Morgan Neville knows not everything we talk about will make it into this story. After making dozens of documentaries, he understands that in order to be told properly, the best stories have to leave some parts out. That’s definitely true of Piece by Piece, his new “creative nonfiction” documentary about …
Read More »TikTok Music is finally shutting down
TikTok parent company ByteDance is pulling the plug on TikTok Music, its short-lived music streaming service, by November. Launched just over a year ago in July 2023, the platform debuted in Indonesia and Brazil as part of the company’s effort to expand its TikTok empire into music streaming. SEE ALSO: …
Read More »Spotify wants to make you an AI Playlist for every occasion
Spotify is doubling down on artificial intelligence. First, the music streaming service launched itsAI DJin 2023, and today, Sept. 24, it’s bringing AI Playlists to Premium users in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. SEE ALSO: Here are the 5 songs of the summer, according to Spotify The feature …
Read More »Your Dumb Memes Revived One of Butt Rock's Biggest Bands
Creed is having a moment. Actually, if we’re being precise, it’s having innumerable moments, over and over again, all across the internet. On Instagram, the band has been repurposed as a comedic device for dunking on President Joe Biden; on TikTok, shitposters imagined what it would be like to explain …
Read More »The Shade Room Founder Is Ready to Dial Down the Shade
The Shade Room pioneered a unique, if somewhat loose-lipped, brand of digital media when it launched in 2014, merging elements of fan culture around the machine of celebrity news. Across the next decade, Angie Nwandu, its founder, flipped her Instagram-only celebrity tabloid into a media company with a 40-person staff …
Read More »Pharrell's 'Piece By Piece' presents a Lego Minifigure Generator
With Piece By Piece, American multi-hyphenate Pharrell Williams brings his life story to the big screen —but with a Lego movie twist. Directed by heralded documentarian Morgan Neville, Piece By Piece is a musical biopic that translates American music icons like Williams, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliott, and Gwen Stefani into …
Read More »We’ve tested tons of noise-cancelling headphones and these are the ones we’d take on a plane
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Read More »Listen up, Prime members: Get 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited for free
SAVE $39.96: Prime members are eligible to sign up for 4 months of free access to Amazon Music Unlimited, which typically costs $9.99 per month, for an overall savings of $39.96. Non-Prime members can sign up for 3 months of free access. Opens in a new window Credit: Amazon Free …
Read More »Yes, BOYNEXTDOOR are watching your fan edits
The first thing you must know about BOYNEXTDOOR is that they’re loud. Not the kind of loud that turns off and on for cameras, but the kind that’s natural and uncontainable — an energy that fills a room even when they’re just being themselves. The six-member boy group is doing …
Read More »Lo-Fi Weather Channel Videos Are Soothing Climate Fears on YouTube
The Vaporwave album Conditions at Hickory begins with static, as if you’re tuning in to a 1940s radio broadcast. First and second tracks “Foothills” and “Daily Commute” start out humdrum and benign enough. Then, the mood shifts. Sounds come like warnings, cautions of something sinister to come. Beeping sounds and …
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