Finally, the enmity between two globally famous pop stars appears to be over.
During a chat with Extra's Terri Seymour, Elton John dismissed the idea that his long-documented public sniping with Madonna is still on, deeming the whole thing "over and done with." And it was all apparently settled civilly by buying dinner at a French restaurant.
With the recent success of Record Store Day, which saw sales of vinyl albums spike 59 percent, comes word of another high-profile release on wax: the soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, which will be released by Jack White’s Third Man Records label.
“I’m getting flashbacks,” Avril Lavigne told the crowd of 250 at Los Angeles' famed Sunset Strip club the Viper Room. “I remember playing this stage when I was 17 and wearing a necktie.”
Do you think I'm sexy? With the answer so clear-cut, surely Rod Stewart never even thought to ask the question.
Stewart, 68, made his way from his four-acre estate down the road in Beverly Park on Thursday night to the Troubadour in West Hollywood, where he did a free show for a couple hundred fans inside the intimate club on Santa Monica Boulevard. (The concert, in support of his forthcoming Capitol Records album, Time, was taped for viewing on Vevo and YouTube starting Saturday.)
Traditionally, a track composed specifically for a film trailer isn’t treated as its own song, deserving of an individual release. But for T.T.L., an electronic project formed of musical artist Tying Tiffany and Italian producer Lorenzo Montana, scoring trailers is an opportunity to create new music than can live outside its initial format.
LONDON – Boyband JLS, runners-up on X Factor U.K. in 2008 and one of the most successful alumni from the show, shook the U.K. pop world Friday with the announcement that they are splitting up.
The London-based quartet, who finished second to Alexandra Burke on the 2008 run of Simon Cowell's reality TV singing contest, told fans that they have decided to "bring [their] time as a band to an end."
Castle's Stana Katic embodies singer-producer Genya Ravan on the latest poster for CBGB, which The Hollywood Reporter debuts exclusively.
The film looks at New York's punk scene and the famed club CBGB, which helped launch the careers of Patti Smith, Blondie, Talking Heads and the Ramones. Raven, who played with Goldie and the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive, went on to producer for Dead Boys and Ronnie Spector.
Michael Buble took to the tiled walls of the 66th Street Lincoln Center subway stop in New York on Thursday for an a cappella version of the Jackson 5's "Who's Lovin' You." Buble was joined by a cappella group Naturally 7 to sing the classic, which is featured on his newly released album To Be Loved.
Beyonce apparently is continuing her recent tradition of releasing new songs through ad spots.
H&M published a new video Thursday, highlighting their summer collection for 2013. The clothes -- mainly bikinis -- were modeled on what may be the world's most perfect mannequin as Mrs. Carter herself danced in the sand to her newest tune, "Standing on the Sun."
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Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger have shared the stage before, but the two men will reunite in October for a different affair as the singer/songwriters will both be elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Filly Brown star Gina Rodriguez is shooting for the big time in “This is My Life,” a track from the film debuted exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter.
The song, performed by Rodriguez and rapper Diamonique, was written by Reza Safinia, the film’s composer and music supervisor. Safinia, who has produced for stars such as Kylie Minogue, previously assisted in sessions with artists such as Wu-Tang Clan and Terror Squad.
Twenty years after Lou Pearlman (who would later be convicted of perpetrating one of the longest-running Ponzi schemes in American history) brought five teenage boys together to form a new boy band, The Backstreet Boys are not only surviving in the music industry -- they’re thriving.
Music industry veteran Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope-Geffen-A&M Records and co-founder of Beats Electronics, will speak at USC’s commencement ceremony May 17. The producer and label head will address more than 13,000 graduating students at the university’s Alumni Park during the ceremony.
