A new lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles alleges Migos rapper Offset assaulted a private security guard outside ComplexCon in Long Beach two years ago. Plaintiff Daveon Clark alleges he was standing outside the festival on Nov. 7, 2021 when event security attempted to block further entry by patrons due …
Read More »Former Grammys CEO Neil Portnow Accused of Drugging and Raping Artist in New Lawsuit
Over three years after an allegation first surfaced accusing former Recording Academy CEO Neil Portnow of rape, the woman who accused him has now sued the music industry exec over the allegation. According to the suit, filed in New York on Wednesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, a recording artist …
Read More »Maren Morris Axes Down 'The Tree' With Brittney Spencer, Mickey Guyton on 'Fallon'
Maren Morris stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday to perform “The Tree” with fellow artists Mickey Guyton and Brittney Spencer. The single is one of two new tracks from her EP The Bridge. “Do you feel that?/Heart letting go of the weight it’s been holding,” sings …
Read More »Borja, Conexión Divina, Joaquina, and Leon Leiden Discuss Being the Latin Grammy's Best New Artists
The Best New Artist category is easily one of the most anticipated awards at the Latin Grammys. Last year, for the first time ever, there was a tie between rising Mexican singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada and Angela Alvarez, a 95-year-old Cuban grandmother whose relatives had submitted her album — proving anything …
Read More »Timbaland Apologizes After Saying Justin Timberlake Should Have 'Put a Muzzle' on Britney Spears
Timbaland has apologized after recently saying that his frequent collaborator Justin Timberlake “should have put a muzzle” on his ex Britney Spears. During a live interview with 9th Wonder at the Kennedy Center in late October, Timbaland was asked about the renewed interest toward their duo’s song “Cry Me a …
Read More »L.A. Reid Sued for Sexual Assault and Harassment
Former Arista Records executive Drew Dixon has filed a lawsuit against L.A. Reid, alleging the music mogul continually harassed and sexually assaulted her twice in 2001 while she was working for him, according to court records obtained by Rolling Stone. Dixon sued in the Southern District of New York on …
Read More »The Shocking Loss and Unbreakable Bond Behind Sleater-Kinney's New Album
“I honestly just needed to hear Corin sing.” Carrie Brownstein was headed into a studio in Los Angeles last fall when her friend and longtime Sleater-Kinney bandmate Corin Tucker called to give her the name and number of someone at the U.S. Embassy in Italy. The embassy had been urgently …
Read More »2023 CMA Awards: The Complete Winners List
Jelly Roll was named New Artist of the Year at the 57th annual CMA Awards. “Most importantly there is something poetic about a 39-year-old man winning New Artist of the Year,” Jelly Roll hollered from the stage. “Keep going, baby! Success is on the other side of it.” But the …
Read More »The 'Mean Girls' Musical Seems to Forget It's a Musical in First Trailer
Mean Girls is headed back to movie theaters in musical form — not that you’d really get that from the highly-anticipated film’s first trailer. Taking the two-minute clip at face value, you’d more or less expect a full-on Mean Girls remake for Gen Z, all the classic bits, quips, and …
Read More »Researcher Discovers Identity of 'Stick Man' on 'Led Zeppelin IV' Cover a Half-Century Later
A half-century rock mystery has finally been solved as researchers have discovered the identity of the man on the cover of Led Zeppelin’s IV. As the story goes, singer Robert Plant discovered the photo of the elderly man carrying a bushel of twigs on his back in an antique shop. …
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