Taylor Swift's 'New Year's Day' Serviced to Country Radio

The old Taylor may not be able to come to the phone right now, but that doesn't mean you won't hear new music from Swift on country radio. In fact, a new track from her recently released sixth album Reputation, "New Year's Day," was just serviced to country radio by Swift's label Big Machine Records.

While previously Reputation tracks, like lead single "Look What You Made

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Nintendo Accounted for Two-Third of All Consoles Sold in October in U.S.

Nintendo game systems made up two-third of all video game hardware sold in the United States in October, the company announced today citing sales-tracking group NPD.

The Nintendo Switch was the top console in October in the U.S., according to those figures. The number two console was the retro, all-in-one system the Super NES Classic Edition. Along with sales for the Nintendo 3DS

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Facebook Launching New Services for Creators

Two new services are releasing for Facebook Creators to help them build bigger audiences and gain resources necessary to build their brand, Facebook announced today.

The first announcement is the Facebook Creator App which will allow Creators to make new content for the social media site with only a cellphone. Here's what's coming with the app:

Live Creative Kit:

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Watch Radiohead's Phil Selway Join Ringo Starr for Beatles Classic

Radiohead drummer Phil Selway joined Ringo Starr and the All Starr Band for a performance of

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Kinky Friedman on the Night Bob Dylan, Jack Nicholson Crashed His Wild House Party

Kinky Friedman has performed with Bob Dylan, traveled with Led Zeppelin and partied with John Belushi. When his cocaine habit nearly killed him, he returned to Texas and wrote 30 books, including 18 detective novels and memoirs featuring Willie Nelson and Billy Bob Thornton. More than 547,000 Texans voted for him when he ran for governor in 2006, and bosom buddies Willie Nelson, Jimmy

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Vivendi Promises Not To Buy Ubisoft in Next Six Months

Massive French multimedia company Vivendi today promised it won't try to buy Assassin's Creed and Rainbow Six developer and publisher Ubisoft or wrest control of the company for the next six months.

But in the same third-quarter earnings report, Vivendi

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'Generation Oxy': Inside New True Crime Memoir

It's Saturday night and Blake Shelton's "Redneck Girl" echoes throughout a country dance club in Tampa, Florida. Seventeen-year-old Douglas Dodd and his friends from Hudson High are snorting oxycodone pain pills and drinking rum. A bouncer spots the teenagers and escorts them outside, where he denies their fake drivers licenses. A county sheriff's cruiser pulls up to the club and Dodd's

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The Rope: The Forgotten History of Rock's Early, Segregated Days

One night in the late 1950s, the Flamingos' bus pulled up to a concert hall in Birmingham, Alabama, and a row of 30 to 50 police officers holding rifles and billy clubs was waiting for them. The cops escorted the six-member doo-wop group, famous for "I Only Have Eyes for You" and "The Ladder of Love," to its dressing room and gave strict instructions: As black performers, they were to make eye

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Inside the New Grateful Dead Musical

Musical-theater productions tend to gestate for long periods, but Red Roses, Green Gold, the Off-Broadway show featuring the music of the Grateful Dead that opened in October, still seems like a special case. Playwright Michael Norman Mann first had the idea for the show when he attended a Dead gig in the

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Hear Kelleigh Bannen's Swampy Take on 'Deck the Halls'

The week before Thanksgiving is a seasonally appropriate time to dust off the Christmas carols, and it's also a welcome moment to hear new music from Kelleigh Bannen, one of Nashville's most promising country voices and one held up in Music Row limbo for far too long. Bannen's versions of two holiday classics – "Deck the Halls" and "O Holy Night" – combine both these things, bringing her

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Al Franken Agrees to Ethics Investigation After Groping Accusation

Minnesota senator Al Franken said he would cooperate with an ethics investigation after radio/TV host Leeann Tweeden accused the then-comedian of "forcibly" kissing and groping her without

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Black Friday: PS4 Pro for $350 Hits This Thanksgiving

It's been a relatively thin year for solid Black Friday deals and unfortunately, the news out of today's leaked GameStop Black Friday ad doesn't improve things by much.

At the top of the heap, though, is what we believe to be the only price cut for the PlayStation 4 Pro to date. The video game retailer is listing the

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Watch Macklemore's Uplifting Performance of 'Corner Store' on 'Fallon'

Macklemore enlisted the help of DJ Premier and two budding Seattle rappers, Dave B and Travis Thompson, for a delightful performance of "Corner Store" on The Tonight Show Wednesday. The track appears on Macklemore's latest

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Tim McGraw, Faith Hill Preview New Country Music Hall of Fame Exhibit

Country power couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill were on hand Wednesday night to preview "Tim McGraw & Faith Hill: Mississippi Woman, Louisiana Man," their new exhibit for media guests at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville.

Set to open to the public on November 17th, the new exhibit chronicles the remarkable careers and lives of both superstars, who grew up in

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Al Franken Accused of Forcibly Kissing, Groping Radio Host on USO Tour

Minnesota Senator Al Franken has been accused of groping radio/TV host and model Leeann Tweeden without her consent during a USO Tour in December 2006. At the time, Franken had yet to run for public office and was on the tour as a comedian.

Tweeden detailed her experience with Franken in a post for the Los Angeles

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Hear Steep Canyon Rangers' Plaintive New Song 'Going Midwest'

Steep Canyon Rangers aren't afraid to experiment with the tried-and-true forms of bluegrass, but on their latest song "Going Midwest," due to be included on their upcoming LP Out in the Open, the Grammy-winning group keeps things as spare as possible.

Written by banjo player Graham Sharp, "Going Midwest" was inspired by the closing scenes of The Great Gatsby when narrator

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Free DLC Coming Soon to 'Middle-earth: Shadow of War'

Five new DLC packs are coming soon to Middle-earth: Shadow of War, developer Monolith productions announced today. The new features and updates are all free and will be rolling out over the course of this month and December.

The first DLC update will be released on November 21st, with the remaining four coming out steadily until December 12th. For a rundown of what's coming

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Black Sabbath Reflect on 'The End': 'It Was So Weird Saying Goodbye'

It ended as it began – only bigger. Nearly 50 years after Black Sabbath formed in Birmingham, England, they played the final show of their farewell tour there this

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See Remy Ma, Lil Kim in Triumphant 'Wake Me Up' Video

Remy Ma spurns "fake-ass bitches" with Lil Kim in the glossy new clip for "Wake Me Up."

"Wake Me Up" is filled with contemptuous couplets aimed at unnamed liars and back-stabbers. "You a clown, and homey, don't play that shit/ See, they ain't slick, be talkin' all cray and shit," she raps, as a shiny

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Hear Joe Purdy, Amber Rubarth's Enchanting Duet From 'American Folk' Film

A musical cross-country journey in the wake of the September 11th attacks of 2001 is at the heart of a new, award-winning film called American Folk. Starring Joe Purdy and Amber Rubarth as two folk-playing musicians who meet after their plane is grounded in California, the film was shot in 14 states covering a 3,500-mile trip that the pair

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