Rihanna put on a blow out performance at the Rock In Rio Festival in Brazil over the weekend that marked her return to the event for the first time since 2011. ...
Micky Dolenz and his Monkees bandmates are enjoying a career resurgence that other legacy pop stars dream about. At 70, Dolenz just returned from a week in England, where he and Monkees bandmate Peter Tork performed two sold-out shows. He also has a new album on the way....
Justin Bieber has released a new single that he says points to a new direction in is music. A lyric video for the song “What Do You Mean?” is going viral and hopefully will help jump-start his stalled career. Bieber talked about his music today in a radio interview with Elvis Duran on his Z100 radio broadcast, “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.”...
Taylor Swift shared the stage at her Santa Clara, Calif., show with English girl group Little Mix, and turned over the stage, so could perform their new single “Black Magic.” Taylor sang and shimmied along. Swift has featured a number of groups, including Fifth Harmony, on the latest leg of her 1989 tour. The all-girl band, made up by Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jesy Nelson share something in common with boy band One Direction....
One Direction, or what’s left of the boy band, dropped a new song out of the blue called “Drag Me Down.” Is it a veiled reference to departed member Zayn Malik? Tabloids are sure to play it that way. Band members Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Thomlinson announced the news in a Twitter blitz....
Harry Styles of boy band “One Direction” joined an elite musical club after he was captured on a fan video taking a shocking tumble on stage during the first show of the band’s U.S. tour. In fact, so many stars have fallen on stage it seems like a rite of passage. Over the past few years, Kanye West, Selena Gomez, Steven Tyler, Iggy Azalea and Lady Gaga have taken stage tumbles while performing....
Justin Bieber is a broad paint-splattered canvas in his new “Where Are U Now” video. But images containing the plea “Stop Worshipping (sic) Me” and “please go out and find some worthy idols” are disturbing some fans. One image also admonishes “read a book.” Fans reportedly made the artwork and it was superimposed on Bieber in the video. They should learn how to spell....
Florence + the Machine, scored a breakout hit with the debut at No. 1 on the U.S. Album charts of their latest album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. The band’s third studio album pushed Hip-hop record At.Long.Last.A$AP out of the top spot. Led by lead singer Florence Welch with Isabella Summers and collaborating artists, the band sold 128,000 albums, according to music tracker Nielsen SoundScan....
Rita Ora just has to hang out with the hipster cool kids to become famous in her new video for “Poison,” the second single off her as yet unreleased new album. But there’s a bigger moral to this story. Ora, 24, may be too much of a Rihanna knock-off to find a fan base in the United States. But she’s big in her native UK and Europe....
Brian Wilson of Beach Boys fame went out on the road last year with guitarist Jeff Beck, of all people, and announced he was working on a new solo album. The album, No Pier Pressure is a confusing affair on several fronts, but Wilson’s genius shines through nonetheless. The album also features guest performances by Sebu Simonian of Capital Cities, Kacey Musgraves, of She & Him, and former band member Blondie Chaplin. Al Jardine and Dave Marks also contribute. ...
The Rolling Stones played one of the smallest venues since their 2003 Four Flicks concert series, with a show at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. It was a tune up for this summer’s Zip Code Tour that will be anything but small, hitting only stadiums in 15 cities. There was plenty of room at last night's show for celebrities like Jack Nicholson, One Direction’s Harry Styles, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Willis, Patricia Arquette, Eric Idle, Don Was and Joe Pesci. ...
Janet Jackson, one of the most dominant performers of the 1980s and ’90s is about to launch a comeback after a seven- year hiatus with a new album and tour, she said in a surprise announcement at midnight today (May 16). Does she still have it? Legacy acts, as they’re called, often find that their fan bases are still willing to support them, even in middle age. Madonna, who is 56, recently released Rebel Heart, her 13th studio album, and it has been a commercial success. ...
Justin Bieber has been called a lot of things, but nobody has ever called him untalented. He slipped into the drummer’s seat with Reggie Watts and the band on the “Late Late Show With James Corden” and kept a mean beat while Watts sang. What a guy! Bieber, who was a creep in an 18-month run of loutish behavior, is now slowly creeping back into everyone’s good graces. He was supporting musical guest Tori Kelly, a protege. ...
Mariah Carey got everyone in the mood for her first show in her residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas by employing a little touch of bondage a la the hit movie “50 Shades of Grey.” That’s one way to get to infinity… and beyond. Carey made sure her show would be fun for the audience–and a bit shocking–when she got out handcuffs and a blindfold. The dancers handcuffed and blindfolded him, while he sat back on a double chaise lounge and Mariah went to work....
Iggy Azalea’s meteoric rise to fame last summer has left a trail of law suits in its wake. The latest filed by Make Millions Music in Harris County, Texas, claims Azalea walked away from her contract when her career took off. Amethyst Amelia Kelly, signed with powerhouse Universal Music Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Araca Merchandise and Araca Productions....
