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(NEW YORK) -- While some tech giants neared or imposed widespread layoffs last year, compensation for their CEOs climbed as much as tens of millions of dollars, according to an ABC News analysis of data released by research firm Equilar in May and June. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai was awarded compensation worth more than $225 million in 2022, which marked a staggering 3,474% increase from the previous year, making him the […]

Surfdog Records Brian Setzer has released a new single from his upcoming solo album The Devil Always Collects, which is due out September 15. The song is called "Black Leather Jacket," and in a video discussing how he wrote it, he explains that it's about a journey taken by the ultimate rock 'n roll accessory. "It followed the guy through his whole life. He wore a black leather jacket when […]

(NEW YORK) -- Former Columbus, Ohio, police officer Ricky Anderson has been indicted on charges of murder and reckless homicide for the shooting of an unarmed man last year. Anderson shot and killed 20-year-old Donovan Lewis in August 2022 during a search warrant while he was unarmed and in bed. Body camera footage was released of the encounter last September and Anderson, a 30-year veteran of the Columbus Police Department, […]

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav announced that Barbie will start streaming on Max in the fall, according to Deadline. The film, starring Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie, crossed the $400 million mark at the domestic box office on Thursday, August 3 in its 14th day, beating Top Gun: Maverick and Super Mario Bros. Movie to that mark, which both crossed in within 18 days. Barbie is expected to cross […]

(NAPA VALLEY, Calif.) -- Rising temperatures are shifting the growing season in Napa Valley's wine country, which could impact grape growth and alter the types of wine that originate from the region, according to new research and wine experts. The wine grape-growing season in California’s Napa Valley, which has historically relied on a consistent Mediterranean-like climate, is now occurring nearly a month earlier than it did in the 1950s because […]

Nadav Kander Peter Gabriel's recent song "Road to Joy" has led him back to the Billboard airplay charts for the first time in years. Gabriel hasn't appeared on a Billboard airplay chart as a lead artist since 2002. He did chart in 2008, but it was as a featured artist on a song called "Burn You Up, Burn You Down," credited to Big Blue Ball.  In 2002 he reached #20 on Billboard's Adult Alternative Airplay chart with the […]

Paul Natkin/Getty Images Sting is not on the Barbie soundtrack, but he did — albeit inadvertently — inspire Christopher Nolan to make the movie Oppenheimer. Now, he's reaping the benefits of "Barbenheimer" mania. As previously reported, Nolan has said in several press interviews that he first became interested in J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb and the subject of Oppenheimer, while growing up in the '80s. Amid mounting fears of a nuclear war, Nolan said, he heard Sting's 1986 […]

Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc In March, Kip Winger revealed on the Appetite for Distortion podcast that Metallica's James Hetfield apologized to him for that scene in their "Nothing Else Matters" video where Lars Ulrich throws a dart at his photo. Now, Winger's come to an understanding with the creator of the Winger-bashing content on Beavis & Butt-Head. During the original MTV run of Beavis & Butthead, the boys' nemesis Stewart Stevenson always wore a "Winger" T-shirt, which Winger says was harder to laugh off than the Metallica thing. "Apparently […]

ABC/Connie Chornuk Keith Urban, Kix Brooks, David Lee Murphy, Casey Beathard and Rafe Van Hoy have been announced as the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame's Class of 2023 inductees. Keith will be inducted into the contemporary songwriter/artist category, Kix in the veteran songwriter/artist category, and David and Casey in the contemporary songwriter category, while Rafe will join as the veteran songwriter. "Gathering for this occasion – to recognize and welcome the members of our incoming class – is always one of the […]