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Billie Eilish tour to include three Canadian cities
Billie Eilish has announced two dates at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on Oct. 1 and 2 with tickets available on Friday at ticketmaster.com. Her Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour is named after her new album, out May 17. Other Canadian tours dates include ...
French actor Gerard Depardieu to be tried in October over alleged sexual assaults
PARIS (Reuters) - French actor Gerard Depardieu will be tried next October for alleged sexual assaults against two women during a 2021 film shoot, the Paris public prosecutor said on Monday. Depardieu, one of France's top movie stars, has been at ...
Lily Gladstone returns to Cannes as jury member
BERLIN (Reuters) - Lily Gladstone, the first Native American woman to be nominated for an Oscar, will return to this year's Cannes Film Festival as a member of the nine-strong main jury, organizers said on Monday. Gladstone got her Academy Award ...
Start me up: The Stones kick off North America tour in Houston
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) -The Rolling Stones kicked off their North America tour at a sold-out venue in Houston on Sunday, with people traveling from various cities to watch one of the world's most enduring rock bands amid worries that ...
Blackstone beats Concord with $1.6 billion bid for Hipgnosis Songs
(Reuters) -Blackstone has agreed to acquire Hipgnosis Songs Fund for about $1.57 billion, trumping an offer from Concord for the music rights owner of artists such as Shakira and Red Hot Chili Peppers, the companies said on Monday. Blackstone's ...
Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' dominates US sales and Billboard charts
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop megastar Taylor Swift sold 2.61 million album and streaming units of "The Tortured Poets Department" during its first week of release in the U.S., Billboard reported on Sunday, calling it "a gigantic debut at No. 1" on ...
Blackstone to make improved bid for Hipgnosis, Sky News reports
(Reuters) - Private equity giant Blackstone is preparing to lodge an improved bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund which owns the music rights of artists including Shakira and Blondie, Sky News reported on Sunday. Blackstone's bid will trump independent ...
New film captures Afghan women's courage in failed peace talks with Taliban
By Jenna Zucker TORONTO -The new documentary "The Sharp Edge of Peace" begins with a harrowing scene: Fawzia Koofi, a former member of Afghanistan’s parliament and a women's rights activist, recovering in a hospital bed after surviving an ...
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler wins dismissal for good of sexual assault lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed for good a lawsuit accusing Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting a former teenage model twice in one day in the mid-1970s. U.S. District Judge Lewis ...
Taylor Swift beats Beatles in race to 12th UK number one album
LONDON (Reuters) - Taylor Swift topped the British music charts on Friday with "The Tortured Poets Department", outselling the rest of the top ten combined and beating the Beatles for the record of fastest artist to rack up 12 UK number one ...