Eliot Tiegel, Former Billboard Managing Editor, Dies at 84

The doors to Amoeba Music’s iconic Sunset Boulevard location have permanently closed ahead of schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, Amoeba announced that the famed Los Angeles retail outlet would not be reopening at its original location, where it has sat since 2001.

The doors to Amoeba Music’s iconic Sunset Boulevard location have permanently closed ahead of schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic.On Monday (April 27), Amoeba announced that the famed Los Angeles retail outlet would not be reopening at its original location, where it has sat since 2001.

Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro hosted a Billboard Live At-Home performance Monday (April 27) to raise money for the Downtown Women's Center, which serves homeless women in Los Angeles.After kicking off the acoustic set with his "vibro-pop" single "Instant History," the Scottish alt-rocker leaked a few more details about Biffy Clyro's upcoming eighth album The Celebration of Endings, due Aug. 14."The album and that song is kind of about....

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Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith hosted a Billboard Live At-Home concert Tuesday (April 21) on behalf of his band to raise money for MusiCares, which provides emergency relief to the music community.

Keanu Reeves gets out of his quarantine for a little bit while taking a cruise down Sunset Boulevard in his motorcycle on Monday (April 20) in Los Angeles.

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Paradigm fired back at former literary agency Debbee Klein’s lawsuit filed April 2 with a fiery rebuttal on Thursday (April 9) accusing her of stabbing agency chairman Sam Gores in the back and lying about his behavior during contract negotiations. Over the course of a 20-page motion filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Paradigm attorneys offe

Pvris' Lynn Gunn performed a Billboard Live At-Home concert on Thursday (April 9) to raise money for Downtown Women's Center, which serves and empowers women experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles.Despite the rock band's latest announcement that it's pushing back the release date of its third album Use Me from May 1 to July 10, Gunn stuck to her guns to "get some fun things out to hold you guys over" by debuting one of the project's new tracks "Good to Be Alive."No, the song doesn't reflect

Eliot Tiegel, an author, former Los Angeles bureau chief and managing editor ofBillboardand the husband of lateEntertainment Tonightproducer Bonnie Tiegel, has died. He was 84.

Every spring for the past three years, investors have flocked to NeueHouse in Los Angeles for an early glimpse of the 10 startups that the Techstars Music accelerator program is betting on to disrupt the music industry.But this year, with such gatherings on hold in California as the world works to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Techstars Music is partnering with Billboard to host its invite-only “demo day” online instead.Billboard will broadcast the 90-minute event May 5 at 1 p.m.

Virgin has hired Steve Levy to join the company's festival division as chief marketing officer, it was announced Monday. In his new role, he will oversee all sales and marketing.

Hozier hosted his Billboard Live At-Home concert on Friday afternoon (April 3) to raise money for Downtown Women's Center, which focuses on serving and empowering women experiencing homelessness and formerly homeless women in Los Angeles.Going live from his bedroom with an acoustic guitar in hand, the crooner delivered fan-favorites like "To Be Alone," "Cherry Wine," "From Eden" and "Take Me to Church" with his characteristically mellifluous vocals.Hozier also took a moment to pay tribute to the

Although the late Bill Withers spent barely a dozen years as an active performer -- from the early 1970s through the mid-'80s, before becoming sufficiently dispirited about the music industry -- his songbook and legacy has endured thanks to a slate of covers, interpolations and re-workings of his most famous tunes.Withers died Monday of heart complications at age 81 in Los Angeles.