Alicia Keys preps 20th anniversary vinyl edition of ‘MTV Unplugged’

Alicia Keys preps 20th anniversary vinyl edition of ‘MTV Unplugged’

Alicia Keys ‘Unplugged 20th Anniversary’ (Legacy Recordings)It’s been 20 years since Alicia Keys released her #1 album documenting her 2005 MTV Unplugged performance, so she’s celebrating the milestone with a special vinyl release.Unplugged 20th Anniversary will arrive Oct. 3 as a two-LP black vinyl set, now available for preorder. The special edition includes two songs that…Read More…

Chris Martin hopes to ‘make lemonade’ following Coldplay kiss cam scandal

Chris Martin hopes to ‘make lemonade’ following Coldplay kiss cam scandal

Chris Martin of Coldplay performs live on stage during their “Music of the Spheres” World Tour at Craven Park Stadium on August 18, 2025 in Hull, England. Andrew Benge/Getty ImagesChris Martin addressed Coldplay’s viral kiss cam scandal during the band’s show in Hull, England, on Monday.While introducing the band’s recurring jumbotron segment, in which a camera…Read More…

Justin Bieber impersonator banned from Vegas club after duping patrons

Justin Bieber impersonator banned from Vegas club after duping patrons

Justin Bieber seen in NYC Feb 2025 (Raymond Hall/GC Images)A Justin Bieber lookalike has been banned from a Las Vegas nightclub after managing to convince the patrons and the deejay at the venue that he was the real thing.The trickster, later identified as Dylan Desclos, a known Bieber impersonator, took the stage at the XS…Read More…

Music notes: Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift and more

Music notes: Jonas Brothers, Taylor Swift and more

Jonas Brothers’ new album, Greetings From Your Hometown, has given the group their eighth top-10 hit on the Billboard 200. The album debuts at #6 on the chart, with first-week sales of 39,000 units. The album has so far spun off three singles: “Slow Motion,” “Love Me to Heaven” and “No Time to Talk.” Meanwhile,…Read More…

Sombr says he ‘got in trouble’ for writing his song ‘back to friends’

Sombr says he ‘got in trouble’ for writing his song ‘back to friends’

Sombr performs on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ (Todd Owyoung/NBC)Sombr recently had a career milestone, performing his hit “back to friends” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. But the experience was marred by the fact that the person he wrote the song about contacted him to complain.”Back to friends” is about wondering how…Read More…

Zoë Kravitz has heard some of Taylor Swift’s new album: ‘No skips’

Zoë Kravitz has heard some of Taylor Swift’s new album: ‘No skips’

Taylor Swift ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ Shiny Bug collection (TAS Rights Management)We know that Travis Kelce has heard Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl — but it turns out that she’s played at least parts of the album for others as well.Speaking to Extra, Taylor’s pal Zoë Kravitz says she’s heard “bits”…Read More…

Sabrina Carpenter’s pups make the cover of ‘Vogue,’ er, ‘Dogue’

Sabrina Carpenter’s pups make the cover of ‘Vogue,’ er, ‘Dogue’

Sabrina Carpenter’s dogs Goodwin and Louie; (Daria Kobayashi Ritch for ‘Dogue’)Sabrina Carpenter’s new album is called Man’s Best Friend, so it’s only fair that the spotlight is now shining on this particular woman’s best friends: her two dogs.Sabrina’s pups Louie, a Cavapoo, and Goodwin, a cross between a Maltese, Lhasa apso, Yorkshire terrier, and long-haired…Read More…

Watch Alex Warren’s mother-in-law join him onstage

Watch Alex Warren’s mother-in-law join him onstage

Alex Warren performs August 14, 2025 in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)Most artists would probably welcome the opportunity to go on tour so they could get away from their mothers-in-law, but Alex Warren made his part of the experience for one lucky audience.On Aug. 14, Alex was performing in Honolulu, Hawaii — wife Kouvr [COE-verr] hometown –…Read More…