The Zac Brown Band will replace country legend Willie Nelson on the closing day of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Nelson canceled his Sunday (May 8) performance and postponed other shows after a positive case of the coronavirus in his band. The 89-year-old musician was slated to close the Gentilly Stage — the […]
Month: May 2022
Lil Nas X won outstanding music artist at the second half of the 2022 GLAAD Media Awards, which were held at the Hilton Midtown in New York on Friday, May 6. The first half of the awards were held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 2. This is the second time […]
Jon Batiste has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be missing his musical appearances on The Late Show as well as postponing the premiere of American Symphony at Carnegie Hall. The Grammy winner, 35, posted news of his diagnosis via Instagram on Friday. “Hey family, I woke up yesterday and tested positive for COVID-19,” Batiste’s message began. “To keep my […]
Record Store Day 2022’s fingerprints are all over Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated May 7), as six of the top 10 have sales owed to a special release for the annual indie retailer holiday. Leading the pack at No. 1 is Childish Gambino’s Kauai EP, which debuts atop the list with 17,000 sold in […]
Jack Harlow’s debut studio album Come Home the Kids Miss You is out now, and the Kentucky native finally gave fans some inside details behind the making of his viral song “Dua Lipa.” Chatting with The Breakfast Club in an episode that premiered Friday (May 6), the Grammy nominee explained that while Lipa has not publicly addressed the […]
Kanye West spent the beginning of 2022 posting a number of photos on Instagram and releasing music videos that mocked and harassed Pete Davidson, to whom he gave the nickname “Skete.” The comedian, meanwhile, has been compiling material for his new stand-up special. Davidson headlined two stand-up shows at the Fonda in Los Angeles, California, […]
BTS are putting their personalities to the test. Jin, Suga, J-Hope, RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook sat down for a special video, published Friday (May 6), in which they sat down with pen and paper to figure out what their Myers-Briggs personality types are. The Myers-Briggs personality test is an introspective questionnaire that is designed […]
Humanitarian, actor and writer Ashley Judd is honoring her late mother, Country Music Hall of Fame member and half of the country music duo The Judds, Naomi Judd, who died Saturday at age 76. Ashley penned an essay for USA Today about spending her first Mother’s Day without her mother, and about “making motherhood safe […]
With the constitutional deadline approaching late Friday afternoon, lawmakers in Jefferson City seem to have agreed on a state budget. The budget will be the largest in the state’s history at a whopping $48 billion, and includes provisions for increases in teachers pay and K-12 busing for public schools. The budget also includes Medicaid expansion, […]
Two nights after a man attacked him onstage at the Hollywood Bowl, Dave Chappelle addressed the incident at a secret comedy show in Los Angeles on Thursday. The comedian performed at The Comedy Store, in the club’s 70-seat Belly Room. Although Chappelle’s appearance was a last-minute addition, pre-empting the usual Crack ‘Em Up Thursdays lineup for up-and-coming comics, rumors […]