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Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour is bleeding support acts and resale value as the Macklemore fallout deepens. Resale prices for the Philadelphia date, set for this Saturday, have plunged 24 percent since Monday — from $126 to $96 — according to…

Roger Waters has publicly blasted Ed Sheeran in a profanity-laced Instagram video, calling the pop star a “little p***k” over his handling of Macklemore’s removal from the Loop tour. The Pink Floyd co-founder, 81, shared his message on the platform…

Madonna will perform at the MTV Video Music Awards for the first time in 23 years. MTV confirmed the booking this week, putting the 66-year-old pop icon back on the same stage where she delivered one of the most dissected…

Children’s YouTube star Ms Rachel has publicly condemned Ed Sheeran after the singer removed Macklemore from his tour over pro-Palestine remarks. Rachel Anne Accurso, 43, known to millions of young viewers as Ms Rachel, posted a pointed message to her…

Ed Sheeran has shed nearly 100,000 Instagram followers since the eruption of a tour controversy involving Macklemore. Data from HypeAuditor, a social media analytics platform, shows the drop on Sheeran’s account as backlash intensified over Macklemore’s removal from the Loop…

Macklemore has been pulled from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. Stadium tour after venues refused to host the rapper following his onstage “Free Palestine” remarks. The Seattle MC, 41, will not appear on any remaining support dates of Sheeran’s Loop Tour, Messina…

Braden Pontoli’s partner has broken his silence after the musician was found dead off the Malibu coast. Tommy Lei, who shared his life with Pontoli, 36, posted a raw tribute on social media following Wednesday’s discovery of the composer’s naked…

Santa Monica has pulled the plug on Ocean Way. The city scrubbed the inaugural beachfront music festival just two weeks before The Killers and Olivia Dean were set to headline, citing devastation from Hurricane Marie that left the shoreline too…

Dolly Parton’s first posthumous recording has been released just fourteen days after her death. “Bound to Ride,” the late country legend’s contribution to an all-star Stanley Brothers tribute album, appeared on YouTube Wednesday. The full collection, “Where the Soul Never…

Spice Girls fans revolted Thursday after a hyped “major announcement” turned out to be a new merchandise drop. The group, whose members are Victoria Beckham, 50, Geri Halliwell, 52, Melanie “Mel B” Brown, 49, Emma Bunton, 49, and Melanie “Mel…

Harry Styles is facing backlash over concert ticket artwork that fans say evokes the Sept. 11 attacks just days before the 25th anniversary. The pop star, 31, is midway through a 30-night residency at Madison Square Garden that began Aug.…

Cyndi Lauper has been added to the lineup for the first live national broadcast of the 9/11 “Tribute in Light.” The Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised pop legend, 72, will perform beneath the twin blue beams that rise from Lower Manhattan each September…

Ray LaMontagne’s team has spoken out after the Grammy-winning folk singer collapsed mid-song during his Nashville concert. LaMontagne, 53, was strumming through his 2004 track “Jolene” at the historic Ryman Auditorium last Saturday when he let out a grunt and…

Fourteen concertgoers were hospitalized during The Chainsmokers’ outdoor show in San Jose last Friday night. The San Jose Fire Department posted on X Saturday that crews were dispatched at 8:22 p.m. On Sept. 4 to Discovery Meadow, an urban park…

Justin Tinsley, author of “Biggie and the World that Made Him,” said the Tupac verdict puts Biggie’s murder under an intense microscope. The Brooklyn rapper — born Christopher Wallace, also known as Biggie — was gunned down in a drive-by…

Jay-Z paused his London concert Friday night to lead a stadium full of fans in serenading Beyoncé for her 45th birthday. The 56-year-old rapper, born Shawn Corey Carter, was performing the first of two shows at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on…