Kendrick Lamar leads the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards nominations pack with eight, while the Weeknd and Katy Perry both scored five. The VMAs will air live from the Forum in Los Angeles on August 27th at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Perry scored nominations for several songs. Her Witness single "Chained to the Rhythm" picked up Best Pop Video, Direction and Visual Effects, ...
U2 closed their Paris concert on Tuesday by bringing out Patti Smith for a moving performance of "Mothers of the Disappeared." Bono and Smith trade lead vocals, with the latter interpolating lyrics from her 1988 single, "People Have the Power." "I was dreaming in my dreaming/ of an aspect bright and fair," Smith recited over the Edge's ...
A$AP Rocky will lead the A$AP Mob across North America this fall on the hip-hop collective's Too Cozy Tour. The 20-date trek begins September 23rd at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts and wraps November 3rd at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, Colorado. Along with Rocky, the A$AP Mob lineup features A$AP Ferg, A$AP Twelvyy, A$AP Nast ...
Justin Bieber canceled the remaining dates of his PurposeWorld Tour. The singer announced the decision in a statement on his website, though he didn't elaborate on his reasoning for axing the final promotional dates behind his 2015 LP. "Due to unforeseen circumstances, Justin Bieber will cancel the remainder of the Purpose World Tour concerts," ...
Bobby Taylor, the veteran singer and producer who brought the Jackson 5 to Motown in the late Sixties, died Saturday morning at a hospital in Hong Kong, where he'd been living for the last several years. He was 83 and had been undergoing treatment for leukemia and tumors in his spine. "Bobby was a producer, creator and mentor to all of the greats in the early Motown days," says Suzy Michelson, a longtime family friend and fellow producer who confirmed Taylor's death to Rolling Stone. ...