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Madonna Sends a Message to DaBaby After ‘Hateful Remarks’ at Rolling Loud

Madonna has joined a growing chorus of celebrities speaking out against DaBaby’s homophobic comments made onstage Sunday at Rolling Loud Miami. On Thursday (July 29), the pop star posted a video of DaBaby’s remarks — where he asked fans to put their cellphone lighters up “if you didn’t show up today with HIV, AIDS, or […]

Brandi Carlile to Livestream ‘Echoes Through the Canyon’ Concert on Veeps

Brandi Carlile is making her return to live music. Carlile has rescheduled her Echoes Through the Canyon concert at the legendary Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington with special guests Sheryl Crow and Amythyst Kiah. The special event will also be simultaneously livestreamed via Veeps on Aug. 14. The Echoes Through the Canyon show will mark the first streamed amphitheater show since Veeps began equipping […]

Reservoir Media Stock Stumbles on First Day of Trading

Reservoir Media shares slipped 4.9% on Thursday (July 29), the publishing music rights company’s first day of trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange, opening at $9.49 and closing at $9.03. Reservoir’s public listing follows a merger with Roth CH Acquisition II Co, a special purpose acquisition company that raised $115 million in an initial public […]

Marilyn Manson Court Docs Claim Assault Allegations are ‘Coordinated Attack’

Esmé Bianco’s harrowing accusations of sexual assault and abuse at the hands of Marilyn Manson are “untrue, meritless,” and part of a “coordinated attack by multiple plaintiffs,” the goth-rocker claims in a new court filing. Earlier this year, Bianco, a star from the hit HBO series Game of Thrones, stepped forward to join others who’ve accused the […]

Pharaohe Monch Unmasks His Struggles with Mental Health

This is branded content created in partnership with Sound Mind. Community is what drives Troy Donald Jamerson, better known as Pharaoahe Monch. The Queens-born MC known for his decades-long career built on complex, interlocking lyrics and rhymes credits his intimate knowledge of Black America’s struggle for stability as a formative force in his life. Troy’s […]

Johnny Ventura, Dominican Merengue Icon, Dies at 81

Legendary merengue singer Johnny Ventura (real name: Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano) died on Wednesday (July 28), Billboard has learned. He was 81 years old. The famed singer-songwriter, arranger and bandleader died of a sudden heart attack and was pronounced dead at Clínica Unión Medica del Norte in Santiago, according to El Tiempo. Just three […]