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Wayne Brady: The Family Remix’s Wayne Brady, Mandie Taketa and San Heng will jointly deliver the keynote address at the sixth annual BRIC Summit, which will be held March 15 in downtown Los Angeles and online the next day. Earlier this morning, Freeform announced that it will air the unscripted series, previously announced as a Hulu original, on its network before it hits the streaming platform. The show follows the five-time Emmy winner and Taketa, who were married from 1999 to 2008, as they co-parent…

Weezy will take over for J. Cole for the last round of shows, including two new dates in Newark, New Jersey Drake has enlisted Lil Wayne to help him close out the Big As the What? Tour in the coming weeks, including two newly added shows in Newark, New Jersey.  While the trek was billed as a Drake/J. Cole co-headlining run, it appears J. Cole will not be able to make some of the final concerts on the itinerary. So, Lil Wayne will take the stage instead for a run of gigs starting March 23 and 24…

Image: WB AnimationThe era-defining, iconic Batman and Joker pairing of Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill will square off one more time in Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Three.Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023It was previously announced that the upcoming DC animated film would be the last to feature the late Conroy as Batman, and IGN has now confirmed that Hamill will be reprising the role of the Joker for a fitting farewell. Hamill had said he wouldn’t voice the role without…

ONE Musicfest and Live Nation Urban are heading to Dallas for TwoGether Land, an expansion of their partnership and a two-day festival set to take place on May 25 and 26. Lil Wayne, Summer Walker, Latto, and Gucci Mane will headline the event. Taking place at Fair Park, the inaugural festival will also see performances by Big Tuck, Erica Banks, Yella Beezy, Chalie Boy, Dorrough, and more on a stage with radio personality Bay Bay. Three 6 Mafia, Mariah The Scientist, Mike Reed, Thrilla, Tyla, Rody Red, and more are…

A New York jury found Wayne LaPierre misspent millions of dollars of the group’s charitable funds The National Rifle Association and its ex-CEO Wayne LaPierre were found liable for misspending millions of dollars on lavish perks. A New York Jury on Friday found that LaPierre, who steered the NRA for three decades, used charitable funds to pay for exotic vacations, excursions on private jets, and superyachts, and ordered him to pay back $5.4 million, minus what he had already reimbursed the…

The June weekend lineup also includes Victoria Monét, Jill Scott, Nas, Gunna, and a celebration of New Orleans with Trombone Shorty The Roots have announced the lineup for their 2024 Roots Picnic. Philly fans will have their chance to see André 3000 bring his flute project New Blue Sun to the stage for a live performance. But it’s Lil Wayne who is tapped to headline the June festival. He’ll be backed by the Roots for a set of his hits and also pay tribute to the music of his hometown of New…

This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published in partnership with Rolling Stone. In many ways, rock musician Wayne Kramer was a true radical. The former guitarist for the protopunk band the MC5 — who died Feb. 2 of cancer at age 75 — was known for the revolutionary fire in his music, but also for the activism for prison reform that defined his later years. That cause was informed by his own life-changing experience as a federal drug offender imprisoned in the mid-1970s. It led to his…

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Wayne Kramer used to tell a remarkable story about the first time he realised how influential his music had become. It was 1976, and he read an article in Billboard magazine about the Ramones and the burgeoning New York punk scene, which “kept saying that these kind of bands were inspired by the MC5”. Kramer was so horrified, he tore the magazine up and flushed it down the nearest toilet.He was in a federal prison in Kentucky, serving a four-year sentence for drug offences and, as he put it, “from where I was sat, ‘punk’…

Wayne Kramer, who died Feb. 2 at the age of 75, lived a truly rock n’ roll life, from his gloriously unhinged guitar playing with influential proto-punk revolutionaries MC5 to a prison term, years of addiction, and a musical comeback in the Nineties.  In this 2018 interview, previously available only in audio form on our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, he looked back at all of it. (To hear the full episode, go here for the podcast provider of your choice, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or just press play below.)…