DDG is asking a judge for permission to visit the son he shares with Halle Bailey in Rome, where the 25-year-old singer and actress is filming a movie and has sole custody of the child amid domestic violence claims against her rapper ex-boyfriend.

A lawyer for DDG (Darryl Dwayne Granberry Jr.) made the request during a Tuesday (June 24) hearing in Los Angeles court, where Bailey won temporary sole custody of their 18-month-old son, Halo, last month after accusing the 27-year-old Twitch rapper of physically attacking her multiple times in the child’s presence.

Bailey now has Halo with her in Rome for two months while she films a movie. DDG’s attorney, Larry Bakman, told Judge Latrice A.G. Byrdsong on Tuesday that the rapper wants to go to Italy and see Halo at the end of this month, with his mother supervising the visits.

A lawyer for Bailey, Jeremy Lane, responded that he’s fine with DDG seeing Halo but wants the visits to be supervised by a professional monitor rather than the rapper’s mother. Lane said DDG’s mom has a history of “enabling” his alleged abusive behavior, including incessant posting on social media about Bailey and Halo.

The judge said she thinks it’s “reasonable” for DDG to visit Halo in Italy, but that she’d require an independent monitor due to Bailey’s concerns. The judge also said that if these visits are permitted, she’ll put in place an order barring DDG from posting about the child on social media during that timeframe.

The lawyers are now looking into the availability of professional monitors in Rome, and they’re set to return to court for further discussion of the matter on Thursday (June 26).

DDG denies Bailey’s domestic violence claims and has filed a competing custody case of his own, claiming Bailey is actually the abuser in their relationship and has repeatedly threatened self-harm as a means of emotional manipulation.

Bailey says DDG is exaggerating and that while she has struggled with thoughts of self-harm in the past, her mental health is completely under control.

Bailey has been awarded sole custody of Halo while the case plays out. A final custody arrangement for the child will be determined after a full hearing on the matter, which is currently on track to take place in late July in Los Angeles family court.

Reps for Bailey and DDG did not immediately return requests for comment on Tuesday.

Bobby Sherman, one of the top teen idols of late 1960s and early ’70s, died after a battle with kidney cancer, his wife, Brigitte Poublon, announced alongside actor John Stamos in an Instagram post on Tuesday (June 24). He was 81.

“It is with the heaviest heart that I share the passing of my beloved husband, Bobby Sherman.
Bobby left this world holding my hand — just as he held up our life with love, courage and unwavering grace through all 29 beautiful years of marriage,” Poublon wrote in her statement. “I was his Cinderella, and he was my prince charming. Even in his final days, he stayed strong for me. That’s who Bobby was — brave, gentle and full of light.”

“He was a man of service,” she noted. “He traded sold-out concerts and magazine covers for the back of an ambulance, becoming an EMT and a trainer with the LAPD. He saved lives. He showed us what real heroism looks like — quiet, selfless and deeply human.”

Sherman was a teen idol just before, and briefly concurrent with, Donny Osmond and the late David Cassidy. But there was a difference: Sherman was 26 in 1969 when “Little Woman” became his first smash hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 3. By comparison, Cassidy was 20 in 1970 when The Partridge Family topped the Hot 100 with “I Think I Love You.” Osmond was just 13 in 1971 when The Osmonds topped the Hot 100 with “One Bad Apple.” Being older than his rivals may have shortened Sherman’s run at the top. His entire Hot 100 career, from first hit to last, spanned just two and one-half years.

Sherman first rose to fame playing youngest brother Jeremy Bolt on the TV series Here Come the Brides, which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1970. One of his brothers was played by David Soul, who also went on to become a pop hitmaker. Soul topped the Hot 100 in 1977 with the ballad “Don’t Give Up on Us.” He died in January 2024 at age 80.

Here Comes the Brides had a zesty theme song, “Seattle,” but even with two singers in the cast, it was Perry Como who had a top 40 hit on Hot 100 with the song in the spring of 1969. But Como’s No. 38 hit was nothing compared to the enormous success Sherman had with both singles and albums from 1969-71 on Metromedia Records. Sherman’s first smash, “Little Woman” reached No. 3 for two weeks in October 1969 — while The Archies’ “Sugar, Sugar” was in its third and fourth weeks at No. 1. These hits proved that bubblegum could do big business.

Bubblegum is used here as a descriptor, not a pejorative. Most of Sherman’s hits were bright, bouncy and brassy. While they were often classified as bubblegum due to Sherman’s teen appeal, they were not all that different from such other pop hits of the period as Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good),” Edison Lighthouse’s “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes),” Dawn’s “Candida” and Ray Stevens’ “Everything Is Beautiful.” Melodic pop songs with catchy choruses have always had an audience.

Sherman followed “Little Woman” with three more top 10 hits in 1969-70 – “La La La (If I Had You),” “Easy Come, Easy Go” and “Julie, Do Ya Love Me.” All four of these hits were certified gold by the RIAA. Sherman also had three top 20 albums on the Billboard 200 – Bobby Sherman, Here Comes Bobby and With Love, Bobby. All three of these albums were likewise certified gold.

Jackie Mills produced the first five of Sherman’s 10 Hot 100 hits. Ward Sylvester produced four of the next five. Sherman produced and arranged the other one, “Waiting at the Bus Stop,” which he also co-wrote with Ronald Boutwell. Alas, it wasn’t as successful as Sherman’s previous singles had been. It peaked at No. 54 in September 1971, breaking a string of seven top 30 hits in a row.

Sherman slowed the tempo for one song, “Jennifer,” a sweeping ballad written by future Oscar winners Peter Allen and Carole Bayer Sager. It too, stalled in the bottom half of the Hot 100, peaking at No. 60 in November 1971.

Sherman was born Robert Cabot Sherman Jr. on July 22, 1943, in Santa Monica, Calif. He grew up in Van Nuys, Calif., with his sister Darlene. (Future songwriting legend Diane Warren also grew up in Van Nuys.)

Sherman first recorded for Starcrest Records in 1962. He was a regular on Shindig!, the pop music TV show which aired on ABC from 1964-66. In 1965, he bubbled under the Hot 100 with “It Hurts Me” on Decca Records, which had a Roy Orbison vibe.

Sherman appeared on an episode of the 1965-66 series Honey West as a kidnapped band member. He also appeared on The Monkees (1966-68) in the episode “Monkees at the Movies,” playing a surfer-singer named Frankie Catalina (a play on Frankie Avalon).

In March 1971 he acted (as songwriter Bobby Conway) in an episode of the ABC hit The Partridge Family which served as a “back-door pilot” for an ABC series of his own, Getting Together. But Sherman’s chart fortunes cooled over the summer of 1971. When the fall season began in September, ABC did not include Getting Together in its highly successful Friday night lineup, which consisted of The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222, The Odd Couple and Love, American Style.

Instead, ABC slotted it to lead off the network’s Saturday night lineup where it had the misfortune of going head-to-head with All in the Family, which was starting its second season on a new night. That classic comedy shot to No. 1 in the ratings. Clobbered in the ratings by TV’s top hit of the 1970s, Getting Together was cancelled after 14 episodes.

In 1974, Sherman guest-starred on an episode of the Jack Webb series Emergency!, which eventually led to a second career — as a paramedic. He volunteered with the Los Angeles Police Department, working with paramedics and giving CPR and first aid classes. For more than a decade he served as a medical training officer at the Los Angeles Police Academy. Sherman also became a reserve deputy sheriff in 1999 with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department in California, continuing his CPR and emergency training of new deputy hires. He retired from the sheriff’s department in 2010.

Sherman appeared on TV periodically through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s, usually on such popular but decidedly middle-brow fare as The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Murder, She Wrote. In 1997, he played himself on an episode of one of TV’s classiest comedies, Frasier.

In 1998, Sherman appeared in The Teen Idol Tour with Peter Noone (of Herman’s Hermits fame) and Davy Jones (of The Monkees). (Micky Dolenz, also of The Monkees, replaced Jones on the tour in 1999.)

Sherman’s first wife was Patti Carnel; the couple had two sons. Sherman married Brigitte Poublon in July 2010 in Las Vegas. Sherman and his second wife co-founded the Brigitte & Bobby Sherman Children’s (BBSC) Foundation. Its mission is to provide students in Ghana with an education and music program, and to provide tools to pursue higher education.

Poublon announced Sherman’s stage 4 cancer diagnosis on Facebook on March 25, writing: “As many of you know, Bobby has been retired for some time and is no longer able to participate in cameos, sign autographs, or make appearances. It is with a heavy heart that we share Bobby has recently been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. During this challenging time, we kindly ask for your understanding and respect for our privacy.”

Sherman is survived by his wife, sons Tyler and Christopher, and six grandchildren.

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong introduced his American Idiot protagonist as “the son of rage and love” back in 2004. More than 20 years later, Armstrong lived up to that title during a performance on Sunday (June 22).

In fan-captured footage from the livestream of Green Day’s set at Hurricane Festival in Germany, Armstrong can be seen singing a call-and-response portion of the band’s song “Jesus of Suburbia,” as he appears to point directly at a fan in the crowd and flipping them off.

After a moment, Armstrong threw his microphone down and took off his guitar, pointing directly at the fan and mouthing words intensely at them. After a moment, he picked his mic back up and asked the audience to put their “hands up.”

Commenters on the clips circulating online claim that the fan in question was repeatedly spraying the singer with a water gun during the performance, which led to the confrontation. “Billie Joe reacts to person who kept sh00t1ng water on his face with a waterg0n throughout the whole show,” read one comment.

Billboard has reached out to Green Day’s representatives for comment.

Green Day has been hitting the festival circuit hard throughout 2025, with appearances thus far at Coachella, BottleRock and Download Festival in the U.K., the latter of which saw Armstrong take a moment during the band’s performance to call out the rise of far-right policies throughout the United States. “Donald Trump in his administration is a fascist government. And it’s up to us to fight back,” he told the crowd.

The band was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in May, where bassist Mike Dirnt thanked fans for sticking with the band throughout its decades-long run. “I hope everybody comes here and takes pictures for as long as you want to and as long as you can,” Dirnt said during the ceremony. “We’ll never say ‘thank you’ enough.”

After earning her first chart-dominating success with a hitmaking collaborator, BLACKPINK‘s ROSÉ is eager to keep the needle moving with her next single with her new chart-topping collaborator, Alex Warren.

In a new TikTok posted on Monday (June 23), ROSÉ teased a snippet of her new song “On My Mind” with Warren, in which the singer appears to give fans even more of the track to listen to before it’s out on Friday (June 27). “sorry @Alex Warren, i.. had to give them this part before it’s out on friday,” she wrote in the caption, while the video shows her and the “Ordinary” singer lip-synching along to a new snippet of the song.

“Maybe it’s the way the clouds are painted/ A perfect shade of yellow all across the sky,” ROSÉ sings in the clip as Warren joins her. “Or maybe it’s the way the times are changing/ And I’m stuck in the middle, frozen in a fire/ But, baby, you’re on my mind.”

Warren first teased the collaboration earlier this month, writing over a TikTok clip of himself lip-synching to the song that “I promise you won’t guess who’s featuring on this” as ROSÉ peeked the side of her face into the frame of the video. The “APT.” singer played it up even further in the comments section, asking fellow viewers, “can somebody tell me who that is?”

Both Warren and ROSÉ have had exceptional success thus far in 2025. Warren’s breakout hit “Ordinary” climbed the charts throughout the year, culminating in it’s third total week at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Hot 100 chart. Meanwhile, ROSÉ became the first female K-pop artist to earn a top five hit on the ranking this year when her Bruno Mars collab “APT.” reached a peak position of No. 3 back in February.

Watch ROSÉ and Alex Warren’s latest tease of their new song “On My Mind” below:

Nearly two thirds of independent venues in the United States were unable to turn a profit in 2024, according to the first-ever National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) comprehensive national economic impact study, The State of Live.  

Released on June 23 at the association’s annual conference, the report details how independent venues, festivals and promoters contributed $86.2 billion directly to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2024 alone and yet many (64% of venues surveyed) remained unprofitable due to inflation, anti-competitive practices and predatory resale. Just under a third (31%) of all independent stages’ expenses went directly to artist and booking fees. 

Independent stages alone generated $153.1 billion in economic output, according to the study, including indirect effects from fan spending, tourism and local businesses and annually pay $19.31 billion in combined federal, state and local tax revenues, equivalent to the entire annual budget for FEMA’s disaster relief efforts. 

“Independent venues are more than stages for entertainment; they are economic engines and cultural lifelines,” NIVA executive director Stephen Parker said in a statement. “This report underscores the urgent need for policy reforms and public investment to sustain these indispensable community anchors.”

The study also found that independent stages have a significant impact on tourism, accounting for approximately 9.2% of total U.S. travel and tourism revenue, translating into over $10.62 billion in annual visitor spending on lodging, dining, shopping and local transportation. 

In addition, independent stages supported 908,000 jobs and paid $51.7 billion in wages and benefits in 2024, according to the study conducted by economic research firm TEConomy Partners. 

“Thanks to NIVA, and the efforts and trust of those who responded with real data on their operations, we can tell our story,” State of Live Task Force chair and president and co-owner of The Happy Dog in Cleveland Sean Watterson said in a statement. “We can make our cases to the statehouses and city councils on why we matter, and how our elected representatives can help us continue to help our communities.” 

NIVA unveiled the information at annual conference — held this year in Milwaukee, Wis. — to underscore the urgent need for targeted policy action from local, state and federal policymakers. 

On night one of the conference (June 22), NIVA also announced its newly-elected board of directors. I.M.P.’s Audrey Fix Schaefer was named as NIVA’s board president.  

“When I look at my NIVA family, I see audaciously smart and courageous people from big towns and small, who fight for artists, their communities, their employees, and their fans,” said Schaefer in a statement.  “I’m still absorbing all they have achieved — from the $16 billion Save Our Stages bill to the effort to protect fans from predatory ticket scalpers. For us, music and comedy equal life. I’m remembering the words of NIVA’s co-founder and first president, Dayna Frank, who said in the throes of the pandemic, when nothing was certain, ‘First we survive, then we thrive.’ It’s an honor to support NIVA’s members, staff and the board in whatever challenges and opportunities come next. Together, we’re a force.” 

The announcement also welcomed Pabst Theater Group’s Gary Witt, SBG Productions’ Courtney McClary Yug, and Newport Festivals Foundation’s Kira Karbocus to the board. 

Read the full State of Live report here.