LL Cool J announces Rock The Bells North American tour

Thania Garcia The ASCAP Experience will be hitting the Avalon in Los Angeles on June 21 for its first in-person iteration since 2019 to celebrate, educate and connect aspiring songwriters and composers. The informational event will host an impressive lineup of chart-topping creators such as Sarah Hudson (Dua Lipa, Camila Cabello) and Leon Thomas III (Ariana Grande, Rick Ross), rapper and producer Hitmaka (Big Sean, Nicki Minaj), singer-songwriter and producer Steph Jones (Selena Gomez, Kelsea Ballerini), songwriter and producer Darrell Brown (Keith Urban, LeAnn Rimes), producer Neff-U (Justin Bieber, Sia) and more to be announced. Formerly known as the ASCAP “I Create Music” EXPO, the 2023 ASCAP Experience boasts a stacked schedule of curated motivational and informative panels about songwriting and music-making. This year’s panels are “The Hitmakers,” “Social Listening: Building a Music Career in the Social Media Age,” “Get Heard: Live Song Feedback,” “Writers Jam,” and “Celebration of 50 Years of Hip-Hop,” a special conversation with some of the genre’s most influential contributors.

Attorneys for Daystar Peterson (Tory Lanez) are reportedly attempting to disqualify Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Herriford after he ruled against their motion for a new trial in the case of Megan Thee Stallion’s 2020 shooting. “In a jaw-dropping move, Lanez’s lawyers filed a motion to disqualify Judge Herriford from Lanez’s case, then told the judge they didn’t think he could issue his ruling until the motion was resolved.

Sky Ferreira has confirmed a handful of live shows as part of a 2023 North American summer tour.The singer, who has not released a new album in a decade since 2013’s acclaimed ‘Night Time, My Time‘, will be playing new live shows in various cities throughout California this July as part of a mini concert series being put on by independent L.A. music promoter Minty Boi, billed as part of his fifth-anniversary celebration. He has produced shows for 100 gecs, Ethel Cain, Eyedress and more.Ferreira is also set to play two shows in June that are unrelated to Minty Boi.

On the heels of his recent Tame Impala collaboration, “No More Lies,” Thundercat has announced a summer/fall 2023 tour of North and South America. The North American portion of the tour is scheduled to kick off on August 5 at the Newport Jazz Festival and pick up steam in late September, crisscrossing the continent before its Halloween finale in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Jonas Brothers are heading across North America with THE TOUR of all tours!

Aerosmith will be embarking on a farewell tour of North America later this year.The extensive run of shows will kick off in Philadelphia in September and will continue making stops throughout North America until late January 2024, where the band will sign off for good in Montreal. According to a press release, the shows are set to “celebrate the five decades of Aerosmith’s groundbreaking hits as they celebrate 50 years as America’s greatest rock band”.

LL Cool J has revealed his first headline tour in 30 years – featuring the likes of The Roots, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Salt-N-Pepa and many more.The F.O.R.C.E. Live, standing for Frequencies Of Real Creative Energy, Live tour is set to commence on  June 25 in Boston at TD Garden.

Ed Sheeran has shared details of intimate North American tour dates, which take place amid his stadium tour.The pop titan kicks off his ‘+ – = ÷ x Tour’ (‘Mathematics’ tour) in North America next month.He will stage more intimate performances at 14 theatres and auditoriums across the US and Canada during the stadium shows. Ben Kweller will provide support for the majority of the small-scale shows.A Ticketmaster Verified Fan pre-sale is set for this Tuesday (May 2) at 10am local time via Ticketmaster.

Ed Sheeran is hitting the road. As the 32-year-old pop star gears up for his upcoming "+-=x Tour" (pronounced: «The Mathematics Tour»), he announced on Friday a special run of intimate shows to coincide with the release of his new album, (pronounced: ""). «I'm playing some smaller theatre shows in the U.S. this summer, so I can play the entire way through with full band in an intimate setting,» Sheeran explained on social media. The Subtract Tour will take place in theaters and auditoriums in 14 cities across North America, beginning in Clearwater, Florida, on May 19 and wrapping at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on September 22.

With the series finale of Global hit “NCIS: Los Angeles” just weeks away, LL Cool J is making his next project a return to his rap roots.

Afrobeats star Davido is coming to North America for a brief tour behind his fourth album Timeless, released in March. The arena shows begin in Washington, DC on July 1 and conclude in Toronto, Canada on the city's Budweiser Stage.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s “Black Flies” starring Sean Penn, and Catherine Corsini’s “Le retour” have been added to the competition lineup of the upcoming 76th Cannes Film Festival. As many as 13 movies have been peppered across several sections, including the competition, special screening, Un Certain Regard and out of competition. Robert Rodriguez’s “Hypnotic” and Kim Tae-gon’s “Project Silence” are joining the Midnight Screening roster, while Amat Escalante’s Mexican drama “Perdidos en la Noche” and Argentinian helmer Lisandro Alonso’s thriller “Eureka” starring Viggo Mortensen and José María Yazpik, will bow at Cannes Premiere, a non-competitive section launched in 2021. Alonso previously won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard with his 2014 movie “Jauja.” Also slated for Cannes Premiere is Valerie Donzelli’s drama “L’Amour et les forets.”

Tory Lanez has shared an open letter to Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. The Canadian rapper, facing up to 20 years in prison having been convicted of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in the foot at a party in 2020, posted the letter to his Instagram feed this morning.

Caitlyn Jenner‘s mother has passed away.

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Emmerdale star James Chase has given fans some hints towards a romance brewing between his character Tom King Jr and Belle Dingle as the pair prepare for "very raw emotions" with their reunion. James has newly joined Emmerdale in the role of Jimmy King's nephew Tom - which was previously played by Mark Flanagan before his departure in 2013. In this previous stint played by Mark, there was a spark between the characters Tom and Belle - Zak and Lisa Dingle's daughter.

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Boy George and Culture Club have announced details of their upcoming ‘The Letting It Go Show’ North American tour starting this summer. Check out the dates and ticket information below.The 25-city run comes fresh on the heels of Boy George and Culture Club wrapping up their sold-out Vegas shows and will kick off on July 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida with support from Howard Jones and Berlin.

Squid have announced a 2024 North American tour and have shared ‘Undergrowth’, the second single from their forthcoming album ‘O Monolith’.Following on the launch single ‘Swing (In A Dream)‘, latest track ‘Undergrowth’ was inspired by an episode of Twin Peaks.“I really got into animism, the idea that spirits can live in inanimate objects,” shared drummer and singer Oille Judge. “I was watching Twin Peaks, and there was the episode where Josie Packard’s spirit goes into a chest of drawers.”He continued: “So ‘Undergrowth’ was written from the perspective of me being reincarnated as a bedside table in the afterlife, and how the thought of being reincarnated as an inanimate object would be dreadful.

Erykah Badu has announced details her upcoming ‘Unfollow Me’ North American, tour beginning this summer. Check out the dates and ticket information below.The 25-city-run tour will feature support from Yasiin Bey, also known as Mos Def, and according to Badu’s Instagram caption of the tour poster, “other extraordinary guests.”Shows are set to commence on June 11 in San Antonio, Texas.