Ariana Grande Working on New Music

Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande revealed on Snapchat that she’s been working on new music. Christina Lee, writing at Idolator, has the details:

“Oh yeah, and I’m almost done with an album,” Ariana said. “I didn’t mean to make an album, and I don’t know if it’s done at all, but I just have a bunch of songs that I really like. I’ve just been working and creating and inspired.” Confused? So were fans. So Ariana hopped back onto Snapchat to clarify: “I didn’t mean to make you too excited. I didn’t mean to make you shit your pants.”

Twitter Rolls Out New Anti-Harassment Tools

Twitter

Twitter is finally rolling out some new anti-harassment tools. Buzzfeed has a good look at what probably would have been nice to have before Nazi-frogs took over the platform during the election:

As such, Twitter also announced it will add a new “hateful conduct” reporting option (when users report an “abusive or harmful” tweet, they’ll now see an option for “directing hate against a race, religion, gender, or orientation”). Similarly, the company is adding new “extensive” internal training for its support teams that deal with hateful harassment. According to the company, its Safety team support staff will undergo “special sessions on cultural and historical contextualization of hateful conduct” as well as refresher programs that will track how hate speech and abuse evolve on the platform (a necessary step, as many trolls have begun to create their own hateful code language with which to bypass traditional censors and filters).

Elvis Presley Documentary Coming to HBO

Elvis Presley

A career-spanning documentary on Elvis Presley will be coming to HBO.

Director Thom Zimny will helm the project based on a script by Alan Light; Zimny previously worked with HBO on a pair of Bruce Springsteen documentaries, 2015’s The Ties That Bind and 2010’s The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town.

Deadline reports that the documentary, which tracks Presley’s life from childhood to his final Jungle Room recording sessions in 1976, was made with the complete cooperation of the Presley estate.

Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties Put Albums Up as Pay What You Want

Aaron West

Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties have put all their music up on Bandcamp as “pay what you want” with all the proceeds going to the ACLU through November 28th.

Through November 28th, the entire Aaron West catalog is available for pay-what-you-want with all of the proceeds donated to the ACLU to help them in their fight to challenge the president elect if and when he attempts to implement any of his unconstitutional campaign promises. For more information, please visit ACLU.org

Bon Jovi Earns Sixth No. 1 Album

Bon Jovi has the number one album this week. Alicia Keys is at number two, the Trolls Soundtrack is at three.

Bon Jovi’s new album This House Is Not for Sale debuts atop the Billboard 200 chart, giving the rock band its sixth No. 1. The set earned 129,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 10, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 128,000 were in traditional album sales.

Sex Pistols About Talked About Writing New Music in 1996

Sex Pistols About Talked About Writing New Music in 1996

Apparently back in 1996, the Sex Pistols considered releasing new music. NME reports that the lone dissenter was John Lydon.

Matlock went on to reveal that he had been keen to write new music during their first reunion: “Back in 1996, there was a bit of talk about it. Me, Steve [Jones] and Paul [Cook] [wanted to] but John thought shy of it. I don’t know why, maybe he thought stuff that he’d written didn’t match up to [the past] and that [the band’s legacy] might be diminished by it somehow.”