Quick Answer: U.S. fans can stream Champions League games online with Paramount+ or a live TV streaming service like DirecTV Stream. get free trial at Paramount+ After a couple of weeks off, the UEFA Champions League is back for the quarterfinals. As always, there’s been plenty of excitement in the …
Read More »Kanye West Off the Hook in One Lawsuit as Donna Summer's Estate Hints at Another
Legal threats magnet Kanye West is off the hook with at least one lawsuit that claimed he stole copyrighted material. The Vultures 1 rapper – accused last week of sampling Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” and Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” without permission from Ozzy Osbourne or Summer’s estate – is …
Read More »How Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Took Over the NFL, By the Numbers (Kinda)
The NFL couldn’t have scripted it any better if they’d tried — not that we’re suggesting they did. But after several tumultuous years marked by press cycles centered around racism, police brutality, protests, sexual assault, domestic violence, shaky ratings, culture war shenanigans, and the little fact that the very game …
Read More »Usher Shows Off Decades of Hits at Super Bowl Halftime Show
Usher headlined Super Bowl LVIII’s halftime show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday with a career-spanning performance featuring some of the biggest contemporary R&B hits of the past 20-plus years. Usher kicked off the electrifying set with “Caught Up” while a bevy of dancers and others performed gymnastics …
Read More »The 'Spontaneous Power' of Damo Suzuki
It is tempting to paint Damo Suzuki, the singer for legendary krautrock band Can, as some sort of musical shaman. And frankly, the video footage that exists of him makes it easy to do so. There is a film by Peter Przygodda that captures the German group at Cologne’s Sporthalle …
Read More »Beyoncé Announces New Album 'Act II,' Releases Two Singles
Beyoncé may have just finished her Renaissance world tour in October, but she isn’t interested in taking an extended break from music — the singer announced a new album during the Super Bowl on Sunday. The album was announced during a commercial with Verizon, where Beyoncé did her best to …
Read More »Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car' Re-Enters the Hot 100…35 Years Later
Tracy Chapman‘s “Fast Car” has darted back onto Billboard’s Hot 100 at Number 42 this week following a surge in sales and streams after she performed the track with Luke Combs at the Grammy Awards a week ago. The re-entry marks the first time Chapman’s version has made it onto …
Read More »Usher Makes Love in This Club at the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Usher came to the Super Bowl to celebrate nearly 30 years of making love in this club, and that’s exactly what he did — he turned Allegiant Stadium in Vegas into his own personal seduction lair. His Super Bowl halftime show was a splashy tribute to millennial pop glitz, with …
Read More »Feid Plots Major Arena Run With 2024 North American 'Ferxxocalipsis' Tour
Around this time last year, Feid announced the North American leg of his Ferxxo Nitro Jam Un Tour. The 29-city tour made stops in dozens of venues including Hulu Theatre, the 6,000-person capacity theatre located inside of Madison Square Garden. Almost a year to the date of that June 2023 …
Read More »Donna Summer's Estate Claims Kanye West Used 'I Feel Love' Without Permission
Donna Summer’s estate has accused Kanye West of copyright infringement over one of the songs from his recently released collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures 1. The estate claims the rapper asked to use one of the late singer’s songs, and despite not getting clearance for it, he used …
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