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When the temperatures outside start to drop, there’s no time of the year quite as exciting as beauty Advent calendar season. For beauty aficionados, it’s the first sign that Christmas is coming. One of the most popular Christmas countdowns this season comes from Cult Beauty. Following on from the success of the online beauty store’s previous sold out Advent calendars, the highly anticipated Cult Beauty Advent calendar for 2024 is bigger and better than ever. Retailing for $308 but worth over $1,400, the holiday gift is overflowing with beauty icons, from under-the-radar heroes to makeup’s biggest names and everything in between. Inside…
Welcome to a jacked edition of Executive Turntable, Billboard’s comprehensive(ish) compendium of promotions, hirings, exits and firings — and all things in between — across music. While you’re catching up on a busy week of moves-and-shakes, check out Billboard’s fresh list of top R&B and Hip-Hop executives leading the genres forward, plus our weekly interview series spotlighting a single executive, our helpful calendar of notable events across the biz, and a regularly updated gallery honoring many of the industry figures we’ve lost throughout the year. Industry veteran Jamie Younger joined The Core Records as the Nashville-based label’s new vp of artist…
On this week’s (Sept. 6) episode of the Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century podcast, we take a look at a pair of unpredictable pop powerhouses: K-pop icons BTS and R&B mystery man turned pop megahitmaker The Weeknd. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news First, host Andrew Unterberger is joined by Billboard director of music Jason Lipshutz and longtime K-pop correspondent Jeff Benjamin to talk all about the Bangtan Boys. We cover the group’s rise to stardom in its home country of South Korea — and the stylistic and thematic differences that…
Grab that Freddy Krueger sweater, queue up the Halloween music and wipe the cobwebs off your Jason hockey mask. Spooky Season is approaching, and to help get those spines tingling, the Boulet Brothers are gearing up to release a new musical project. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news On Oct. 4, the Boulet Brothers will release The Boulet Brothers Halloween House Party via PEG Records. The seasonal six-track EP finds Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet combining their love of Halloween and horror with the retro musical sounds of ‘60s pop, surf music and…
As the California sunset paints the sky bright orange on a scorching August day, a caravan of luxury SUVs makes its way across the dirt roads outside Los Angeles that lead to Pico Rivera Sports Arena. When they arrive, the door of one pristine white Mercedes-Benz G-Class opens and 28-year-old Luis R Conriquez emerges. Clad in black jeans; a white, black and yellow-patterned button-down shirt; black boots; and a suede tejana adorned with feathers, he fits right in with the Instagram-ready aesthetic of the largely millennial crowd gathered here. The heavy silver chain resting on his chest is the only obvious…
Anthony Olivieri, ESPN.comSep 13, 2024, 08:00 AM ETSITTING IN THE visitors’ locker room after Game 6 of the 1988 NBA Finals, Detroit Pistons guard Isiah Thomas knew his badly injured ankle needed treatment. But the Los Angeles Lakers, who had just beaten the Pistons by a point, wouldn’t help. Not even with ice.As Thomas thought about Game 7, the door to the locker room swung open and in walked Mike Ornstein. Known as an NFL fixer, Ornstein had been former coach John Madden’s gofer before being promoted to the executive suite, where he worked for Al Davis, owner of the…
As the California sunset paints the sky bright orange on a scorching August day, a caravan of luxury SUVs makes its way across the dirt roads outside Los Angeles that lead to Pico Rivera Sports Arena. When they arrive, the door of one pristine white Mercedes-Benz G-Class opens and 28-year-old Luis R Conriquez emerges. Clad in black jeans; a white, black and yellow-patterned button-down shirt; black boots; and a suede tejana adorned with feathers, he fits right in with the Instagram-ready aesthetic of the largely millennial crowd gathered here. The heavy silver chain resting on his chest is the only obvious…
Prince Harry has something to say. The polarizing quasi Royal will turn 40 years old on September 15, perhaps the most significant birthday in a person’s life. How is he feeling just days ahead of this milestone? Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, and his wife Meghan Markle pose for a picture with Colombia’s former Education Minister Aurora Vergara and other participants, at the end of the “Afro women and power” forum, at the Municipal Theatre in Cali, Colombia, on August 18, 2024. (Photo by RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP via Getty Images) “I was anxious about 30, I’m excited about 40,” Harry…
Late Night With The Devil has been named the best horror film of 2024. READ MORE: ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ review: Jenna Ortega reanimates Tim Burton’s undead classic The movie, which came out in March, comes from directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes and stars David Dastmalchian as a late night talk show host who invites an apparently possessed girl onto his TV show. It topped review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes‘ best horror movies of the year so far list with a 97 per cent approval rating. It was closely followed in second place by Oddity from Irish writer/director Damian McCarthy, who previously wrote and directed 2020’s…
Four years ago, Army Specialist Vanessa Guillén was brutally murdered by a fellow soldier at Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos), Texas. Guillén’s death attracted national attention, shining a spotlight on sexual harassment and assault within the armed forces as well as how disappearances of military personnel are handled. Following a high-profile independent review, the Army announced “substantial changes to its policies, structures, and processes.” One of the Army’s “major accomplishments” was the overhaul of its “missing soldier protocols” — initiating new regulations regarding searches for absent personnel, contacting local law enforcement, communicating with troops’ next of kin, listing those who…