Lifestyle FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2015 Obama gives nod to Black Keys, and maybe a White House invite arage rockers may have won Gthemselves an invitation to play the White House after President Barack Obama declared himself a fan of the duo. While answering ques- tions Wednesday on Twitter, Obama was asked about his music selections and replied he was listening to The Black Keys’ 2011 hit “Lonely Boy” and clas- sic hip-hop duo Outkast’s track “Liberation.” The Black Keys replied and of the Black Keys, online by asking if they could Nominee for Best Rock Performance, arrive on the red car- use Air Force One for their pet for the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in shows, to which Obama made this February 8, 2015, file photo. — AFP his own offer. “It’s not mine; just a loaner,” Obama said of mer Patrick Carney-are origi- of expectations. A White the presidential plane. “Maybe nally from Akron, and House gig is not out of the you can come play at the have built a strong fan base question. Obama last month White House sometime over the past decade with welcomed hundreds of guests Rolling Stones announce instead?” Intentionally or not, hard-edged but -rooted to a concert by Prince and Obama praised The Black Keys guitar rock. Obama’s other , according to on the same day that he flew- musical selection may carry a attendees. The White House traveling memorabilia exhibit via Air Force One-to Nashville, larger message, as Outkast’s did not reveal any details where the duo is based. The “Liberation” is a call to “shake about that concert, saying Black Keys-consisting of front- that load off” and overcome that it was a private event ild horses won’t be able to keep “We’ve been thinking about it for quite a man Dan Auerbach and drum- hatred as well as the burden paid by Obama. — AFP Rolling Stones fans from the long time but wanted it to be just right and Wband’s first major museum exhibit. on a large scale just like planning our tour- The Stones announced Wednesday that ing concert productions,” Mick Jagger said they’ll be displaying treasures from their 50 in a statement. “I think right now it’s an years of performing together beginning at interesting time to do it.” “While this is London’s Saatchi Gallery in April 2016. In about the Rolling Stones, it’s not necessarily classic Stones fashion, they’ve named the just about the members of the band,” Keith exhibit “Exhibitionism.” The exhibit’s web- Richards said in a statement. “It’s also about becomes site promises “over five hundred Rolling all the paraphernalia and technology associ- Rihanna Stones important and unseen artifacts from ated with a band, like as well as the instru- the band’s personal archives ... embracing ments that have passed through our hands recording industry’s all aspects of art & design, film, video, over the years, that will make the exhibition fashion, performance, rare sound archives really interesting.” “Exhibitionism” will visit and, of course, at the heart of it, the Stones’ 11 additional cities across the world after its top digital singles artist musical heritage.” London debut. — Reuters Prince pulls music from most rammy-winning R&B online streaming services singer Rihanna is the Gfirst artist to surpass op icon Prince has returned to Twitter as he pro- more than 100 million cumula- opened a new chapter motes his “Hit and Run” tour tive digital singles, the Pin his fraught relation- in which he announces shows Recording Industry Association ship with the Internet as he with little advance notice. of America said on Wednesday. suddenly pulled his music Streaming-which offers on- Rihanna, 27, topped the list of from most streaming services. demand, unlimited music-has artists with the most digital sin- A message that appeared on been controversial among gle awards, coming in ahead of sector-leader Spotify said that numerous artists who believe Taylor Swift and Katy Perry in Prince’s publisher “has asked that they are not sufficiently the second and third places all streaming services to compensated. But Prince’s remove his catalog.” “We move comes barely a day respectively. The recording have cooperated with the after Apple launched a new industry’s digital single certifi- request, and hope to bring streaming platform that has cations count download sales his music back as soon as led some holdouts to turn and on-demand streams in the possible,” it said. The sole around. United States. streaming service that still Pop superstar Taylor Swift “She has not only surpassed carried the “Purple Rain” leg- Prince presents an award agreed to stream her block- RIAA’s one-hundred million end’s music as of yesterday at the 57th Annual buster album “1989” only on mark, but also is the first artist was Tidal, which was re- Grammy Awards in Los Apple Music after the compa- to do so. It’s an historic feat launched this year by rap Angeles in this February ny stepped up compensation and a testament to an extraor- mogul Jay Z. 8, 2015, file photo. — AFP to artists in response to her dinary career,” Cary Sherman, Tidal has tried with mixed enthusiast of online music complaints. Hard rock icons the association’s chairman and success to win audiences but in 2010 declared that the AC/DC on Tuesday also CEO, said in a statement. through exclusive content. It Internet was “completely joined myriad streaming plat- Rihanna has won eight streamed much of a peace over” and released an album forms after long refusing. Grammy awards and has seven concert held by Prince in May only as a CD insert to several Remaining artists who resist studio albums to her name. in Baltimore in the wake of European newspapers. streaming include the copy- Her songs “We Found Love,” the death of an African The famously eccentric right holders of The Beatles “Stay” and “Only Girl (In The American man in police cus- and country giant Garth singer last year abruptly left World)” are among her top- tody. Prince was an early Brooks. — AFP Rihanna speaks at the BET Awards at the Microsoft social media, but recently selling singles. — Reuters Theater on Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Los Angeles. — AP