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idobi News Flashes 12.17.20: CACTI, Ringo, Leonard Roberts, and Palmer


What a day of new movies, drinks, and music with friends. Check out what’s going on! Travis Scott Loves CACTI, Tequila, and Seltzer View this post on Instagram A post shared by flame (@travisscott) Travis Scott announced his latest business venture today on Instagram. The artist is partnering with Anheuser-Busch to release CACTI, his own brand of spiked seltzer. Inspired by his love of tequila, the drink contains 7% AVB and is made with blue agave. The initial launch will include three flavors: lime, strawberry, and pineapple. Catch them on the shelves in spring of 2021. – Ringo and His… Read more »

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idobi’s End Of The Year Countdown: Best Collaborations


Everyone needs a little help from their friends (especially on Monday). The well loved artists listed below all lent a hand to their equally talented cohorts for projects that had us screaming everything from “How the  hell  is that going to work?” to “Oh my god,  that’s  how,” to our online followers, friends, and blog subscribers. Check out the idobi staff’s favorite musical  teams  this year, and keep scrolling to find out which  collaboration won best of 2015. — 1. “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” – The Holidaze (John Feldmann, Joel Madden, Alex Gaskarth, Ashton Irwin, Pierre Bouvier) (Tom… Read more »

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FTC Approves Sony Purchase Of EMI Publishing


The Federal Trade Commission has approved a Sony-led consortium’s purchase of EMI Music Publishing, without having to make any divestitures, the FTC said on Friday.

U.S. antitrust regulators gave the nod to the $2.2 billion deal in a brief letter to the companies.

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Earth Gets Rocked, Live


Some of the world’s biggest names in music were all about Saving Our Selves this weekend. SOS, of course, referring to the campaign being touted Saturday across the globe at the seven-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concert extravaganza, a worldwide shout-out to individuals, political leaders, corporations and every other entity capable of helping put a stop to the environmental scourge that is global warming. In a partnership with Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection and other U.S.-based and international organizations, Live 8 executive producer Kevin Wall put together a bill that included the Police, Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica,… Read more »

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Republicans Not Warm to Gore's Live Earth Concert


Like Al Pacino in “The Godfather Part III,” just when eco warrior Al Gore thinks he’s pulled himself free of Washington, D.C.’s partisan politics, he gets pulled right back into the muck. Former Democratic Vice President Gore, one of the organizers behind the July 7 global-climate-crisis-awareness concert Live Earth , has run into opposition from Senate Republicans over his plans to have one of the eight worldwide shows take place in D.C. And, depending on who you believe, the objection to the concert is either a matter of simple parliamentary procedure or just politics as usual. Oklahoma Republican Senator James… Read more »

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Matchbox Twenty's Thomas Reveals His Solo Side


Los Angeles – Rob Thomas jokes that his label, Melisma/Atlantic, is seeing a different side of him as it prepares for the launch of his solo debut, “… Something to Be.” In the multiplatinum group Matchbox Twenty, drummer Paul Doucette was the “bad cop. I was good cop,” Thomas says. “Now I’m good cop and bad cop. A lot of people who thought I was easygoing, pot-smoking Rob don’t think that anymore. Now they see I’m not so easy.” Fans of Matchbox Twenty will also hear a different side of Thomas on the album, which ranges from familiar Matchbox Twenty… Read more »

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Video Music Awards Sizzling but Shock Free


Holding its festivities for the first time in the city of skin, Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards was sizzling, energetic and colorful – yet tame, by MTV standards. There were no wardrobe malfunctions (sorry TiVo). Britney didn’t kiss Madonna like last year – or anyone else, for that matter (neither were at the blowout affair). The most skin shown was from Usher, who preened in front of the camera barechested as simulated raindrops fell on his chiseled body during the opening performance. Even the Christina Aguilera was classy, dressed sexy yet demurely as she debuted a jazzy number, “Tilt Ya… Read more »

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