LL Cool J takes the mic for the 2025 MTV VMAs, where Lady Gaga rules nominations
LL Cool J has snagged wins, co-hosted and performed atop the MTV Video Music Awards stage. Now, the Grammy-winning rapper-actor-author is going…
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Taylor Swift announces 12th studio album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’
Look what you made her do — Taylor Swift has announced her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” Swift announced the album on her website shortly after a countdown timer expired at 12:12 a.m. Tuesday.
Emmylou Harris and Brad Paisley are headed for Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Country superstar Brad Paisley and Americana powerhouse Emmylou Harris will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced Wednesday.
Lady Gaga leads 2025 MTV Video Music Awards nominations, followed by Bruno Mars and Kendrick Lamar
Abracadabra, feel the beat under your feet — Lady Gaga is back on top. The “Mayhem” musician tops the 2025 the MTV Video Music Award nominations with 12, ending Taylor Swift’s two-year run in the top spot.
Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia has childhood street named for him in San Francisco
A few hundred people gathered Friday to name a tiny San Francisco street after legendary Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia on what would have been his 83rd birthday and as part of a citywide celebration to mark the band’s 60th anniversary.
As Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour draws to a close, Blue Ivy emerges as a star
“Who they came to see?” Beyoncé asks as she performs her 2023 single “My House” during the Cowboy Carter tour. For many, the answer has been Blue Ivy.
‘Buckingham Nicks’ was a record store holy grail for decades. It’s finally getting reissued
Four years before Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” became one of the best breakup records of the 1970s — and, many might say, all time — Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were relative unknowns, a young couple putting out their own album, posing nude on the cover like a Laurel Canyon version of Adam and Eve.
Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76
(By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer) Ozzy Osbourne, the gloomy, demon-invoking lead singer of the pioneering band Black Sabbath who […]
A rap festival near the Arctic Ocean delights crowds under the midnight sun
It was well past midnight when Mihkku Laiti appeared on stage to perform at an open-air music festival in the Finnish village of Utsjoki, north of the Arctic circle…
Singer Chris Brown pleads not guilty to 2 further charges over London nightclub assault case
Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown on Friday pleaded not guilty to two further charges related to the serious beating of a music producer with…