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Comedian Marc Maron said the cost to use a Taylor Swift song in his standup special was “doable” within limits. Maron said on Vulture’s recent “Good One” podcast that the sum he paid was for “up to a minute” of her 2022 song “Bigger Than The Whole Sky.” “I think it came out to $50K, around that. … I did …

LOS ANGELES — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. Longtime friend David Herder said Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He did not specify a cause of …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97. Longtime friend David Herder said Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He did not specify …

As John Cena’s Christopher Smith gets an upgrade with a parallel dimension in the forthcoming second season of the HBO Max/DC Studios’ Peacemaker, so will its soundtrack. Following James Gunn’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con previewing the sophomore installment — at the famed Hall H and prime Saturday evening spot of the weekend — the Superman helmer took to the …

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At band’s first gig since accidentally exposing a workplace affair, singer lets fans know “we’re gonna use our cameras and put some of you on the big screen” Chris Martin jokingly warned fans about Coldplay’s “The Jumbotron Song” during the band’s first concert since capturing a now-infamous moment at a Boston-area show earlier this week. “The Jumbotron Song” had been …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows a transneptunian object dancing in harmony with Neptune. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, …

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system objects called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). 2020 VN40 is the first object discovered that orbits the sun once for every ten orbits Neptune makes. …

Mark Savage Music Correspondent Getty Images Connie Francis sold millions of records, and was the first female recording artist to top the US Billboard Charts Connie Francis, who was at one time the world’s biggest-selling female artist, has died at the age of 87. The musician, whose hits included Stupid Cupid and Who’s Sorry Now, had recently enjoyed a resurgence …

Robert Plant has announced a new album called Saving Grace. His first full-length since the 2021 Alison Krauss team-up Raise the Roof is led by a new cover of Low’s “Everybody’s Song.” Listen to the former Led Zeppelin singer’s take on the Great Destroyer track below. Saving Grace is out September 26 via Nonesuch. Plant produced the album and he …