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 …
Read More »Lisa Launches Comic-Book Company to Accompany Debut Album 'Alter-Ego'
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 …
Read More »Nine Inch Nails' Self Destruct Tour Photographer to Share Rare Images in New Exhibit
Rare photographs from Nine Inch Nails’ legendary Self Destruct Tour will debut in the United States at special exhibitions showing in New York City and Los Angeles. The show offers a new look at the trek, which found Nine Inch Nails touring the world between 1994 and 1996 in support …
Read More »Lady Gaga Will Celebrate 'Mayhem' With 'Saturday Night Live' Double Duty
Mayhem weekend just got even more chaotic! On Tuesday, Saturday Night Live announced its guests for March 1 and March 8: Tate McRae will perform as Shane Gillis hosts on March 1, and Lady Gaga will take on double-duty on March 8, the day after she releases her seventh studio …
Read More »Raphael Saadiq Plots Career-Spanning One-Man Show
R&B legend Raphael Saadiq, who most recently was a key collaborator on Beyoncé‘s Grammy-winning Cowboy Carter, will take the stage alone this spring for three concerts covering his lengthy career. The mini-tour, titled No Bandwidth: One Man, One Night, Three Decades of Hits, will draw from his work with Tony! …
Read More »Backstreet Boys Found 'Liberation' With 'Millennium.' They're Ready to Relive It
The Backstreet Boys feel like they’re going back to the future this year. This summer, the boy band will make history as the first pop act to host a residency at the Sphere in Las Vegas, and they’ll use the occasion to celebrate 25 years of their seminal album Millennium. …
Read More »With '$ome $exy $ongs 4 U' an Embattled Drake Shows Signs of Life
Drake’s problem is he can’t help himself. It’s right there on “CN Tower,” the first track on $ome $exy $ongs 4 U, his new collaborative project with PartyNextDoor. After musing on the color of the lights on the famous Toronto skyscraper one solemn evening (they’re red), he flips it into …
Read More »Daniel Seavey Says Unreleased Why Don't We Music Is 'Sitting in a Folder Somewhere' Amid Lawsuit
Daniel Seavey is free from the grasp of Why Don’t We’s legal woes — but he’s still thinking about the boy band’s songs that have never seen the light of day. In an interview with Harry Jowsey for his Boyfriend Material podcast, the pop singer shared details of how the …
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne Won't Play Full Set With Black Sabbath at Final Show
Ozzy Osbourne is tempering expectations ahead of his final live show this summer. The musician is set to perform with a reunited Black Sabbath at Back to the Beginning, an all-star, one-night-only charity gig in Birmingham, England, on July 5. However, Osbourne confirmed that he is not in the physical …
Read More »Selena Gomez Teases New Music Ahead of 'I Said I Love You First' Album
Selena Gomez is leaving more breadcrumbs for fans ahead of her next album, I Said I Love You First, a collaboration with her fiancé and producer Benny Blanco. The singer and actress released a clip on social media Tuesday, teasing a new song. In the video, Gomez mouths along to …
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