Musical.ly is being sold for at least $800 million. Recode reports:
The deal hasn’t closed yet, but Bloomberg pegs the price at $800 million, while the Wall Street Journal puts it at “$800 million to $1 billion”, which is the range I’ve heard. Without a public disclosure of the price, you’re generally safe betting on the lower number on deals like these, and assuming that the bigger number includes hard-to-hit earnout targets.
Days Away’s fantastic debut, Mapping an Invisible World, has been brought back to Spotify and Apple Music.
If you’ve never given this album a spin, I highly recommend it.
Martha have dropped off of their UK shows with Brand New.
Direct Hit have begun recording a new album.
No Use for a Name’s More Betterness has been given a re-press on vinyl via Fat Wreck Chords.
Rick Rubin and Malcom Gladwell have teamed up for a new podcast called Broken Record. The first episode contains an interview with Eminem.
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Of Mice and Men have released a video for “Warzone.”
Agnostic Front have released a trailer for their upcoming documentary The Godfathers of Hardcore.
Real Friends are on the latest episode of the Rock Sound podcast.
Butch Walker’s new holiday album is now up on Apple Music and Spotify.
St. Vincent recently performed “Los Ageless” on Ellen.
Eminem has released his new single “Walk on Water” featuring Beyoncé.
Variety is reporting that a live action Star Wars TV series will be coming to Disney’s new streaming service:
Disney chairman-CEO Bob Iger announced the “Star Wars” news during the company’s quarterly earnings call. In addition to the “Star Wars” TV series, Disney is working on TV series adaptations of Pixar’s “Monsters Inc.,” the Disney Channel’s “High School Musical” franchise and an original entry from Marvel.
Taylor Swift debuted “New Year’s Day” on ABC during Scandal last night. You can watch the performance below.
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Bleachers’ MTV Unplugged session is now up on Spotify and Apple Music.