Music

Courtesy Lovers & Friends The Lovers & Friends Festival was canceled due to high winds Saturday, May 4, in Las Vegas.  Usher, who was set to headline, reacted to the news on social media. “Mannn… I’m just as disappointed as you are. We were getting ready to turn up and celebrate today,” he wrote, adding, […]

Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images for BET T-Pain‘s biggest hits may have soundtracked fans’ lives, but for him it serves as a reminder of a time when he was searching for acceptance from others. “I didn’t want to do ‘Freeze,’ I didn’t want to do ‘Buy U a Drank,’ I didn’t want to do most […]

David Livingston/Getty Images — ABC The Peabody Awards announced Thursday, May 2, that it will be bestowing two special honors on two funny people.  Trailblazing Blazing Saddles director Mel Brooks will be receiving the Peabody Career Achievement Award, and Abbott Elementary creator and star Quinta Brunson will take home the Peabody Trailblazer Award on Sunday, June 9, […]

Todd Owyoung/NBC Doja Cat is 28 years old, but she can claim that she’s had 23 years of onstage experience. While appearing on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Doja told Jimmy about her first concert: Her mom took her to see Earth, Wind & Fire when she was 5 years old. “It sounds like […]

Arnold Turner/Getty Images for The Zeus Network A fight broke out at Stunna Girl’s concert in Syracuse, New York, over the weekend after a fan touched the rapper inappropriately.  In a video of the incident posted by TMZ, a man in the audience is seen smacking Stunna’s backside while she performed onstage. The clip shows […]

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Coachella Plenty of artists who have young fans don’t seem to have a problem with using explicit language in their songs, including Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift. But artists don’t normally tell those young fans not to come see them in concert, where they’ll be using that explicit language — until now. […]

Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for Pepsi Mary J. Blige has reteamed with Pepsi for a scholarship supporting organizations that empower underserved women from her hometown of Yonkers, New York. She launched the fund Thursday, April 25, at Westchester Community College on Pepsi x Strength of a Woman Community Day. The Pepsi x Mary J. Blige Strength of a Woman […]

Cooper Neill/Getty Images Eminem is ready to say goodbye to his alter ego.  The rapper announced his new album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce), Thursday night. The announcement, which aired during the NFL Draft, featured a trailer for a fake true crime series, Detroit Murder Files, about the “cold case” murder of Slim Shady.  […]

Photo by Erika Goldring/Getty Images An unreleased verse from the late Takeoff will be heard on Ty Dolla $ign and Kanye West‘s Vultures 2 album, now due out May 3. As Rolling Stone reports, the song is tentatively titled “Let Me Chill Out.” It will also feature NBA Youngboy and Rich the Kid and is being teased as one of […]

Arturo Holmes/Getty Images for Coachella After two weekends of playing this year’s Coachella, Tyler, the Creator has secured another headlining gig. The rapper is set to headline the Outside Lands festival, taking place August 9-11 in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. He shares headlining duties with Grace Jones, Kaytranada and more. Also taking the stage are Snoh Aalegra, Victoria […]