Tyler

Tyler Childers notched a headlining slot, alongside Jelly Roll, Lainey Wilson, and Eric Church, for the inaugural Country Calling Festival, taking place Oct. 4 and 5 in Ocean City, Maryland.  The two-day event features a lineup that cuts a wide swath across the country landscape. There’ll be sets from legends like Dwight Yoakam, Martina McBride, Tanya Tucker, and Clint Black, plus more contemporary favorites like the aforementioned headliners, as well as Bailey Zimmerman, Brothers Osborne, and Ingrid Andress. Even…

SZA, Tyler, the Creator, Blink-182, the Killers, and Future x Metro Boomin will arrive in Chicago this summer as Lollapalooza 2024 headliners. The festival will return to Grant Park, Aug. 1 through 4. Hozier, Stray Kids, Melanie Martinez, and Skrillex have also earned top billing this year, with Skrillex returning to the festival for the first time in 10 years and Stray Kids making their U.S. Lollapalooza debut. Other big name artists booked include Deftones, Tate McRae, Conan Gray, Reneé Rapp, Victoria Monét,…

Around the time Slash parted ways with Guns N’ Roses, he got deep into the blues and soul music. With a group called Slash’s Blues Ball, he reinterpreted the music of Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, and Stevie Wonder, among others, at gigs between 1996 and 1998. Now — nearly three decades later — the guitarist, who returned to GN’R in 2016, is recommitting himself to that group’s repertoire on Orgy of the Damned, a new solo album due out May 17, which finds him trading licks with many of his famous friends. The…

"Want the world to know that you did me wrong," sings the country artist on "Kiss My Boots" Following the release of “See You Next Summer,” Brian Kelley released another farewell track on Wednesday, this time with a far more bitter tune: “Kiss My Boots.” The song, part of his upcoming sophomore album, Tennessee Truth, has some fans musing if the new track is a dig at Tyler Hubbard, the Georgia half of former Florida George Line. “Want the world to know that you did me wrong/I don’t know how you…

There are small pockets of low-rent fun to be had in Tyler Perry’s lurid erotic thriller Mea Culpa, some intentional, most less so. It’s a film that, yes, is about a woman called Mea who is also, yes, at fault, as women often are in the writer-director’s films. The mogul has gained a reputation for punishing his female characters, especially when they dare to stop believing in their husband, no matter how awful his behaviour might be, like in his atrocious 2018 thriller Acrimony, where he had the gall to waste, and…

A US judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing the Aerosmith frontman, Steven Tyler, of sexually assaulting a former teenage model twice in one day in Manhattan nearly 50 years ago.US district judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan said Jeanne Bellino had waited too long to sue the 75-year-old Tyler, who has “vehemently” denied her allegations, under a New York City law protecting victims of gender-motivated violence.The judge said Bellino did not qualify for a two-year window to pursue claims that would otherwise extend…

A federal judge in New York has dismissed a case stemming from an alleged 1975 incident in which Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler is accused of sexual assault against a teenage girl.  Jeanne Bellino filed the suit against Tyler under the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, a New York City law that extends the statute of limitations and is designed to aid sex abuse victims in recovering compensation and holding perpetrators accountable. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said…

February 22, 2024 @ 5:12 PM Megaproducer Tyler Perry has put a planned $800 million expansion of his Atlanta, Georgia, studio on hold after seeing the capabilities of OpenAI’s new model Sora, which lets users create video images from text prompts. “Being told that it can do all of these things is one thing, but actually seeing the capabilities, it was mind-blowing,” he told The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday of Sora, which debuted on Feb. 15. Perry, whose new film, “Mea Culpa” premieres on Netflix on…

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have donated $4.9 million to the political action committee Fairshake, according to new filings with the U.S. Federal Election Committee. It’s just the latest windfall for Fairshake, which is spending millions to run attack ads against Katie Porter, a Democrat who’s running for Dianne Feinstein’s old U.S. Senate seat in California.What Drew Noomi Rapace to Constellation?The new donation from the Winklevoss twins, first reported by Crypto Telegraph Wednesday, comes after huge players in the…

Annual event at country legend's Texas ranch also features Dawes with Lucius, John Oates, Toadies, Durand Jones and dozens more Willie Nelson’s annual Luck Reunion is set to return to his Texas ranch with a lineup that includes Tyler Childers, Old Crow Medicine Show, and the country legend himself. Taking place during South by Southwest on March 14 in Spicewood, Texas, this year’s roster also includes Dawes with Lucius, Durand Jones, and John Oates, emerging artists like Madi Diaz, Victoria…