For the first time in 15 months, live music is returning nationwide after the global coronavirus pandemic ravaged the industry. Billboard’s “My First Fest Back” is a spin-off series off “My First Show Back,” dedicated to sharing stories from the return of Lollapalooza for its 30th anniversary — the first large-scale festival, bringing in 100,000 […]

Bill Hutchinson, an eccentric real estate mogul who was arrested and charged earlier this month with sexually assaulting two teenagers, has filed a lawsuit against Kaaboo founder Bryan Gordon and president Seth Wolkov, claiming that the Colorado businessmen defrauded him out of $3 million and misrepresented key aspects of the failed festival at AT&T Stadium

With the Delta variant of COVID running rampant across the world, Sir Paul McCartney is spreading one simple message for his fans: “BE COOL. GET VAX’D.” The beanie- and face-mask-wearing 79-year-old rocker wrote this message on Instagram, while signing off as “Paul,” underneath a picture of himself getting his COVID shot from a health care professional on Monday

Dua Lipa and BLACKPINK went from fans to friends even before their 2018 “Kiss and Make Up” collaboration. The English singer and South Korean girl group have never needed to actually kiss and make up after a fight, because both acts have shown nothing but love to one another over the internet and onstage. After Lisa and

Congress is once again asking Twitter to address its issues around copyright infringement in a new letter sent by a bipartisan group from the House of Representatives. Led by Reps. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), 20 members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday (Aug.

Paul McCartney’s remix album McCartney III Imagined re-enters at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated Aug. 7) for its first week at the top, following its release on physical formats on July 23. The album sold 21,000 copies in the U.S. in the week ending July 29 (up from a negligible figure

Are we going to hear a new Kanye West and The Weeknd collaboration on Donda? The rapper seems to have hinted at that possibility when he posted a screenshot of a call log via Instagram on Monday (Aug. 2), which revealed three calls with the R&B/pop superstar in the after hours, with time stamps at 1:14 a.m. and

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, we may receive an affiliate commission. The 2021 Tokyo Olympics are currently underway, with a brand new sport: skateboarding. For the men’s street competition, Japan’s Yuto Horigome took the gold, while Brazil’s Kelvin Hoefler took the silver and USA’s Jagger

Nu-metal survivors Limp Bizkit were the unexpected talk of the Internet over the weekend. Following the July 23 premiere of HBO’s Music Box series documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love & Rage — in which the band’s rabble-rousing performance at the infamous fest was a heavily featured and debated event — Limp Bizkit made headlines with a new (and

The Kid LAROI, from Australia, and Canadian Justin Bieber climb to No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 chart with “Stay.” The Kid LAROI claims his first leader on the list and Bieber adds his second. Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits” posts a fourth week atop the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, after becoming the