Netflix Opens the Post-Hastings Era at Ninety-Six Dollars
Co-founder exiting, Warner Bros gone, the Q1 beat padded by a $2.8 billion breakup fee, $44 billion of market cap erased Friday — Sarandos and Peters inherit the wreckage.
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Karol G Closed Coachella as Its First Latina Headliner and Did Not Say ICE Out
Karol G took Coachella's main stage as the first Latina headliner in 27 years and dedicated the set to her community while working around a visa-revocation warning.
Madonna Walked On at Coachella in the Boots She Wore Twenty Years Ago
Madonna made her first Coachella cameo in eleven years during Sabrina Carpenter's headline set, in the same 2006 corset and jacket, teasing Confessions II.
Olivia Rodrigo Debuted Drop Dead at Coachella Thirteen Days Before SNL
Rodrigo surprised Addison Rae's Saturday set to play Headphones On and then gave the live debut of Drop Dead — two artifacts and an SNL double-duty, no tour leg in sight.
Four Tour Cancellations and a Monopoly Verdict in One Weekend
Lambrini Girls, Scorpions, Journey and Cold all cancelled or postponed between Friday and Sunday. The touring engine is now breaking faster than it holds.
Universal Music Enters Week Two of Silence on Ackman's Sixty-Four Billion Bid
Thirteen days since the offer. UMG has said nothing since 'acknowledged receipt.' A board 72-hour silence is process. A two-week silence is an answer being priced in.
Saturday Night Live Goes Dark Two Weeks Before Olivia Rodrigo Opens the Finale Sprint
SNL took Saturday off for the second straight week; Rodrigo hosts and performs May 2, Damon May 9, Ferrell and McCartney close the season May 16.
Bieber Runs the Cameo Economy With Four Guests in One Saturday Set
Bieber brought out Eilish, SZA, Big Sean and Sexyy Red in one Coachella Saturday — the cameo economy worked.
Afrika Bambaataa at Sixty-Eight and the Legacy That Split in Half
Afrika Bambaataa died April 9 at 68; his two legacies — Planet Rock and the 2016 abuse allegations — will not reconcile.
A Guitarist Who Almost Joined the Stones, an Actor Whose Name Ran a Batman Trilogy, and Donald Pleasence's Daughter
Three career obits from April — Perkins, Nolan, Pleasence — all adjacent to larger names, all with six-decade arcs.