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The Los Angeles Rams take on the Minnesota Vikings tonight as the NFL Wild Card playoffs wrap up with a must-win Monday Night game.
The game was set to be played at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, but with the ongoing wildfires in the region, both teams decided to move the NFC Wild Card matchup to State Farm Stadium in Arizona.
Sports fans will be tuning in to see which team heads to the NFC Divisional Round game against the Philadelphia Eagles; music fans, meantime, also have a reason to tune in, as Rachel Platten will perform at the game. The singer will perform the national anthem, and take the field to sing her hit single, “Fight Song.”
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The Vikings are the current favorites for tonight’s matchup. The two teams last met on October 24 in the regular season, where Los Angeles defeated Minnesota 30–20.
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence stepped down from the top job and his seat on the board on Monday (Jan. 13) after the speaker company faced months of challenges and laid off 6% of its workforce following a fraught redesign of its mobile app. According to a press release, Sonos’ board of directors named Tom Conrad, […]
The Chemical Brothers’ music has been loved by the cinema and video games since the beginning, when in 1995 “Chemical Beats” ended up in the soundtrack of the PlayStation game Wipeout. The latest such appearance is in the film Sonic the Hedgehog 3, where “Galvanize” sounds perfect in a scene with Jim Carrey dancing among laser beams. Tom Rowlands has already worked on commission for some directors such as Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan and Joe Wright for a theatrical production and for the film Hanna, in the latter case paired with Ed Simons (the other half of the Chemical Brothers).
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But this new adventure was really a challenge. With the usual English irony Tom defined “an act of intimidation” the request of director Joe Wright to score the new Sky Original series Mussolini: Son of the Century, based on the novel M. Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati, which was recently released in Italy. The series tells the story of the birth of fascism in Italy and the rise to power of Benito Mussolini. The challenge was won, because the Chemical Brothers-style tracks perfectly amplify the emotional and sometimes tragic scenes.
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Working with Joe Wright seems to have become a regular occurrence.
True! Ed and I worked together on his film Hanna and then I composed the background music for Joe’s adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s famous play Life of Galileo, an experience I really enjoyed. I like working with Joe: I still remember him when he followed us on our first important tours, all three of us were kids… Suddenly one day he sent me M., Antonio Scurati’s book. I was hooked from the first pages, it’s a fantastic book! I studied history at university and I immediately realized that Joe’s gesture of offering me this reading was a real challenge, because M. is not only a long book but above all dense and profound. Plus, I’ve always been attracted by the history of that period.
So was it easier for you to feel involved in the project?
Yes, but I could also say that making me read M. was also a sort of intimidating act. First of all because I have never worked on a text that deals with a specific historical event, then because the rise of fascism and the figure of Mussolini are certainly not easy historical topics to deal with. Composing this soundtrack was a serious task. I was very excited at the idea of taking on a challenge so different from my previous ones, and for a project that started from such a powerful book.
The compositions you created for the series are very precise in commenting on the scenes in which they are inserted. Did you start working on the sound even before shooting?
That’s right: Joe Wright and I started talking about ideas and musical themes with just the script in hand. It was a long process of ideas, plus I was interacting with a person who is also a true friend in addition to being a great talent. I tried to give shape to his ideas, because this series is the fruit of his vision.
The soundtrack has very rhythmic sound comments – Chemical Brothers style – and not many melodies.
There are melodies! But they are a bit convoluted, they are never obvious. The main theme is all based on a precise and constant rhythm.
The theme is close to the sound of fascist marches but also takes up the ideas of futurism.
Of course, Joe and I discussed the difference and the relationship between noise and music, which was a theme dear to the futurists. I certainly would never have associated a “floral” sound movement with the advent of fascism!
You stated that part of the soundtrack was made by making old acoustic instruments interact with modern electronics.
Right. I developed a system in my studio where I can have total control of all the information I receive by making my technology interact with traditional instruments such as strings and piano. What we were describing musically was a certain past that really happened. When I met Antonio Scurati he was absolutely in agreement with this creative process, as well as the fact that for (this series) all modern electronics were used to tell not an imaginary world but historical facts, the songs often comment on words taken from real speeches by Mussolini.
The tracks are sometimes very short sound comments. Was it difficult to work on them?
Yes, that was also a real challenge. But that’s why I like working on soundtracks: it’s a very different process. I’m also intrigued by being able to comment on the change of emotions during a scene: you can easily go from a sense of calm to one of terror in a few moments, whereas in a song you often try to create only one type of emotion or feeling.
The impression is that in the second part of the series the music becomes increasingly dramatic, as the historical events do.
I tried to musically describe a very complex historical period where a leader conquers the people – part of the population also found Mussolini a funny man – and then comes to total control of the Italian state after the killing of the MP Giacomo Matteotti. I also tried to convey the director’s and writer’s vision: I hope I did it coherently with that.
What do you think of the Oasis reunion?
I’ll be honest: it’s crazy! My kids and their friends are really desperate to get a ticket because that’s a generation that has never seen the Gallagher brothers on stage together. I’ve known Liam and Noel for years, I’ve been to their concerts many times and it’s always been great to be there, but this time the level of hysteria reached to get a ticket here in Great Britain is truly incredible. Speaking of people from Manchester, my kids would love to see The Smiths reunite too!
Which Oasis albums do you like the most?
Whatever age you are, even just 17, Definitely Maybe is still an incredible album: listening to it is as if the songs were speaking directly to you. I’m sure that this effect is triggered also in the new generations. But the second album is not bad either. They are their two masterpieces.
Will we hear new Chemical Brothers music anytime soon?
It’s too early. Ed and I have to take our time, as always. When we release music, we want to make sure it’s music we really love! We’ve never limited ourselves to putting out productions just for the sake of it. And that’s still true today.
Lil Baby’s WHAM enters the Billboard 200 at No. 1 this week (chart dated Jan. 18), just shy of 40 years after Wham!’s Make It Big topped the chart for three consecutive weeks in March 1985. It’s very rare for an album to top the Billboard 200 with a title that’s the same as the name of an act that also reached No. 1 on that chart. (These two aren’t exactly the same because of that pesky exclamation point on the U.K. duo’s name, but close enough.)
One time, there was an exact match: In September/October 1980, Queen topped the chart for five consecutive weeks with The Game. The rapper The Game had three No. 1 albums – The Documentary (2005), Doctor’s Advocate (2005) and The R.E.D. Album (2011).
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And there have been a lot of close (and not-so-close) calls. In March 2017, Future’s HNDRXX debuted at No. 1. In November 1968, the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland spent two weeks on top. Future altered the spelling, but the title was clearly a nod to the rock legend.
The Sting soundtrack logged five consecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1974, following the film’s seven-Oscar sweep. Sting reached No. 1 with The Police in 1983 and peaked at No. 2 with three of his first four solo albums.
There are numerous cases where a Billboard 200-topping act’s name was part of the title of somebody else’s No. 1 album. P!nk’s Hurts 2B Human debuted at No. 1 in 2019. Nicki Minaj has hit No. 1 with three Pink Friday releases. Blackpink debuted at No. 1 in 2022 with Born Pink. Lil Uzi Vert debuted at No. 1 the following year with Pink Tape.
An eponymous album by Blind Faith hit No. 1 in 1969. George Michael and Pop Smoke both hit No. 1 with albums titled Faith. Faith Hill’s Faith debuted at No. 7, but the country star reached No. 1 with three other albums. And Depeche Mode debuted at No. 1 in 1993 with Songs of Faith and Devotion.
America’s eponymous debut album, which featured the Hot 100 No. 1 “A Horse With No Name,” reached No. 1 in 1972. Wings’ Wings Over America hit No. 1 in 1977, followed by Supertramp’s Breakfast in America in 1979 and the all-star God Bless America compilation in 2001.
Heart’s eponymous album hit No. 1 in 1985. Linda Ronstadt’s Heart Like a Wheel hit No. 1 in 1975, while Bonnie Raitt’s Longing in Their Heart followed suit in 1994.
Other Billboard 200-topping acts whose name is embedded in the title of someone else’s No. 1 album include: Tiffany (Breakfast at Tiffany’s soundtrack), Frank Ocean (Eric Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard), Donna Summer (Stevie Nicks’ Bella Donna), George Harrison (Jack Johnson’s Curious George soundtrack), and Lil Wayne (the Wayne’s World soundtrack).
Looking beyond cases where both acts reached No. 1, Destiny’s Child’s Survivor spent its first two weeks on top in May 2001. Survivor just missed No. 1 in 1982 when Eye of the Tiger logged four weeks at No. 2. The title track topped the Hot 100 for six weeks.
Maroon 5’s V debuted at No. 1 in 2014. V, of BTS, opened at No. 2 in 2023 with his debut album, Layover.
Asia’s eponymous debut album logged nine nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1 in 1982. Steely Dan’s Aja (different spelling, but same pronunciation) peaked at No. 3 in 1977.
Drake’s Scorpion spent its first five weeks at No. 1 in 2018. The German hard rock band Scorpions climbed as high as No. 5 with Savage Amusement in 1988.
Bruce Springsteen’s Magic spent two of its first three weeks at No. 1 in 2007. A male rapper with that name reached No. 15 in 1998 with Skys the Limit. A Canadian reggae band named MAGIC! debuted at No. 6 in 2014 with Don’t Kill the Magic.
SZA’s SOS has spent 12 weeks at No. 1 across 2022, 2023 and 2025. The S.O.S. Band’s S.O.S., which contained the hit “Take Your Time (Do It Right),” reached No. 12 in 1980.
The Descendants TV soundtrack debuted at No. 1 in 2015. A punk band with the same name hit No. 20 in 2016 with Hypercaffium Spazzinate.
Leona Lewis’ Spirit debuted at No. 1 in 2008. The California rock band Spirit climbed as high as No. 22 with The Family That Plays Together in 1969.
Kesha’s Rainbow debuted at No. 1 in 2017. The hard rock band Rainbow climbed as high as No. 30 with two albums, Ritchie Blackmore’s R-A-I-N-B-O-W (1975) and Straight Between the Eyes (1982).
Travis Scott’s Utopia spent its first four weeks at No. 1 in 2023. The band Utopia, which featured Todd Rundgren, climbed as high as No. 32 with Adventures in Utopia in 1980.
Faith Hill’s Breathe debuted at No. 1 in 1999. The English pop group Breathe climbed as high as No. 34 with All That Jazz in 1988.
Eric Church’s The Outsiders debuted at No. 1 in 2014. A rock band from Cleveland reached No. 37 in 1965 with Time Won’t Let Me. The title track was a top five hit on the Hot 100.
Justin Bieber’s Justice debuted at No. 1 in 2021. An electronic duo from France of the same name hit No. 37 in 2011 with Audio, Video, Disco.
The Exodus soundtrack logged nonconsecutive 14 weeks at No. 1 in 1961. A hard-rock band by the same name reached No. 38 in 2014 with Blood In Blood Out.
Beyoncé’s Renaissance debuted at No. 1 in 2022. An English rock band of the same name climbed as high as No. 46 with Novella in 1977.
Stray Kids’ 5-Star debuted at No. 1 in 2023. The R&B dance vocal group Five Star reached No. 47 with Luxury of Life in 1985.
And here’s my favorite, just for fun: Bon Jovi’s The Circle debuted at No. 1 in 2009. The pop group The Cyrkle climbed as high as No. 47 on the Billboard 200 with Red Rubber Ball in 1966. The title song (co-written by Paul Simon) was a No. 2 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
Carrie Underwood is set to perform during Donald Trump’s upcoming presidential inauguration ceremony on Monday, Jan. 20, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Billboard has confirmed. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The eight-time Grammy winner will perform “America the Beautiful,” accompanied by The Armed Forces […]
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Early last year it was reported that Chance the Rapper and his wife of five years, Kristen Corley, were filing for divorce, and now, the two seem to have reached some common ground on how to go about things as they go their separate ways.
According to XXL, both Chance and Kristen have agreed to the terms of their divorce settlement and though the details of said settlement have yet to be revealed, it brings the two one step closer to putting a stamp on their divorce proceedings. Awaiting the signature of the judge overseeing their separation, this happens to be one of the quickest celebrity divorces we’ve seen in history, as they tend to drag out for years with each person looking to get or keep more of their riches and belongings.
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Chance and Corley were wed in a marriage ceremony in March of 2019 that was attended by family and friends in Newport Beach, Calif. However, in October of 2022, Kirsten spoke out after Chance’s X account liked a sexually explicit post. In April of 2023, she released a statement after a video of Chano dutty wining on women at Carinval went viral.
Last April, the former partners released a joint statement on Instagram announcing their breakup. “After a period of separation, the two of us have arrived at the decision to part ways,” the post shared via Instagram Story read. “We came to this decision amicably and with gratitude for the time we spent together. God has blessed us with two beautiful daughters who we will continue to raise together. We kindly ask for privacy and respect as we navigate this transition. Thank you – Chance & Kirsten.”
Between this, Remy Ma and Papoose’s breakup and Cardi B and Offset’s marriage going off the rails, we can’t help but feel that true love is a thing of the past. We blame social media for all of it. Just sayin’.
What do y’all think of Chance the Rapper and Kristen Corley calling it quits after five years of marriage? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Mark Zuckerberg told the world how he really feels about Apple as a company and a brand. Spoiler alert: he didn’t have anything nice to say.
Engaging in tech bro-talk with Joe Rogan on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience on Friday, Zuckerberg dropped his opinion on Tim Cook’s Apple.
The Meta CEO criticized Apple for its lack of innovation and criticized the company for what he described as “random rules.”
“On the one hand, [the iPhone has] been great, because now pretty much everyone in the world has a phone, and that’s kind of what enables pretty amazing things,” Zuckerberg said. “But on the other hand … they have used that platform to put in place a lot of rules that I think feel arbitrary and [I] feel like they haven’t really invented anything great in a while. It’s like Steve Jobs invented the iPhone, and now they’re just kind of sitting on it 20 years later.”
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Zuckerberg, who was slammed last week for ending “fact-checking” on Meta and was blessed with a bunch of outrageous fake headlines, continued digging into his rival, sharing he feels customers are no longer rushing to upgrade their iPhones is due to lack new features in new models, resulting in struggling sales of the once mighty smartphone.
“So how are they making more money as a company? Well, they do it by basically, like, squeezing people, and, like you’re saying, having this 30% tax on developers by getting you to buy more peripherals and things that plug into it,” Zuckerberg added. “You know, they build stuff like Air Pods, which are cool, but they’ve just thoroughly hamstrung the ability for anyone else to build something that can connect to the iPhone in the same way.”
Zuckerberg Feels Apple “Traps” Its Customers In Their Ecosystem
He further explained that the company that Jobs built avoided pushback from other companies by claiming its main goal was not to violate its customers’ privacy and security, a problem he feels could be fixed by Apple fixing its protocol and improving security by using better encryption.
Zuckerberg continued, “It’s insecure because you didn’t build any security into it. And then you’re using that as a justification for why only your product can connect easily.”
Mark Zuckerberg’s take on Apple. A must watch. I love Apple products. Always have. However, his take on how they haven’t come up with something truly innovative is spot on. A few examples:
1) AirPods Max 2 … they just added a USB-C charger. Other than that, it’s the same thing… pic.twitter.com/h6Z0bO2jCQ
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Mark Zuckerberg Shared His Opinion On The Failed Apple Vision Pro
Zuckerberg had more to say. He also discussed Apple’s current flop, the Apple Vision Pro. He did give them credit for their attempt at entering the VR space with its spatial computing device, but that’s as far as his compliments went.
“I think the Vision Pro is, I think, one of the bigger swings at doing a new thing that they tried in a while,” Zuckerberg said. “And I don’t want to give them too hard of a time on it, because we do a lot of things where the first version isn’t that good, and you want to kind of judge the third version of it. But I mean, the V1, it definitely did not hit it out of the park.”
He continued, “I heard it’s really good for watching movies.”
Well, damn.
He also added that “they shipped something for $3,500 that I think is worse than the thing that we shipped for $300 or $400.
Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan podcast, said that Apple Vision Pro is worse than the Meta Quest: ‘They shipped something for $3,500 that I think is worse than the thing that we shipped for $300 or $400.’ pic.twitter.com/W0T4G4gqCC
— Nathie (@NathieVR) January 13, 2025
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Users on X, formerly Twitter, have been reacting to Zuckerberg’s comments. Surprisingly, many agree with him but accuse him of not truly being innovative.
Mark Zuckerberg is correct here and I can also add that Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t created anything at all
He bought Instagram and some other app and stole The Facebook
He’s just Elon Musk that washes up every day https://t.co/Rd8bhhv6yv
— many nigga face god (@brantweezy) January 13, 2025
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1. Hmmmmmmm
3. Well damn
5. Some folks agree with Mark Zuckerberg
6. Truth hurts sometimes
8. Let Mark know how you really feel
10. S A L T Y
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Tyler Perry pointed out insurance companies’ failure to cover people who lost their homes in the wildfires in Los Angeles on social media.
As firefighters struggle to eradicate the wildfires plaguing Los Angeles since last week, many have pointed out how the insurance companies have opted not to cover those homeowners who’ve lost their homes. Filmmaker Tyler Perry joined those voices, expressing his anger at those companies in a social media post on Sunday (January 12). He began his post on Instagram by detailing one situation from the fires he saw first-hand. “Watching a daughter use a garden hose to try and protect her 90-year-old parents’ home because their insurance was canceled was just gut-wrenching to me,” he began.
The creator behind the popular “Madea” character continued: “Does anyone else find it appalling that insurance companies can take billions of dollars out of communities for years and then, all of a sudden, be allowed to cancel millions of policies for the very people they became rich on? People who have paid premiums all of their lives are left with nothing because of pure greed.”
He ended by declaring his intent to further support the communities affected by the fires. “As I am in the process of trying to figure out what steps to take to do all I can to help as many as I can, I am keeping everyone in my prayers,” Perry said.
The five wildfires that have sprung up, with the Eaton and Pacific Palisades fires being the most devastating, have forced the evacuation of over 100,000 from their homes. There are an estimated 1,626 homes in the Pacific Palisades that are without insurance after State Farm General announced it wouldn’t renew 30,000 policies in the state after they expired, blaming inflation and costs related to catastrophe exposure.
Other companies such as Allstate, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co., and the Trans-Pacific Insurance Co. also stopped providing home insurance policies. As other neighborhoods such as the historically Black middle-class community of Altadena are severely affected, the state is working to estimate the costs of the damage, which J.P. Morgan Chase analysts claim could be over $10 billion. Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said in a statement addressing the homeowner insurance issue that “Californians deserve a reliable insurance market that doesn’t retreat from communities most vulnerable to wildfires and climate change.” There have been no recent comments from his office.
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Priscilla Presley paid tribute to Lisa Marie Presley on Sunday (Jan. 12) on the second anniversary of her late daughter’s death. Next to an Instagram post featuring a picture of Lisa Marie crouching down, with a slight smile on her face, Priscilla wrote, “I miss you more than words can say. I wish I could hold you, talk to you, see your smile just one more time. I wish you could see how much you are still loved, how deeply you are missed by all of us who carry you in our hearts.”
The message cued to a lilting instrumental version of the 1972 Elvis hit “Always on My Mind” and signed “Mom,” was a poignant memorial for the late singer who died of a heart attack in January 2023 at age 54. Lisa Marie was the only child of Elvis Presley and Priscilla and she was buried at her father’s Graceland estate in Memphis next to Elvis and her son, Benjamin, who died by suicide in 2020.
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Lisa Marie’s daughter, Daisy Jones & the Six star Riley Keough, also marked the anniversary with a number of photos of her mom in an Instagram Story, including one of a smiling Lisa Marie tending to her twins with second husband Michael Lockwood, daughters Finely and Harper (which was originally posted by half-sister Finley), with the caption “2 years [heart emoji] i love you always.”
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In a second slide posted by Harper of Lisa Marie holding the twins, Harper wrote, “I can’t believe it’s been 2 years, I miss you and love you so much mama [heart, dove emoji].” Keough helped finish Lisa Marie’s posthumous memoir, October 2024’s From Here to the Great Unknown, working from a draft her mom began working on before her death.
In an interview with People last year promoting the book, Keough said that though her mom’s death was initially attributed to a small-bowel obstruction Lisa Marie suffered several years after weight loss-related bariatric surgery, she said her passing had a more emotional anchor as well.
“My mom tried her best to find strength for me and my younger sisters after Ben died, but we knew how much pain she was in,” Keough said of Presley, who struggled to deal with Benjamin’s death at age 27. “My mom physically died from the after effects of her surgery, but we all knew she died of a broken heart,” said Keough. The memoir also featured the shocking revelation that Lisa Marie was so overcome with grief about Ben’s death that she kept his body packed in dry ice in her home for two months.
Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga’s “Die With a Smile” holds strong at No. 1. Tetris Kelly:This is the Billboard. Hot 100 top 10 for the week dated Jan. 18th. Down to 10 is “Espresso,” as is “I Had Some Help” to No. 9, and “That’s So True” to eight, Kendrick and SZA are still at […]