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Universal Music Group, in partnership with UMusic Hospitality & Lifestyle division, has announced the opening of two new UMusic Shop locations in New York and London.  The Shops offer exclusive custom collections and pieces inspired by UMG’s artists, songwriters and labels, and also provide fans with dedicated locations for exclusive experiences. The New York location is right next to the entrance of Madison Square Garden, and the London store is deep in the heart of Camden Market, the city’s legendary music and arts hub. UMusic Shop NY opens today, Wednesday, December 10, at 2 Penn Plaza, becoming UMG’s first permanent brick-and-mortar superfan retail experience in North America. The store features a wide selection of vinyl and multiple merch offers from artists like Oli...

Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers. You may like NYT Connections today (game #914) - today's words (Image credit: New York Times)Today's NYT Connections words are…QUESERABUNNYEARSQUEUEDEVILGNOMEGRILLSEARBOWLELLEJACKETSHEDAREARESSPRINKLERNYT Connections toda...

The runtime for the Avengers: Doomsday teaser trailer reportedly dropping this week has seemingly been revealed.Per data from the Korean Media Rating Board, the trailer will clock in at just under 90 seconds, at one minute and 25 seconds.The trailer is expected to play before screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash, which arrives in theaters on December 19. That's almost exactly a year before Doomsday's release date, which is teasing things way further in advance than is usual for the MCU (by contrast, Infinity War and Endgame's first trailers dropped just six and five months before those movies' respective releases). You may like Filming on the new movie wrapped in September, so there should be plenty of footage to work with for a potential teaser. It's likely that Marvel will be keeping it...

NEW YORK CITY - The music diva of all music divas has been announced as the headliner for the biggest annually televised New Year’s Eve celebration.Motown great, Diana Ross, will help illuminate Times Square and usher in the new year with a live performance as the headliner for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.”The show, airing on December 31st on ABC, kicks off at 8:00 p.m. ET and runs through 4:00 a.m. with 39 music artists performing from New York City, Las Vegas, Chicago, Puerto Rico and more.“Together we begin a new year. Let’s embrace a new beginning, new opportunities, new joy — a celebration of love, where we all come together as we begin 2026,” Diana Ross said.Here is the star-studded lineup of performers:4 Non Blondes, 50 Cent, 6lack, AJR, BigXthaPlug, Chan...

Mario’s never been a stranger to sports. But during the Nintendo GameCube era, the popular Italian plumber seemed more familiar scoring points on a field or court than he was jumping from platform to platform.While there’s no shortage of fantastic sports spin-offs starring Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom friends, one of them reigned supreme for the pure fun factor. In 2005, Super Mario Strikers saw Mario finally taking to soccer, one of the few sports he hadn’t yet conquered, creating one of the most timeless pick-up-and-play experiences in all of gaming.Like any great Mario sports game, Strikers is focused squarely on taking the real-life, high-stakes actual sport and making it an approachable good time that anyone can enjoy. Strikers turns the 11-on-11 sport into a more readable five-on-f...

San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle is known to have one of the best personalities in the NFL, but football fans might have a different opinion after a recent interview conducted with the veteran pass catcher.The 49ers star was recently asked by NFL reporter Jordan Schultz about his favorite sports movies of all time. However, while his top 5 movies certainly included some fan favorites there will also some big names left off of his personal rankings.RELATED: NFL International Series reveals new locations for future games abroadGeorge Kittle went the classic route with Denzel Washington’s Remember the Titans as his number one pick, while Cars, Happy Gilmore, Friday Night Lights and Miracle rounded out the top five.#49ers TE George Kittle ranked his top five all-time sports movies:1...

I've recently been putting some systems together on behalf of some friends for Christmas presents, and getting hold of just the RAM alone has been a bit of a nightmare. Trying to find the DDR5 6000MHz memory kits you want on sale, in stock, or priced less than a black-market kidney has been difficult. Twice, already, I've recommended buying a prebuilt PC (which is not something I'd normally do when building them myself) as individual kits are bumping up the price of a PC build by hundreds of dollars. In contrast, prebuilt gaming PCs seem to be absorbing the RAM price increases, so far anyway, and this is basically the case with today's spotlighted deal. MSI's Codex R2 gaming PC is just $929, unbelievable value in the current climate. The MSI Codex R2 gaming PC features very decent compone...

In our eyes and to our ears, there’s no better family of musical genres to usher in the holiday season than roots music. Bluegrass, Americana, old-time, country, blues, and beyond – they’re all perfectly suited for the coziest time of year, for togetherness, for parties and gift giving and cookie icing. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Winter Solstice – or even if you feel like opting out of the ruckus altogether – there is roots music for you.Each year, we like to share our picks for the rootsiest time of the year in BGS Wraps, a weekly collection of songs, videos, albums, shows, tours, and events that celebrate the season. We share a few of our favorites, mostly brand new but often classics and timeless selections, too. Plus, we collect all that we can into a runnin...

Two Sundays ago, I booted up my PlayStation 5 excited to watch a new, previously unreleased chapter from Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” saga. But instead of opening up Amazon, Netflix, YouTube or any of the dozen streamers that live on my PlayStation, I opened Fortnite. That’s because for the first time in the history of the free-to-play cross-platform game, Fortnite was the launch platform for this exclusive new Tarantino short. You heard that right. Oscar-winning, indie trailblazing auteur Quentin Tarantino and Fortnite, the shooter video game that has Gen Alpha (and beyond) enthralled. The unlikely pairing is the latest example of Hollywood cozying up to the video game industry. Last year, Disney announced a $1.5 billion investment in Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite. T...

Bruce Houghton from Bandsintown, Hypebot, the Skyline Artists agency and Berklee joins Michael Bandvold and Jay Gilbert on a new Music Biz Weekly Podcast to talk about touring, the American Music Fairness Act and more.Houghton shares how Skyline Artists is closing down after 35 years. Together they dive into the the new realities of touring and he offers his advice to artists.The three also dive into the American Music Fairness Act which would require US terrestrial radio stations to finally pay the performers of the songs broadcast. Right now radio only pays the songwriters and not the actual performers. Internet radio and streaming pay both.Watch and listen here or on your favorite podcast platform. FIND MORE FROM MUSIC BIZ WEEKLY & OTHER GREAT MUSIC BUSINESS AND INDIE MUSICIAN PODC...