A Los Angeles jury has acquitted A$AP Rocky of two firearm assault charges stemming from his altercation with former friend A$AP Relli that ended with the sound of gunfire on a Hollywood street corner three years ago. Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, stood calmly in a pinstripe suit as jurors filed …
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A sex abuse lawsuit against Bassnectar will not go to trial. On Tuesday, the case against the music producer, born Lorin Ashton, was dismissed with prejudice after he reached a private settlement with three women who had accused Bassnectar of sexually abusing them when they were underage. “I am relieved …
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Sabrina Carpenter has added a second performance to the BST Hyde Park lineup this summer. In addition to her previously-announced show on July 5, Carpenter will now also play on July 6 with Clairo and Olivia Dean as openers. Although the full lineup for both shows has yet to be …
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Chappell Roan just gave fans another taste of her country-inflected song “The Giver” — this time via a retro phone number stunt. Roan, who first premiered the country-tinged track during her Saturday Night Live debut last November, offered an invite to a quirky listening party over the weekend,sharing a now-dead …
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“Not Like Us” is back on top. A week after Kendrick Lamar‘s Super Bowl halftime performance, the diss track skyrocketed back to Number One on Billboard’s Hot 100, giving the song its third non-consecutive week atop the chart. “Not Like Us” garnered 49 million streams last week, according to Luminate, …
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Seven years after wrapping up his Homeward Bound Farewell Tour with a hometown concert in Queens, New York, Paul Simon is returning to the road. He’ll be supporting his 2023 LP Seven Psalms, which is a single 33-minute acoustic track divided into seven distinct segments. The tour kicks off April …
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Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus will auction a Banksy painting, valued at up to £5 million, or $6.3 million, with a portion of the earnings directed toward a Los Angeles wildfire fund and medical charities. The rare, hand-painted artwork with an environmental message, titled “Crude Oil (Vettriano),” will go up for auction …
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WorldPride is coming to the United States this year — and it’s bringing a star-studded music festival with it. On Tuesday, WorldPride Music Festival announced that Jennifer Lopez and Troye Sivan will headline the 2025 edition, set to be hosted in Washington, D.C. on June 6 and 7. The stacked …
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Placebo frontman Brian Molko is facing criminal charges after offering some pointed onstage political commentary during a July 2023 performance at Italy’s Sonic Park Stupinigi festival. Italian prosecutors charged him with “contempt of the institutions” for calling Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni a “piece of shit, fascist, racist,” according to British …
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Lisa is getting the comic book treatment, the Blackpink star announced on Tuesday. She’s set to launch comics company Lalisa Comics and release Alter-Ego: The Official Comic, a supplement to her debut album out on Feb. 28. The comic version of Alter-Ego will be a limited-edition, 56-page book inspired by …
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