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Hey, hey, you, you, Avril Lavigne isn’t Phillip Sarofim’s girlfriend anymore. E! News can confirm that the couple have called it quits after one year of dating. Lavigne began dating Sarofim, who is the son of Texan billionaire Fayez Sarofim, in February 2018.

Three weeks after a vintage airplane crashed at Bradley International Airport killing seven people and injuring seven others, the Simsbury Fire Department is hoping the community will help them support two of their own who survived the crash.

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ric Ocasek, lead singer of the rock band The Cars, died Sunday in New York at age 75.

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Ric Ocasek, lead singer of the rock band The Cars, died Sunday in New York at age 75.

When the organizers of Woodstock’s 50th anniversary festival put the rock band Hollis Brown on the lineup, lead singer Mike Montali was elated, NBC News reported. “It’s such an iconic and legendary thing, man,” Montali said, referring to the paisley-printed, mud-splattered 1969 original. “For us, a couple of guys who started our band in a garage in Queens a few...

Jerry Lawson, who for four decades was the lead singer of the eclectic cult-favorite a cappella group the Persuasions, has died. He was 75. Lawson died Wednesday at a Phoenix hospice after a long illness, longtime friend and sometime Persuasions producer Rip Rense said. Lawson’s smooth baritone led the group of five and later six singers, who were revered as...

Jerry Lawson, who for four decades was the lead singer of the eclectic cult-favorite a cappella group the Persuasions, has died. He was 75. Lawson died Wednesday at a Phoenix hospice after a long illness, longtime friend and sometime Persuasions producer Rip Rense said. Lawson’s smooth baritone led the group of five and later six singers, who were revered as...

Ester Dean and Shane McAnally told us about the show that discovers where the magic behind the music really happens.

A huge fan of rock legends Queen, Peng Yanzi rushed to see “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the biopic about the band’s late lead singer, Freddie Mercury, while he was traveling in Britain last October....
It was a touching film that made him cry hard, Peng says. He loved it enough to watch it a second time in his home city of Guangzhou after...

Keith Flint, lead singer of influential British dance-electronic band The Prodigy, was found dead Monday at his home near London, the band said. He was 49.

Panicked residents, police and soldiers in this remote fishing village clobbered by a devastating weekend tsunami ran to higher ground Tuesday, shouting “Water is coming! Water is coming!” and reciting verses from the Quran as emergency messages were broadcast over mosque speakers. It proved to be a false alarm, but a similar frenzy broke out in Tanjung Lesung, another tsunami-stricken...

The Rolling Stones will be rolling through the United States next year.
The band says it’s adding a 13-show leg to its No Filter tour in spring 2019 that will hit Florida, Texas, Arizona, California, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Illinois and Washington, D.C. The tour kicks off in Miami on April 20.

Rihanna and Axl Rose over the weekend joined a growing number of musicians who have denounced President Donald Trump’s use of their music at his events.

Once a week, Roberta Flack gives a musical performance for an exclusive group. The public will get a chance to hear the result of those musical tuneups, courtesy of the Jazz Foundation of America, when it honors her Saturday.

Aretha Franklin, who was born and rose to fame during the segregation era and went on to sing at the inauguration of the first black president, often used her talent, fortune and platform to inspire millions of black Americans and support the fight for racial equality.

Country music band Alabama will be hosting a benefit concert in Alabama for Jacksonville tornado relief.

Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Jarecki have officially separated, E! News can exclusively report.
“They still deeply love and respect each other and remain very close friends, but have mutually decided to separate after being together for 20 years. They have a son together who they will continue to co-parent,” Silverstone’s rep shared in a statement.

The Winter Olympics can make for strange bedfellows. Just ask the members of Maryland-based rock band O.A.R (Of A Revolution), who’ve found themselves on the tips of many tongues far from South Korea thanks in large part to the Olympic Athletes from Russia… a.k.a. OAR.

Dozens of Grammy Award performers and attendees wore or held white roses Sunday in support of the Time’s Up movement, in an awards season where every awards show has confronted sexual misconduct in show business. “My message on this is for everybody to treat each other like we want to be treated,” said Reba McEntire, winner for best roots gospel...