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Avril Lavigne is hitting the Vans Warped Tour for the first time ever. The singer will make her festival debut at the Washington D.C. stop in June. “This summer I’ll be on the second round of my Greatest Hits Tour, so it worked out perfectly to hit up the Warped …

The Kooks announced the North American leg of their All Over the World Tour this summer. The band will embark on their trek following the release of their upcoming album Never/Know on May 9. The 16-show tour will launch in Montreal followed by a concert in Toronto, before heading to …

Kanye West was dropped by his talent agency following the controversial rapper’s meltdown on social media over the weekend, which included selling a swastika T-shirt, making a string of antisemitic remarks, and posting several pornographic videos to his feed. Daniel McCartney, who works as a talent agent at 33&West, said …

Spike Lee, like millions of other Americans, tuned in to the Super Bowl halftime show to watch Kendrick Lamar‘s history-making spectacle. As Lee reflected on the Pulitzer-Prize winning artist’s show, the first rapper to headline the coveted mid-game performance, he drew parallels to his own film work. Samuel L. Jackson, …

A$AP Rocky’s longtime tour manager appeared atthe rapper’s gun assault trial in Los AngelesMonday and claimed he knows what happened to the purported prop pistol Rocky said he fired during an argument with a former friend on a Hollywood street corner three years ago. Louis Levin told jurors that two …

A plane owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil crashed into another jet that was parked in Arizona on Monday, according to a spokesperson for Scottsdale Airport. One person reportedly died as a result of the crash, while four others were injured. The Learjet 35A, on its way from Austin, …

Patti Smith will perform her debut album Horses in fullon tour to celebrate the LP’s 50 anniversary. The tour will feature feature guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, both of whom played on the original 1975 recording. The anniversary trek will kick off on Oct. 6 at Dublin’s …

Bon Iver is back. The band, which started as a solo project for frontman Justin Vernon, will release their first full-length album since 2019’s I,I. Titled SABLE, fABLE, the new album is set for release on April 11. Last fall, Bon Iver previewed the full-length project with the Sable, EP, …

Kanye West has been sued by a former Yeezy staffer, who claims the rapper frequently referred to himself as Hitler and a Nazi, targeted her because she’s Jewish, sent her pornographic materials and insulted her looks when he was upset. The woman, who is suing under a Jane Doe pseudonym, …

Monica Barbaro’s Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Joan Baez in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown has introduced an entirely new generation of fans to the folk icon, even though Baez retired from the road following a 2019 farewell tour and rarely performs live these days. She made an exception …