Stevie Nicks has added eight more shows — including gigs in Brooklyn, Portland, Charlotte — to her upcoming Live in Concert run this fall. Nicks will kick off her tour with a Barclays Center show in New York on Aug. 8 before playing already-announced shows in Boston, Toronto, and Tampa, …
Read More »Dancehall Legend Vybz Kartel on Life in Prison and His Miraculous Return
I t’s New Year’s Eve, and the roads that lead to Jamaica’s National Stadium are filled with food vendors manning their oil-drum grills. Some sell orange bandannas like the pair Vybz Kartel wore when he walked out of the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre five months earlier, on July 31, …
Read More »Sabrina Carpenter's 'Manchild' Debuts at Number One on Hot 100
Sabrina Carpenter has returned to the top of the charts with her latest single “Manchild” debuting at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100. “Manchild” is Carpenter’s first song to debut atop the Hot 100, and her second Number One overall after “Please Please Please” spent a week there almost …
Read More »Inside Sly and the Family Stone's Great, Lost Live Album
One day in 2009, Alec Palao found himself inside a Target in Los Angeles, buying a sweatsuit off a sale rack. He brought it back to a motel near LAX airport and gave it to Sly Stone, who was living there at the time. “He took one look at it …
Read More »Billy Corgan, Melissa Auf der Maur Reunite to Perform Smashing Pumpkins' 'The Everlasting Gaze'
Billy Corgan and his new band the Machines of God are in the midst of their A Return to Zero Tour, where they’re performing Smashing Pumpkins songs from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Machina/The Machines of God, and Aghori Mhori Mei. On Friday, they hit Montreal, and Corgan’s former …
Read More »Jonas Brothers Add Dates to 20th Anniversary Tour After Downgrading Some Venues
The Jonas Brothers aren’t dwelling on how they downgraded five shows from stadiums to arenas — instead, they’re expanding their Jonas20 tour, adding new dates with support from acts like the All-American Rejects, Marshmello, and Boys Like Girls. “This tour is both a celebration of 20 years of making music …
Read More »John C. Reilly Just Wants to Be Loved. Is That So Wrong?
Is John C. Reilly the lovelorn antidote to a troubled, chaotic world? At New York’s Cafe Carlyle Friday night, the Oscar- and Grammy-nominated actor reprised perhaps his most sentimental role: Mister Romantic, a nostalgic crooner who wears his heart on his sleeve — sometimes literally — to belt standards and …
Read More »Sean Combs Trial: Possible Juror Dismissal and Mogul's 'Threatening' Voice Notes
Follow all of our Sean Combs trial coverage The fifth week of Sean Combs’ sex trafficking and racketeering trial revolved around testimony from the hip-hop mogul’s recent ex-girlfriend, who acknowledged that while she still loved Combs, she was still processing the “trauma” that came from their three-and-a-half-year relationship. Testifying under …
Read More »Hear Waylon Jennings' Tender Cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Songbird'
Shooter Jennings unearthed his father Waylon Jennings’ tender rendition of Fleetwood Mac’s “Songbird” Sunday to celebrate Father’s Day. “I’ve been waiting so long to share this with you,” Shooter wrote on Instagram Sunday. “It hasn’t been an easy road to get here, but it’s been one that has given me …
Read More »Shakira Says Being an Immigrant Under Trump 'Means Living in Constant Fear'
Shakira said that being an immigrant in America under the Trump administration means “living in constant fear” in a recent interview. Speaking to the BBC, the Colombian-born singer — already a pop star in her native country — reminisced about moving to America in her late-teens. “I was only 19 …
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