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The Bose SoundLink Max Portable Speaker is now available! It offers high-quality sound, up to 20 hours of battery life, and is also water and dust resistant. It’s available in Blue Dusk and Black for $399 on Bose’s website, Walmart, Best Buy and QVC. (It’s currently out of stock in black, but there are only a few left in blue.)
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Although this speaker may be small in size, it supports high-definition audio, meaning it captures more detailed sound with clarity. From beach parties to backyard barbecues, this speaker ensures your sound is great wherever you go.
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This one-of-a-kind sound system also lets you use the speaker itself to charge your phone while listening to music. So when your phone battery is running low, all you have to do is plug it in to the USB-C port to charge it up.
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Bose SoundLink Max Portable Speaker
$399
$399.99
$399.99
$399
With this portable speaker, you can adjust the sound to your liking. According to the brand, you can personalize your audio with its adjustable EQ settings available in the Bose app, where you can customize the balance of different frequency ranges (bass, midrange and treble) in your audio playbook.
Not only is this a savvy wireless speaker, but its also comes with a built-in comfy rope-design handle, making it easy to carry with you wherever you go.
If you are looking for a hands-free experience, consider getting the Bose SoundLink Max Rope Carrying Strap designed for this portable speaker. It’s an easy throw-over-the-shoulder option, if you don’t want to carry anything with you.
For more product recommendations, check out these alternative bluetooth speakers, this viral mini karaoke machine with LED lights and best over-ear headphones for all music lovers.
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It’s time to get glossy with Glossier. The beauty brand’s viral lip balm is 50% off — but you have only one more day to shop the limited sale.
Beauty lovers can get The Balm DotCom Quintet for just $25 (regularly $50) during the online-only sale, which ends on Friday (May 17) at 5 a.m. ET.
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Glossier’s Balm Dotcom Quintet features a collection of four hydrating lip balms made with castor jelly to help draw and lock in moisture, and synthetic beeswax acting as “a moisture barrier,” according to the website. The lip balm is available in different flavors such as berry, wild fig, rose, birthday, coconut, lavender, mint, mango and original.
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Unfortunately, the new Strawberry Balm Dotcom ($14), Balm Dotcom Trio and Fresh-Faced Set are excluded from the sale, but individual balms are on sale for $7. (The discount will be applied at checkout.)
In other Glossier news, the brand will open a Las Vegas store at the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace on Thursday. “Drawing inspiration from the dazzling lights of the iconic Strip and the playful buttons on slot machines, we’re bringing a retro-futuristic twist to the Glossier shopping experience with our newest home,” reads a message on Glossier’s Instagram account. There’s a secret selfie room and exclusive merch, including baby T-shirts and boxers. ($5 from each sale will go to support the charity Wild West Fund Nevada.)
Glossier stores are located in several other cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, D.C., London, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia and Seattle.
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Green Day wants to bring their “Saviors” tour to your tastebuds with a curated K-Cup coffee collection with Keurig.
Even if you can’t score a travel deal to see the rock band live, Green Day wants to make sure you can still experience their tour through their exclusive Punk Bunny Coffee drop, which is available to shop now on Keurig.com.
There are four flavors within the collection: “Father of All…Dark Roasts,” “Soundcheck,” “Last Ride In” and “Light Club.” The flavor names are each inspired by a Green Day song or tour ritual, and the band says the flavors are meant to embody feelings you would feel while watching the tour (think: pumped up, excited, etc.). Right now, you can score 35% off the speciality coffees when you use the code SPECIALTY35 at checkout on Keurig.com.
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Father of All Dark Roasts Coffee
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These Green Day K-Cups feature a dark roast coffee made from Sumatran beans, with smokey, dark chocolate, caramel and earthy notes. You can choose between 10, 20, 60 or 80 pods and if you’d like a one-time purchase or subscribe to have them automatically delivered on a monthly basis.
Soundcheck Coffee
The Soundcheck coffee is another dark roast option made from organic, fair-trade beans from Central America. You can expect flavors of smoky dark chocolate and spices to help put a pep in your step during the day.
Last Ride In Coffee
Last Ride In Coffee is a medium dark roast brew made with beans from Central and South America. Notes you can expect to taste include caramelized sugar and lemon for a smooth and easy sip.
Light Club Coffee
And for light roast fans, there is the Light Club Coffee, which is made from an organic blend of beans from Central and South America. The flavor profile includes hints of spice, cocoa and a little citrus to pair with a smooth texture.
Green Day was especially excited to put together a curated collection that can help fans “get hopped up” before the show.
“I’m stoked to be an owner of a very cool specialty coffee roasting company here in the U.S. and grateful for our co-owners and the amazing people who help us blend badass coffee just how we like it,” said Billie Joe Armstrong in a press release. “It’s going to be a big year for Green Day. We’ll be playing shows across the globe and Punk Bunny coffee will be fueling the way, backstage and on our busses.”
As one of the biggest tours happening this year, you can still score last minute tickets to see the “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” band live and in person through Ticketmaster, StubHub, Vivid Seats (get $20 off orders of $200 with code BB2024) and Seat Geek (first purchases can get $10 off orders of $250+ with code BILLBOARD10).
As for the Green Day x Keurig coffee collab, even if you’re not a caffeine drinker yourself, this collection will make a great gift for coffee lovers or music fans in your life.
For more product recommendations, check out our roundups of the best coffee mugs, musician cookbooks and cookware deals.
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We’re just a few weeks away from once again getting swept up in the fantasy world of violence, dragons and weird incest when House of the Dragon premiers on HBO. To further amp up anticipation, we’ve gotten a new trailer showing us what we can expect in the second season of the hit HBO series.
Picking up where Season 1 left off, we see that King Aegon sits upon on the iron throne as he plots his revenge on his enemies while a civil war seems to be brewing amongst the Targaryns. Fans were asked to chose between the Black and Green councils just a few months ago. With King Aegon and Queen Rhaenyra ready to duke it out for the Iron Throne, Daemon Targaryen seems to be calculating his next move while dragons run rampant and war is on the horizon.
Though we all know how this ends thanks to the events of Game of Thrones (that last season was still trash), this new season of House of the Dragon promises to be filled with violence, plot twists, and of course, lots of fire breathing dragon action.
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Check out the trailer for the second season of House of the Dragon, and let us know what your expectations are in the comments section below.
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President Joe Biden and Donald Trump may be facing off in a debate as early as this summer, but there may be some obstacles due to a request for new rules.
According to reports, President Joe Biden has signaled that he’s ready to debate Donald Trump at least twice before the elections take place in November and as early as June. These wishes were expressed in a letter sent by Biden’s reelection campaign committee to the Commission on Presidential Debates. However, President Biden has expressed in the letter that he would decline to take part in the three scheduled general debates which were set for Sept. 16, Oct. 1 and Oct. 9. The letter also cites that the commission “was unable or unwilling to enforce the rules in the 2020 debates.” It also blasted the commission for allowing Trump to take part in that debate while ill – Trump would later declare that he had tested positive for COVID-19.
The decision is a bold departure for President Biden, who has dedicated his career to preserving the institutions of the nation’s government. The letter, signed by campaign chair Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, also proposes negotiating with television networks like ABC, NBC, and Telemundo directly to host that first debate and a second “in early September at the start of the fall campaign season, early enough to influence early voting, but not so late as to require the candidates to leave the campaign trail in the critical late September and October period,” O’Malley Dillon writes. They also call for new rules such as the cutting of microphones when a candidate goes over and no in-house audiences.
The potential new rules would be a major sticking point for Trump, who played to the audience in his debate appearances. Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, representatives for Trump are in accord with avoiding the Commission on Presidential Debates, issuing their statement on May 1: “We must host debates earlier than ever before,” they said. “Again, we call on every television network in America that wishes to host a debate to extend an invitation to our campaign and we will gladly negotiate with the Biden campaign, with or without the stubborn Presidential Debates Commission.” They reason that Biden is slower than in 2020 mentally, and Trump’s lead in key battleground states in the polls.
Cardi B is deeply unhappy with the state of political affairs, inside and out of the United States. And in a new Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (May 6), the rapper goes as far as denouncing President Joe Biden for his administration’s involvement in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, as well as the issues she sees happening here at home.
While addressing America’s ongoingfinancial aid to the Israeli military, as well as Ukraine’s military efforts against Russia, Cardi told the publication, “[America] don’t pay for endless wars for countries that have been going through s–t for a very long time.”
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“There’s countries [where] kids are getting killed every single day, but because the [U.S.] won’t benefit from that country, they won’t help,” she continued. “I don’t like that America has this superhero cape on. We never did things to be superheroes. We did things for our own convenience.”
Since Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on Oct. 7 – taking about 250 hostages and killing an estimated 1,200 – Israel and Hamas have been engaged in a deadly war. According to the Associated Press, more than 34,500 Palestinians have been killed, while ABC News reports that an estimated 1,700 people in Israel have been killed. Reuters reported on May 14 that Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani had said talks of a ceasefire in Gaza had reached a stalemate due to Israel’s operations in Rafah.
As for average Americans’ economic struggles on the home front, the “WAP” rapper says she feels “layers and layers of disappointment” about Biden’s inaction. “I feel like people got betrayed,” she said. “It’s just like, ‘Damn, y’all not caring about nobody.’ Then, it really gets me upset that there is solutions to it. There is a solution. I know there’s a solution because you’re spending billions of dollars on any f–king thing.”
The interview comes just six months ahead of the 2024 presidential election, during which Biden will once again run against the twice-impeached former president Donald Trump. Leading up to the former’s victory against the latter in 2020, Cardi both interviewed and endorsed the current POTUS, telling SiriusXM at the time, “It’s either we go with Joe Biden or Donald Trump … I have spoken to Joe Biden before. I think he gets it. I don’t know if it’s sympathize, but I think that he understands what we want. I think he understands that what we want are simple things.”
But now? “I don’t f–k with both of y’all n—-s,” she said of Biden and Trump.
See Cardi B’s Rolling Stone cover and photos from the shoot below.
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Two heavyweight champions clash during Ring of Fire on Saturday, May 18. British boxer and WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (34-0-1) battles Ukrainian fighter and WBA, WBO and IBF heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk (21-0) in a boxing bout for the undisputed title.
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Ring of Fire: Fury vs Usyk takes place at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, starting at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT.
Want to watch the Fury vs. Usyk fight online? This is a pay-per-view event, and it’s streaming on DAZN and ESPN+, so the only way to watch it is to purchase the PPV feed here.
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The Fury vs. Usyk PPV price is $69.99 for DAZN subscribers. If you’re not a subscriber, then you can get access and the first month of the streaming service for free (afterward, it’s $29.99 per month) with the DAZN monthly pass. In addition, if you’d like to go for an annual subscription, you can still get the first month for free ($19.99 per month afterwards) for $289.88 in total with the service’s 12-month contract.
With DAZN, you get more than 100 live fights per year, fight replays, highlights, documentaries and other perks. Learn more about a DAZN subscription here.
Ring of Fire: Fury vs. Usyk PPV event is also livestreaming for $69.99 on ESPN+ for subscribers only (altogether it’s $80.98).
If you’re not a subscriber, you can get ESPN+ monthly for $10.99, or pick up an ESPN+ annual subscription for $109.99. The annual subscription bundle is the best deal because it saves you nearly 20% overall.
Additionally, you can get the Disney Trio — which includes ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+ — starting at $14.99 per month.
However, if you just want the PPV of the Fury vs. Usyk match without a DAZN or ESPN+ subscription, you can just purchase the event straight up for $69.99.
Check out the full fight card below, and livestream Fury vs. Usyk on pay-per-view here.
Ring of Fire: Fight Card, 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT
Tyson Fury (champion) vs. Oleksandr Usyk (champion) (Heavyweight) — Main Event, undisputed heavyweight championship
Jai Opetaia vs. Mairis Briedis (Cruiserweight) — IBF cruiserweight title
Joe Cordina (champion) vs. Anthony Cacace (Super Featherweight) — IBF super featherweight title
Frank Sanchez vs. Agit Kabayel (Heavyweight)
Moses Itauma vs. Ilija Mezencev (Heavyweight)
Mark Chamberlain vs. Joshua Wahab (Lightweight)
Sergey Kovalev vs. Robin Sirawn Safar (Light Heavyweight)
Daniel Lapin vs. Octavio Pudivtr (Light Heavyweight)
David Nyika vs. Michael Seitz (Cruiserweight)
Isaac Lowe vs. Hasibullah Ahmadi (Featherweight)
Ring of Fire: Fury vs. Usyk is streamable on DAZN on Saturday, May 18, at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT.
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A documentary chronicling the murderous terror attack on the Nova Music Festival in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 will debut on Paramount+. The streamer announced on Thursday (May 16) that the See It Now Studios Original Documentary We Will Dance Again will get a worldwide premiere in the fall, a year after the surprise assault […]
The first trailer for It Ends With Us starring Blake Lively has arrived, featuring a musical cameo from none other than the actress’ good friend Taylor Swift. The pop star’s “My Tears Ricochet” is heavily featured throughout the two-minute clip that arrived Thursday (May 16). The visual finds Lively’s character, Lily Bloom, fall in love […]
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Going to the gym is no longer the only option if you want to workout — there are a ton of great online workout subscription programs that’ll help you put your at-home fitness equipment to good use. Instead of waiting for Peloton sales or splurging on private trainers, virtual fitness apps like Apple Fitness+ are bringing the gym straight to you for a more affordable price, with a library full of classes taught by professional instructors, among other benefits.
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The price for Apple Fitness+ is normally $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year, but with current promos and offers going on, you can score up to four months of Apple Fitness+ for free. With a membership to the app you’ll get complete access to yoga, HIIT and meditation classes as well as curated workout programs and playlists. Share Apple Fitness+ with up to five family members too.
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Keep reading to learn more about the best Apple Fitness+ deals going on now.
How to Get Apple Fitness+ for Free
To help you score the fitness app for free, ShopBillboard rounded up the best Apple Fitness+ offers available that’ll help you get as much as four months of the service for free.
New Subscriber Offer
Already own an Apple device? If you haven’t used Apple Fitness+ before, then new users are eligible for one month of the service for free — no promo code needed. All you have to do is open up the app on your device and sign up, then you’ll automatically receive the free trial. Once your one month trial is over, you’ll be charged $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year.
Apple Device Offer
Purchasing a new Apple device including an iPhone, MacBook, Apple Watch or iPad will earn you three months of Apple Fitness+ for free. You’ll need to purchase a new device on the Apple store in order to score the deal, but once you checkout you’ll automatically be able to redeem the three-month free trial. After the three months are up, you’ll be charged the regular monthly or annual subscription price.
Best Buy Apple Fitness+ Offers
Best Buy has a couple of Apple Fitness+ deals that you can take advantage of if you’re an Apple Watch user. For those who already own an Apple Watch, you can score two months of Apple Fitness+ free when you add the offer to your cart. After the two free months are up, you’ll be charged based on the membership you choose.
Don’t have an Apple Watch? Best Buy is giving four months of Apple Fitness+ for free when you purchase any Apple Watch online. When you buy one of the devices you’ll be emailed a promo code that you can use to score the deal. After your free trial is up, you’ll be charged for a monthly or annual membership.
What Is Apple Fitness+?
Apple Fitness+ is Apple’s version of a virtual gym providing you with professional led classes including pilates, cycling, kickboxing depending on your health goals. A custom fitness plan can be curated for you just by inputting what days of the week, duration and music type you want. Besides offering workout classes, the app goes in-depth with a collection of videos filled with trainer tips to help motivate you with advice and how-to demos.
The vast library also comes with pre-built programs that are curated based on your health and wellness goals including “Workouts for Beginners,” “Yoga for Every Runner,” “Meditations for When You Feel Stress or Anxiety” and more. You can check out the app’s “Collections” section for more curated workouts, including one that’ll help prep you to run your first 5K, along with 90s-themed dance classes.
And, if you don’t want to listen to silence during your morning walks or daily runs, then there are playlists filled with audio stories, music playlists and more. Have an artist you love? Make sure to check out the dedicated playlists to legends like Madonna, Bad Bunny and even Elton John.
The app can be used with any Apple device including an iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple TV and Apple Watch. It also works with AirPlay compatible smart TVs, so you can mirror the workouts from your iOS device right onto your TV screen.
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