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Andrea Castilla’s week-long trip with her boyfriend out to Las Vegas to visit her sister was a 28th birthday present to herself.

But there was one thing still ahead that Castilla didn’t know about when a gunman’s bullet struck her in the head Sunday night at an outdoor concert in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting: Her boyfriend was planning to propose marriage.

“He told me after she had passed,” Andrea’s sister, Athena, tells People of the conversation with Derek Miller, Andrea’s boyfriend of seven months who lived with Andrea in Huntington Beach, California.

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Last August, noise-rock duo Sleigh Bells sued Demi Lovato for copyright infringement on the grounds that the pop singer had used elements of their 2010 single “Infinity Guitars” for her 2015 song “Stars.” The Hollywood Reporter now reports that the parties have settled the case.

According to the Reporter, court papers were filed Wednesday morning noting the settlement; both sides are “memorializing terms, which were not disclosed.”

Representatives for Sleigh Bells provided no additional comment. EW has also reached out to Lovato’s team for comment.

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The A.V. Club gets more music video press releases per weekday than we care to count, but only one of them has ever touted the influence of the wizard-haired cinematographer Robert Richardson’s signature white-hot toplighting. That would the e-mail announcing the video for Sleigh Bells’ “I Can Only Stare,” co-directed by the noise pop duo’s guitarist-producer, Derek Miller, and A.V. Club favorite Alex Ross Perry.

“I Can Only Stare” marks the first foray into music videos for Perry, the indie writer-director behind The Color Wheel (one of this fine publication’s favorite movies of the decade so far and favorite modern comedies), Queen of Earth, Listen Up Philip, and, bizarrely enough, Disney’s upcoming remake of Winnie The Pooh. It stars vocalist Alexis Krauss as a variety of “doomed women” and was shot by regular cinematographer, the gifted Sean Price Williams. (It turns out, he can...

If you were to show me the video for Sleigh Bells‘ new song, “I Can Only Stare,” and ask which acclaimed independent American filmmaker is the credited director, Alex Ross Perry would be somewhere on the list, but I can’t say with any certainty where he might land — not when I watched the video with his involvement (i.e. co-directing alongside the band’s guitarist, Derek Miller) in mind and found myself looking for many a commonality with the feature work that I admire. As shot by frequent collaborator Sean Price Williams, the piece contains those distinctly hazy-yet-lucid images from films such as Queen of Earth and Listen Up Philip, which is to say nothing of the plethora of contemplative close-ups and slow zooms. It’s not a defining work, but a fun, fitting entry into the oeuvre nevertheless.

While we wait for Golden Exits, Winnie the Pooh, and...

Singer Demi Lovato faces allegations for sampling a song by popular indie rock band Sleigh Bells without permission. Demi Lovato Being Sued By Sleigh Bells Band members Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller took their claim to the California federal court on Monday, alleging that Lovato’s song “Stars,” the bonus track off her newest album Confident, stole from their “Infinity […]

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Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller of the Brooklyn electro-pop band Sleigh Bells are suing Demi Lovato for copyright infringement. The pair allege that Lovato's 2015 track "Stars" includes an unlicensed sample of their own "Infinity Guitars." According to court documents filed Monday, Sleigh Bells claims that the songs are "virtually identical content" that "transcend the realm of coincidence." "A comparison of the two songs reveals that, at the very least, the combination of the hand claps and bass drum, structured as 3 quarter beats and a rest, with the bass drum providing a counter-rhythm to the hand claps, is at least substantially similar in both works,...

Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller of the Brooklyn electro-pop band Sleigh Bells are suing Demi Lovato for copyright infringement. The pair allege that Lovato's 2015 track "Stars" includes an unlicensed sample of their own "Infinity Guitars." According to court documents filed Monday, Sleigh Bells claims that the songs are "virtually identical content" that "transcend the realm of coincidence." "A comparison of the two songs reveals that, at the very least, the combination of the hand claps and bass drum, structured as 3 quarter beats and a rest, with the bass drum providing a counter-rhythm to the hand claps, is at least substantially similar in both works,...