When Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande began their Wicked journey together, the pair vowed to support and protect one another. For a while, they existed within a bubble of rehearsals and film production. Now that the film has been released, Erivo and Grande are no longer just Elphaba and Glinda …
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The Avett Brothers’ Broadway musical Swept Away will close on December 15, less than a month after the show opened at the Longacre Theatre. The musical, set in 1888 but featuring songs from the band’s 2004 album Mignonette, follows four sailors, including two brothers, who are struck by a violent …
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Rauw Alejandro will hit the road next spring in support of his latest album, Cosa Nuestra. The 20-city North American arena tour will kick off April 5 at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle and run all the way through spring, wrapping May 30 at the Kaseya Center in Miami. …
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Doechii continues to tie up 2024 with a bang as the latest star of NPR’s Tiny Desk Series, where she and an apparent ensemble of exclusively Black women in complementary cornrows tore through their set. They kicked things off calmly with “Boom Bap,” a sarcastic single from her debut mixtape …
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Jack Antonoff credited his longtime collaborator Taylor Swift for helping launch his career as one of the most accomplished producers of his generation, recalling in an interview that Swift’s decision to give Antonoff more creative control rather than go to a bigger-name producer lead him down his path. “I actually …
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Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on Friday, requesting that the consumer protection agency more consistently enforce the nearly decade-old legislation that was passed to try and stop scalpers from using bots to corner the market on concert tickets. The Better Online …
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Peso Pluma is finishing off the year with a bang, releasing his new single “Gervonta” on Thursday evening. The track marks Peso’s first new recording since releasing his fourth album Éxodo earlier this year. “Gervonta” seems to be named after the boxer Gervonta Davis, who shared the artwork for the …
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Shortly before he came out as gay in 2006, Lance Bass was in talks to film the pilot episode of a new sitcom at the CW. But when the news broke, the singer shared on a recent appearance on the podcast Politickin, certain opportunities started slipping away — including the …
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Lizzo won a key ruling this week in her ongoing legal battle with a wardrobe stylist who claims she was subjected to a hostile work environment on the singer’s 2023 European tour. A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled plaintiff Asha Daniels has no standing to sue Lizzo as …
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German outfit Kraftwerk will return to North America to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their monumental Autobahn album and first U.S. tour that took place in 1975. Billed as a multimedia tour, a press release touts Kraftwerk concerts as a “Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art” for “[b]ringing together …
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