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Phish will be back in their happy place in December when they set up shop at New York’s Madison Square Garden From Dec. 28-31. The jam band legends announced the gigs on Tuesday (Oct. 1) in an Instagram post where they noted that the visit will bring their total number of MSG plays to date […]
Lady Gaga lit up Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Oct. 1 with an emotionally charged performance of “Happy Mistake,” a track from her newly released album Harlequin, which ties in with her role as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux.
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The stripped-back rendition showed off Gaga’s vocal prowess, channelling raw emotion and intensity that perfectly reflected the chaotic essence of her cinematic alter ego.
Gaga’s performance wasn’t just a song; it was a glimpse into the world she’s crafted around Harlequin. Following the performance, she told Kimmel, “It was inspired by the movie, it was inspired by my character Harley, and just also kind of this reflection on my life as a performer. It’s meant to be a really personal song about how sometimes we can go through dark times and feel like happiness is an accident when it happens.”
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Harlequin isn’t a typical film soundtrack but rather a concept record, as Gaga explained during her chat with Kimmel. “It’s not the soundtrack,” she said. “It’s a concept record and it’s a companion piece to the film. So, whether you listen to it before you watch the movie or after, it’s like an extension of the world.” This unique approach, blending music and cinema, is classic Gaga, who’s never shied away from pushing boundaries.
Discussing her role in Joker: Folie à Deux, Gaga shared the challenges of playing Harley Quinn, particularly how she had to find a different voice for the character’s musical moments.
“Harley’s not a trained singer,” she said. “So I worked a lot on developing her voice and finding what was natural and raw to her. There’s a kind of brokenness in her. She’s got an inner storm, and I wanted it to come from there.”
Gaga’s conversation with Kimmel wasn’t all about the film and album, though. The pop icon also gave fans a peek into her personal life, recounting the story of her fiancé Michael Polansky’s unexpected proposal.
“He proposed to me right after my birthday,” she revealed, adding that Polansky, in true “Minnesota nice” fashion, asked for her permission before actually popping the question. “He wanted to know if it was okay to propose before he proposed. And I was like, ‘Yes, it’s so okay!’” she laughed.
The couple, who have kept much of their relationship private, might be planning a wedding, but Gaga teased that they’ve also talked about “just going to a courthouse and ordering Chinese food.”
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Lana Del Rey is going country with her upcoming album Lasso, and she’s bringing her trusty collaborator Jack Antonoff along for the ride. In a new interview with Time, confirmed he’s saddling up for Lana’s latest project. “We have… yeah,” he said. “[It’s] a story for another time,” he said, staying tight-lipped on further details […]
Kate McKinnon got to live the 90s dream! The Saturday Night Live comedian came face-to-face with Hanson on Today Monday morning (Sept. 30), where she’s seen nervously greeting the sibling trio. When asked what it is about the “MMMBop” group she loves so much, she noted that she loves their “musicianship,” first and foremost. McKinnon […]
Quavo has been quietly active this year, releasing a slew of singles and features, most notably “Tough” with Lana Del Rey, which briefly sparked dating rumors. He was also involved in a rap battle with Chris Brown that was overshadowed by the madness that was Drake vs. Everybody. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and […]
Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor isn’t afraid of a heated disagreement with other rockers — but spicy hot wings are a different story.
On the latest episode of Hot Ones Versus posted Tuesday (Oct. 1), the frontman battled tastebud-burning chicken wings with bandmate Shawn Crahan, aka Clown — and yes, both musicians wore their signature spooky masks while chowing down. At one point, Taylor avoided having to take a spice-loaded bite by ranking three of his famous feuds with opponents Limp Bizkit, MGK (formerly Machine Gun Kelly) and Nickelback.
“If I was going to say it with that ugly ego… at the top, I would put Limp Bizkit,” he began of the two bands’ name-calling spat in the 2000s. “My issues truly weren’t even with Limp Bizkit, they were with Fred [Durst]. It was just about what Fred represented at the time, the things that were being said and the people in the band that were actually saying stuff about us.”
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“I would put MGK in the middle,” Taylor continued of the “My Ex’s Best Friend” musician, with whom he traded jabs throughout 2021. “Before the beef, I did have respect for him and I liked his music. We butted heads ego-wise and creatively because of a song he and Travis [Barker] invited me to be on. Him and I are very similar, and I hope he’s figuring s–t out.”
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Finally, the “Unsainted” singer ranked his mutual trash-talking with Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger in 2017 last. “Honestly, they’re just a musical echo,” he said. “It’s just the same thing.”
“There’s some stuff of theirs that I like,” Taylor added, making Crahan scoff.
Throughout the episode, Crahan also criticized the getups of other mask-wearing musicians — Daft Punk, Gwar and Marshmello — and revealed that his favorite “pop princess” is Britney Spears. “Real deal,” the percussionist said of the “Toxic” singer. “She’s a legend.”
Plus, the duo enjoyed a spontaneous 25th birthday party for their band’s debut album Slipknot — which reached No. 51 on the Billboard 200 in 2000 — complete with a piñata. The group recently wrapped up the North American leg of its anniversary tour in September, and they’re set to perform in Latin America and Europe later this year.
Watch Taylor and Crahan take on Hot Ones Versus above.
Rich Homie Quan’s cause of death has been ruled to be an accidental drug overdose, according to a report from the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office released to PEOPLE on Tuesday (Oct. 1).
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Per the report obtained, there was a toxic mix of drugs in Quan’s system at the time of his death, which included fentanyl, alprazolam, codeine, promethazine and THC.
Born Dequantes Devontay Lamar, RHQ reportedly had no signs of trauma related to his death and it was ruled an accident. Quan passed away at 33 years old on Sept. 5. An autopsy was performed a day later and he was officially laid to rest with an Atlanta funeral service held on Sept. 17.
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Billboard has reached out to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office for comment.
The celebration of life ceremony saw Quan’s parents, siblings and peers deliver moving speeches paying homage to the late rapper.
“I appreciate him for taking me from 285 Old National to the Eastside, to endless flights. From endless oatmeal and cereal to continental breakfast and continental breakfast and personal chefs,” Quan’s brother Andre Munford said. “We went from apartments — sometimes no hot water — we didn’t stop. I love you, man.”
According to a 911 call obtained by TMZ, Rich Homie Quan’s girlfriend discovered him motionless on the couch and put a blanked on him the morning of Sept. 5.
However, upon returning from dropping her kids off at school, she noticed he still had not moved and didn’t feel a heartbeat. After turning him over, she saw foaming of the mouth and alerted emergency services. Quan was ruled dead shortly thereafter.
With the hip-hop community still in mourning, the “Type of Way” rapper’s family released a posthumous song titled “Song Cry,” which was followed by a gut-wrenching visual on Sept. 30.
Rich Homie Quan charted seven songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in his career, including top 20 hits “Lifestyle” (No. 16) alongside Young Thug and Rich Gang as well as YG’s “My Hitta” (No. 19) with Jeezy.
Before endearing herself to American households with her nationally syndicated daytime talkshow The Wendy Williams Show, she was the rap industry’s gossip queen on popular NYC-area radio stations like Hot 97 and WBLS. So its natural for some fans on social media to be curious about what Wendy Williams would have to say about the legal situation Diddy currently finds himself in.
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Well, everyone can put those curiosities to bed, because Williams has broken her silence as she continues to deal with serious health issues.
The Daily Mail was able to get in touch her, and she had some interesting things to say about the man she has a long history with. “What is really weird is that I have been told by so many people, ‘Wendy, you called it,’” she told the British outlet. “Including some people from my family who have said the same.”
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Williams — who also let fans know that she’s “doing good” — said of the Cassie assault video, “You know how I feel about that? It is about time. To see this video on TV of [Cassie] getting pummeled… it was just horrific.” Adding, “But now you have to think, how many more times? How many people? How many more women? It’s just so horrible.”
Williams and Diddy have had their fair share of run-ins, most notably in 1998 when the mogul allegedly got the then-radio show host fired from her Hot 97 gig, at least according to her protégé Charlamagne Tha God, who mentioned the rumor during an appearance on the Flagrant podcast. “Wendy’s whole thing was, Diddy was gay,” Charlamagne said. “That’s why Wendy got fired from Hot 97. Wendy got fired from Hot 97 by Diddy ’cause that’s when Bad Boy was smoking hot. She got fired for putting that out there.”
Charlamagne speaks on Diddy allegedly having sexual relations with actor Reginald VelJohnson, who played Carl Winslow on “Family Matters,” and confirms that Diddy got Wendy Williams fired from Hot 97 in 1998 for claiming he’s gay.(🎥 FLAGRANT/YouTube) pic.twitter.com/5d4Xr9AUyW— The Art Of Dialogue (@ArtOfDialogue_) May 29, 2024
Back in 2022, Diddy’s former bodyguard Gene Deal alluded to his then-boss getting Williams fired from Hot 97 in an interview with Art of Dialogue. “You started the conversation earlier about what did I mean about the power Puff had. With the radio stations in New York? Mother—-ers didn’t breathe hard if Puff didn’t want them to. … Puff got one of the hottest DJs off of Hot 97 because she wanted to put up a picture of him getting his pants pulled down,” Deal said.
Adding, “Puff told Hot 97 if they didn’t get rid of her before he got back in New York, that they was not going to get any music from any of his friends, any of the record label executives that was cool with him, everyone was going to boycott their station. We was out in L.A. for about three days; before we landed back in New York, Wendy Williams was in the radio station in Philly. It was over for her. She was fired.”
Diddy is now facing lawsuits from 120 new abuse victims as he continues to appeal for bail.
Ken Page, the Broadway veteran who provided the voice of the ghastly villain Oogie Boogie in the Tim Burton-produced The Nightmare Before Christmas, died Monday at his home in St. Louis, his reps said. He was 70.
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In his Broadway debut, Page stepped in as a replacement to play the Lion in the original 1975-79 production of The Wiz.
The baritone also originated the role of Old Deuteronomy in 1982 in the original production of Cats; starred in the original 1978-82 Broadway production of Fats Waller’s Ain’t Misbehavin’; and played Nicely-Nicely Johnson in the 1976-77, all-Black revival of Guys and Dolls, a turn that earned him a Theatre World Award.
Page was memorable as Oogie Boogie, the bug-filled Boogeyman, in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), directed by Henry Selick.
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In a 2022 interview, he said producers were looking for “someone who was Cab Calloway-esque, Fats Waller-esque.” He added that he saw the character as “somewhere between the voice of the demon in The Exorcist and the cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz.”
He later voiced Oogie Boogie in video games and at Disney theme-park attractions.
Kenneth Page was born on Jan. 20, 1954, in in St. Louis, where he attended Bishop DuBourg High School. He then majored in theater at Fontbonne College in Clayton, Missouri.
He played Joe “Cheesecake” Tyson on the 1987-88 ABC series Sable.
His résumé also included the films Torch Song Trilogy (1988), All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) — as the voice of King Gator — I’ll Do Anything (1994) and Dreamgirls (2006) and guest spots on such shows as Charmed and Touched by an Angel.
More recently, Page developed and starred in a cabaret show, Page by Page. He often appeared in plays at The Muny, a historic outdoor venue in St. Louis.
This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.
Grammy-winning singer Paula Cole; singer-songwriter and performance artist Amanda Palmer; artist, songwriter and vocal producer AIJIA; rock journalist Katie Daryl; and Shure Inc. chairman, president and CEO Christine Schyvinck are the first honorees announced for the 13th annual She Rocks Awards.
The show is set to take place Jan. 25 at the Hilton Anaheim Pacific Ballroom in Anaheim, Calif. Doors open at 6 p.m.
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The Women’s International Music Network produces the show. NAMM is the presenting sponsor.
Lindsey Stirling and Jennifer Batten will co-host this year’s event. Stirling is an electronic violinist, dancer and artist who blends classical violin and modern electronic music. Her 2012 debut album Lindsey Stirling logged 96 weeks on the Billboard 200. Her next two studio albums, Shatter Me and Brave Enough, both cracked the top five. Stirling has more than 13.7 million YouTube subscribers and has won two Billboard Music Awards.
Batten is renowned for her guitar work, having toured the world as part of Michael Jackson’s solo tours for 10 years and with Jeff Beck for three years. With three solo albums and numerous global performances to her name, Batten continues to influence the guitar world through her instructional DVDs and masterclasses.
Shantaia, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter, will open the event. Named the 2023 female artist of the year by the Saskatchewan Country Music Association, Shantaia has toured with The Washboard Union and opened for such notable artists as Kane Brown and Chris Lane. Her most recent concept album is Exes and Friends. Shantaia’s performance is sponsored by PRS Guitars.
“The She Rocks Awards has become a beacon for recognizing women who have broken barriers and set new standards in the music industry,” Laura B. Whitmore, founder of the WiMN and co-producer of the She Rocks Awards, said in a statement. “This year’s event will shine a spotlight on these incredible role models, with much more to come.”
The She Rocks Awards is one of the premier events during the NAMM Show, bringing together industry professionals, artists, fans, and media to celebrate the achievements of women in music. The event will feature live music, speeches, celebrity appearances, and a silent auction, along with dinner for attendees.
The 2025 She Rocks Awards is open to the public. Tickets are available now, and a variety of sponsorship opportunities are also available. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.sherocksawards.com.
Here’s more detail on the initial 2025 She Rocks Awards honorees. This post will be updated as additional honorees are named.
Paula Cole
Cole, who won the Grammy for best new artist in 1998, is known for her hits “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” (a top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100) and “I Don’t Want to Wait” (a No. 11 Hot 100 hit which logged 56 weeks on the chart). The latter song, which became famous as the theme to Dawson’s Creek, was heard on the 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards. Cole’s latest album Lo is her first collection of new original songs in nearly a decade.
Amanda Palmer
A pioneering singer-songwriter and performance artist, Palmer gained fame with the punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. She is known for her TED talk “The Art of Asking,” which became a best-selling book. Palmer’s fan-funded 2012 album Theatre Is Evil (a collab withThe Grand Theft Orchestra) made the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and remains the top-funded original music project on Kickstarter.
AIJIA
A versatile artist, songwriter, and vocal producer, AIJIA has worked with such artists as Selena Gomez and Anderson .Paak. She is an advocate for women’s equality and has been an ambassador for Rock Camp for Girls for more than a decade.
Katie Daryl
A rock journalist and former vp of programming & original development at AXS TV, she has developed such popular shows as The Top Ten Revealed and Sounds Delicious while maintaining a successful on-air presence as a host and producer.
Christine Schyvinck
Chairman, president, and CEO of Shure Inc. Schyvinck has led the global growth and innovation of one of the world’s leading audio electronics manufacturers. Schyvinck is recognized as one of the few women in executive leadership in the pro audio industry.