Sheryl Crow slammed the music industry for forcing artists to be “brand oriented,” if they ever hope to succeed. But, hey, if it wasn’t for a bit of crass commercialism on her part, where would she be? Remember “All I Want to Do?” Crow’s breakthrough hit appeared on her 1994 debut album Tuesday Night Music Club and it’s about as commercial as you can get....
Courtney Love is in the hole. She reportedly owes Uncle Sam more than $500,000 in back taxes after paying off another unpaid tax bill from 2009. But don’t weep for her. She’s worth more than $150 million, despite a decade of reckless spending. Her fortune is based her ownership stake in late husband Kurt Cobain’s music publishing rights for his band Nirvana. She inherited it when Cobain committed suicide in 1994....
Pink, one of the hardest working singers in show business, is down with the flu and bagging her performance at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit. The move came on doctor’s orders. Her whole family is battling the virus. What no flu shots? Pink, real name Alecia Beth Moore, doesn’t turn up on any celebrity list of anti-vacciners, but it was a little odd that daughter Willow also came down with chicken pox in 2013....
Grammy-nominated singer Halsey knows first hand about the pain caused by endometriosis. She went public about her battle with the condition last year and was honored this year at the 9th Blossom Ball in support of the Endometriosis Foundation of America....
onah Hill’s brother Jordan Feldstein, well-known in the music industry as Maroon 5’s manager, died last December from an condition that usually affects people in old age, according to a coroner’s report. Yet, he was just 40. Feldstein died as a result of a deep vein thrombosis in his leg, according to a report by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office....
Harper Lee’s iconic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” was a stark portrayal of race relations in the deep South during the 1930s, but a planned Broadway play by Aaron Sorkin is failing to adhere to its themes and context, ...
Taylor Swift may be everywhere with her music, but she’s yet to pass this landmark–2 billion Apple Music streams. That honor belongs to… Rihanna! The “Diamonds” singer has become the first female artist to achieve that goal. She hit it over the weekend. She crowed about it on social media. She posted a meme of a child dancing for joy and quipped “when I found out that I was the first female artist to cross 2 billion worldwide streams on Apple Music!”...
Taylor Swift ditches her glam celebrity life and makes her get away barefoot on the subway (eww!) before dancing like nobody’s watching in the rain on a city street in the video for her song ‘Delicate.’ Swift released the video during the iHeart Radio Music Awards. ...
Tommy Lee is snapping back at his family. He may have been drunk when his son Brandon punched him out earlier this week. But, hey, the Motley Crüe drummer says he’s no alcoholic, even if his family, and ex-wife Pamela Anderson say otherwise. The 55-year-old Mötley Crüe rocker was left him with a fat lip after Brandon smacked him with his fist....
Ja Rule was left with egg on his face after his high-end Bahamas festival went bust last year. But the rapper’s partner Billy McFarland appears to be taking the fall. He’s pleaded guilty to two fraud charges. Ja, real name Jeffrey Bruce Atkins, was neither arrested nor charged, but because of his notoriety he bore the brunt of the public relations fallout....
James Bay’s 2015 debut album Chaos and the Calm was a chart-topper and he’ll find out whether he can escape the sophomore slump with the release of his second album Electric Light on May 18. “If I had to describe my first album visually it would probably be a flame, while this new album is about a real sonic and artistic evolution for me,” the 27-year-old singer said in a statement....
Jimmy Kimmel harvested some mean Tweets for the latest segment on his show and came up with some pointed doozies, all targeting popular musicians. Guess who could ruin a Denny’s meal, who looks like a ball sack, who looks like a ferret and who’s the Pottery Barn of Rap. Viewers had their pick to mix and match from Nick Jonas, Adam Levine, Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Pink, Usher, Alice Cooper and other artists....
Ariana Grande, who began her career in 2008 in Broadway musical 13, could be making a return to the Great White Way as witch Elphaba in the long-running Disney hit Wicked. Jackie Burns is currently reprising the role. The 24-year-old pop star is reportedly in discussions to take on the role and seems an odds on favorite to take it. She has made no secret that she is a huge fan of the production....