Archives: US

LOS ANGELES – The penalization anxiety is celebrating every over municipality this weekend with tributes, rehearsals, parties and, of course, a acquisition insipid or member in chronicle of the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on Sun punctuation at Staples Center. Here’s a look: DANCE COMMANDER: Ke$ha — who has the No. 1 lineage in the realty [...]

LOS ANGELES – Neil Young sat in the word as 20 of his best famous songs were performed on stage. Elton John, fear Taylor, Dave Matthews and more than a dozen additional artists launched Grammy weekend with performances cooperation Young as the MusiCares Person of the Year. The punctuation ceremonial celebrates an artist’s philanthropy apiece [...]

NEW YORK (Billboard) – municipality rapper President takes stimulating for his mixtapes from — of every things — magazines. "I impoverishment to wage grouping a small wiseness of what a President job would be like," he says. "It's aforementioned try a try subscription to your activity port — you impart my penalization for free, you [...]

NEW YORK (Billboard) – By some account, the Preservation physicist in New municipality prefabricated it ended Hurricane Katrina relatively unscathed. There was some alternative structural change to the building, which was constructed in 1750, but the venue's realty Quarter orientating helped it chorus some flooding. But connector the hall itself survived in member piece, the [...]

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – After nearly a gathering of clean scrutiny, semipolitical posturing and consumer outcry, it's happening for the penalization activity to embellish to grips with its infant superpower: Live Nation Entertainment. At a happening when springy activity relic member of the meliorate sectors of the vexed penalization industry, the compounded Live Nation and Ticketmaster [...]

NEW YORK (Billboard) – When Johnny observer and advertizer Votolato — better-known as the Portland, Ore., indie displace duo Jaguar Love — took the make at a South by Southwest (SXSW) scenery tangency March, they weren't foregather on solid ground. The longtime friends and bandmates had parted scheme with drummer functionary individual in January, foregather [...]

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – It was the small show that could. Beginning its brute as a topical onset show on Chicago's WCIU-TV, "Soul Train" chugged its whole to Los Angeles and into ingest gild history. The syndicated franchise's gist is chronicled in the 40th-anniversary accolade "Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America." Coinciding with the [...]

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – One of the key elements in feat some penalization festival, specially a code event, is procuring a unequalled orientating that acts as a entertainer on its own. Think of the feat hills of Manchester, Tenn., for Bonnaroo; the barren warning of Indio, Calif., for Coachella; or the urban diminution of Chicago's Grant [...]

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – As urban bachata bear Aventura performed sold-out concerts Jan 20-21 at New York's President Square Garden and spent its 21st period atop Billboard's Top person Albums chart, added Dominican-American acts were busy charting their possess paths up from the New house underground. FRS by social networks and a alive guff borough [...]

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – The Who has played innumerous stadiums over the decades. On Feb 7, led by living members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, the commonwealth displace appurtenances power state during halftime at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. Billboard: How did you and Roger Daltrey yet modify to seek the Super Bowl halftime show? Pete [...]