R. Kelly Manager Arrested for Gun Threat at ‘Surviving’ Documentary Screening

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHallwood Media, former Geffen Records president Neil Jacobson’s new writer-producer management company, has hired Cristina Chavez as SVP of A&R / Management. According to the announcement, Chavez will focus on expanding Hallwood Media deeper into the R&B and hip-hop space.

Kelly Clarkson is bringing fans some ’90s country.

Machine Gun Kelly has been announced as part of an all-star lineup for a Halloween horror musical podcast.Halloween In Hell will be serialised in four podcast episodes, featuring Machine Gun Kelly, acclaimed musician and performance artist Dana Dentata, recording artist/fashion icon iann dior, and rapper 24kGoldn.Kelly, along with the other performers, will also appear on Halloween In Hell’s accompanying soundtrack, Loudwire reports.As the publication writes, the horror-comedy musical podcast is

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe MTV VMAs are coming up fast, and the network has revealed its lineup of presenters: Anthony Ramos, Bebe Rexha, Bella Hadid, Drew Barrymore, Jaden Smith, Joey King, Kelly Clarkson, Machine Gun Kelly, Madison Beer, Nicole Richie, Sofia Carson and Travis Barker.Performers include Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, BTS, Doja Cat, CNCO, Maluma and Black Eyed Peas.Grande, Gaga, Billie Eilish and The Weeknd top the nominees list.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe #GlobalAidForLebanon campaign launched by Weeknd manager and XO Records CEO Wassim “Sal” Slaiby in collaboration with Global Citizen and World Food Program USA (WFP USA) has brought in more than $1.2 million in cash and pledges to date, exceeding $1 million in just ten days, with donations continuing to come in.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterKate LaBrel has been named president of Facet Records, the label side of the multifaceted music company founded by songwriter Justin Tranter and publishing veteran Katie Vinten.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorBeyonce has released a new video for her song “Brown Skin Girl,” featuring appearances from her daughter Blue Ivy and former Destiny’s Child bandmate Kelly Rowland, along with Naomi Campbell, actor Lupita Nyong’o, singers Saint Jhn and WizKid and others.

gun and ammunition were found in a car in Glasgow city centre. Officers from Police Scotland stopped and searched a black Mazda 6 car on Sauchiehall Street at around 6.30pm on Friday, August 21.

It’s an oddly catchy sound, a persistent noise coming from boomboxes and car stereos. Almost no one in “Cut Throat City,” the latest gangster flick from RZA, comments on it, but we know they hear it and we know what it symbolizes.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorHBO’s “Lovecraft Country” has already made history for its entirely online orchestral score, co-composed by Laura Karpman and Raphael Saadiq.But for noted musical multitasker Saadiq – with a resume that includes a Grammy (and 15 nominations), a 2018 Oscar nom, nine studio albums (five as a solo act, four with previous group Tony! Toni! Toné!) and countless hits as a writer/producer for artists like D’Angelo, Solange, Mary J.

Following his 2012 directorial debut, martial arts homage The Man With the Iron Fists, and 2017’s romantic musical drama Love Beats Rhymes, filmmaker, composer and producer RZA changes up genres once again for his third feature, a convoluted New Orleans-set heist pic.

Machine Gun Kelly says he is “locked in” with his new girlfriend Megan Fox as he declares their new relationship as exclusive. The rapper and the star of ‘Transformers’ have been romantically involved since May, taking it to social media to declare their love for each other in various Instagram posts.

R Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell has been charged with threatening to open fire on a premiere screening of the ‘Surviving R Kelly’ documentary in New York in 2018. The threat caused the event to be cancelled at the last minute.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticHeist films, from “Rififi” to “Ocean’s Eleven” to “Widows,” are all about the planning. They’re missions impossible, and the fun of almost every heist movie is: Can it make the intricacy of a robbery thrilling yet plausible? But in “Cut Throat City,” the third feature directed by the RZA, the posse of desperate amateur thugs who rip off a New Orleans casino scarcely have a plan, and does that ever show.

Machine Gun Kelly may have found the one. The 30-year-old rapper, born Colson Baker, is currently dating actress Megan Fox after her split from husband Brian Austin Green, which was confirmed back in May.

Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox's new love is «locked» and loaded! The two have been going strong since first being linked in May, and the «Bloody Valentine» singer is only doubling down on their starstruck love story.  Kelly, whose real name is Colson Baker, appeared on a segment of BuzzFeed Celeb's in which he, well, read thirsty tweets that had been written about him. After he adorably tried to take compliments on his smile and laugh, the 30-year-old rapper learned that a fan wanted to go on

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticR. Kelly’s manager Donnell Russell has been charged in New York with threatening to shoot up a Manhattan screening room that was showing the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R.

The manager of R. Kelly was charged Friday for allegedly making a threatening phone call to aManhattan theater that was screening adocuseries about the sex abuse allegations against the musician.

release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Russell faces two criminal charges: threatening physical harm by interstate communication and conspiracy to do the same.He is accused of placing a threatening phone call to a movie theater in Manhattan to prevent a December 2018 screening of a docuseries exploring allegations of R.