Lady Gaga lets her ‘Hair’ down in first of six hometown NYC shows

Lady Gaga lets her ‘Hair’ down in first of six hometown NYC shows

Lady Gaga performs during The MAYHEM Ball Tour, July 2025 (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation)”I’m home, New York City!” That’s what Lady Gaga yelled from the stage Friday night as she brought her Mayhem Ball tour to Madison Square Garden for the first of six hometown shows.While the set was essentially the same as…Read More…

Music notes: Ed Sheeran, Backstreet Boys and more

Music notes: Ed Sheeran, Backstreet Boys and more

Ed Sheeran has released an acoustic video for his latest single, “A Little More.” It shows him playing the song while standing by a pool at Cuadra San Cristóbal, a modernist private estate in Mexico City that’s being redeveloped as a cultural center and museum. He’s shown standing in front of a wall that happens to…Read More…

Benson Boone’s new tour marks the first time he’s ever rehearsed for a show

Benson Boone’s new tour marks the first time he’s ever rehearsed for a show

Benson Boone, ‘American Heart’ (Night Street Records/Warner Records)Most artists spend weeks, if not months, rehearsing for their tours. But Benson Boone claims he’s spent the past few years literally winging it — until now.Benson is launching his American Heart tour Friday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, and he tells People it marks the first time he’s rehearsed for a…Read More…

Meghan Trainor says Sabrina Carpenter gave her her ‘big break’

Meghan Trainor says Sabrina Carpenter gave her her ‘big break’

Meghan Trainor on ‘American Idol’ (Disney/Eric McCandless)Meghan Trainor is about five years older than Sabrina Carpenter, but she says about 10 years ago Sabrina was the one who gave her her “big break.”Speaking to Bustle, Meghan notes that when Sabrina was just a teenager she included a song Meghan wrote, “Can’t Blame a Girl for…Read More…

New Music Friday: sombr, Max McNown and more

New Music Friday: sombr, Max McNown and more

Sombr? I Barely Know Her. That’s the title of the singer’s debut album, featuring the hits “undressed” and “back to friends.” He wrote on Instagram, “My debut album I Barely Know Her is out. I don’t eat, I don’t sleep, I don’t talk to many people. My life is devoted to this music and serving you forever.…Read More…

Why Rob Thomas couldn’t get Alex Warren to open for him

Why Rob Thomas couldn’t get Alex Warren to open for him

Rob Thomas (Randall Slavin)Rob Thomas has been posting on Instagram his reactions to current pop songs. On Friday, he commented on how much he likes Alex Warren’s 10-week #1 hit “Ordinary,” but admitted he was pretty late to the party.”You can tell it’s gonna be a hit just by the production,” Rob says in the video…Read More…