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Kurt Cobain’s Hair, Eddie Van Halen Guitar Among Items in Rock Auction
The items are part of a slate of rock items being offered up by Iconic Auction, spanning Elvis to grunge. The auction closes Saturday (May 15). A portion of proceeds will benefit Crew Nation, a relief fund for live music touring and venue crews who are facing hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The item with the highest minimum is a collarless, dark blue jacket custom made for Paul McCartney that starts at $25,000. It was worn onstage over a six-night stand at Bournemouth, England’s Gaumont Theatre in 1963. Tricia Eaton, East Coast consignment director at Iconic Auctions, said the jacket is one of the Beatles’ earliest stage-worn garments ever to come to market and captures the band pivoting from jeans and leather jackets. There’s also a copy of Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts C...
Russian Dolls Talk ‘Masked Singer’ Exit: ‘I’m Pretty Sure We’re Not Sugarland’
After talking about being ridiculed for trying to do their thing earlier in their career and laughing their way through guesses that ranged from Menudo to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Boyz II Men and the Jonas Brothers, when push came to shove, it could only be one family band under those massive heads: Hanson. The trio of Taylor, Isaac and Zac had the panel stumped for most of this season, but if you’ve followed the Tulsa-bred band’s 25-plus-year career at all, those harmonies were unmistakable. On Wednesday, the Grammy-winning “MmmBop” trio also announced their seventh studio album, Against the World, which will premiere in seven consecutive monthly singles throughout the rest of the year, beginning with lead single “Annalie,” out now. The brothers have ...
The Duo Behind 2021 Brit Awards Sets From Olivia Rodrigo, Arlo Parks & More Reveal How They Came Together
After launching in 2012, Tawbox scored its major break working with Stormzy in 2017. Now, the pair is working on the creative direction for his upcoming headlining slot at Reading and Leeds Festival this August. In spite of so many years and so much success, both Bronski and Rimmel say it doesn’t feel like they’ve been doing this for nearly a decade, largely because, as Rimell says, “We’re always evolving. We’re constantly working towards the next thing and how we can progress from the last thing that we’ve done.” Below, Tawbox breaks down how its three 2021 Brit Awards performances came together. Olivia Rodrigo One of Bronski and Rimell’s first Zoom calls was in fact with Rodrigo and her team. They say it didn’t take long to develop the idea for this performance — for which the 18-y...
Olivia Rodrigo Gets Silly With Taylor Swift After Finally Meeting at the 2021 Brit Awards: See the Photo
When Olivia Rodrigo finally met Taylor Swift backstage at the 2021 Brit Awards Tuesday (May 11), she did what anyone would do when connecting with their hero: She made a super silly face. The “Drivers License” singer posted a cute black-and-white backstage snap with Swift just after the show. In the photo shared on Instagram, the 18-year-old is sticking out her tongue and rolling her eyes to the ceiling as Swift wraps her arm around her and makes an eyes-closed kissy face at the camera. The post was accompanied by four pleading face emojis, and solicited plenty of A-list reaction from friends and fans. Conan Gray commented, “I love my sister and my mom,” with singer Ashe adding, “zero words i–I’m so happy for you,” and Hayley Kiyoko so seemin...
Carole King Reacts to Second Rock Hall Induction, Talks Potential Return to the Stage
While the honor is richly deserved, King never planned on becoming a famous singer in her youth. When she initially entered the music business as a Brill Building scribe in the late ’50s, she only saw herself as a songwriter. “I became an artist [in the late ’60s], not reluctantly, but it was just the right circumstances that brought me into being an artist,” King recalls to Billboard. “And really, as a songwriter, you’re always the artist when you’re presenting the song to another artist. Through Lou Adler and with James Taylor’s help, I took ownership of being the artist who sang my own songs.” Fans of King’s warm, wistful style will be thrilled to hear that she is not only planning on attending the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
Here’s How ‘Fearless (Taylor’s Version)’ Performed in Its Fourth Week Compared to Taylor Swift’s Original ‘Fearless’
Taylor Swift released Fearless (Taylor’s Version), her re-recording of her best-selling 2008 sophomore album, a little over a month ago, and scored a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart. In the month since its release, we’ve been keeping track of how the unprecedented chart-topper — the first re-recorded version of another album to reach the peak of the Billboard 200 — has performed as compared to the original Fearless, in terms of weekly listenership. In its fourth week on the Billboard 200, Fearless (Taylor’s Version) slips out of the top 10, coming in at No. 15 after posting at No. 9 on last week’s tally. The re-recorded Fearless earned 24,000 equivalent album units for the chart week dated May 15, according to MRC Data, down from 33,000 equivalent album units in the prev...
Louis Tomlinson Sets 2022 World Tour Dates
The English singer’s jaunt will take him across North America, then head to east for a European leg starting March 23 at Valsheimilio in Reykjavik, Iceland, and wrapping April 23 with a homecoming date at Doncaster Dome. Australasian dates are booked from July 20 at Brisbane’s Fortitude Hall. Fresh tour dates for South America and Asia have yet to be announced. Tomlinson’s first solo world tour was set to run through 2020, in support of his debut solo album Walls. That trek, like so many others, was scuppered by the health crisis. As a member of 1D, which called it a day in 2015, Tomlinson had a hand in over 100 million record sales. Streams of his solo music have blasted past one billion, and Louis isn’t looking back. “I feel like a new artist now,” he says. “It’s taken a while for m...
Billie Eilish Talks Wig Rumors, Favorite Song and Performs ‘Your Power’ on ‘Colbert’
On Monday night (May 10), Eilish was the musical guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Framed by a rugged desert, the Californian star and her brother/collaborator Finneas produced a dreamy, ambient cut. Just vocals, a single acoustic guitar and a barren landscape. Earlier, Eilish zoomed in for a chat with the late-night show’s host, her second interview with Colbert in about 10 weeks. At the top, Colbert sought to crush those rumors on her hairstyle during that previous appearance on his program. Yep, that green do was a wig. “I was just as blond then as I am now,” she admitted. For real, she continued, it was a Billie Eilish Halloween costume wig, bought on Amazon. “It was awful, it was the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen,” she said. There was method to all that madness. With all the...
‘Dude Looks Like’ Kelly Clarkson Rocking Out Like Steven Tyler For Her Aerosmith Cover
Inaugural American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson is throwing it back to one of former AI judge Steven Tyler‘s hits, “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” by Aerosmith, for Monday’s (May 10) Kellyoke. Clarkson kicked off the week with a red-hot rock ‘n’ roll performance, replete with shrieking, and packing a punch every time she sang the “Dude, dude, dude, dude looks like a lady” line in the outro. “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” was released as the first single from Aerosmith’s ninth album, Permanent Vacation, from 1987. The song reached No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 4 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay tally. Tyler co-wrote the song about walking into a bar and mistaking Mö...
Fans Choose Bebe Rexha’s ‘Better Mistakes’ as This Week’s Favorite New Music
“During the process of this album, I’ve gotten to know myself really well, and the person that I am. And I’ve learned to accept that person, to accept her, flaws and all. I think that’s the number one thing in life — the acceptance within yourself, your failures, the good parts and the bad parts,” Rexha recently told Billboard about the making of her sophomore album. See the final results of this week’s new music release poll below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Taylor Swift Set to Receive Global Icon Award at 2021 Brit Awards
That 2015 win for international female solo artist is Swift’s only Brit Award to date, from six nominations. Swift has set many records on the U.K. charts, as she has in the U.S. and around the world. She is the only female artist in the 21st century to amass seven No. 1 studio albums on the Official U.K. Albums chart. The Official Charts Company also reports that Swift is the U.K.’s top-selling artist of 2021 to date, which is remarkable for an artist 15 years into her career. Swift has amassed 17 top 10 hits on the Official U.K. Singles chart, but, surprisingly, she has landed just one No. 1 single on that chart — “Look What You Made Me Do,” which spent two weeks on top in 2017. Swift is not expected to perform on The Brit Awards with Mastercard 2021 — as the show is official...
