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★★★★ The French Dispatch Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch leans inconceivably harder into the style that has become Anderson’s own. Viewers are thrown into a world of pastel and symmetry with a movie that is broken up into four parts. After the death of Arthur Howitzer, Jr. (Bill Murray), the editor of the French Dispatch,...

LiveOne, the music media company that changed its name from LiveXLive in September, should prepare to go to trial with a former investor who claims he was defrauded of millions of dollars in cash and equity by company chairman and chief executive Rob Ellin or renew mediation and settle the three-year-old lawsuit outside of court. That’s according to...

Bleachers released a new EP on Thursday (Nov. 4) titled Live at Electric Lady — a collection of songs from the Jack Antonoff-fronted band that features live takes of their Billboard 200-charting album Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, recorded at the historic Electric Lady Studios in New York City. The new EP features a...

Earlier today, Nintendo revealed that Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has become the best-selling entry in the history of the series. With 38.74 million copies sold, the Nintendo Switch game has finally surpassed Mario Kart Wii‘s 37.38 million lifetime units. It’s an incredible sales figure for Nintendo, but not everyone is happy about the achievement. The...

Coming out to your parents can be one of the most emotionally gratifying things a person can do — and one lucky fan got some help from pop superstar Harry Styles to make her moment even more special. During the Milwaukee stop Wednesday for his Love On Tour, Styles spotted a fan holding up a sign...

After weeks of teasing, Charli XCX released “New Shapes,” her new song featuring Christine and the Queens and Caroline Polachek, on Thursday (Nov. 4). The synth-heavy song sees Charli, Christine and Polachek lamenting their inability to truly let their significant others in, instead pushing them away, rejecting true love and embracing freedom. “New Shapes” marks Charli’s second...

With music fans returning to concerts and festivals, and buying concert tickets for a surge of 2022 concerts, Live Nation’s earnings began the long road to recovery in the third quarter. Revenue increased over 13-fold to $2.7 billion from the prior-year period, and adjusted operating income rose from a $319.2 million loss to a $305.7...

You know that cliché of Latins always being surrounded by music and dance? Turns out there’s more than ample evidence to back it up. According to data culled from the IFPI’s recently released “Engaging With Music” report, which dug deep into the music consumption habits of 43,000 people in 21 countries, Latin American countries are...

Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd launch at No. 2 on Billboard‘s multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated Nov. 6) with “Moth to a Flame.” The collab begins with 12.9 million U.S. streams, 1.7 million radio audience impressions and 3,800 downloads in the week ending Oct. 28, according to MRC Data. The debut is the...

If there’s anyone who knows firsthand that life can completely change in just one year, it’s Derrick Milano. The last time Billboard caught up with the multifaceted artist last year, he was a hopeful rising star who did most of his work behind the scenes for other artists through songwriting, curation, and everything in between....

Billboard has recently recapped a series of 2021 tours that made their millions in 2019, with dates that went on sale before COVID and then were postponed to this summer and fall. Here, we see the Jonas Brothers back on the road with one of the first true post-pandemic stage shows. The JoBros announced the...

Adele‘s reign continues on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. and Billboard Global 200 charts, while Swedish House Mafia and The Weeknd fly in with “Moth to a Flame,” new in the top 10 of the latter list, dated Nov. 6. Meanwhile, another all-star collaboration launches just outside the top 10 of each tally: “SG,” teaming...

Bandai Namco Entertainment had announced it and the promise was kept: the gameplay of Elden Ring was finally unveiled to the general public through a video of more than 19 minutes. The opportunity to see that yes, the Dark Souls heritage is still present, but with an open world dimension that the developers are experiencing...

Ryuichi Sakamoto is set to release an alternate version of one of YMO’s signature tracks “Tong Poo” in collaboration with Japanese fashion designer Junya Watanabe. Sakamoto rearranged the original version of the synthesizer instrumental music upon Watanabe’s request, to be featured in the COMME des GARÇONS designer’s Asian nostalgia-themed Spring/Summer 2022 fashion show. The pioneering...