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Joey DeFrancesco—the renowned jazz organist, composer, and bandleader—has died, his wife and manager, Gloria DeFrancesco, stated. “The love of my life is now in peace with the angels,” she wrote. “Right now I have very few words. Thank you for the outpouring of love and support coming in from everywhere. Joey loved you all.” A cause of death was not provided. Joey DeFrancesco was 51 years old. The prodigious musician played trumpet, piano, saxophone, and synthesizer, but was best known for reviving the use of the Hammond B3 organ in the modern jazz scene. Emerging as an unparalleled talent in the 1980s, DeFrancesco would go on to release over 30 recordings as a bandleader, and log studio time with a number of high-profile artists like Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Bette Midler, and more. DeFr...

Britney Spears posted a 22-minute voice memo addressing her conservatorship over the weekend, deleting it within a few hours. Sharing the clip in a Twitter thread, Spears further detailed her experiences under the conservatorship and her feelings about her family’s involvement. “I haven’t honestly shared this openly because I’ve always been scared of the judgement, and definitely the embarrassment of the whole thing,” she said, adding later, “It’s unbelievably offensive, sad, abusive, and, honestly, would anybody believe me?” Spears claimed that she was forcibly hospitalized under circumstances that she later understood were pre-arranged. Spears said that she spent a few weeks in the hospital, after which she appeared in an episode of How I Met Your Mother and then began work on her ...

Note: This article contains descriptions of abuse. Scott Kelly, a co-founding member of California metal band Neurosis, has admitted that he has “engaged in the emotional, financial, verbal and physical abuse” of his wife and children. Kelly discussed his abusive behavior in a post on his personal Facebook account on Saturday, August 27. “Due to recent events, I feel that I clearly need to address some rumors and set the record straight,” he wrote before detailing incidents of abuse and announcing that he is “100% permanently retired from being a professional musician.” Neurosis shared a statement in response to Kelly on Facebook today. “We cannot overstate the level of disgust and disappointment we feel for a man who we once called Brother,” the members of Neurosis wrote in the statement....