While both Facebook and Instagram have supported HDR video for some time, Meta recently upgraded this to support Dolby Vision and ambient viewing environment (amve) in the Instagram iOS app, providing an enhanced viewing experience for capable devices. It’s difficult to highlight an example of this on a non-Dolby-enabled device, but essentially, all HDR videos…
Gay Meat: Not necessarily a band name you want to go around recommending to people willy-nilly, but music worth recommending nonetheless. Ex-Museum Mouth frontman Karl Kuehn has been releasing catchy, pensive, emo-leaning indie rock under the moniker for a while, and now he’s got a new label home at Skeletal Lightning, who are releasing Gay…
Lil Nas X appeared in a Los Angeles-area courtroom to address his battery arrest. On Monday, November 17, the rapper, 26, (whose real name is Montero Lamar Hill) showed up to court wearing a brown leather jacket, beige pants and cowboy boots. While the judge ultimately postponed the hearing until March 2026, Lil Nas X’s…
Who knew that the Americana ambassadors the Avett Brothers and the thoroughly modern maniac Mike Patton had the same threads woven into their respective freak flags? Scott and Seth Avett have been enchanting the folk contingent for most of this century with a discography of stripped-down and heart-bursting recs. While Patton is known primarily as…
6ix9ine’s home in Florida was reportedly invaded by four gunmen, and his mother was held against her will last night. On Sunday night (Nov. 16), TMZ reports that 6ix9ine’s 60-year-old mother was inside his Florida home when four masked gunmen invaded the residence, apparently looking for cash and the rapper’s car keys. Tekashi wasn’t…
“Weird Al” Yankovic has announced a massive expansion to this year’s Bigger & Weirder Tour. The parody musician will continue the trek in 2026 with an additional 90 stops throughout North America, including in cities such as Chicago, Boston, Las Vegas, Austin, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and more. As on the previous leg of the Bigger…
Longtime friends and collaborators MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee are teaming up for a spring 2026 tour, which will kick off April 13 in Atlanta and run through May 6 in Los Angeles. The artists will play both on their own and together as part of the run, tickets for which go on sale Friday (Nov….
Jeffrey Epstein‘s brother, Mark Epstein, dismissed speculation tying Bill Clinton to a cryptic 2018 email uncovered in a trove of newly unsealed documents involving his late brother and Donald Trump, clarifying that a reference to “Bubba” was not aimed at the former president. The clarification followed the House Oversight Committee’s release of over 26,000 pages…
Chanel Marrow loves her mom. In fact, Coco Austin and Ice-T‘s 9-year-old daughter penned a lengthy essay dedicated to her “glorious, precious, amazing” mother amid questions over the model’s parenting style. “How much longer until I have with my mom,” Chanel read from her Notes app, as seen in a Nov. 15 Instagram video. “Sometimes that question drifts…
Google has outlined its latest updates to its Demand Gen ad tools, including AI image and video creation tools, improved A/B testing, updated suitability controls, and more. First off, Google is rolling out new AI-powered image enhancement options for demand gen and app campaigns, with “Animated images,” which, as it sounds, generates moving variations of…
