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BERTRAND GUAY/AFP via Getty Images Drivers in Minnesota will soon be able to ride down a highway named after the legendary Prince. According to The Associated Press, Minnesota lawmakers voted Thursday to rename a portion State Highway 5 after the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, who passed away in 2016. The purple-sign-lined Prince Rogers Nelson Memorial Highway, near […]
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Prince will once again be celebrated this June with Paisley Park’s four-day Celebration 2023. The event will include conversations with artists like Chaka Khan, Chuck D and D-Nice, and panel discussions about the legendary artist. Fans will be allowed entry into Prince’s infamous vault, where they’ll get to hear new, unreleased recordings by the late music icon. Celebration 2023 […]
Astana Music Inc/ BFD/The Orchard Kool & The Gang is back with new music. The band, led by founding members Robert “Kool” Bell and George “Funky” Brown, will drop the brand new album, People Just Wanna Have Fun, on July 14. It features the already released first single, “Let’s Party,” featuring Sha Sha Jones. “You’ve got the funk, you’ve got the […]
Courtesy of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame The Spinners are finally being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Henry Fambrough, the last surviving founding member, couldn’t be happier. “It feels great. I really does,” Fambrough tells Billboard. “I just wish all the other guys were here to see it. It really is […]
Lemonada Media, Ryan Pfluger, and August Image. Darlene Love is the latest guest on Lemonada Media’s new podcast Wiser Than Me, hosted Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer chats with the former Seinfeld star about a whole host of subjects, including her early career working as a backup singer for Elvis Presley, working with Phil Spector and more. Love describes […]
Courtesy of HBO The new Donna Summer documentary, Love To Love You, Donna Summer, premieres on HBO next month and folks are getting a new look at the film. A trailer for the doc has just been released, featuring archival footage, interviews and pictures of the R&B superstar, as well as clips of her famous songs. The film, directed by Roger Ross Williams and […]
Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy Smokey Robinson is opening up about his infidelities during his first marriage, which included a year-long affair with Diana Ross. Smokey who was married to his first wife, Claudette Rogers made the admission in an interview with The Guardian published Thursday, April 27. “I was married at the time. We were working together and […]
Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images A new movie about Bob Marley got its first look at CinemaCon in Las Vegas this week. A trailer for the film, Marley, was shown to theater owners, with the reggae legend’s son Ziggy Marley on hand to introduce the clip. “It’s great to be here today on behalf of this movie about my father,” Ziggy […]
ABC/Gavin Bond Lionel Richie is extending his time in Las Vegas. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has just announced a new set of Las Vegas residency dates at the Encore Theater at the Wynn Las Vegas. He’s changing things up for fans, promising an all-new show, Lionel Richie: King of Hearts. The new show will debut with six concerts, […]
OBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images The Gap Band has dropped their lawsuit against BMG. Back in January, the family of band members Ronnie J. Wilson and Robert Lynn Wilson sued the label, claiming they were owed back royalties from the Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars hit “Uptown Funk.” The band is credited as co-writers on the song because it samples their 1979 single “Oops Upside […]
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