Billie Jean News

Portland, OR-based Blitzen Trapper today released “Masonic Temple Microdose #1,” the second single from their Yep Roc Records debut, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, out September 11.

The 2020 ESPYS Presented by Capital One will have a different look this year, and is shifting its focus from outstanding athletic achievement to further highlight narratives of service, perseverance, and courage within the world of sports.

Today, Her Campus, the number one media brand for college women with over 400 campus chapters, presented its first-ever “I'm Still Graduating” virtual graduation ceremony with a star-studded line-up of today's most inspiring entertainers, musicians, politicians and entrepreneurs, to celebrate and commemorate and uplift the Class of 2020. The event was broadcast digitally on ImStillGraduating.com. Thousands of student graduates from over 800+ schools across the country tuned in!

HISTORY announces today “HISTORY at Home,” a free video series available every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11 a.m. ET across the network's digital and social media platforms – @HISTORY Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube and history.com – for families during this time of distance learning.

The Beatles! Rihanna! Michael Jackson! Johnny Cash! Kanye West! The Rolling Stones! Aretha Franklin! Bob Dylan! Miles Davis! Nirvana! BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the greatest albums from the rock and rap era (1950-2020); see if your favorites made the grade!

Tony Award winners Billy Porter and Kristin Chenoweth have joined the lineup for an upcoming virtual fundraiser for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden.

Grammy-nominated Boston songwriter Alastair Moock rescheduled his all-ages release concert for his new album, Be a Pain: An Album for Young (& Old) Leaders (originally slated for March 22) to May 3, 2020 at 12pm at The Burren in Somerville, MA. Tickets are available now via The Burren.

Documentary news series AXIOS airs a new episode on HBO this SUNDAY, MARCH 8 (6:00-6:40 p.m. ET/PT). This week, AXIOS breaks down what viewers need to know about the news and trends shaping our world through an interview with a top Trump Cabinet member on housing programs and a docu short with women sports pioneers on equality and pay equity.

Broadway's Liz Callaway has announced a new concert tour with dates in New York, California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and more!

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today that Lesley Visser, the pioneering sports reporter and one of the most highly acclaimed female sportscasters of all time, will become the first woman to receive the Sports Lifetime Achievement Award at the 41st Annual Sports Emmy® Awards. The event will take place in New York City at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall on Tuesday, April 28th, 2020.

A+E Networks® today announced that Academy® Award winning actor and producer Matthew McConaughey has joined the lineup of HISTORYTalks. 

Broadway ladies united earlier this month for the world premiere of Award-winning composer Carmel Dean's Well-Behaved Women. The cast included: LaChanze, Liz Callaway, Natascia Diaz, Melissa Rose Hirsh, Bonnie Milligan, Katie Thompson, Kuhoo Verma, Sasha Allen, Andréa Burns, Hannah Elless and Barbara Walsh. Watch an exclusive song from the show, performed by Liz Callaway as Neil Armstrong's wife, Janet Armstrong. 

A+E Networks® today unveiled additional details of HISTORYTalks, a traveling speaker series of live events that will explore newsworthy topics and historical milestones through conversations with global leaders, trailblazers, historians, authors and filmmakers. The series' first event will be held Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York. Details of the event can be found at www.history-talks.com.

Alastair Moock will release new family album about leadership and activism, performing concert with friends in Somerville on March 22. 

Broadway ladies united last weekend for the world premiere of Award-winning composer Carmel Dean's Well-Behaved Women. The cast included: LaChanze, Liz Callaway, Natascia Diaz, Melissa Rose Hirsh, Bonnie Milligan, Katie Thompson, Kuhoo Verma, Sasha Allen, Andréa Burns,Hannah Elless and Barbara Walsh.

BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) and The Estate of Michael Jackson announced today that they have inked a renewal agreement for BMI to continue to represent the performing rights in Michael Jackson's songwriting catalog. This new deal continues an uninterrupted 41-year long relationship between the King of Pop and the performance rights organization which began in 1979 when Michael Jackson first signed with BMI. The Estate and BMI last renewed the deal in 2014.

Thriller Live has been rocking London's Lyric Theatre since January 2009... and now the cast want you to be part of the show!

Broadway stars Sasha Allen, Andréa Burns and Hannah Elless have joined the world premiere cast of Award-winning composer Carmel Dean's Well-Behaved Women, it was announced today. Premiering at Joe's Pub on Saturday, January 25th, the 7 PM performance sold out in less than 48 hours, and an additional show has been added for 4:30 PM.

What would Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, Billie Jean King, and Malala Yousafzai sound like if you heard them sing? Find out in Well-Behaved Women, a new collection of songs by award-winning composer Carmel Dean, presented for one-night-only on January 25, 2020 at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street).

It's incredible to think Thriller Live has been a staple of London theatre for an entire decade. It holds the record as the 13th-longest-running musical in West End history and has played around the world to over five million people. With Peter Andre slipping on the white sequinned glove once again for a short stint commencing 10 December, the show remains in demand.