The BET Awards launched 25 years ago in 2001, as Black Entertainment Television’s annual celebration of achievement by Black musicians, actors, athletes and public figures. Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer hosted the inaugural bash in Las Vegas with performers including OutKast, Whitney Houston and Snoop Dogg.
Unlike typical prime time entertainment ceremonies in which Black performers found themselves in just a few categories, the BET Awards treated hip-hop, R&B, gospel, and Black popular culture as central for the night.
After a decades-long award-winning career, on Saturday (6/27) Alan Jackson headlined his final major concert, titled Last Call: One More for the Road, The Finale.
The 67-year-old star has been battling Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a genetic nerve disorder that affects his balance and ability to perform. So he has chosen to hang up the acoustic guitars while on top.
Brian Johnson had an impossible assignment and somehow pulled off an even more impossible result.
The 32-year-old singer of the past-their-prime Newcastle band Geordie found himself in the curious position of somehow replacing the hugely popular singer of AC/DC, Bon Scott, but also assuming his role as co-lyricist of the group.
"Scream for me, Frogtown," Nerf Herder's Parry Gripp demanded of the near-capacity crowd at Zebulon, Friday (6/26) in the small LA neighborhood near Dodger Stadium.
Bad Bunny delivered the second of a two-night stand at London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday (6/28), with a concert that proved how Spanish-language music has a big audience across the pond.
The Puerto Rican star, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, filled the enormous soccer stadium for two sold out nights of his DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour and Sunday he was joined by Damon Albarn who had just sold out the joint the previous weekend.
Gorillaz headlined the largest concert of their 28-year career on Saturday (6/20), packing north London's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with animated films, classical Indian musicians, rappers, and rockers drawn from nearly every era of the group's career.
The sold-out gig attracting over 60,000 fans was Gorillaz’s first headline stadium show and the centerpiece of The Mountain Tour, supporting the British group's ninth studio album.
It was deja vu all over again when Taylor Swift made an unannounced guest appearance for the second year in a row at the Tight End University concert on Tuesday (6/23), this time during Lainey Wilson's short set.
Wilson and Swift sang Taylor's second big hit of her career, "Love Story" which was the lead single from her second LP, Fearless (2008).
Olivia Rodrigo announced on Tuesday that all the groups performing at her Daisy Chain Fields Festival this August will be doing it all for free so that as much income from the event can go to the charities.
Chappell Roan, Stevie Nicks, Doechii, Sarah McLachlan, Garbage, Bikini Kill, The Breeders, Karen O, Katseye, Mitski, Die Spitz, Eli, Quiet Light, Rachel Chinouriri and Not for Radio have all agreed to forgo their typical fees, Rodrigo told Good Morning America yesterday.
Lauren Sanderson grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and got her first taste of being in the public eye when she began posting motivational videos online and began speaking at schools. This led to her 2015 TEDx talk “For God’s Sake, Just Love Them,” which discussed coming out and the importance of parents accepting their children. She was just 19 at the time.
Lauren began releasing songs independently in 2016 and issued her first EP, Center of Expression. In 2017, Spaces became her breakthrough project, reaching #1 on the iTunes R&B albums chart. She supported it by going on an 18-city tour that she booked herself.
Thanks to his biting topical lyrics, acoustic guitar and harmonica, and such a beautiful way with words, many have been comparing singer songwriter Jesse Welles to Bob Dylan.
But this month he's been way more like a traveling troubadour who appears in unusual locations, for free, to play his politically tinged folk music while gathered around by whoever happened to be around or caught the message on the grapevine.
On June 23, 2006, J Mascis and members of Broken Social Scene joined forces for a special benefit concert billed as Broken Mascis Scene at the Mod Club Theatre in Toronto.
Instead of an even back-and-forth between both established acts, it was decided that Friday night that Broken Social Scene would become the backing band for the guitar hero and the setlist would be entirely material from his Dinosaur Jr. catalogue as well as his side project, J Mascis + The Fog.
