Category: Rappers

Dust off your cowboy hats, prepare your tequila shooters and saddle up: Carín León has just announced his 2026 North American tour. The Grammy-winning Mexican singer-songwriter will kick off the tour May 20 with a performance in Hidalgo, Texas. Over the course of this summer and fall, the Sonoran crooner will visit major U.S. cities… Continue reading Grammy-winning Mexican crooner Carín León announces North American tour

Twisted Sister has canceled all of its 50th anniversary performances following the departure of lead singer Dee Snider because of “a series of health challenges.” In a statement posted Thursday on Instagram, the heavy metal band said all scheduled shows beginning April 25 in São Paulo and through the summer have been canceled “due to… Continue reading As Dee Snider quits Twisted Sister, band’s future uncertain

Bethany Cosentino, the solo artist and co-founder of the rock band Best Coast, posted an open letter castigating her booking agency Wasserman Music over its founder’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein and relationship with convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Agency founder Casey Wasserman — also the head of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee… Continue reading Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino lambasts Wasserman Music, citing Epstein connections

California’s ticketing industry could be undergoing some major changes. On Thursday, state Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) introduced a new bill, the California Fans First Act, that would impose price caps on tickets sold in the resale market, limiting prices to no more than 10% above the ticket’s face value. By making it illegal to… Continue reading California introduces a new ticketing bill with a price cap

President Trump told the New York Post that music artist Bad Bunny was a “terrible choice” to headline the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show and that the NFL’s selection of the Puerto Rican singer and rapper sows “hatred.” Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski suggested that Bad Bunny loathes the U.S. “It’s so shameful… Continue reading Bad Bunny is American; Coldplay is not. Still, MAGA flips out

One question has bothered Martin Ludlow in his decades as a concert and event promoter in Los Angeles. In a city packed with excellent jazz musicians, and a century of history with the genre, why is there no local equivalent of the massive festivals that cities like Montreal, New Orleans or Montreux, Switzerland, have built?… Continue reading L.A. has a new jazz mega-fest, from a former city councilman

Finneas O’Connell took to social media to defend Billie Eilish and her Grammys acceptance speech from a specific demographic that was angered by her remarks. “Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech,” O’Connell wrote Wednesday on Threads. “We can literally… Continue reading Finneas defends Billie Eilish’s Grammys speech, slams ‘old white men’

Bad Bunny is constantly making history. Last Sunday he broke a new record by winning album of the year at the Grammys for his 2025 album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” which was the first fully Spanish-language album to claim the title; and come Feb. 8, a.k.a. Super Bowl Sunday, he’ll be the headlining act at… Continue reading Essay: Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be a history lesson for the ages

Following major expansions to Spotify’s podcast branch, the audio streamer is turning its attention to its audiobooks. The Sweden-based audio platform said it is focused on bolstering online book discovery and physical ownership. In a release Thursday morning, the company announced a technology called Page Match, where readers can switch between reading a physical copy… Continue reading Spotify grows audiobooks, with physical books and new reading tech

Shaboozey has responded to the backlash over remarks he made at the 2026 Grammy Awards. In a statement posted on the social media site X Monday, the country singer-songwriter said he wanted to “acknowledge the conversation” spurred by his heartfelt speech after his historic Grammy win for country duo/group performance. After sharing that his mother,… Continue reading Shaboozey responds to backlash over Grammys speech