Justin Timberlake, Gracie Abrams to headline 2025 Lollapalooza Berlin

Justin Timberlake^ during the presentation of his show at Rock in Rio 2017 in Rio de Janeiro^ Brazil. Rio de Janeiro^ September 18^ 2017.

Justin Timberlake, BTS’ J-Hope, Gracie Abrams, Raye and Benson Boone are among the headliners for 2025’s Lollapalooza Berlin, taking place on July 12/13 at Olympic Park and the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Lollapalooza Berlin was the first European extension of the ‘Lollapalooza’ brand, launching in 2015 and taking place at a variety of different venues before finding its permanent home at Olympic Park.

Also slated to perform at Lollapalooza Berlin are: Armin Van Burren, Brutalismus 3000, Ive, The Last Dinner Party, Dom Dolla, John Summit, Artemas, Shaboozey, Royel Otis, Ashnikko, Magdalena Bay, Sofi Tukker, Bigxthaplug and Mark Ambor, and more.

The 2025 Berlin edition will also host Mother Mother, Mahmut Orhan, Argy, Mark Ambor, Bunt., Nora En Pure, Miss Monique, Anna, Flo, Joey Valence & Brae, Neil Frances Present Club NF, Benjamin Ingrosso and Wasia Project, among others.

Tickets for the ninth edition of Lollapalooza Berlin are now on sale and available at lollapaloozade.com.

Editorial credit: A.PAES / Shutterstock.com

Leslie Odom, Jr. returning to ‘Hamilton’ on Broadway this fall

Leslie Odom Jr. at the 2023 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony for Science and Mathematics at the Academy Museum. OS ANGELES^ CA. April 15^ 2023

Leslie Odom, Jr. will return to Broadway‘s Hamilton this fall in a reprise of his Tony Award-winning role as Aaron Burr.  Odom, a member of the original cast, returns to Hamilton nine years after he took his final bow in July 2016.

Odom Jr. originated the role of Burr in Hamilton in 2015 and has since portrayed Dr. Arbuthnot in the 2017 film Murder on the Orient Express, Draemond in the TV series Abbott Elementary, and Victor Fielding in the 2023 movie The Exorcist: Believer.

Hamilton posted on X: “Welcome back to the inimitable, original, Aaron Burr: Leslie Odom Jr! See him on Broadway September 9th – November 23rd.”

The actor and singer, 43, wrote on social media: “I kinda feel like I was born onstage at the Richard Rodgers theater. Hamilton, opened on my actual birthday a decade ago. For twelve weeks this fall, starting on 9/9/25, I’ll return to the place of my birth. Gonna feel so good to be home. See you soon! #HappyBirthday #BornAgain”

Odom begins performances on Tuesday, September 9, for a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, November 23 at Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre.

The Hamilton cast presently includes Nicholas Christopher as Burr, Trey Curtis as Alexander Hamilton and Tamar Greene as George Washington. The musical also stars Jacob Guzman, Colby Lewis, Jarrod Spector, Ebrin R. Stanley, Cherry Torres, Stephanie Umoh, Morgan Anita Wood, Reanne Acasio, Adam Ali-Perez, Lauren Boyd, Amanda Braun, Jonathan Butler-Duplessis, Chloe Campbell, Marc Delacruz and Alexander Ferguson.

Editorial credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com

Tim Allen’s ‘Shifting Gears’ gets Season 2 on ABC

Tim Allen at 16th Annual George Lopez Celebrity Golf Classic at the Lakewood Golf Club on May 1^ 2023 in Burbank^ CA

Tim Allen’s Shifting Gears has been renewed for a second season on ABC. Allen wrote on X“Well well well……Back to work.” 

Shifting Gears’s pilot episode logged almost 17M cross-platform viewers over its first week for ABC’s biggest new series launch in more than six years.  In addition to Allen, the main cast of Shifting Gears includes Kat Dennings, Seann William Scott, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, Lucas Neff, Maxwell Simkins and Barrett Margolis.

Per Deadline, the show follows widower Matt (Allen), who owns a high-end garage where he, Stitch (Mitchell) and Gabriel (Scott) restore and repair classic cars. Matt’s life and workplace are disrupted when his estranged daughter Riley (Kat Dennings) shows up on his doorstep with her two kids — Carter (Simkins) and Georgia (Margolis) — after leaving her husband Jimmy (Neff).

Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com

Mariah Carey to release ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’ 20th anniversary expanded edition

Mariah Carey at The Emancipation of Mimi Release Party^ Cipriani Restaurant^ New York^ NY^ April 21^ 2005

Mariah Carey‘s hit album The Emancipation of Mimi will celebrate it’s 20th anniversary this year and Carey has announced several releases to celebrate the milestone.

A post on Instagram reads: Happy “Mimi” Anniversary!! I’m excited to celebrate this one with you 🥰 While working on #Mimi20, I got to relive all the memories from this pivotal moment in my personal and professional life. This album has some of my biggest hits to date, as well as some personal favorites that are very special to me. Let me know what your favorite Mimi lyric is and stay tuned for more surprises yet to come! Love, MC 🦋💞✨

Carey has personally compiled a collection of songs from Emancipation into a five-LP vinyl box set arriving May 30, featuring the original tracklist of hits including “It’s Like That,” “We Belong Together,” “Shake It Off,” “Say Somethin,’” “Fly Like a Bird” and “Get Your Number.”  The special edition will also house dozens of bonus tracks, past remixes and collaborations with other artists, instrumentals, a capella takes, live recordings and more. There’s also a brand-new remix of “Don’t Forget About Us” by Kaytranada, which is out now, and a 28-page booklet that includes a personal letter from Mimi.

Mariah shared in a statement, “While working on this edition, I got to relive all the memories from this pivotal moment in my personal and professional life. This album has some of my biggest hits to date, as well as some personal favorites that are very special to me. Forgotten gems, unreleased bonus tracks and different remixes with incredible collaborators – all of these and more are now available in one place for the first time ever!”

A deluxe two-LP vinyl version will also be released, as well as an extended digital deluxe edition, with a selection of songs from the box set; both will be released May 30.

To pre-order, head HERE.

Editorial credit: Everett Collection / Shutterstock.com

Joe Jonas shares the single ‘Heart by Heart’ from new LP

Joe Jonas at the premiere for "Devotion" at the Regency Village Theatre. LOS ANGELES^ CA. November 15^ 2022

Joe Jonas has shared the new solo track titled Heart by Heart, featured on his upcoming album Music for People Who Believe in Love dropping on May 23.

Heart by Heart was co-written with a team of collaborators including Lewis Capaldi, Savan, Oscar Holter, and Max Gsus, and follows the previously-released tracks “Work It Out” and “What This Could Be” from the upcoming LP

Music for People Who Believe in Love will be Jonas’ second solo studio album, following his 2011 debut Fastlife. After that release, he went on to form DNCE, best known for their 2016 self-titled album.

The Jonas Brothers are also gearing up for their 20th anniversary Living the Dream tour, which will include 10 stadium dates across North America, and the brothers are preparing to release their seventh studio album, Greetings from Your Hometown — which will also be accompanied by a live album.

See the lyric video for Heart by HeartHERE.

Preorder Music for People Who Believe in Love HERE.

Editorial credit: Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com

Lana Del Rey shares ‘Bluebird,’ second single from upcoming LP

Lana del Rey performs in concert at FIB (Festival Internacional de Benicassim) Festival on July 19^ 2019 in Benicassim^ Spain.

Lana Del Rey has shared ‘Bluebird’, the second song from her upcoming album The Right Person Will Stay, slated for release later this year. The song arrives shortly after the release of her previous country-tinged single, “Henry, Come On.”

Bluebird was written by Del Rey and Luke Laird who also produced the track together with Drew Erickson. The Right Person Will Stay will be Lana’s first album since she released Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd in 2023.

Lana Del Rey will also be embarking upon a sold-out UK and Ireland summer tour which will see her play dates in London, Dublin, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Cardiff. It is her first UK and Ireland stadium tour, including two dates at Wembley Stadium.

Listen to Bluebird HERE.

Editorial credit: Christian Bertrand / Shutterstock.com

George Wendt, who played Norm on ‘Cheers,’ dies at 76

George Wendt at the 2024 AppleTV Post Emmy Party at the Mother Wolf on January 15^ 2024 in Los Angeles^ CA

George Wendt, best known for playing Norm Peterson on the long-running NBC sitcom ‘Cheers’, has died at the age of 76.

In a statement to PEOPLE, his publicist Melissa Nathan confirmed that the actor died on the morning of Tuesday, May 20: “Beloved actor and comedian, George Wendt, best known for starring in the NBC hit comedy Cheers, has passed away. George’s family confirmed the news of his death early Tuesday morning, announcing he died peacefully in his sleep while at home. George was a doting family man, a well-loved friend and confidant to all of those lucky enough to have known him. He will be missed forever. The family has requested privacy during this time.”

Wendt, who starred in every episode of “Cheers” from when the show first aired in 1982 to its final episode in 1993, earned six Emmy nominations for his role on the NBC comedy series.

Born on Oct. 17, 1948, in Chicago, Wendt’s earlier work included roles on TV series including Hart to Hart, Soap, Taxi and M*A*S*H, as well as film roles including My Bodyguard, Jekyll and Hyde… Together Again, and Airplane II: The Sequel.

Wendt is survived by his wife, actress Bernadette Birkett (the unseen, offscreen voice of Norm’s wife, Vera, on Cheers) in addition to his children, Hilary, Joe and Daniel; and his stepchildren, Joshua and Andrew.

Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com

See the new trailer for sequel film ‘M3GAN 2.0’

shutterstock_2237927439254210

Universal Pictures released a trailer for upcoming sequel M3GAN 2.0, which finds the titular artificial intelligence facing off against a potentially even deadlier robot foe.

The sequel to 2022’s horror hit M3GAN, from returning director Gerard Johnstone, takes place two years after the events of the first movie. M3GAN 2.0 finds inventor Gemma (Allison Williams) and her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), forced to resurrect the murderous robot M3GAN to protect them from a rogue AI assassin named Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno).  M3GAN 2.0 also stars Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, Aristotle Athari, Timm Sharp and Jemaine Clement.

The film is scheduled for release in theaters June 27; see the trailer – HERE.

Editorial credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com

Doja Cat and Don Toliver team up in the video for ‘Lose My Mind’

Doja Cat arrives for Michael Rubin's 2022 Fanatics Super Bowl Party on February 12^ 2022 in Culver City^ CA

Don Toliver and Doja Cat have joined forces for a new song titled “Lose My Mind,” which will appear on the soundtrack to the upcoming film, F1.

In the music video for “Lose My Mind”, Don and Doja suit up for a race of their own, with the former hopping behind his own race car.

Doja has recently been teasing her fifth studio album, Vie, which comes on the heels of her 2023 album Scarlet – which hit No. 4 on the Billboard 200.

F1 The Album drops on June 27, and serves as the official soundtrack to F1, which stars Brad Pitt and Damson Idris as competing F1 drivers. The film will also be released on June 27th.

Watch the “Lose My Mind” video – HERE.

Editorial credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com

Post Malone adds Los Angeles stadium date ft. special guest Jelly Roll

Post Malone performs at Bonnaroo music festival Manchester^ Tennessee USA - 06-15-2024

Post Malone has added a Los Angeles show to his “Big A** Stadium Tour,” playing at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on June 19th. Jelly Roll will be his special guest, and Wyatt Flores and Chandler Walters will be supporting acts.

The tour, which kicked-off at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, is in support of Post’s debut country album, F-1 Trillion, which was released last summer and earned him a Grammy nomination for “Best Country Album.” Posty will also make stops at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Arlington’s AT&T Stadium, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ford Field in Detroit, Toronto’s Rogers Centre, Gillette Stadium in Foxborough and Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High.

Tickets can be purchased at LiveNation.com.

Editorial credit: L Paul Mann / Shutterstock.com