Gig

The Super Bowl will have to wait another year to have its first in-game DJ. On Thursday afternoon, just days before the big event, Tiësto announced his decision to pull out of the gig he had spent months preparing for due to a family emergency. In the new role, he was to be tasked with keeping the music going during the pre-game and game breaks. “Me and my team have been preparing something truly special for months, but a personal family emergency is forcing me to return home Sunday morning,” Tiësto posted on X…

When Halberstadt’s St Burchardi church opens its doors for a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience on Monday, some of the spectators streaming into the 11th-century building will have booked their tickets years in advance and crossed continents to get there. But don’t expect them to demand an encore.Because if one thing is certain about this concert, it’s that it won’t be over for a long, long time yet.Playing nonstop since September 2001, the performance of John Cage’s composition Organ²/ASLSP As Slow as Possible in an…

Gus Van Sant, the director of Good Will Hunting and a shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho might not seem like the sort who would be interested in directing a movie like Fifty Shades of Grey, but that was one directing job he was very interested in. He wanted the job so much that he decided to just go ahead and film a sex scene and use that as an audition piece, thinking that was the way to get attention.As ideas go, it’s not the worst. Van Sant tells THR that he thought filming a sex scene would show how…

Mention the name Chris Rock, and our immediate thoughts likely are going to turn to his stand up routines, his short stint on Saturday Night Live, or that unfortunate event at the Oscars. In the filmmaking community, though, Rock also has established himself as a director over the years, primarily focusing on comedies such as Top Five and Head of State but willing to branch out. Rock turned heads when he starred in a chapter of the Saw saga, and when he signed on the dotted line to direct a film about civil rights…

Last week, news broke that Madonna was being sued by two fans in New York who had bought tickets to a show at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn that didn’t begin until 10.30pm, two hours later than the advertised time, and didn’t end until about 1am.The lawsuit from Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden included the argument that “many ticketholders who attended concerts on a weeknight had to get up early to go to work and/or take care of their family responsibilities the next day”. The story was greeted with eye-rolling in…

Singer also formally announces new album Everything I Thought I Was with Benicio Del Toro-narrated trailer After spending the past week teasing a new album, Justin Timberlake returned to the stage Friday with a small hometown gig in Memphis, where the singer debuted a new song called “Selfish.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGzl4JXa3c The track — not to be confused with “Selfish” by Timberlake’s former group NSync — is believed to be the first single from the upcoming album Everything I…

Schematic model of randomization protocol implemented by SalesNow. Credit: Strategic Management Journal (2023). DOI: 10.1002/smj.3571 General skills training programs for those hired under flexible arrangements can strengthen the relationship between firm and worker, thus benefiting both groups. But for that to happen, the programs need to have strong buy-in from both managers and workers. …

"Lot a marshmallows, man. They’re delicious, but goddamn, they’re soft," comedian says of his award show audience. "Can we fucking laugh at ourselves?" Jo Koy poked fun at the “soft” celebrities who witnessed his Golden Globes monologue firsthand at the comedian’s first stand-up show since his disastrous turn as host of the award show. Taking the stage at St. Louis’ Stifel Theatre Friday, Koy first thanked his audience for welcoming him with a standing ovation following his rough week. “This big…

On May 12, 1976, Bob Dylan‘s Rolling Thunder Revue played a gig at the Municipal Auditorium in Austin, Texas, that left little historical mark. Newspaper clippings from the week reveal that furious fans protested with signs outside the hall (“Boycott Rolling Thunder Ripoff”) when they learned plans for separate early and late shows were scuttled at the last minute, creating a general admission melee where seat assignments were suddenly meaningless. But it’s one of the few shows from the 57-date Rolling Thunder Revue…

The US Department of Labor (DOL) published a final rule to the Federal Register on Wednesday that would increase the difficulty of classifying workers as independent contractors. If the rule survives court challenges unscathed, it will replace a business-friendly Trump-era regulation that did the opposite. It’s scheduled to go into effect on March 11.The new rule, first proposed in 2022, could have profound implications for companies like Uber and DoorDash that rely heavily on gig workers. It would mandate that workers…