After two years of virtual programming, the saints returned to New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome for the Essence Music Festival (now officially the Essence Festival of Culture) with mixed results. Nearly 30 years ago, the Black women’s magazine launched in the early 1970s created a celebration of music that has evolved …
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Backstreet Boys welcomed “sixth member” Drake onstage to perform “I Want It That Way” during the boy band’s concert Saturday in the rapper’s hometown of Toronto. Closing out their main set at the Budweiser Stage, the quintet brought out Drake, who told the audience a story about why the 1999 …
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H ow’s Michael Anthony doing?” That’s the first thing I say to Eddie Van Halen, the legendary guitarist and co-namesake of the rock band Van Halen. Rather, that’s the first thing I say to someone who possibly is but probably isn’t Eddie Van Halen. I mean, who am I kidding? …
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Adele returned to the stage this weekend for her first concerts of the 30 era, but in a new interview with BBC 4 Radio, her mind was still on the shows she didn’t perform: The last-minute postponement of her Las Vegas residency. “I definitely felt everyone’s disappointment and I was …
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Earlier this year, Axl Rose joined Carrie Underwood onstage to perform two Guns N’ Roses classics during her headlining set at the Stagecoach Festival. On Friday night, the country singer returned the favor by making a surprise appearance onstage during the band’s gig in Tottenham, England. Underwood — who was …
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Adele returned to the stage Friday for her first concert of 2022 — and her first public show of the 30 era — at London’s Hyde Park. “My God, I’m back at home,” Adele told the sold-out hometown crowd after her show-opening performance of “Hello.” “It’s so strange to be …
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R. Kelly has been removed from suicide watch, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York, announced Tuesday. The news comes days after lawyers for the convicted sex trafficker filed a lawsuit against the Brooklyn prison for placing him on suicide watch. “Following a clinical assessment, Plaintiff Robert Sylvester …
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The New York Police Department has arrested a man accused of stalking and threatening Taylor Swift on a pair of occasions earlier this year. NYPD confirmed to Rolling Stone that a 35-year-old man named Joshua Christian of Brooklyn, New York was charged with stalking and criminal trespassing. The charges the …
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On a warm afternoon in June, crowds in Northwest D.C. celebrated Juneteenth by filling the air with the sounds of drums, toms, and voices, singing throughout the streets. I’m speed walking to catch my train home in order to spend the last few hours of Father’s day with my dad, …
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Travis Barker told fans he is feeling “much better” after a bout with pancreatitis that followed an endoscopy earlier this week. Five days after being taken to the hospital, the Blink-182 drummer posted a health update in his Instagram Stories and revealed the details behind his sudden ordeal. “I went …
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