In a landmark decision for the music industry, a jury in Los Angeles ordered “Blurred Lines” songwriters Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay $7.3 million to the family of Marvin Gaye for copyright infringement on Tuesday. Gaye’s family had argued that the 2013 smash hit “Blurred Lines” copied their father’s 1977 song “Got to […]
What’s a guaranteed way to make Coldplay suddenly very, very cool? A music video starring Beyonce is a damn good start. We’ve known for years that Beyoncé and Jay Z were pals with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and his now ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow,with Gwen and Bey doing most of the public friendship stuff, exchanging birthday […]
Emmy Noether may not be a household name, but her compatriot Albert Einstein — someone who definitely is — once called her “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.” Noether, born in a small town in Germany in 1882, would have been 133 on Monday, and […]
