Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s 2020 charity collaboration “Stuck With U” has raised $3.5 million for the First Responders Children’s Foundation. The two pop stars released their COVID-19 lockdown ballad on May 8, 2020. In working with their manager Scooter Braun’s SB Projects and their labels Def Jam Recordings (Bieber) and Republic Records (Grande), the […]

Olivia Rodrigo has been a Disney star since she was 12, but her chance at breaking out in a bigger way as a solo singer could easily have been derailed by the global COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, she told GQ magazine in a new interview, what might have been a disaster was actually “awesome,” because suddenly there

Well before the whirlwind 72-hour span that saw DaBaby dropped from a slew of music festivals, a comparatively modest free concert organized by the Working Families Party became the first to remove the rapper from its lineup due to a string of homophobic comments he made. “If you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or any

After a nearly eight-year absence from Billboard’s Top Latin Albums chart, Tommy Torres is back with El Playlist de Anoche, his fifth studio album which debuts at No. 7 on the August 7-dated survey. The nine-track set follows the No. 1 album 12 Historias, his first and only leader on any albums chart (Oct. 2012).

On Wednesday (Aug. 3) morning, Fall Out Boy announced that out of “an abundance of caution” they will miss the New York and Boston tour dates on their Hella Mega run with Weezer and Green Day due to a positive COVID-19 test from “an individual on the band’s team.” “It’s important to note that everyone

Artist Group International is expanding even further into the European market through a new alliance with X-ray Touring. AGI is part investment firm Yucaipa’s Y Entertainment Group, which is also extending a joint venture with X-ray Touring.   The companies will work together, with X-ray under the continued control and direction of founding partners Martin Horne, Ian Huffam, Steve Strange and Scott Thomas to expand on

Fans attending Guns N’ Roses’ Fenway Park show in Boston on Tuesday night (August 3) got a special surprise when the veteran hard-rockers uncorked a surprising new song during their 22-track set of mostly greatest hits. “Some of you might have heard this under another name, but this is… it’s really kind of absurd to

Disney gave us all the best princesses. Think Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel and Jasmine. Add Billie Eilish — the princess of alternative pop — to that list. Eilish is getting ready for her Disney debut with Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, due out Sept. 3 and described as a “cinematic concert

It Ain’t Retro: Daptone Records & The 21st-Century Soul Revolution (out August 10 in the U.S. on Jawbone Press) tells the story of the iconic Daptone label, and the international revivalist funk/soul scene it helped inspire in the 2000s and beyond. Here, in a passage from the book, author Jessica Lipsky takes us through how

Yung Baby Tate — a very proud Georgia girl during her formative years — spent most of her summers in New Jersey at her aunt Karen’s house with her cousin Taylor. That time of year, she looked forward to most since she was under stricter house rules under her mother’s watch in Decatur. Upon reflection,