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You have to hand it to TikTok – the company is definitely proactive, especially when it comes to music artists. According to a post by musician Jonah Manzano yesterday, the company is testing a new feature called Work With Artists that allows users to make money by using an artist’s music in their videos. Understand that Work With Artists is not something that TikTok even acknowledges yet, but it has been […]

Between 2006’s “Slither” and the first “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie in 2014, writer-director James Gunn carved out time to tweet some things that were, at best, ill-advised. Gunn’s occasionally grating sense of humor compelled him to hit send on some pretty dubious one-liners. Some real “this should’ve stayed in the drafts” type stuff. Nothing unforgivable, exactly, but bizarre and off-putting enough for Marvel to quickly fire Gunn as he […]

Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list features Emilia and Ludmilla’s fierce collaboration, Alaina Castillo’s dance track, and Daymé Arocena’s ode to the Caribbean. Also on the list: Las Villa’s debut album, Fangoria’s epic team-up with Paulina Rubio, and Gaby Moreno’s acoustic EP Plus, the return of Tego Calderón and Alex Anwandter’s queer-positive duet with Javiera Mena. Emilia, Ludmilla, and Zecca, “No_Se_Ve.mp3” Emilia and […]

Ever since the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit were a jury decided that Robin Thicke nicked the feel of Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On,” songwriters, publishers and record labels have been looking over their shoulders for an artist or an estate that thinks their modern song was based on a classic hit. That might now be turned around, as a jury in the plagiarism lawsuit just determined that Ed Sheeran […]

One thing that the over 366 million users worldwide can agree on is that — and there’s no surprise here — online dating can be tough. Finding the right match on apps like Tinder and Hinge can be hard when there are so many options and everyone’s out to make the best first impression possible. A great relationship often comes down to shared values, and it can sometimes be difficult […]

Welcome to LATINA’s Friday Film Roundup, our bi-weekly picks for the new movie releases on our radar. Weeks like these are always interesting. There is very clearly one movie on track to become the weekend’s biggest success, so much so that distributors are avoiding this Friday like the plague. With the MCU’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” making landfall on May 5th, the only other movies that stand a […]

What makes the United States the country it is? So many aspects might come to mind but something crucial about America’s identity is the diversity of its people. In the new podcast “I Am America,” award-winning actress Tracee Ellis Ross explores the stories of Americans from diverse backgrounds to paint a profile of life in this country. “It took something really special for me to jump into the podcast world, […]

On my latest podcast episode: Composer/producer Dren McDonald talks about how he got into composing music for video games, directing voice overs for games, how sound design is different for games than film, working on AR audio for Facebook, his new album built around hundreds of guitar tracks, and much more. 5 things you should know about a musician’s brain. And the basics of AI for music production. Listen to […]

If you’re like everyone else, you really hate it when one clip on Reels or Stories is way loud, while the next one is barely loud enough to hear. Having to constantly change the volume level really diminishes the experience. We used to have that problem with television and it took a law from Congress to change it. In this case, Meta (Facebook and Instagram’s parent company) was proactive as […]