Solange Collaborator John Carroll Kirby Announces New Album for Stones Throw

Composer, conductor, musician and songwriter Steven Cagan, whose wide-ranging career included serving as the musical director for the first national company of Dreamgirls to penning, arranging and conducting songs performed by Melissa Manchester, Better Midler and Diahann Carroll, died Feb.

On Tommy, a new drama series premiering Feb. 6 on CBS, Edie Falco is seemingly very far from the New York City metro area she's so closely associated with thanks to her performances on The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie. She plays Abigail "Tommy" Thomas, a New York Police Department legend who moves across the country to become the first female chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.

By Anita Bennett

Lil Wayne spent years working on his new album Funeral, but after the tragic death of Kobe Bryant, the rapper made a last-minute addition to the eighth track, “Bing James”. The 37-year-old honored the Los Angeles Lakers legend with a 24-second moment of silence, a nod to the jersey worn by Kobe throughout his legendary 20-year career.

Mick Jagger stars alongside Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and Donald Sutherland in Giuseppe Capotondi's The Burnt Orange Heresy, which premiered at last year's Venice Film Festival.The movie will be hitting theaters in Los Angeles and New York on March 6, and on Monday (Jan. 27), the neo-noir thriller's new trailer dropped.

BTS has arrived at the 2020 Grammys and they're spilling all the deets on what fans can expect from their new album.

Pearl Jam unveiled its upcoming 11th studio album “Gigaton” today at NeueHouse in Los Angeles during an intimate playback in Dolby Atmos sound — complete with frontman Eddie Vedder pouring tequila shots for attendees while the music blared. As previously reported, “Gigaton” will be released March 27 on the band’s Monkeywrench imprint through Republic, and is preceded by the Talking Heads-tinged first single “Dance of the Clairvoyants,” which dropped earlier this week.

In 2019, pop artist Mika gave some of his fans in North America the long-awaited live return they'd been waiting for with his Tiny Love Tiny Tour, during which he visited New York, Canada and Los Angeles to deliver a series of intimate shows. But in 2020, the star is finally coming back to tour North America in full force.

Icelandic quartet Of Monsters and Men have announced their 2020 North American tour.

It's a good time to be a member of Tank and the Bangas.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds haven't gone to any award shows in Los Angeles yet, but the two were photographed out by paparazzi this week in New York City—something very rare for them. Lively and Reynolds were shot walking in Manhattan yesterday.

Big news for the world of K-pop: KCON 2020 announced Thursday (Jan. 16) its dates and events in three different countries.

Los Angeles producer TOKiMONSTA has announced her new album, Oasis Nocturno, and shared a trippy music video “Fried for the Night,” a new song with Atlanta duo EarthGang. Check it out below.

Though Robert Downey Jr. stars as the eponymous Dr. Dolittle in the fantasy-adventure remake “Dolittle”, which he also executive produced, the actor was quick to heap praise on his wife and producer Susan Downey, for her contributions to the project.

By Ted Johnson