŸCHE

British heavy metal legends JUDAS PRIEST will celebrate their 50th anniversary again this year with the launch of a new North American tour. Support on the “50 Heavy Metal Years” fall 2022 trek will once […]

Hipgnosis Joins NMPA Copyright Infringement Litigation Against Vinkle

Hipgnosis Acquires Sam Hollander's Music Catalog

Last week, the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) revealed that it had filed an infringement lawsuit against video-making service Vinkle as part of a broader crackdown on apps. Hipgnosis and others have joined the complaint […]

The archive saving home sewing history from the trash

Director of Distinctive Collections, Karen Morse gives a tour of the Consumer Pattern Archive housed in Carothers Library at the University of Rhode Island. The largest of it's kind in the world, it contains over 60,000 patterns dating from 1847. Kingston, Rhode Island on April 21st 2022.

Lara A. Greene keeps her antique sewing patterns in plastic tubs, stashed in the first-floor workshop of her old Victorian home so she can throw them out the window if her house goes up in […]