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As Grammy-nominated R&B star Summer Walker fights to exit her recording contract with Interscope Records, she’s also pursuing fraud claims against Love Renaissance Records, the independent label and management company that signed her before entering a joint venture with Interscope. In a recently filed 10-page lawsuit first obtained by Rolling Stone, Walker accuses Love Renaissance of locking her into an onerous contract, misappropriating money from her budgets, and denying her access to revenue generated by Amazon and YouTube pages featuring her name and likeness. “The LVRN Agreement granted particularly oppressive and extensive rights to defendant, and controlling influence over Walker,”…
Dolly Parton’s nephew pushed back against claims that he sent threatening messages to some of the late country legend’s business partners, arguing that many texts and emails cited in a recent complaint were taken out of context. Earlier this month, Bryan Seaver — who served as Parton’s longtime head of security and appeared in the video announcing her death — was hit with a temporary restraining order following a complaint from She’s Alive, LLC. The corporation was set up to posthumously manage Parton’s business ventures, and is overseen by her longtime manager, Danny Nozell. The complaint accused Seaver of launching…
The Los Angeles singer’s gossamer new single is a road song with an air of mystery.
Actress Mia Goth is hitting back after a fan account shared viral AI-generated photos of her unchecked for days. The photo in question looked like a selfie of Goth, wearing a shirt captioned “My Ex Is My Biggest Fan.” The account was verified and had the handle @miagoth_, but the Pearl and Maxxine actress famously does not use social media and has never had a public Instagram account. The photo spread after Goth confirmed that she and her former partner, actor Shia LaBeouf, were filing for divorce. Goth is best known for her work on Ti West’s horror trilogy X, starring as…
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The girls of Girls will girl once more with Lena Dunham confirming the celebrated HBO series will return for a special five-episode run. Production on the new limited series will begin in summer 2027, 10 years after Girls aired its sixth and final season. Much of the show’s core cast will return, with Dunham reprising her role as Hannah, Allison Williams as Marnie, Jemima Kirke as Jessa, Zosia Mamet as Shoshanna, and Andrew Rannells as Elijah. All five partook in a teaser announcing the reunion, technically appearing as themselves, but more or less playing their characters from the show. In…
Longtime U.S. resident Joni Mitchell should now be referred to as newly sworn-in U.S. citizen Joni Mitchell. In an Instagram post shared on Tuesday with the caption “A journey that began 62 years ago,” the Canada-born Mitchell is seen making her dual citizenship official while a crowd applauds. Pitchfork has reached out to Mitchell’s representatives for comment. (If any New York Times Greatest Living American Songwriters list editors are reading, we also await a well-deserved update.)Her decision to naturalize her citizenship isn’t exactly an endorsement for the U.S.’ current political regime. The musician has openly opposed President Donald Trump, noting…
Duane “Keffe D” Davis has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for his role in orchestrating the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.Ahead of sentencing, Shakur’s sister, Sekyiwa, gave an emotional statement to the court about her late brother’s murder. “The loss of Tupac crippled my family emotionally,” she said, adding that “he dedicated his career to the advancement of his people, he was gently kind to women and children, he fed anyone he knew that didn’t have, he was truly my shining star.”“Pac didn’t have a chance to have kids,” added Shakur’s brother, Mopreme Shakur, in…
Shygirl will tour her forthcoming album Swallow! in 2027. The headlining run—her first with a full band—kicks off in Berlin on March 13. From there, Shygirl will trek across Europe and the UK for the rest of the month, then head stateside in April. Scroll down to see all of her upcoming performances.Swallow!, Shygirl’s proper follow-up to 2023’s Nymph, is out November 6 on Because Music. It’s been led by the singles “Alyse” and “Lucky (Hymn).” Today, Shygirl has also shared another taste of her LP. Shot at an outdoor rave, the video for “Mantra” apparently serves as a prequel…
Watch the first trailer for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew, featuring a very rare use of “Stairway to Heaven” Robert Plant and Jimmy Page routinely turn down requests to use “Stairway to Heaven” onscreen — even when Cameron Crowe asked for Almost Famous — but they finally gave in to writer-director Greta Gerwig, allowing her to use it to score the just-released first trailer for Netflix’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew. At a Manhattan premiere for the trailer Tuesday morning, Gerwig told interviewer Stephen Colbert that it helped that Plant and Page are fans of C.S. Lewis and his Chronicles of Narnia saga. “I…
