Oh, what a world: TikTok is now embracing the decentralized Wild West that is Web3. On Thursday, September 30th, the social platform that just surpassed a billion monthly active users announced its first NFT collection, called TikTok Top Moments. The collection’s goal, according to press materials, is to let music …
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Following a Lollapalooza festival where attendees were required to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test, Live Nation announced Friday that they will allow touring artists to choose whether to implement similar mandates for their upcoming concerts. In a companywide email to employees obtained by Rolling Stone, CEO …
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This story appears in Rolling Stone‘s 2021 Future of Music issue, a special project delving into the next era of the multibillion-dollar hitmaking business. Read the other stories here. To reinvent Motown Records, Ethiopia Habtemariam wants to start by going back in time. “I remember being a really young kid …
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“Who the hell is Bruce Springsteen?” I thought. Dashing out the stage door of a late-night Broadway show to beat the blundering crowds back in 2019, violin case in hand, I stepped onto the uptown C train for a swift escape out of midtown Manhattan. As I scrolled mindlessly through …
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On Friday, Kings of Leon will release their new album, titled When You See Yourself, in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) — becoming the first band to ever do so. The band is actually dropping three types of tokens as part of a series called “NFT Yourself,” people …
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Luxury beverage giant LVMH Moët Hennessy has acquired a 50% stake in Jay-Z’s champagne brand, Armand de Brignac. Armand de Brignac — which is widely known as “Ace of Spades” due to its logo — was launched by French Champagne company, Cattier, in 2006, then purchased by a company led …
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It’s hard to miss. In the music video for Cardi B‘s latest single “Up,” rather than marketing clothes or her own merchandise for the 50 million people who’ve watched, the rapper is helping hawk a pricy, rather large salmon pink vibrator. Sometimes, product placements in music videos are subtle. This …
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Following a massive surge in coronavirus cases in Southern California since the holiday season, the April 2021 returns for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Stagecoach Country Music Festival have been canceled, Dr. Cameron Kaiser, public health officer for Riverside County, announced on Twitter on Friday. This is the …
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It’s fitting that a song about doing it yourself is the only track in Rolling Stone‘s year-end Top 50 chart to be penned by a single writer. The song in question, Tones and I‘s “Dance Monkey,” was inspired by busking, which is exactly what the Australian artist — born Toni …
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At 28, Jason Aaron Mills, known professionally as IDK, has already seen a lot of what life can throw at a person. Before landing a major label deal, the rapper-producer was incarcerated and struggling to find a purpose. But music propelled him. IDK — short for “Ignorantly Delivering Knowledge” — …
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