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Following Adele‘s 100th and final performance of her Las Vegas residency, the “Hello” singer expressed her gratitude to her supporters during her two-year run in a social media post shared Monday. “Las Vegas you’ve been so good to me,” Adele shared in a post, along with a video chronicling her …

Singer, guitarist, pianist, and newfound harmonium player Shawn Mendes closed out his intimate For Friends and Family Only Tour on Nov. 25 in his hometown of Toronto, playing the historic Massey Hall, a dream venue for most artists who grew up here. The 130-year-old, three-level theater with its iconic giant …

New Zealand jangle-pop band the Chills will release a new album of previously unreleased songs in February. The album,Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs,arrives following thedeath of frontmanMartin Phillipps. The singer-songwriter, who was battling liver disease, died in July at the age of61. Spring Board assembles 20 archival recordings, and …

A rare, eight-page draft letter John Lennon wrote to Eric Clapton in 1971, pitching him on a new musical project at one of the most tumultuous times in Clapton’s life, is headed to auction. This copy of the missive is dated Sept. 29, 1971 and it contains various deletions and …

Steve Albini Way received its official designation during a ceremony featuring his widow Heather Whinna, Kim Deal, Electrical Audio staff, and others in Chicago on Monday. The public event drew a large crowd of fans and friends to the stretch of West Belmont Avenue that flanks Albini’s Electrical Audio studio …

Marilyn Manson has dropped a lawsuit he filed against Evan Rachel Wood and abandoned a related appeal attempting to revive his previous defamation claim. The musician has agreed to pay nearly $327,000 in Wood’s attorneys’ fees, according to legal documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Wood’s attorneys Michael Kump, Shawn Holley, …

Drake is doubling down in his ongoing legal war against his own label and Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” filing a new legal action in Texas that alleges Universal Music Group knowingly allowed Lamar to call him a “certified pedophile” as it sought to “drive consumer hysteria and, of course, …

In January 2000, Megadeth issued a press release announcing that longtime lead guitarist Marty Friedman had left the band, mid-tour, “to pursue other musical interests.” According to MTV, frontman Dave Mustaine praised Friedman as “an incredible player” and a “keystone” in the thrash-metal band. Behind the scenes, Friedman’s departure was …

Bésame Mucho Los Angeles is a no-go this year. Several sources tell Rolling Stone that the Latin music festival, originally scheduled for Dec. 21 at Dodger Stadium, will not go on as planned. An official announcement is expected later this week. Shakira, Pitbull, Enrique Iglesias, and Tigres Del Norte were …

Elton John‘s “severe” eye infection has caused him to lose sight in his right eye for four months. The singer-songwriter developed the infection over the summer while in the south of France. In September, John shared the news about the infection, and revealed it was impacting vision in one of …