The Cruel World Festival featuring 1980s new wave mainstays as well as newer acts has been set for May 11 at Pasadena’s Brookside at the Rose Bowl venue, with Duran Duran as the headline performer. The lineup for the daylong Goldenvoice event will also feature Interpol, Blondie, Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant and […]
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Mariah Carey may have escaped from the diamond-coated, microphone-shaped hyperbaric chamber she resides in 11 months out of the year to take her rightful place atop her Yuletide Throne, but there’s a new Queen of Christmas in town. At least this week. Sixty-five years after Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” was released, the […]
Nelly and Ashanti are all the buzz following a report from Us Weekly that the singer-actress is pregnant with the rapper’s child. Reached by Yahoo Entertainment, a representative for Ashanti had no comment. A rep for Nelly did not immediately respond. The report followed one from TMZ, which said that, while appearing at Nelly’s 11th […]
Nelly and Ashanti are all the buzz following a report from Us Weekly that the singer-actress is pregnant with the rapper’s child. Reached by Yahoo Entertainment, a representative for Ashanti had no comment. A rep for Nelly did not immediately respond. The report followed one from TMZ, which said that, while appearing at Nelly’s 11th […]
After weeks upon weeks of Blinds, Battles, Knockouts, Playoffs, and even a couple of clip shows — and with only two weeks left to go before the Season 24 grand finale — The Voice finally went live Monday, with the top 12 semifinalists comprising Teams Reba, Legend, Niall, and Gwen finally competing for America’s votes. […]
Hell’s Kitchen, the musical based loosely on the life of Alicia Keys, is headed to Broadway this spring. The show, with a score written by Keys and a book by Kristoffer Diaz, made its world premiere at the Public Theater on Nov. 19. The show will transfer to the Shubert Theater on Broadway starting March 28, […]
In 2021, Sean Ono Lennon was looking for a way to make a music video for one of his parents’ signature songs and feeling creatively stuck—until he had a meeting with former Pixar animator Dave Mullins. The song, 1971’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over), is probably the most popular piece of music John Lennon and […]
In November, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed a federal lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York federal court. Her lawsuit includes graphic claims of sexual assault, physical abuse, and an allegation that Combs, her ex-boyfriend, would force her to have sex with male sex workers while he watched. Ventura’s claims are among the worst, but […]
As the 50th anniversary of hip-hop comes to a close, the Recording Academy has one last trick up its sleeve to honor the pillars of the culture. The Academy joins forces with CBS for “A Grammy Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop,” an aural spectacular that’s as much an ode to the culture as it […]
F our years before she co-founded the beloved New Wave group the Go-Go’s, guitarist Jane Wiedlin was about 15 years old living with her parents in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley. It was around 1974, and she was enamored with glam-rock titans like David Bowie and Marc Bolan. Looking to get as close to the […]
Taylor Swift donated $1 million to Tennessee residents affected by the deadly tornadoes that hit communities on Dec 9. A barrage of tornadoes and thunderstorms hit regions of northern Tennessee over the weekend, leaving more than 50 injured and multiple buildings destroyed, per reports by CNN. Swift, whose career started in Hendersonville, Tennessee, responded by making […]
If there’s one thing that 2023 taught us: It’s Taylor Swift‘s world and we’re just fanning out in it. Miss Americana herself turns 34 today, the same day the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour movie starts streaming, capping off a year of career highs. Getting a Golden Globe nomination this week for her concert movie […]