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Chase Rice Isn’t Apologizing for His Coronavirus Concert
Country singer Chase Rice drew the ire of the music industry and potentially put hundreds of his fans at risk when he played a packed concert in East Tennessee on Saturday. Nearly 1,000 people were in attendance, standing shoulder to shoulder, with not a face mask to be seen. Rice encouraged the audience to sing along, and even marveled at the size of the crowd in a post-show Instagram video. Understandably, many of his fellow musicians were angered by images and video from the concert, worrying that it could exacerbate the spread of coronavirus and delay their own return to touring (which is a chief source of income for many artists). “The people in this audience, along with the presenters of this show, are assuring that conscientious musicians won’t be able to work their jobs for a while...
MPM Productions Inks Multi-Year Partnership With Universal Music Latin
JD Pantoja is the first artist under the deal. Universal Music Latin has inked a multi-year partnership with Los Angeles-based music and media company MPM Productions. The first artist signed under the deal is Mexican urban act Juan De Dios Pantoja, better known as JD Pantoja, a YouTuber-turned-recording artist. Pantoja’s single “El Error,” has garnered over 50 million views since its release in May. MPM, co-founded in 2016 by Arizona State University alums Eric O’Connor, Dimitri Hurt and Luis Arellano, started out as a company that represented YouTubers. Eventually, says Arellano, president of MPM Latin, “we shifted our business strategy to focus on creating our own intellectual property. That’s why we proposed making music to our talent.” Their first artist to s...
Madison Square Garden Entertainment Names Scott Packman Executive VP and General Counsel
On Monday (June 29) Madison Square Garden Entertainment announced it had named Scott Packman executive vp and general counsel. Effective July 1, Packman will be tasked with overseeing and directing all of MSG Entertainment’s legal affairs and managing the company’s legal affairs team, including all corporate, commercial, transactional, litigation, regulatory and day-to-day legal matters. He will report to MSG Entertainment executive chairman and CEO Jim Dolan. Packman comes to MSG Entertainment with over 25 years of legal experience under his belt. Most notably, this includes a 14-year year stint at MGM Holdings/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he served in a variety of leadership roles, including 12 years as general counsel and secretary. During his run at the company, which he ended as senior ...
Ellie Goulding & Lauv Tease ‘Slow Grenade’ Collab, Blow Up Twitter With Cute Exchange
Ellie Goulding wants to release “Slow Grenade” with Lauv ahead of her forthcoming fourth album Brighest Blue, which comes out July 17. And he’s all for it. “So I’ve been thinking about releasing one more song before #BrightestBlue comes out. maybe with @lauvsongs?” she asked her 6.6 million Twitter followers today (June 29). According to her tracklist, the English singer-songwriter split her album into two parts titled Brightest Blue and EG.0, and the Lauv joint falls in the latter with a few other star-studded songs featuring blackbear (“Worry About Me”), Diplo and Swae Lee (“Close To Me”), and the late Juice WRLD (“Hate Me”). “yayayayayayayay :)” the “I Like M...
Dr. Dre’s Wife of 24 Years, Nicole Young, Files for Divorce
Nicole Young, Dr. Dre’s wife of 24 years, has filed for divorce. Nicole Young, Dr. Dre’s wife of 24 years, has filed for divorce. Young filed documents seeking to end her marriage with Dr. Dre — the producer, rapper and music mogul whose real name is Andre Young — on Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Nicole Young, 50, cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, and she is seeking spousal support from the 55-year-old Dr. Dre, who has amassed a major fortune in his time as an N.W.A. member, solo rapper, producer, co-owner of Death Row Records and founder and CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronics. The couple has two adult children, 23-year-old son Truice and 19-year-old daughter Truly. Dr. Dre has four children from previous relationships. The two m...
Metallica to Stream First Show From Colombia
Metallica has a very loyal audience in South America, playing before some of the biggest crowds in their career on the continent. For this week’s #MetallicaMondays show, they paid tribute to one of their earliest trip. “We dug through the dusty, old VHS tapes in Lars’ vault to uncover this show, which was not only the first time we played in Bogotá, but anywhere in Colombia,” a statement from the band’s says of their May 2, 1999 show during their Garage Remains the Same Tour, which was in support of the Garage Inc. covers album from the previous year. During the set, the band stormed through the three-encore, 20-song set that included favorites from that era like “Master of Puppets,” “Fuel” and a cover of the Misfits’ “Die, Die My Darling.” Last week, Metallica streamed a 2008 sh...
Watch Miley Cyrus Perform A Beatles Classic For An Empty Football Stadium
It seems like it was just a few weeks ago when artists were delivering humbling live performances from the safety of their living rooms. But during Global Citizen‘s Global Goal: Unite for Our Future livestream event on Saturday (June 27) — a production that featured interviews and live performances from the likes of Chloe x Halle, Christine and the Queens, and Justin Bieber — Miley Cyrus set the bar high for socially distant concerts moving forward. The singer performed her own Miley-fied take on the Beatles classic, “Help!” An appropriate tune for the event, which was meant to bring attention to the marginalized communities most vulnerable to COVID-19, Cyrus appeared in an empty Rose Bowl football stadium. There, wearing a belly-bearing teal gown...
The VMAs Are Returning To Barclays Center — And Hitting All Five Boroughs In New York City
It’s 2020, and the Moon Person is once again touching down in New York City. Yes, this year’s MTV VMAs will take place at the Barclays Center on Sunday, August 30, MTV announced today (June 29), aided by a quick shout-out from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo at his live video briefing. It’s the first time the show has hit the iconic Downtown Brooklyn venue since 2013. But this time, the action isn’t contained just to the arena, or even the borough in which it sits. For the 2020 show, the VMAs are going wide, featuring performances from various iconic locations throughout Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island, to honor the spirit and resilience of New York. The 2020 VMAs will be the first event to take place at Barclays Center since the COVID-19 pa...
The Cast Of Teen Wolf Ponders Where Their Characters Would Be Today
The Teen Wolf family just reunited in front of our True Alpha red eyes. “MTV Reunions,” the new digital format bringing cast members from television’s most memorable shows together for charity, just launched with an installment focusing on the iconic series Teen Wolf. Host Josh Horowitz spoke with series creator Jeff Davis and cast members Orny Adams, Linden Ashby, Ian Bohen, Charlie Carver, Max Carver, Arden Cho, Cody Christian, Shelley Hennig, Dylan O’Brien, Melissa Ponzio, Tyler Posey, Khylin Rhambo, Holland Roden and Dylan Sprayberry — and it made us miss the supernatural group more than ever. After lots of reminiscing (watch it above), everyone was asked where they see their TW alter ego today. Some remain in Beacon Hills — and others are far, far away. Here were their ans...
Blackpink’s Rosé Looks Pretty In Monochrome In New Saint Laurent Campaign
On Friday (June 26), the four ladies of Blackpink — Jennie, Lisa, Rosé, and Jisoo — dropped their sizzling, long-awaited single, “How You Like That,” the first track off their forthcoming studio album, scheduled for release in September. The K-pop supergroup also released a decadent music video packed with couture moments, featuring high-fashion looks from the likes of Alexander McQueen, Celine, and Chanel. By the time this story was published, the video had reached upwards of 149 million views. Stylistically, Blackpink is one of the coolest K-pop groups around, and as the girl group gears up for the release of their debut album, the road will be paved by many more exciting — and chic — moments. And on Monday (June 29), Rosé delivered. The group’s singer&nb...
THE ROLLING STONES’ RONNIE WOOD To Collaborate With Ashridge House On Unique Art Exhibition
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