Deezer, a Paris, France-based music streaming service, has launched a new initiative to illustrate how it hopes to pay artists in the near future. The company asserts its “user-centric payment system” (UCPS) “would make the industry fairer for artists all over the world,” according to a statement. To inform users …

Decades before Greg Kurstin was producing hits for Adele, Paul McCartney and the Foo Fighters, he was a preteen Van Halen diehard. “I saw them on their Diver Down tour,” he remembers. “I got to see them play ‘Unchained,’ and that was amazing. I was a massive Van Halen fan …

Chance the Rapper has announced that he will be pushing back the tour for his new album The Big Day to 2020. Posting the news on Instagram, he wrote, “This year has been one of the greatest of my life; Marriage, new baby, first album etc. But with it being …

After almost a year of negotiating, President Donald Trump abruptly canceled a planned meeting with the Taliban at Camp David via a tweet on Saturday night. The president cited a recent deadly Taliban car bomb that killed an American soldier as the reason, but officials told the New York Times …

The first time Amelia Davis met Jim Marshall she had absolutely no idea who he was. It was 1998 and Davis, then studying photography at UC Davis, was at a friend’s 30th birthday party packed with strangers. “There was this little man with a Leica camera around his neck who …

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously branded the National Rifle Association a “domestic terrorist organization,” citing the NRA’s “extremist positions” and deceptive “propaganda.” The NRA is calling the legislative maneuver a “chilling” and “unprovoked assault” on its membership. The resolution, passed Tuesday, was introduced by supervisor Catherine Stefani, …

Breaking with much of Hollywood, Scarlett Johansson has come forward to defend Woody Allen.Johansson, who starred in Allen’s Match Point, Scoop and Vicky Christina Barcelona, told the Hollywood Reporter that she would gladly work with the director again. “I love Woody,” Johansson said. “I believe him, and I would work …

There’s a folksy saying that grandparents of all stripes like to dispense: If it looks like a duck and acts like a duck, then you shouldn’t be surprised when it starts quacking. Another, perhaps less folksy version of this idiom is Occam’s Razor, the theory that the simplest explanation for …

Linda Hamilton is at the center of a new trailer for Terminator: Dark Fate. The actress, who returns as Sarah Connor, takes the reins in a new story directed by Deadpool director Tim Miller. In the latest clip, Hamilton’s characters explains her backstory to Mackenzie Davis’ “enhanced human” as they …

Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘sFleabag has been a runaway success, first as a one-woman show by the British writer and actress and then as an acclaimed, Emmy-nominated TV series. Now, the stage version of Fleabag is headed to movie theaters. On September 12th,Fleabag fans will get the chance to see a live broadcast …