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Watch Madonna Party Like a Rockstar With Post Malone at Madison Square Garden
Madonna partied with Post Malone during his concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night. While Malone was the star onstage, the “Material Girl” definitely stole the show backstage. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Get f—ed up motherf—ers!” she shouts in a video posted to her Instagram before rocking out to Malone’s eight-week Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 song “Rockstar” with her crew. The 64-year-old pop icon was appropriately dressed for the occasion in an all-black outfit with suspenders, a heap of silver jewelry, and bedazzled silver sunglasses. The superstar also sported bubblegum-pink hair, a departure from her usual blond tresses. Madonna spent time with Malone backstage after his concert, posting a photo of herself ...
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson Forcibly Removes Fan from Stage During Concert: Watch
Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson physically ejected an invasive fan from the stage during a recent show in Anaheim, California. While the incident happened on September 22nd, footage of the onstage incident is now making the rounds. The encounter took place during the final song of the evening (“Aces High”). Wearing a backwards cap, the fan rushed the stage and flashed the devil horns at guitarist Janick Gers and a visibly perturbed Dickinson, who attempted to escort the intruder backstage by the hand. Instead, the fan broke free and approached bassist Steve Harris, at which point he removed his hat to headbang next to the Iron Maiden founder. It’s here where Dickinson lost his patience, as the frontman grabs the fan by the back of the shirt or his long hair, and physically drags him b...
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Says Average Musician “Living Hand to Mouth”
Garbage singer Shirley Manson is the latest artist to speak up about the “enormous strain” musicians are facing due to the current state of live music. In a statement posted to Instagram, she said a “large percentage” of fellow musicians “are likely living hand to mouth” as a result. “Live music is under enormous strain,” Manson wrote in a caption accompanying the cover photo of a recent Vulture report titled The Live-Music Industry Is Broken. “The average musician can no longer survive let alone thrive under the current conditions. We are seeing so many precious talents buckle under the economic injustice of a system that does not pay the creative for their artistic output.” Manson continued, “Everyone is vying for a handful of venues in order to make a small amount of money to tide them ...
Drake and The Weeknd Continue to Boycott Grammys
Drake and The Weeknd have once again chosen not to submit their solo music for Grammy Awards consideration. While both artists’ names appear several times across the voter’s ballot for featured work, their individual albums — Drake’s Honestly, Nevermind and The Weeknd’s Dawn FM — do not appear on the official ticket, according to Pitchfork. Last year, after receiving nominations for both Certified Lover Boy and “Way 2 Sexy” in two categories, Drake withdrew his music from awards consideration entirely. Drizzy has had a rocky history with the Recording Academy, dating back to 2017, when he skipped the Grammys ceremony after the Academy nominated “Hotline Bling” in the rap category when he had contended that the track was a pop song. Meanwhile, The Weeknd outwardly expressed h...
Jack Harlow Brought Louisville to Brooklyn in Intimate One-Night-Only Show
In a unique one-night-only show on Wednesday evening, Jack Harlow transported fans from East Williamburg’s Brooklyn Steel to his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The rapper is known for speaking fondly of Louisville in interviews, and granted yesterday’s attendees a personal look at the Derby City without them having to leave New York. Harlow teamed up with American Express to hold the concert as part of the company’s Member Week, a weeklong celebration offering Amex users special events, entertainment and benefits. Tickets were available exclusively to card holders for just $10 USD. In a night packed with curated experiences, attendees were not just able to see Harlow live, but were invited to get up close with a few of his favorite hometown small businesses. Before and throughout the sh...
Queen Shares Long-Lost Song “Face It Alone” Featuring Freddie Mercury Vocals
Queen has released the emotional rock ballad “Face It Alone.” It’s the first song from the band that includes Freddie Mercury’s vocals to be released in over eight years. “Face It Alone” was recorded in 1988 during studio sessions for Queen’s 13th album, 1989’s The Miracle LP. The process of creating the album took an entire year. At the time, the band was grappling with Mercury’s HIV-positive diagnosis, which hadn’t been revealed to the public. “When something so near and dear to life / Explodes inside / You feel your soul is set on fire,” Mercury sings on the track. Mercury was 45 years old when Queen made “Face It Alone,” and passed away three years later from AIDS-related complications. The Miracle was Queen’s penultimate album with the singer, with the band releasing Innuendo nine mon...
Ninety – Smoke and Chill
Nigerian singer, Ninety drops a brand new single titled Smoke and Chill. Ninety returns with a fresh new single produced by Egar Boi just a few months after his released debut EP “Rare Gem” which includes songs like Buttercup, Kiss N Tell, etc. The new record is an impressive piece of music he sings about life without worry and his effort to build an empire, and how he copes by smoking & chilling all pen down with frank and relatable lyrics. Listen and share Ninety – Smoke and Chill below. [embedded content] Download
Lizzo Kept Love of Radiohead “Hidden” so She Wouldn’t Be “Made Fun Of” by Classmates
In a new interview, Lizzo said she felt compelled to keep her love of Radiohead “hidden” to avoid being “made fun of” by her classmates. “It was a Black school,” she explained in a Vanity Fair cover story, “mostly Black and brown, Caribbean, I had Nigerian friends… They were all listening to what was on the radio: Usher, Destiny’s Child, Ludacris, and I was into Radiohead’s OK Computer.” She said she “kept it hidden, even when I was in a rock band, because I didn’t want to be made fun of by my peers — they’d yell, ‘White girl!’ Also, I was wearing these flared bell-bottoms with embroidery down it — and they’d say, ‘You look like a white girl, why do you want to look like a hippie?’ I wanted to be accepted so bad; not fitting in really hurt.” Advertisement Related Video It wa...
JPMorgan Chase Cuts Ties with Kanye West Following Allegations He Praised Hitler
JPMorgan Chase has cut ties with Kanye West following his numerous antisemitic comments — including newly surfaced allegations he once praised Hitler and Nazis. Conservator provocateur Candace Owens first shared the news, writing on Twitter that there was “no official reason given” for the JPMorgan Chase’s decision, but West will have until late November to find a new financial institution. In response, West told Page Six he was “happy” about crossing the line into antisemitism “so we can speak openly about things like getting canceled by a bank.” “I was told there was no official reason given, but they sent this letter as well to confirm that he has until late November to find another place for the Yeezy empire to bank,” Owens tweeted alongside a purported photo of the official notice. Ad...
Tom DeLonge Thanks Matt Skiba for Keeping Blink-182 Alive
After Tom DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2015, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker turned to Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio to continue the project. Blink’s classic lineup is now reuniting, and DeLonge has shared a message thanking Skiba for “all that you have done to keep the band alive.” “I sent this to Matt personally,” DeLonge wrote in a social media statement, “but it’s important for the world to know that I honor him.” The letter reads: “I wanted to take a minute and say thank you for all that you have done to keep the band alive and thriving in my absence. I think you are enormously talented (I still love to listen to your band to this day). You have always been so kind to me, not only in the press, but also to others. I really noticed. Emotions between the three of us in...
Bruno Mars Closes the Door on Silk Sonic Grammy Consideration: ‘Humbly… Sexually Bow Out of Submitting Our Album’
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are choosing to sit out this year’s Grammy Awards. In a statement to Billboard on Thursday (Oct. 13), Mars confirmed that the duo will not submit the acclaimed debut by their Silk Sonic duo, An Evening With Silk Sonic, for Grammy consideration. “Andy and I, and everyone that worked on this project, won the moment the world responded to first single ‘Leave The Door Open.’ Everything else t just icing on the cake,” Mars said of the retro soul track that won four Grammy awards in April, including song of the year, record of the year, best R&B song and best R&B performance; the An Evening album was released in Nov. 2021, which would have made it eligible for nominations at the 2023 ceremony. “We thank the Grammys for allowing us to perform on their platfor...
20 Questions With Kerri Chandler: How An Obsession With the Club World’s Best Sound Systems Forged the Icon’s Latest Album
Kerri Chandler is an innovator. The legendary DJ and producer, who is looking at 30 years of house music in his rearview, is an out-of-the-box thinker who doesn’t see limitations, just new frontiers. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Case in point, his latest album, the 24-song Spaces and Places — his first since 2008’s Computer Games. Space and Places was not created in Chandler’s elaborate home studio in New Jersey — which is on par with any commercial studio, and leaves quite a few of those marquee locations in its dust. Instead, over the course of two years, Chandler traveled around the globe, recording the songs for Space and Places at clubs in various cities. Printworks and Ministry of Sound in London, The Warehouse Project in Manch...
