Let’s raise a toast to the inventor of karaoke, the late great Japanese engineer Shigeichi Negishi. He devised the first karaoke machine in 1967, the “Sparko Box.” This invention changed the soundtrack of our lives forever. Negishi’s death was announced this week, at the age of 100, which means a …
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For Zack Snyder, a win is a win. Earlier this year, Rolling Stone uncovered a WarnerMedia report revealing that fans used bots and other inauthentic users to boost the campaign for the release of the director’s four-hour-long cut of Justice League. The bots were allegedly part of a social media …
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The man who essentially ended the federal right to abortion thinks that he can now run for president in 2024 as a “moderate” on the issue. In recent weeks, according to two people familiar with the matter, Donald Trump has privately remarked that several anti-abortion leaders — people who spent …
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Fans of Lana Del Rey wanted so badly to hear more of the Honeymoon singer on “Snow on the Beach” that Taylor Swift released an edition with “more” Lana on the deluxe edition of Midnights earlier this year. Well, Del Rey is setting the record straight: She was “all over” …
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THIS POST CONTAINS spoilers for this week’s episode of Fox’s The Masked Singer. As Trolls Band Together characters Poppy and Branch searched for clues, sang to ‘NSync and slept during a special Trolls-themed episode of The Masked Singer, a new pink-haired creature was unmasked. NBA champion Metta Sandiford-Artest, the man …
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YouTube is launching a feature that will give select users the ability to make music with the artificial intelligence-generated vocals of several prominent artists, the company announced late Wednesday. The experiment, called Dream Track, is a text-based feature that allows users to make a request for a song by describing …
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Linkin Park frontman Mike Shinoda has released a new solo single, “Already Over.” Along with the track, the musician dropped a hand-painted visual for the guitar-driven song created by Dusty Deen and incorporating images by photographer Mike Miller. “‘Already Over’ came to me as I was sitting with my favorite …
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Toward the end of boygenius‘ headlining set at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 2, Phoebe Bridgers asked the sold-out crowd for a favor. Could we all put away our phones for the next song? Remarkably, all but a scattering of contrarians complied. “I was emboldened to write this song because …
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As predicted by almost its entire user base, Twitter CEO Elon Musk‘s decision to do away with its free identity-verification system on Thursday has unleashed a torrent of impersonation, misinformation, and general anarchy. By stripping the familiar blue-check icon from anyone who doesn’t pay for Twitter Blue, a premium subscription …
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Opera lovers flock to performances in order to be thrilled, aroused, overjoyed, moved to tears. Ditto disciples of dance, musical-theater fanatics, and — the worst, most masochistic, and unrepentant art-rush addicts of them all — moviegoers. Georges Bizet’s Carmen shocked audiences when it premiered in 1875 in Paris; eventually, his …
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