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What to Stream: Keith Urban, 'The Golden Bachelorette,' Zack Snyder series and 'WandaVision' spinoff

Sep. 16, 2024 18:19 PM EDT

Keith Urban’s 12th studio album and Kathryn Hahn starring in the “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha All Along” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated...

Pharrell as a Lego and Robbie Williams as a chimp? Music biopics get creative

Sep. 10, 2024 17:39 PM EDT

TORONTO (AP) — Many of the expected conventions of music biopics are present in “Piece by Piece,” about the producer-turned-pop star Pharrell Williams, and “Better Man,” about the British singer Robbie Williams. There’s the young artist’s urge to break through, fallow creative periods...

Music Review: Suki Waterhouse's indie-pop shines and bares fangs on 'Memoir of a Sparklemuffin'

Sep. 10, 2024 11:38 AM EDT

Suki Waterhouse is everywhere at once. A year after the hit show “Daisy Jones and the Six” reintroduced her music talents to a new audience, the indie-pop singer-songwriter-model-actress-entrepreneur opened for Taylor Swift on her record-breaking Eras Tour at London's Wembley Stadium. Now,...

Slide over salsa: K-pop takes socialist Cuba by storm

Sep. 08, 2024 20:11 PM EDT

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Socialist Cuba, the birthplace of salsa and other rhythms that have conquered the world, is now surrendering to the invasion of South Korean pop music. Thirteen thousand kilometers of distance separate the Asian nation and the communist-run island, as well as a...

Bass guitarist Herbie Flowers, who played with David Bowie, Lou Reed and others, dies at 86

Sep. 08, 2024 14:45 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Bass guitarist Herbie Flowers, who played with David Bowie, Elton John, Lou Reed and other music legends in a decades-long career, has died at 86. The musician's family confirmed his death on Facebook Saturday. Flowers was a founding member of the pop...

The director of the Paralympic closing ceremony wants to turn the Stade de France into a dance floor

Sep. 06, 2024 08:56 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — The final act of the Paralympics in Paris will be a giant dance party. That’s a promise from Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening and closing ceremonies for this year's Olympics and Paralympics. Jolly says 24 DJs will perform thumping...

Paris Hilton waited 18 years to drop a new album. On 'Infinite Icon,' she's here to 'save pop music'

Sep. 06, 2024 08:19 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two decades ago, Paris Hilton released her debut album, 2006's eponymous “Paris,” at one height of her powers — an album of breezy pop music that offered a soundtrack to her cheery and decadent public-facing lifestyle, anchored by the reggae-lite sugar rush of...

Ticketmaster's pricing for Oasis tickets is under investigation in the UK

Sep. 05, 2024 13:58 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — The U.K.'s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into the way more than one million tickets were sold for next year's reunion concerts from iconic 1990s Britpop band Oasis. In a statement Thursday, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said its...

There's no X in Brazil. Celebrity fandom worldwide is in disarray

Sep. 04, 2024 13:18 PM EDT

It was a rapture and a revelation all at the same time. En masse, celebrity stan accounts posted tearful farewells over the weekend as X was suspended in Brazil amid a showdown between Elon Musk and a Supreme Court justice. Many of their hundreds of thousands of followers learned...

Error messages and lengthy online queues frustrate fans scrambling to secure Oasis reunion tickets

Aug. 31, 2024 15:50 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Some Oasis fans celebrated like a champagne supernova, while others looked back in anger on Saturday as online ticket sites strained under demand for the band’s first shows for 15 years. The Britpop-era behemoth led by brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher is scheduled...