Each bandmember played one of the characters from the female-fronted reboot.

He was music supervisor on Nick Cassavetes’ ‘Unhook the Stars’ and consulted on David Lynch’s ‘Dune’ and Milos Forman’s ‘Ragtime.’

Would you apply bee venom to the skin for anti-aging? Because Kanye, Kim and Gwyneth did.

By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government may become a movie and music industry player, at least temporarily, after moving to seize $1 billion in assets that prosecutors said were bought with money looted from the Malaysian state development fund. The 2013 movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” and an interest in the rights of EMI Music Publishing are among the targets of civil lawsuits that are filled with allegations that Malaysian officials, their relatives and associates laundered the fund’s money and hid it in property, artwork and luxury goods in the United States. Seizures of assets by government authorities are fairly common, but they more typically involve sports cars, yachts and jewelry bought with drug trafficking proceeds or with profits from white-collar crime.

Music festival "Warehouse Project" has announced its lineup for this year's event, with artists M.I.A, Skepta, Flume, Chance The Rapper, Four Tet, Danny Brown and Novelist among some of the acts confirmed for the 2016 installment. The festival, which will take place in Manchester on September 23, has been resurrected following a two-year hiatus, after a man died at a Warehouse Project event in 2013, with five others admitted to hospital after taking a drug believed to be ecstasy (via NME). Other performers revealed to perform in 2016 are Toddla T, Section Boyz, Zomby, Gorgon City, Lethal Bizzle, Jungle, Moderat, Goldlink, Tourist, Julio Bashmore and Jon Hopkins, with more acts set to be announced shortly.

The annual music festival, which takes place in the ski resort of Naeba, Niigata Prefecture, is celebrating its 20th birthday with over 220 acts across seven main stages and several smaller performance spaces from July 22-24, 2016. Inaugurated in 1997, the Fuji Rock Festival did not get off to a good start. Held at the base of Mount Fuji, the event was struck by a typhoon on the first day, and organizers chose to cancel the entire festival. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' headline set went down in rock history, with the band continuing throughout the storm and despite lead singer Anthony Kiedis's broken arm.

The rock band Third Eye Blind frustrated some guests at a charity concert held during the Republican National Convention on Tuesday. In tweets posted on the official Third Eye Blind account, the band indicated it was pleased the show upset some in the audience. “I have never been more disappointed,” wrote a Twitter user named Liza White.

“We don’t believe in the one-size-fits-all approach that’s currently seen in the U.S. market,” says chief international officer Gerrit Schumann about what sets the streaming service apart from its stateside competitors.

In early June, Brian May said the band’s music was not for “political use.”

Sean "Diddy" Combs' 2016 Revolt Music Conference (RMC) has announced the first round of music industry panelists and honorees set to join this year's event instalment, including DJ Khaled, Nas and label executives Lyor Cohen and Julie Greenwald. The third annual networking forum will be hosted in Miami from October 13-15, at the Eden Rock Miami Beach Resort for the first time, after two years at the Fontainebleau (via Billboard). The conference will also feature such participants as DJ/radio personalities DJ Envy and Funk Master Flex, songwriting/production duo Cool and Dre, Spotify head of global programming, hip-hop Tuma Basa, Def Jam executive VP of A&R Darrale Jones and "The Shade Room" founder Angie Nwandu, who will form panels addressing various topics from social media and streaming to A&R.

Rock Band 4 debuted in October, and developer Harmonix spent more than six months after the launch adding features new and old to the game in free updates. Now, the studio and co-publisher Performance Designed Products are set to release Rock Band Rivals, which will be the game’s first paid expansion when it arrives this October. Harmonix announced Rivals last month during E3, but didn’t provide any details on what the $29.99 expansion would contain.

Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like Ty Segall, Banks, and M.I.A., plus brand new streaming music from Against Me!, Justice, PJ Harvey, Wilco, and more. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at Metacritic