Skeptical as the music industry might’ve been at first about Recording Academy’s newly organized Task Force for Diversity and Inclusion, the group has made strides in the year of its existence. In the fall, the task force invited 900 music creators to join the voting community. On Friday, it announced …

“I was fairly terrified just reading the script,” says Lupita Nyong’o, who stars in two roles in Jordan Peele‘s Get Out follow-up, Us, due March 22nd. Playing both a loving mom and a creepy, scissor-toting, probably murderous doppelgänger of said mom (her fellow Black Panther actor Winston Duke plays the …

Leslie Van Houten, who was 19 when she joined other followers of Charles Manson on a 1969 murder spree, is asking the state of California to release her on parole. Over the past five decades, the convict, now 69, has made nearly two dozen attempts to be freed from the …

Founding Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley posted a scathing Facebook message to Gene Simmons on Tuesday, alleging that Simmons’ statements about Frehley’s alcohol abuse over the years cost him millions and that Simmons had groped his wife. After the allegations, he included a threat: “Without a complete and heartfelt apology, an …

Rapper 21 Savage had a world-weary tone when he brought his new single “A Lot” toThe Tonight Show Monday. The track appears on his latest album, I Am > I Was. 21 spent most of the performance on a stool, striking a lethargic pose that contrasted with the energy of …

Lizzo has announced the release of Cuz I Love You, herthird full-length album — and first on a major label. Following its release, she’ll embark on a North American tour. Cuz I Love Youwill be out on April 19th. It’s Lizzo’s first full-length in four years, when she independently releasedBig …

President Donald Trump has once again lost the support of conservative commentator Ann Coulter after he agreed to reopen the government temporarily without getting funding for his border wall. After Trump announced the news on Friday, Coulter tweeted what a wimp Trump was. Later that night, she was interviewed by …

You hardly expect a guy who’s written songs with titles like “Bad Liver and a Broken Heart” and “Good While It Lasted” to go all giddy on you. But everybody has a moment when they realize something cherished is over, yet there’s no choice but to move on. For roustabout-looking …

Not since the The Full Monty has there been this much anticipation building around singing strippers on a theater stage. On Thursday, the producers of Magic Mike the Musical — Channing Tatum, Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, Nick Wechsler, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan — announced the stage show will premiere …

Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, has announced new tour dates for 2019. The 31-date trek includes headlining sets interspersed with shows in support of Mumford & Sons. Marshall’s tour kicks off in Australia with four headlining dates before she heads stateside on February 27th for her show with Mumford & …