Month: February 2015

Songwriter Diane Warren Slams Rita Ora, Label for Not Promoting Oscar-Nominated Song

The Hollywood Reporter‘s inaugural Oscar Song Summit, hosted by Scott Feinberg on Feb. 2 immediately following the Oscar Nominees Luncheon, was for the most part a convivial affair, until Diane Warren lashed out at (an absent) Rita Ora….


In The Korner with Sam Harris Part 1


Drake Drops Surprise Mixtape ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late’

Drake took the Internet by storm on Thursday night and dropped his surprise project If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late on iTunes. Much like Beyoncé’s 2013 album, it came without much warning. However, he did debut a short 15-minute film called “Jungle” earlier in the day….


Bob Dylan Raves About Springsteen, Downplays Haggard Feud

Bob Dylan delivered a memorable, riveting 30-minute acceptance speech at last week’s all-star MusiCares Person of the Year ceremony, thanking his early supporters and the artists who covered his work and denouncing “detractors” like Merle Haggard and songwriting duo Leiber & Stoller. As a postscript to his epic, career-spanning monologue, Dylan chatted with author Bill Flanagan to elaborate further on the MusiCares speech…


Apple Doesn’t Want to Compete — It Wants to Own the Record Business

You didn’t have to look too far to spot the action at Clive Davis‘ pre-Grammy gala on Feb. 7. Ground zero was table 108, where Apple CEO Tim Cook, senior vp Internet software and services Eddy Cue, iTunes vp Robert Kondrk and Beats co-founder and title-less Apple executive Jimmy Iovine were seated alongside former U.S….


Kanye Is A “Killer Of Culture” Says Timo Weiland Designer

Fashion Week started a day early this year with Cadillac’s New York Men’s Day, and VFiles’s MADE fashion show at Lincoln Center. And it seemed like everyone from designers to stylists were spilling tea on fashion, celebs, and more before the week even kicked off. Here’s what we learned pre Day 1. On Timo Weiland’s…


NYFW: This Is How Skylar Grey Felt After Reading ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

Not every theme party has a live soundtrack to go with it. But at E! Fashion Police and Nylon magazine’s kickoff to New York Fashion Week — which had a Fifty Shades of Grey theme in honor of the movie hitting theaters this weekend — singer Skylar Grey performed the song she wrote for the film live…


X Ambassadors Perform “Unconsolable” on Renman Live!


Audio: J. Prince Gives A Warning To Diddy For Beefing With Drake


Rick Ross vs. LMFAO: Rapper’s Camp Doesn’t Want Redfoo Leading Settlement Talks

How many entertainers believe themselves capable of negotiating the resolution of a thorny legal dispute? Stefan Gordy, a.k.a. Redfoo, one-half of Los Angeles-based electropop group LMFAO, might be one. After Redfoo and his nephew Skyler Gordy — a.k.a. Sky Blu — were hit with a lawsuit from hip-hop superstar Rick Ross over LMFAO’s chart-topping 2010…