The Black Keys Jim Herrington The Black Keys are heading to South by Southwest 2024. Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, founding members of the chart-topping blues-rock outfit, will take their positions on stage as keynote speakers, organizers announce today (Jan. 16). Auerbach, the band’s singer and guitarist, and Carney, the Black Keys’ drummer, will lend...
Tony Orlando Tony Orlando’s forthcoming tour will be his last, though the veteran entertainer’s journey in music will carry on through a raft of creative ventures. Speaking with Billboard via email, Orlando says the end of the road would enable the artist to “satisfy my creative juices” by creating new products from films, to Broadway...
Selena Gomez was, indeed, sharing some piping-hot tea with Taylor Swift in that viral video from Sunday’s night’s 2024 Golden Globe Awards — it just wasn’t about what you think. The actress/musician took to the comments section on Instagram to respond to the rumors around the moment, which was captured in the crowd at the...
Dom Dollar and members of Rüfüs Du Sol on stage at Beyond The Valley BTV Festival-goers at Australia’s Beyond The Valley got more than they bargained for when Dom Dolla and members of Rüfüs Du Sol — two heavyweights of electronic music — shared the stage for the very first time. During a secret set...
Portrait of American Jazz musician Les McCann plays piano as he performs at the Ivanhoe Theater, Chicago, Illinois, January 14, 1978. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) Getty Images Leslie “Les” McCann, an exceptional jazz pianist, composer and vocalist who discovered a young Roberta Flack, and whose own works have been sampled by countless hip-hop artists,...
The Kid LAROI performs onstage at the Sahara tent during the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 15, 2023 in Indio, Calif. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Coachella The Kid LAROI’s homecoming tour will have to wait. Raised in inner-city Sydney, now based in Los Angeles, the chart-topping singer and rapper was scheduled...
Josh Groban shocked the theater community when he and his Sweeney Todd co-star Annaleigh Ashford announced that they will be playing their final shows on Jan. 14, 2024, with Aaron Tveit and Sutton Foster set to replace the pair. While Groban expressed gratitude for getting to be in the show in his departure announcement, the...
Tis the season of giving, and animal shelters are calling on Taylor Swift fans to give back on the superstar’s 34th birthday. Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) explained their now-viral #TaylorSwiftChallenge best via Instagram on Wednesday (Dec. 13), posting a photo of Swift with her rescue cat Benjamin Button and calling...
‘Tis the period for a brand-new collection of holiday-ready tracks from Katharine McPhee and David Foster. The wedded set launched 7 brand-new tracks for Christmas Songs in October in expectancy of the holiday, and they discussed their ideas in the most up to date episode of Billboard News. “It’s not really a second album; the...
Michael Jackson Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Fifty-6 years earlier, on July 13, 1967, Michael Jackson and his siblings gone into Chicago’s One-derful workshops for their extremely initial recording session. The session created a track called “Big Boy,” with the track noting the very first time Jackson’s voice was placed on tape and the initial recording...
