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Google Launches Website to Help People Avoid Online Scams
Sourced from Google. Ever opened your emails and received a poorly-worded message about a payment that you weren’t expecting? What about one proclaiming that you’ve won a competition you never entered. “Congratulations!” it reads, beneath, a sinister attachment that you probably should not open. This is becoming more and more common, and now Google has unveiled a website to teach people how to spo...
Will Crypto Enter The Mainstream In Africa?
Cryptocurrencies are garnering interest across the globe, and have been for the last decade, but it is in Africa in which many are starting to think that these new digital currencies will take off with vigour. The reason for this could well be that Africa finds itself in a rather unique monetary situation, along with an equally unique technological one. Mobile and crypto, the perfect combina...
deadmau5 Announces Livestream Performance and Q&A with Amazon Music Tomorrow
deadmau5 has announced a new livestream event in partnership with Amazon Music, who will be hosting the Grammy Award-nominated dance music producer for a wide-ranging session tomorrow, May 29th, 2020. The mau5 took to Instagram to share the news and invite fans to ask questions leading up to the stream. In his post, deadmau5 divulged that he will be performing a DJ set and also answering...
Grimes Is Selling a Piece of Her Soul as an Art Project
When you become a famous pop star, you essentially give a part of yourself to your fans. It’s the nature of the game, especially in 2020, when selling your brand/identity is as profitable as selling your actual art. Grimes has taken this to its most literal extreme with her newest art project, which sees her literally selling a piece of her soul to the highest bidder. Entitled Selling Out, th...
Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist Announce New Collaborative Project Alfredo, Featuring Tyler, the Creator, Rick Ross, and More
Collaborative albums from Freddie Gibbs are often pure fire (hello Bandana), and it looks like we’re about to get some heat very soon. Gibbs and veteran producer The Alchemist are releasing a new project called Alfredo this Friday, May 29th. The delectable collaborative effort spans 10 songs and features guest contributions from Tyler, the Creator (“Something to Rap), Rick Ross (“Scottie Beam...
Apple Picks Up Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon
Goodbye Netflix, hello Apple. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Martin Scorsese’s next high-priced crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon has been scooped up by the global conglomerate. As the publication reports, Apple is in final negotiations with Paramount Pictures to both partner and produce the expensive project, which currently touts a budget north of $150 million. Why so pricey? Well, wh...
Charlie Benante on New Anthrax Album: “The First Thing I Wanna See Come Out Is a Vaccine”
Anthrax have a number of songs written for their next album, but drummer Charlie Benante wants to see a COVID-19 vaccine arrive before the legendary thrash-metal act releases a new LP. During an interview with Lou Brutus for HardDrive Radio, Benante offered an update on the follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings. “There is new music, there actually is,” said the drummer. “There’s about six, seven songs...
Cardi B Claps Back at Troll Who Shaded Her and Daughter Kulture’s Love With This Sweet Video
Cardi B took to social media on Wednesday (May 27) to shut down a troll who attempted to shade her relationship with her daughter, Kulture. The drama all started when a Twitter user took aim at the rapper’s mothering, writing, “Kulture don’t like her momma and that’s the funniest part…every video she be ignoring tf outta all that screaming.” In her response, Cardi decided t...
How We Work Now: NMPA President/CEO David Israelite
In a series amid the coronavirus pandemic, Billboard is asking individuals from all sectors of the music business to share stories of how they work now, with much of the world quarantined at home and unable to take in-person meetings, attend conferences or even go into the office. Submissions for the series can be sent to HowWeWorkNow@Billboard.com. Read the full series here. This installment is w...
Banda MS: Snoop Dogg Wants Us to ‘Start Working on a Second Song’ Together
While hunkered down in their native Mazatlán [Sinaloa, México], Banda MS‘ Alan Ramírez and Oswaldo Silvas joined Billboard for an Instagram Live Q&A on Tuesday (May 26), during which both spoke about their chart-topping collaboration with Snoop Dogg, “Qué Maldición.” “This song was born in the most organic way,” says Silvas. “It came out when it was sup...
BTS Dropped the Festa 2020 Schedule, But Did They Also Pencil in a New Single?
All right, ARMY, get ready to party with BTS in June, because the Bangtan Boys posted a jam-packed schedule for Festa 2020 Thursday (May 28)! Festa marks the boy band’s anniversary celebration, gifting fans with special “family portraits,” choreography videos, photo collections and even some new songs. This year’s festivities begin on June 1 with an opening ceremony, a...
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