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Kendrick Lamar and Marvel have collaborated in the past on ventures, such as the Compton native curating the Black Panther soundtrack in 2018. And now, the two parties are set to reunite for Captain America: Brave New World, which hits theaters across the U.S. on Friday (Feb. 14). Captain America star Anthony Mackie, who plays […]

After Chappell Roan was criticized by a former music industry executive for her speech at the 2025 Grammys, the singer encouraged the music industry’s power players to join her in raising money for artists’ healthcare coverage. Now, it appears that the industry listened.
On Monday (Feb. 10), Roan officially partnered with the non-profit Backline to launch the We Got You campaign, a fundraising initiative aimed at “supporting accessibility of health care for artists,” according to its donation page. In an Instagram Stories post revealing the partnership, Roan added that she had donated $25,000 to the campaign — with fellow artists Charli XCX and Noah Kahan matching her donation — and urged industry executives to do the same.

“Fans, y’all don’t have to donate a damn penny,” she said in the post. “This is one of many opportunities for the industry powers to show up for artists. There is much more work to be done.”

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According to We Got You’s donations page, multiple major music companies and executives matched Roan’s donations. Public $25,000 contributions from Live Nation, AEG Global Touring, Wasserman Foundation and Hinterland Music Festival are listed among the campaign’s supporters, as well as matching donations from Sumerian Records founder/CEO Ash Avildsen and talent manager Guy Oseary.

“Thanks Chappell Roan for inspiring change,” read a noted shared alongside AEG’s donation. Avildsen added, “Sumerian Records always strives to be on the right side of history. Then. Now. Forever.”

In a statement shared to their Instagram, Hinterlands Music Festival commended Roan, Kahan and Charli XCX for publicly supporting “adequate support” for artists. “Without great artists, there are no music festivals,” the organization wrote. “As an independent music festival, we are dedicated to continuing to support and advocate for the well-being of all musicians, no matter their industry success. WE GOT YOU!!”

“This surge in advocacy marks a turning point in our journey as an organization,” said Backline executive director Hilary Gleason in a statement sent to Billboard on Wednesday (Feb. 12). “We are thrilled to see artists, industry leaders, and corporations take action to invest in the health and wellness of the music industry professionals who make it all happen. The awareness alone will have a significant impact for the music community in 2025 and beyond.”

In her own statement shared shortly after the campaign was launched, Backline community manager Terra Lopez praised Roan for helping the organization raise vital funding for artists’ health. “The We Got You campaign is a powerful step in prioritizing mental health and well-being of those who make the music we all love,” she wrote. “Thank you to Chappell Roan, Charli xcx, and Noah Kahan for your advocacy and action to create a more supportive industry — together, we are showing artists they are seen, heard, and cared for.”

Roan’s $25,000 donation was first revealed in a response the artist wrote to former A&R executive Jeff Rabhan, who criticized the singer’s call for label-provided healthcare at the 2025 Grammys. “@jeffrabhan wanna match me $25K to donate to struggling dropped artists?” she wrote on her Instagram Stories last week. “I love how in the article you said ‘put your money where your mouth is.’ Genius !!! Let’s link and build together and see if you can do the same.” At press time, none of the public donations to the campaign bear Rabhan’s name.

Cyndi Lauper was listed among the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees on Wednesday morning (Feb. 12), and the “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” superstar shared her gratitude for the honor amid her global Farewell Tour.

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“It was amazing news to wake up to after last night’s show at the O2 in London,” she wrote in a statement to Billboard. “The audience showed me so much love, like all the audiences have all along this, my Farewell Tour.”

Lauper continued, “I am so grateful to my fans for my career. From the start, I’ve just wanted to make music that means something to people, that lifts them up and makes them feel seen. This honor, should I get in, is as much for them as it is for me. Thank you, Rock Hall.”

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Lauper is nominated for the Rock Hall’s Class of 2025 alongside 13 other nominees, including Bad Company, The Black Crowes, Mariah Carey, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Joy Division/New Order, Maná, Oasis, Outkast, Phish, Soundgarden and The White Stripes.

The Grammy-winning “Time After Time” singer was previously nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, but ultimately didn’t make the final cut for induction. Her Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell Tour continues throughout Europe until the end of February, before Lauper heads to Australia and Japan in April.

The Class of 2025 will be revealed in late April, and this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place in Los Angeles this fall, with more details to be announced in the coming months.

The 74th NBA All-Star Game is back in California as basketball’s biggest weekend invades The Bay Area. In addition to the festivities on the court, there are plenty of parties and events taking place the weekend of Feb. 13-16 in San Francisco and Oakland. It’s the first All-Star Game at the Chase Center, and the […]

The Academy Award-winning Summer of Soul was jam-packed with awesome performances from Stevie Wonder to Nina Simone. But one performance in the documentary about 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival was singularly captivating: that of multiracial band Sly and the Family Stone in all its glorious, psychedelic soul-funk splendor. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See […]

Pusha T showed love to Kendrick Lamar for his record-breaking Super Bowl Halftime Show performance in New Orleans. King Push took to his Instagram Story on Tuesday (Feb. 11) saluting K. Dot for a job well done with his Feb. 9 rap-heavy set at the Caesars Superdome. “Mission accomplished… Congrats,” he wrote. Kendrick and Pusha […]

It was a good news/bad news day for Grimes on Tuesday (Feb. 11) when the “Delete Forever” singer learned that her ex Elon Musk had taken the couple’s first-born son to a White House briefing. In response to a commenter who noted that four-year-old “Lil X” (born X Æ A-Xii) “was very polite today! You raised him well. He was so cute when he told DJT [Donald Trump] ‘please forgive me, I need to pee,’” Grimes criticized Musk for including their child in the photo-op.
Grimes did not find the seemingly uncleared appearance by her son quite so charming, responding, “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me.” The preschooler spent some of his time in the Oval Office on his father’s shoulders as Trump signed an executive order giving the Tesla boss’ controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) more power to continue its legally suspect slash-and-burn march through the federal beuracracy.

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“But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh,” Grimes added of the little one who at one point was seen picking his nose just inches away from a seemingly irritated Trump. X, dressed in a suit and tie, also pulled faces and seemed to imitate his father’s gestures, at one point mussing Musk’s hair and grabbing his ears in boredom during the daytime White House appearance.

Grimes has three children with Musk — who has a total of 12 children from three different women — and has often been at odds with the world’s richest man over the rearing of their children and his often-controversial public statements. Last month, when Musk made what was widely interpreted as a pair of vigorous Nazi salutes during an inauguration event for Trump, Grimes quickly distanced herself from the billionaire who in late January told a crowd of supporters of the far-right Alternative For Germany party that, “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents,” in an apparent reference to Nazi Germany just two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“There is too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that,” Musk added, praising the anti-immigration, anti-cultural integration party as the “best hope for Germany.”

At the time of the salutes, Grimes wrote, “it is unhealthy that people are this upset when I have not even been online yet today and am only just learning about this controversy now. I don’t know what happened and I will not make a rash statement – I am not a citizen of this country.” She later made it clear that she did not approve of the seemingly fascist gesture many took as a version of the “Sieg Heil” gesture associated with Holocaust mastermind Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.

“I am not him. I will not make a statement every time he does something. I can only send love back into a world that is hurting,” Grimes said. “To be clear i could go talk s–t and be on a bunch of magazine covers and be a feminist hero and get clout – but it would serve no purpose. I choose my children’s wellbeing. I promise you it doesn’t feel good to be hated all the time for things I don’t even know about, cannot predict and cannot control. But I also chose this path, I accept it. I make the best of it, and I simply wish happiness and health to all.”

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He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) February 12, 2025

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has unveiled its 2025 nominees, and while every person and band on the list is more than deserving to be welcomed into the institution’s esteemed ranks, only a few can be.
As announced Wednesday (Feb. 12), the names on this year’s ballot include Mariah Carey, Oasis, Bad Company, The Black Crowes, Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, Billy Idol, Joy Division/New Order, Cyndi Lauper, Maná, Oasis, Outkast, Phish, Soundgarden and The White Stripes. Eight of those acts — Bad Company, the Black Crowes, Checker, Cocker, Idol, Maná, Outkast and Phish — are first-time nominees, while the other six have been in RRHOF consideration in years past.

Those names will now be narrowed down by an international panel of more than 1,200 artists, historians and music industry players, with a fan-voted element factored in. That group’s selected nominees will be revealed in April, as well as whether they’ll be entering in the musical influence or musical excellence categories. An induction ceremony in Los Angeles will follow in the fall, coming one year after the 2024 class comprised of Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, Ozzy Osbourne and A Tribe Called Quest was inaugurated into the hallowed Rock Hall.

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But while the list of nominees chosen for immortalization in the coveted hall of fame is largely up to panelists, Billboard wants to know who you would select from this year’s shortlist. Tell us who you most want to see inducted into the RRHOF by casting your vote below.

Mandy Moore had a simple message for Amazon on Tuesday (Feb. 11): “Do better.” The singer/actress lashed out at the global giant in her Instagram Story after she said the company delivered a package to her in-laws’ house in Pasadena, which was totally destroyed by last month’s devastating wildfires.
“Do better, Amazon,” she wrote in the Story that has since timed out, alongside a photo of the charred home and an image of the package sitting amidst the destruction. “Can we not have better discretion than to leave a package at a residence that no longer exists? This is my mother and father in law’s home. Smh.”

According to TMZ, Amazon responded to Moore’s post, with a spokesperson saying, “We’ve reached out to Ms. Moore via Instagram to apologize for this and to ask for more information from her in-laws so we’re better able investigate what happened here.” The representative added, “For weeks, we’ve advised those who are delivering on our behalf in southern California to use discretion in areas that were impacted by wildfires – especially if it involves delivering to a damaged home – that clearly didn’t happen here.”

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Moore, who initially reported that her home was also partially destroyed by one of the half dozen fires that killed 29 and destroyed more than 16,00 homes and other structures, also posted an emotional chronicle of her own flight from the Santa Ana winds-fueled conflagrations. “We never got an evacuation notice. Sometimes in the quieter moments of processing the last month, I play the game of what would have happened if I didn’t have my phone next to me, playing my typical ‘piano for deep sleep’ mix as I nursed Lou before bed, so I could answer the call from my brother-in-law?” Moore wrote on Instagram on Tuesday along with an image of the damage caused by the fire.

“It was 6:45 p.m. and he told me he, his wife, and our niece were evacuating, grabbing my in-laws (his parents) and getting the heck out of Dodge and we should do the same,” Moore continued. “I calmly walked downstairs and relayed this to my husband and without skipping a beat, we promptly packed up the kids (in their pjs), our dog, and scrambled to find our 3 cats as the power went out. I’ll never forget Taylor trying to figure out how to manually open our two little garage doors (they’d just finished construction around Thanksgiving and we’d just started using them—) in the harrowing 60 mph winds, as the sky glowed a dark red and ash started to fall all around us.”

Moore described racing across town dodging fallen tress on the freeway on their way to the safety of a friend’s home and getting her three kids to bed before running to Target to buy a litter box and some water. She also chronicled obsessively refreshing the Watch Duty wildfire map all night as she watched the evacuation zone narrow in on the eight-block radius around her home.

“It took until 4 a.m. for it to turn red. All the while, tossing and turning with a stomach-churning anxiety I’ve never experienced before, both boys passed out between us in bed,” Moore wrote. “[Oldest child daughter] Lou slept on the floor in a travel crib, and the dog curled up protectively by the door.”

She said that they just found out this week that their house is still standing, but that because of the proximity to the fires around their home, everything inside of it was a “near total loss. Clothes, furniture, pretty much everything will have to be disposed of… maybe even the walls too. We won’t be there for a very long time as it and the neighborhood itself get sorted out and cleaned and the rebuilding starts. I say all of this because i’m struggling. Yes we are exceedingly lucky to technically still have the structure of a home. But also… do we still have a home? I think my definition is in flux. The physical space? No. It goes without saying that our sweet brood and our pets are ALL that matters and home is where we are together… but having a sanctuary and safe space to feel settled really goes a long way too.”

The singer described “stumbling” on the home in the early days of COVID, instinctively knowing it was where they wanted to raise their kids; she found out she was pregnant with youngest son Gus two weeks after they closed on the home. Moore said they painstakingly restored and remodeled the home to make it their own and were just weeks away from finally finishing the work when the fires hit.

“I’m not saying all of this because I’m asking you to feel more sorry for us than someone else. Like I said, I am grateful. We’re so lucky!,” Moore wrote of the loss of the home and its contents, as well as the destruction of Taylor’s home studio. “By the grace of god we found a place to stay in the meantime and the kids are happy and safe. We’ve even starting collecting the books and toys that they’ve lost. It’s not a competition of who lost what or more. Real human beings across this town, regardless of their jobs or socioeconomic status, lost the life they’d come to know and count on in an instant. My whole heart is with them. Every one of them. This place, our home and the town itself, was our dream and I hope in time it will feel like that again… just a slightly different one.”

Last month, Moore’s brother-in-law, Dawes drummer Griffin Goldsmith, revealed that Moore and her family were taking shelter with her friend Hilary Duff. He also noted that he’d convinced his whole family and some close friends to move to Altadena years ago, including the siblings’ parents, who lived around the corner from him. Both Griffin and the Goldsmith’s parents lost their homes, while Taylor and husband Dawes singer Taylor Goldsmith had to flee their home and former Dawes bassist Wylie Gelber and his wife and their first crew member and old friend Jake lost their homes as well.

It’s been nearly five years since Naya Rivera died at 33 years old in an accidental drowning incident while taking her son, Josey — who turns 10 in September — on a boat trip in Lake Piru, Calif. And now, the Glee star’s ex-husband, actor Ryan Dorsey, is speaking out about her death and raising their child alone for the first time in depth, sitting down with People for an on-camera interview posted Wednesday (Feb. 12). 
Looking back on the day he first got the call that Rivera had gone missing in July 2020 — with authorities at the time finding then-4-year-old Josey sleeping alone on a boat rented by the singer-actress, who was nowhere to be found — Dorsey said he was full of confusion and fear. “I instantly said, ‘What do you mean? She knows how to swim,’” he told the publication. “I didn’t know what to think, but I feared the worst.” 

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Rivera’s disappearance quickly made national headlines, with fans, friends and Glee cast members all joining together at the time to voice their fears and pray for her safe return. Dorsey said he immediately drove to Lake Piru from Big Bear, Calif., speeding and “chain-smoking cigarettes” the whole drive before reuniting with Josey as authorities embarked on a search for Rivera’s body.  

“It was the worst five days of my life,” recalled the actor, who says it’s still difficult to see photos of his ex-wife, much less hear songs that remind him of her (such as Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie,” which she famously covered on Glee).  

One day after Rivera’s body was finally found in a remote part of the lake — sparking an outpouring of messages of grief from those who knew her, including numerous Glee costars and ex-boyfriend Big Sean — examiners ruled her death an accidental drowning and posited that she had used all of her strength to push Josey back onto the boat before she succumbed to the strength of the water. According to Dorsey, Josey has since been able to recall heartbreaking moments from the tragedy, such as how he and his mom had jumped off the boat to take a swim before Rivera noticed that the boat was drifting away, after which she instructed her son to swim back toward it. 

“He said that the last thing she said was his name, and then she went under, and he didn’t see her anymore,” Dorsey told People. “Something he’s said over and over is that he was trying to find a life raft, and there was a rope, but there was a big spider on the rope, and he was too scared to throw it. I keep reassuring him, ‘Buddy, that rope wasn’t going to be long enough.’”  

“That obviously still sticks out in his head because he feels like he could have saved her,” Dorsey added. “I think she just got caught up in a brush — that or a weird undercurrent from the dam. It was just a freak occurrence.” 

Rivera and Dorsey had an on-again, off-again relationship. After getting back together following a breakup, the pair tied the knot in 2014 and welcomed Josey the next year; the Sorry Not Sorry later filed for divorce in 2016. 

Dorsey has now spent the last four and a half years raising Josey as a single dad, moving to West Virginia after Rivera’s funeral to escape paparazzi. The actor says the experience has affected his approach as a parent. “I treat him differently than I would a normal kid because of what he’s been through. … For me, it’s not a big deal if he hears a bad word or if he sees someone get killed on TV,” Dorsey told the publication. 

Josey is also definitely “his mama’s son, because when he doesn’t get the answer he wants, he keeps talking,” Dorsey added, smiling fondly. “He likes to talk, and that’s Mama for sure.”  

Watch Dorsey’s emotional interview about Rivera below.