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Sony, Warner and Universal sign AI music licensing deals with startup Klay
By Canadian Press on November 20th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — The world’s biggest music labels have struck AI licensing deals with a little-known startup named Klay Vision, the companies said Thursday, the latest in a series of deals that underlines how the technology is shaking up the music industry ’s business model. Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Wax Diana in ‘revenge dress’ is unveiled in Paris decades after her death in the city
By Canadian Press on November 20th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — Princess Diana returned to Paris in wax Thursday as one of Europe’s oldest wax museums unveiled a new figure of the British royal in the so-called “revenge dress,” decades after her tragic death in the city. The statue was ordered in Paris after the director of the Grevin Museum visited London and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian Omar El Akkad wins U.S. National Book Award for ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’
By Canadian Press on November 20th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, including Egyptian-Canadian novelist-journalist Omar El Akkad. The writer, who now lives in Oregon, received the non-fiction award for his fierce indictment of the contemporary West, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.” El Akkad told the gathering in New ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Movie Review: Brendan Fraser is a middling actor with a winning heart in sweet drama ‘Rental Family’
By Canadian Press on November 20th, 2025
It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say of an actor that he’s persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre actor. But then, this is Brendan Fraser we’re talking about. The man seems to become more emphatically human with each role, each passing year, each new wrinkle. And what’s more human, or at least more ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours ‘Til Dawn’ Tour grosses over $1 billion, Live Nation says
By Canadian Press on November 20th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — The Weeknd’s After Hours ‘Til Dawn Tour has officially crossed the $1 billion mark, according to Live Nation. The lengthy tour, which launched in Philadelphia in July 2022 and runs through September 2026, has officially grossed $1.004 billion with approximately 7.55 million tickets sold across 153 tour dates, the live entertainment ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!K-pop fans’ environmental activism comes to UN climate talks
By Canadian Press on November 20th, 2025
BELEM, Brazil (AP) — Fans of K-pop have an intensity that’s turned the music into a global phenomenon. Some are determined to channel that energy into action on climate change. Their push has been on display at United Nations climate talks in the city of Belem on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon, including costumed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Paris wax museum unveils new Diana figure in ‘revenge dress,’ decades after her death in the city
By Canadian Press on November 20th, 2025
PARIS (AP) — A wax museum in Paris on Thursday unveiled a new figure of the late Princess Diana depicted in a black dress that has come to be known as her “ revenge dress,” decades after her tragic death in the city. The Grevin Museum, one of Europe’s oldest wax museums, dressed the life-size ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Warner Music and AI startup Udio settle copyright battle and ink license deal
By Canadian Press on November 20th, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Warner Music Group resolved its copyright battle with Udio and signed a deal to work with the AI music startup on a new song creation service that will allow users to remix tunes by established artists. It’s the second agreement between a major record label and Udio, a chatbot-style song generation tool. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!On the world’s coldest stage, a military musician plays with a plastic horn and double gloves
By Canadian Press on November 19th, 2025
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — On the frozen edge of the world, staying in practice as a professional musician takes ingenuity, grit and a plastic instrument for schoolchildren that’s guaranteed not to freeze to your fingers or face. Natalie Paine is a French horn player in New Zealand ’s navy who since October has been ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Frida Kahlo self-portrait poised to shatter auction records
By Canadian Press on November 19th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo of her asleep in a bed could make history Thursday when it goes on sale by Sotheby’s in New York. With an estimated price of $40 million to $60 million, “El sueño (La cama)” – in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” — ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Lainey Wilson wins entertainer of the year at 2025 CMA Awards
By Canadian Press on November 19th, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — The top prize of entertainer of the year at the 2025 Country Music Association Awards went to none other than Lainey Wilson, who hosted, performed and barely left the stage Wednesday night. “It takes a village,” she said in her acceptance speech. “We about to party.” She beat out Luke Combs, ... Read More »
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