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[Link] Cops Tried Playing Disney Music to Censor a Video
Read: 10/4/2022 www.vice.com
This time, it’s Disney. Around 11 p.m. on Monday in Santa Ana, a city just south of Los Angeles, a YouTuber with a channel called Santa Ana Audits started recording a group of police investigating a car theft in his neighborhood.
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[Link] Site Sells Famous Songs as NFTs Without Permission, Sparks Global Outrage
Read: 2/2/2022 www.vice.com
Seemingly, anyone could register on HitPiece to sell a piece of music as an NFT, even on an artist’s behalf. “Each time an artist’s NFT is purchased or sold, a royalty from each transaction is accounted to the rights holders account,” HitPiece’s website stated.
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[Link] Omicron, the Death Metal Band, Would Like to Clarify a Few Things.
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
Let’s cut to the chase. There’s a death metal band in Belgium that, as of last week, shares its name with a coronavirus variant. But unlike the World Health Organisation, they were “totally not” influenced by the Greek alphabet.
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[Link] Australian TV reporter Matt Doran gives lengthy on-air apology after he ‘insulted’ Adele
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australian TV reporter Matt Doran has made a lengthy, unreserved apology to Adele for failing to listen to her new album before an exclusive interview with the singer, calling the bungle a “terrible mistake”.
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[Link] RIAA Takes Down Popular Music Piracy Discord Over Adele ’30’ Leak
Read: 24/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
A popular Discord server specializing in music piracy has been taken down by the RIAA. Sources inside the RipRequests community suggest the problem stemmed from a pre-release leak of Adele's new '30' album.
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[Link] Rapper Young Dolph shot dead while buying cookies
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Rapper Young Dolph, who was widely admired in the hip-hop community for his authenticity and fierce independence, has been shot dead at a cookie shop in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee.
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[Link] Why Music Drives Us to Mayhem
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Ayers is a musician, writer and the U.S. head of the British record label 4AD. His memoir will be published by Viking in 2022.
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[Link] The World Is a Mess, But the Juggalos Still Have Each Other
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Nothing could dim the spirit at this year’s Gathering of the Juggalos, as fiercely loyal ICP fans reunited in cathartic celebration. There are few subcultures that rely on their community more than Juggalos.
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[Link] Cardi B Is the Queen of Features That Break The Internet
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Cardi B is no stranger to breaking the internet. She’s more than capable of dominating the conversation herself, as she did when she stood atop two exotic dancers on a stripper pole in 2018’s “Money,” or when she shared that questionable three-way kiss in “Up” at the height of COVID-19.
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[Link] Plex just changed the game when it comes to music playlists that aren't terrible
Read: 15/8/2021 www.androidauthority.com
When you create an automatic playlist on your music streaming platform of choice, it is almost certainly based on metadata. In other words, a track by Radiohead will get paired with tracks by artists in similar genres, as well as other Radiohead tracks.
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[Link] That One-of-a-Kind Wu Tang Clan Album Has Been Resold, and No One Knows Who Has It
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
The one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, previously owned by controversial pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli has been resold – and virtually nobody knows who has it now.
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[Link] Founding Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison dies aged 46
Read: 30/7/2021 www.abc.net.au
Joey Jordison, the founding drummer of heavy metal band Slipknot, has died aged 46. Slipknot's website and social media pages went dark after the news.
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