Demi Lovato and her fiancé Jordan “Jutes” Lutes are enjoying a night out.
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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Singer-songwriter-harpist and indie icon Joanna Newsom, who has kept a low profile since the tour supporting her 2015 album “Divers,” has announced a five-night solo residency in Los Angeles. Billed as the “Strings/Keys Incidence,” the shows will take place at the intimate Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever from May 15-19.
One of the shows is a matinee. The humorously worded announcement promises that new material will be performed: “I know what you’re thinking — we’re all thinking it — What’s in the saddlebag, Newsom?,” it reads.
“It’s hard to tell from here, but darn if she doesn’t seem to packing some new tunes!” (The full announcement and dates are pasted below.) Newsom premiered five new songs in an unannounced one-off performance opening for Fleet Foxes just under a year ago. The May concerts — and, presumably, the ensuing album — arrive 20 years after Newsom first rose to prominence rapidly amid the “freak folk” scene of the early ’00s, touring with leading artists in the movement like Devendra Banhardt and Vetiver.
While her sound on her 2004 debut album, “The Milk Eyed Mender,” was sympathetic with those artists and contains folk elements, she is an outlier, often accompanying her unconventional songs and Kate Bush-like high soprano on harp. The album was an unexpected commercial success, selling more than 200,000 copies in the U.S.
She followed two years later with “Ys,” which featured full orchestrations by legendary ‘60s musician and Brian Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks and a cover painting of the singer in full medieval dress, poking fun at the caricatures that emerged from her harp-playing. In 2010 she released the sprawling two-hour “Have One on Me” album, and began
.Demi Lovato and her fiancé Jordan “Jutes” Lutes are enjoying a night out.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Sean “Diddy” Combs — rapper, producer and entrepreneur — has fired back against the government’s raids on two of his properties in Miami and Los Angeles on Monday. In a statement, his attorney Aaron Dyer characterized the searches by investigators with the Department of Homeland Security as an “unprecedented ambush” and a “witch hunt.” “Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level force as search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs’ residences,” Dyer wrote.
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Candace Cameron Bure says that security concerns while living in Los Angeles have led her to move away from the city.
Warning: This article contains details and accusations of sexual and physical abuseSean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and the Miami area were raided on Monday (March 25) as part of ongoing sex trafficking investigations.The raids, led by the Department of Homeland Security, were in conjunction with investigations that span Los Angeles, Miami and New York. However, per reports from CNN, it has yet to be confirmed if Combs was a specific target of the raid, or if the searches of his properties are part of a larger investigation.“Earlier today, Homeland Security Investigations New York executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami and our local law enforcement partners,” Homeland Security said in a statement, per Consequence.
Actor Wunmi Mosaku is the star of ITV's upcoming crime thriller series, Passenger, which is set to air at 9pm on Sunday, March 24 on ITV1. Wunmi plays the lead role of Riya Ajunwa, a Former Met Police Detective who investigates a number of strange crimes that have sent the fictional small Northern town of Chadder Vale into a frenzy. The first series focuses on a young local girl who disappears without a trace, only to reappear a mere 24 hours later.Then, as further mysterious happenings and more sinister crimes take place, Riya must try and convince the residents that darker forces might be at play.
First Lady Jill Biden will make a fundraising swing through Southern California later this week, as she headlines events in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs area. She also will speak at the Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles dinner on Saturday.
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, who seemed to be having some fun while driving around Los Angeles and spending some quality time with their kids, Seraphina and Emme. However, the blended family had to stop their car after noticing a flat tire.Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner reunite to attend their son Samuel’s basketball gameJennifer Lopez cancels several dates on ‘This Is Me… Now’ tour: Here’s why!Watch Jennifer Lopez defend humanity in sci-fi movie trailerThe Hollywood star and the singer had to leave their BMW behind and call a car during their Saturday afternoon outing after the pair were photographed looking for a spare in their trunk and seemed to find nothing.Photos show JLo helping Ben look for the spare tire, but they decided to call a car instead.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Jeff Lynne’s ELO hae announce their final tour, dubbed “The Over and Out Tour.” The 27-date excursion, produced by Live Nation, will kick off in Palm Desert, CA on August 24 and travel across North America before concluding in Los Angeles on October 25. Artist Presale will begin on Wednesday, March 20 at 10am local time and the general onsale will start on Friday, March 22 @ 10am local time. Exclusive VIP experiences will be available March 20th at 10am local.
non-performative headlining performance for Rolling Loud on Thursday (March 14), the hip-hop festival officially opened its doors Friday night for its first full day. Nicki Minaj gave an exhilarating headlining performance on March 15, taking the stage for an almost-hour set that brought Gag City to Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium.
Diane Garrett Deep in the bowels of SoFi Stadium, an unlikely luxury event took place on the evening of March 13: The Golden Vines Wine Experience, a partnership between Robb Report and the Los Angeles Chargers to host a wine-paired dinner in the NFL team’s locker room. The event, open to members of the team’s Lux program for suite owners as well as the Robb Report’s RR1 members’ community, was the first of its kind for the Chargers at SoFi, which has been the team’s home field since September 2020.
Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music For their headlining set opening the Rolling Loud California festival in Los Angeles on Thursday night, Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign merely stood onstage for an hour while pre-recorded music from their already released first album played over the loudspeakers. While the wording in the official announcement of the late-added performance was unspecific — “Vultures headlining new Thursday night,” the since-deleted post read — it’s safe to say that most people expected the duo, who have been working together under the name Vultures, to at least deliver vocals.
IVE‘s recent concert in Los Angeles.IVE – comprising Jang Wonyoung, An Yujin, Leeseo, Liz, Rei and Gaeul – are currently on the US leg of their first world tour ‘Show What I Have’. Their most recent show was held earlier this week on March 13 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, which was attended by television personality and model Heidi Klum.During the concert, Klum took to Instagram Stories with a series of photos and videos of her time backstage in what appears to be a VIP room, which included a buffet spread to celebrate IVE’s show in the city.
Thania Garcia As Bad Bunny‘s “Most Wanted Tour” made its first of three stops at L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena Wednesday night, fans dressed in western-themed getups gathered to witness the return of the Puerto Rican megastar for his first outing since his eye-popping “World’s Hottest” stadium run. Split into four separate acts, this production felt much more theatrical than his last, as proven by the intricate pyrotechnics and the orchestra — which served as a 10-minute opening act — nestled onto one of two crescent-shaped stages on either side of the arena.
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