Usher Talks Working With Ella Mai, Ringing In 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' & 2020 Album: 'Stay Tuned'

Raedio, the joint venture label that Insecure star Issa Rae launched with Atlantic Records last October, has acquired the music supervision firm Bonfire Collective. Bonfire Collective founder/creative head Stephanie Diaz-Matos will now join Raedio as head of music supervision and its production music library. Bonfire’s offices in Los Angeles, New York and New Orleans will operate under Raedio.

Wendy Williams isn’t happy with Odell Beckham Jr. The talk show host, 55, slammed the Cleveland Browns wide receiver, 27, after he allegedly slapped the buttocks of a New Orleans police officer following LSU’s big win over Clemson on Monday night.

New Orleans-based sextet Sweet Crude unveiled the video for their new single, "Déballez" on Friday (Jan. 17), exclusively via Billboard.

The Who, Stevie Nicks and Foo Fighters will join Lizzo, Lionel Richie, Lenny Kravitz, The Avett Brothers and Elvis Costello at the 2020 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, organizers announced Thursday.The festival, which annually celebrates the culture and heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana alongside performances by national and international artists, is scheduled over two weekends in the spring — April 23-26 and April 30-May 3 — at the Fair Grounds Race Course.

The Who, Stevie Nicks and Foo Fighters will join Lizzo, Lionel Richie, Lenny Kravitz, The Avett Brothers and Elvis Costello at the 2020 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, organisers have announced.

The New Orleans Police Department has issued an arrest warrant for Cleveland Browns receiver Odell Beckham Jr. after he allegedly made inappropriate physical contact with a security guard at the Superdome on Monday. Video circulating on social media appears to show the NFL star slap the backside of the guard following LSU's championship win.

TSR Updatez: There’s a reason why we’ve been taught to keep our hands to ourselves, Roomies. It’s all fun and games until the law gets involved. That’s certainly the case for Odell Beckham Jr, who is now facing an arrest warrant obtained by the New Orleans Police Department.

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Vince Vaughn has come under fire on social media for shaking hands with U.S. President Donald Trump at an American football game on Monday.

While under growing pressure from the crisis in Iran and his numerous scandals at home, the impeached President Donald Trump, 73, decided to take in a little football on Monday, Jan. 13.

It’s been almost eight months since Michelle Branch and Patrick Carney welcomed their son, Rhys James Carney, and two years since they got engaged on her birthday, and on Saturday, April 20, the lovebirds finally got to say “I do.”

New Orleans rapper and bounce music icon 5th Ward Weebie has died, CNN and The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate report. Weebie’s publicist Johnathan Thomas told CNN that the artist had a “heart attack which turned into emergency heart surgery and ultimately heart failure.” 5th Ward Weebie was 42 years old. When reached for comment by Pitchfork, Thomas provided the following statement on Weebie’s death:

Coming off the back of another year of historic wide receiver play, New Orleans Saints star Michael Thomas has signed with UTA for off-the-field representation.

Ellis Marsalis, a New Orleans musical legend and patriarch of one of the most famous jazz families, is taking a retirement — of sorts.

Regina King, a best supporting actress Oscar winner for If Beale Street Could Talk, is making her feature directorial debut with One Night in Miami.The 1960s-set movie, now shooting in New Orleans, stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X and Riverdale star Eli Goree as Cassius Clay, later to become boxer and civil rights activist Muhammad Ali.The ensemble cast playing African American icons includes Aldis Hodge as NFL star Jim Brown and Leslie Odom Jr.

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