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Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band this morning announced what they say are “the last shows to their very successful ‘Roll Me Away Tour’” — although surprisingly there is no date listed for his hometown of Detroit. There was no immediate comment from a rep; Seger played six shows in Detroit back in June. Tickets for

September 5, 2019 8:03AM PT Tony Award-winners Jayne Houdyshell, Jefferson Mays, Marie Mullen and Shuler Hensley will join stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in the upcoming Broadway revival of “The Music Man.” In “The Music Man,” Jackman will play con-man Harold Hill, who arrives in a small, fictional Iowa town called River City and

Nipsey Hussle’s legacy will live on in apparel. Today (Sept. 5), Puma unleashed the highly-anticipated Marathon Clothing collection, which features 19 unique pieces and is giving 100% of net proceeds to the Neighborhood ‘Nip’ Foundation. Well-respected for his entrepreneurial efforts, which included supporting black-owned businesses while pushing his The Marathon Continues brand and movement, Nipsey

This morning Lil Nas X has dropped the official music video for his new single “Panini,” the follow-up to his global smash “Old Town Road.” Set in a futuristic world of flying cars and hologram billboards, the video follows guest-star and Disney actress Skai Jackson in her attempt to escape Lil Nas X as he

In the four years since she released her breakthrough second album “Art Angels,” Grimes has posted a lot and complained about her record label, 4AD, but has only released one song, “We Appreciate Power,” and a demo for another called “Pretty Dark.” Earlier this week she wiped her Instagram account and began posting teasers for

This morning, Camila Cabello dropped two songs from her forthcoming second solo album, “Romance.” The songs are called “Shameless” and “Liar” and Cabello says, “These songs are basically the story of my life the past couple years and the stories I’ve accumulated – I knew for a long time I wanted my album to be

Adam Lambert is embracing his freedom in the new track “Superpower,” from the album “Velvet: Side A,” released today. Produced by Tommy English (BØRNS), the “American Idol” season 8 runner-up gets colorfully bold in the song, with lyrics like: “Try to put me in a box / Make me something I’m not / Don’t give

Alicia Keys has signed an exclusive administration deal with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG). A winner of 15 Grammy Awards, the acclaimed singer, songwriter and producer is known for such hits as “Fallin,” “My Boo,” “No One,” “You Don’t Know My Name” and “Empire State of Mind,” among many others. Through the partnership, Keys’ existing

Bang Si-hyuk is known among fans as the “father” of K-pop superstars BTS, but he is a veteran of the Korean music industry who has worked as a producer, executive and entrepreneur. His accomplishments are continuing to grow at a global scale as CEO of Big Hit Entertainment: The company is expanding its reach into

Attorneys for Universal Music Group today filed a motion to stay discovery in the ongoing lawsuit from four artists who claimed to have lost masters in a 2008 fire that destroyed thousands of recordings in the company’s archive. While the company acknowledges that many precious recordings were lost, it claims to have refuted the claims

The man who allegedly sold Mac Miller the pills that led to the rapper’s overdose death was arrested Wednesday on a federal drug charge. Cameron James Pettit, 28, is accused of selling Miller counterfeit oxycodone pills that contained fentanyl, the deadly opioid said to be 50 times stronger than heroin. Miller died on Sept. 7,

Jimmie Allen held a lot of odd jobs before achieving his country music breakthrough with his debut single “Best Shot” last fall: middle school janitor, busboy, protein shake barista at a Nashville gym, season 10 “American Idol” contestant. All of Allen’s career ups and downs helped shape the stories on his debut album for Stoney

Known in the music world as “Mr. Excitement,” singer Jackie Wilson was a shell of his dynamic former self when he died in a hospital at the age of 49 in 1984. His fruitful, if short, career will be remembered on Sept. 4 when he receives a long overdue star on the Hollywood Walk of

For Hulu’s “Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” cinematographer Gavin Kelly set out to capture the heroic journeys of the dozen young black men that Bobby Diggs, aka The RZA, assembled amid the early 1990s crack-cocaine epidemic in New York’s Staten Island to form one of the most important groups in hip-hop history. “The look of the show

The 5th annual Guild of Music Supervisors conference, titled “State of Music in Media,” announces its full program slate today. The confab is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Los Angeles Film School in Hollywood from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Among the speakers are former Recording Academy president and CEO Neil Portnow, producer

As part of their newly launched partnership, Roc Nation and the will donate $400,000 to two Chicago charities, the Better Boys Foundation Family Services organization and the Crusher’s Club, a source close to the situation confirmed to Variety. Both organizations are designed to present local at-risk youth with alternatives to gang violence and criminal activity;

California lawmakers are poised to vote on Assembly Bill 5, which is largely aimed at “gig economy” jobs such as ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft and is designed to make it more difficult for such companies to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees. But the bill, scheduled to become law on Sept.

September 3, 2019 3:24PM PT Haley Smith, who appeared as a contestant on “American Idol” in Season 11, died in a motorcycle accident in Maine this weekend, police confirmed to Variety. She was 26. Millinocket police responded to the single-vehicle accident at 2 a.m. on Saturday. Smith was pronounced dead at the scene. “It would appear

Jordan Pruitt, a contestant on the third season of “The Voice,” has filed a lawsuit accusing her former manager, Keith Thomas, of sexually abusing her beginning when she was 14 years old. Pruitt also sued her former record label, Hollywood Records, and its parent company, the Walt Disney Co., alleging that they had failed to

September 3, 2019 2:33PM PT R. Kelly has been moved out of solitary confinement and into the general prison population, his attorney Steven Greenberg said on Tuesday. The singer has been held since early July at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. He had previously been held in the Special Housing Unit, a section for

Just in time to close out the season, Megan Thee Stallion has dropped the video for one of the biggest songs of the summer, “Hot Girl Summer.” It’s everything you’d expect, complete with cameos from featured guests Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign, tight clothes, booty, booze, a mansion in the hills and a poolside

It’s the second night of the Jon Bon Jovi Runaway to Paradise Cruise and the ship, halfway between Barcelona and Palma, is taking a beating from rain and gusty winds. A stormy day at sea would be unnerving for any normal cruise, but the Norwegian Pearl is anything but. On the pool deck, a festival-sized

Shawn Mendes showed his fans some love on Tuesday after finding out his and Camilla Cabello’s smash hit “Señorita” is Spotify’s most-streamed song of the summer. “I just want to say thank you so much for making ‘Señorita’  the song of the summer on Spotify,” he said in a video posted to the music streamer.

EMPIRE, the San Francisco-based indie that’s home to current albums by Snoop Dogg, Iggy Azalea, Robin Thicke and Young Dolph, has launched a Nashville outpost with plans to release music by a slate of country artists. While EMPIRE has made its name in hip-hop, counting Kendrick Lamar, Cardi B, DRAM and Anderson. Paak among artists

Spanish singer Joana Sainz Garcia was killed onstage Sunday after an exploding firework struck her during a concert near Madrid on Sunday, according to Newsweek. The singer was hit by a cartridge from a pyrotechnic device. She was taken to a hospital where she was later pronounced dead, the outlet reported, citing Spanish newspaper El

Justin Bieber wrote about drug abuse, depression, religion and his rapid and difficult journey from small-town boy to teen superstar in a long Instagram post late Sunday. The post opens with an honest admission that he suffered from depression. “Have u noticed the statistics of child stars and the outcome of their life,” he wrote.

As reported by Variety last month, Interscope Geffen A&M announced today that it has appointed Cara Donatto to the position of Executive Vice President, Head of Media Strategy and Communications for Interscope Geffen A&M Records. In her new role, Donatto will oversee communications strategy and execution for Interscope Geffen A&M and its associated labels, overseeing the

A tribute concert for the late DJ/artist Avicii, who died last year in an apparent suicide, will take place on Dec. 5 in his hometown of Stockholm and feature 19 of the original singers on his biggest songs as well as opening sets from his friends David Guetta, Kygo, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Laidback

Maybe it’s because of the female-heavy lineup, but the eighth annual Made in America festival — Jay-Z’s star-studded Labor Day weekend party on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway — was the most drama-free in years. Not only did Cardi B, Lizzo, Jorja Smith, Rosalia and Tierra Whack deliver memorable sets, Philadelphia native Meek Mill had a

The alternative music of the ’80s and ’90s proved its enduring power at Saturday’s Pasadena Daydream all-day concert at the Rose Bowl’s Brookside Park. The Cure’s Robert Smith curated the lineup, which brought together bands that might not necessarily have identical fanbases. But there was enough overlap that black-swathed Cure fans were still happy to