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Tonight, multi-platinum selling modern icon and history-making teenage superstar Lil Pump—who has cracked the social media code to become the most viral artist to date—unleashed his anxiously awaited follow-up to his self-titled debut and one of the year's most anticipated albums, Harverd Dropout [Tha Lights Global/Warner Bros. Records]. Get it HERE.

The winners of the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2018 were announced tonight during the 71st Annual DGA Awards at the Hollywood & Highland Center's Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood. Alfonso Cuarón won the DGA's Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Roma.

History-making multiplatinum superstar Lil Pump shares a new song and blockbuster music video entitled “Racks on Racks.” Get it HERE.

The Hammer Theatre Center continues to bring thrilling cultural performances, world-class theatre, and fun-filled family acts to downtown San Jose as it announces an impressive line-up of events for spring 2019.

Grammy-nominated DJ, music producer, composer and music/film director Sam Spiegel is joining forces with critically acclaimed Brazilian electronic duo Tropkillaz for the new single “Perfect” featuring Bia and MC Pikachu. 

The Directors Guild of America  today announced the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2018.

Hammer Theatre Center presents Kid Koala's Nufonia Must Fall, a revolutionary live staging of the graphic novel featuring a team of puppeteers manipulating a cast of 10-inch puppets interacting on more than a dozen miniature sets and projected live on an enormous screen. Nufonia Must Fall tells of the epic love between a female roboticist and a music-loving T4 robot facing obsolescence as a newer, more efficient T5 robot keeps taking away his jobs.

Beastie Boys Adam "Adrock" Horovitz and Michael 'Mike D" Diamond can now add "bestselling authors" to their long list of bona fides. In the week following its October 30 release, Beastie Boys Book (Spiegel & Grau) has ascended to #1 on The New York Times Best Sellers List-topping both the Nonfiction Print Hardcover and Nonfiction Combined Print & E-Book Best Sellers charts. 

The “Beastie Boys Book,” an extremely detailed 600-page history of the group to be released Oct. 30, has a diverse and impressive roster of guest narrators for its audio edition: Snoop Dogg, Elvis Costello, Steve Buscemi, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart, Will Ferrell, Wanda Sykes, Public Enemy's Chuck D, Chloë Sevigny, Ben Stiller, Rev Run, New York 1 anchor Pat Kiernan, Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker, Kim Gordon, Spike Jonze, original Beasties drummer Kate Schellenbach and many more, including the group's two surviving members, Mike Diamond and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz. Cofounder Adam “MCA” Yauch died from cancer in 2012.

Today, Sonos (Nasdaq: SONO) unveiled its exclusive collaboration with one of the most influential and iconoclastic artists in global music culture, Beastie Boys. Honoring the creative spirit of the inventive New York trio, in conjunction with the release of Beastie Boys Book, Sonos has collaborated with Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, and San Francisco-based artist, Barry McGee – on a strictly limited Sonos Play:5 Beastie Boys Edition speaker, with all proceeds going to charity.

The Town Hall Presents BEASTIE BOYS BOOK: LIVE AND DIRECT feat. Adam Horovitz & Michael Diamond

Grammy-nominated DJ, music producer, composer and music and film director Sam Spiegel's “One Last Time,” featuring Paris-based DJ and singer Goldilox, is premiering today. Listen/share the track, which is co-produced by AlunaGeorge's George Reidalongside Spiegel, at https://bit.ly/2PR3HXb.

In celebration of the October 30 release of Beastie Boys Book (Spiegel & Grau), Adam “Adrock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond will embark on the six-night four-city Beastie Boys Book: Live & Direct event tour.

Kanye West & Lil Pump have made history with their new single “I Love It” (G.O.O.D. Music / Def Jam Recordings / Warner Bros. Records).

VICELAND, the Emmy-winning youth lifestyle and entertainment network from VICE Media and A+E Networks, is renewing two series as well as rebooting another popular show for premieres in early 2019.

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VICELAND has greenlit a new topical docu-reality series AMERICAN JUNKIE inspired by and spun off from the independent feature documentary AMERICAN RELAPSE, directed by Pat McGee and Adam Linkenhelt, which recently premiered at the Rhode Island Film Festival and continues to premiere at the Other Venice Film Festival, the Louisville International Festival of Film and the Santa Cruz Film Festival. It is set to premiere September 12, 2018 at 10:00 PM on VICELAND.

Agent Sasco (formerly known as Assassin) releases two brand new singles - “Banks Of The Hope” and “Change” - from his fourth studio album Hope River, available for pre-order now and out worldwide on Aug 31, 2018. On his 13-track LP, the reggae star puts fame into perspective by looking through the lens of his true identity, Jeffrey Campbell.

Grammy-nominated DJ, music producer, composer and music and film director Sam Spiegel's “To Whom It May Concern,” featuring Ceelo Green, Theophilus London and Alex Ebert, premieres today atConsequence of Sound. Consequence of Sound raves about Spiegel's “funky-as-hell electronic jams” and hails “To Whom It May Concern” as “undeniably smooth.” Read their interview with Spiegel and listen to the track HERE.

This summer, Craft Recordings is set to relaunch a legendary group of hip-hop titles originally released between 1989 and 1995 on Delicious Vinyl, the Los Angeles-based classic label whose catalog of West Coast party rock and conscious rap still gets play on radio and at functions worldwide. Featuring audio remastered by Dave Cooley at Elysian Masters, these LPs represent some of the most lasting music of the genre.