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The housekeeper mauled by a massive Caucasian Shepherd outside Chris Brown‘s house four years ago has agreed to reduce her jury award to $9.5 million to avoid a new trial. A jury sided with Maria Avila after a two-week trial in June, awarding her $12.9 million for her injuries. But the judge later concluded that the amount was not supported by the evidence. At a hearing last week, Judge Huey Cotton made it clear Avila would have to undergo a new trial on damages if she declined a reduced award. In a “conditional order” issued Tuesday, Judge Cotton called the…
Uh oh, the internet is mad at Kelly Clarkson. What exactly did America’s Sweetheart do to spark the ire of people online? Well, the singer has come under fire for comments she made in support of AI music. During a recent appearance on Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s Las Culturistas podcast, Clarkson called ChatGPT her “lover” and explained how the platform helped her plot interior design plans at her Santa Barbara home. Later, during the podcast’s “I Don’t Think So, Honey” hot-take segment, the singer doubled down: “I love AI. There are very amazing things with AI that I am…
When news recently broke that a former Cornell University student had accused seven men of drugging and gang-raping her at a fraternity party in 2024, and was suing the university for allegedly failing to protect her, comedy writer and internet gadfly Toby Morton jumped into action. He purchased domains for all the men named in the complaint and launched a website to share the story of the woman known as Jane Doe, her lawsuit, and Cornell’s response. “With the story of what happened, the screenshots of the guys saying, ‘free pussy upstairs,’ you know, I immediately went to GoDaddy,” he…
Enter Shikari have confirmed plans to go on an indefinite hiatus at the end of 2027. The news comes after frontman Rou Reynolds posted a video last month, explaining the band’s lack of activity in 2026. He said he’d “been going through a lot of adversity which has brought my capacity to zero”, citing burnout, OCD and nervous system sensitisation. Reynolds noted that Enter Shikari had released their latest album, ‘Lose Your Self’, back in the spring “and then did bugger all”. However, he explained that the break was “very much needed”. The singer went on to speak about “the…
A new super-deluxe edition of Talking Heads‘ seminal third album Fear of Music is on the way. Due out November 13 on Rhino, the 3xCD set compiles a fresh remaster of the 1979 record, a number of alternate track versions and studio outtakes, and previously-unreleased recordings of two full concerts. An accompanying Blu-Ray also boasts footage from the Talking Heads’ appearance on BBC’s music show Old Grey Whistle Test. Check out an unearthed performance of the band’s “Life During Wartime” from a 1979 episode below.The shows featured on Fear of Music (Super-Deluxe Edition) both took place in 1979 shortly after…
Michael Goessling, a St. Louis man who was adopted, has found his birth parents, and one of them happens to be Michael McDonald. Goessling shared his amazing discovery with KCTV 5. He was adopted when he was an infant by Paul and Kay Goessling. “Always knew I was adopted,” Goessling said. “Had a wonderful childhood. I could not pick two finer folks to raise me.” Yet, he still wondered about his biological parents, who were both 14 when Goessling was put up for adoption. But then, he was contacted by a half-brother who he didn’t know existed who had taken…
The publisher of Withers’ catalog filed the new lawsuit against Dean’s label and publishers, claiming her song “I’ve Seen It” stole from the 1981 R&B classic A new lawsuit alleges the Olivia Dean song “I’ve Seen It,” from her critically acclaimed album The Art of Loving, copies an unmistakable melody from the Bill Withers hit “Just the Two of Us.” Filed in federal court in Los Angeles and obtained by Rolling Stone, the new complaint from the publisher behind Withers’ catalog says the similarities between Dean’s song and the 1981 Grammy-winning R&B classic are “obvious and inescapable.” The publisher says…
You may have forgotten about it amid the tidal wave of open-air corruption sweeping through the White House, but the Trump family is still running a cryptocurrency scam. “Trump Coin,” the crypto meme coin released just days before Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term, has already screwed over thousands of investors. Ahead of the midterm elections, $TRUMP, as it is traded on Solana, is courting new investors by offering its biggest buyers an invite to the “Most Exclusive Dinner in the World,” with — you guessed it — the president himself. The “Trump Coin Club” offers its…
Austin City Limits Music Festival returns for a 25th-anniversary edition this month, running across two weekends: October 2 through 4 and October 9 through 11. For anyone unable to choose Texas in person, all three days of the first weekend are set to stream on Disney+ and Hulu.Headliners for the festival this year include Charli xcx, the xx, Lorde, Twenty One Pilots. and Skrillex. Further-down-the-lineup highlights include Turnstile, Geese, Underscores, Fakemink, Rochelle Jordan, the War on Drugs, Fcukers, Audrey Hobert, Bleachers, Blood Orange, Lykke Li, Snow Strippers, and Rusowsky. Check out a full streaming schedule below.Friday, October 2(All times listed…
Ronnie Wood has spoken to NME about his new Jimi Hendrix exhibition, showcasing a collection of his paintings and sketches of the rock legend, while teasing what the future holds for The Rolling Stones. Titled Ronnie Wood: The Jimi Hendrix Portraits, the exhibition is open now at the Handel Hendrix House museum – Hendrix’s former apartment on Brook Street, Mayfair, which is next door to the home where German-British composer George Frideric Handel resided, two centuries earlier. Alongside previously unveiled paintings and sketches of Hendrix created by Wood, the collection will also feature two new, unseen original portraits made by…
