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Atlantic/Sugar Trap recording artist Rico Nasty has announced today's release of her hugely anticipated label debut mixtape. “NASTY” – which features cover art designed by yung jake – arrives today at all DSPs and streaming services: https://RicoNasty.lnk.to/NASTY.

After releasing a string of emotionally full-bodied and soulful pop gems, 15-year-old London-born, Australian-raised Ruel returns today with the release of his highly anticipated debut EP, “Ready,” out now via RCA Records.

Werner Herzog To Direct Fordlandia TV Series for Hyde Park

Today YouTube released the official trailer for the highly anticipated YouTube Original docu-series Best Shot. The all-new eight-part series follows ESPN college basketball analyst and former NCAA champion and NBA standout, Jay Williams, as he returns to his home state of New Jersey to join Newark's Central High School boys basketball coaching staff. Alongside longtime head coach Shawn McCray, they'll chase the school's first state championship in over a decade while working together to mentor the players through their own unique challenges and personal conflicts.

On June 7, 2018, Charles Strouse, the Tony Award-winning composer of Annie, Bye Bye and Applause, and some of the most popular music from the last 60 years of Broadway, film and television, turns 90. To mark the occasion, a year-long celebration of events, including tributes, concerts, revivals and international productions, will take place across the United States and around the world.

MADE IN AMERICA, the JAY-Z curated two-day music festival and staple of Labor Day Weekend, returns to Philadelphia for a seventh year.

BEYONCE AND JAY-Z have teamed up with two of the world's most prestigious youth-focused initiatives, The Prince's Trust and Global Citizen, to reward fans for being kind, charitable and doing good for others. Fans who volunteer through these organizations will be given the opportunity to win a pair of tickets to the United Kingdom and European dates on the OTR all stadium tour.

The Dixon Place HOT! Festival is the longest - running LGBTQ Arts Festival in the world. Since 1992, HOT ! continues to be a trailblazing pioneer in queer Arts and Culture. The opening night performance and party offers a taste of festival fare by presenting tantalizing selections from the pick of the upcoming festival programme.

Nicki Minaj, Janelle Monae, Migos, H.E.R., and Ella Mai Set to Perform at the BET Awards 2018

In this clip from tomorrow's premiere of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman: Howard Stern, watch as Stern discusses how therapy helped him deal with his anger issues, and taught him to appreciate his relationship with Letterman. Watch the preview below!

Nelly, Joe Nichols, David Nail, Jana Kramer and Parmalee have all been added to the lineup of the First Annual TAILGATE FEST (LATailgateFest.com) headlined by country music super star Toby Keith, taking place Saturday, September 1, 2018 (Labor Day Weekend) on the outdoor grounds of the Forum in Los Angeles (Inglewood). As a one-day country music and tailgating extravaganza, TAILGATE FEST caters to the fans who show up hours before to turn the preshow into the party. It brings the stage outside to the tailgate. No packing up the party to head inside, no need to stop that game of cornhole, no need to stuff all your belongings in your pockets to last you the evening. Fans will fire up those barbeques, crack open those coolers, play games and tailgate in the hot California sun while they listen to their favorite country stars from their own tailgate as TAILGATE FEST brings the stage to the tailgaters!

VICELAND is bringing nine series to air this summer with a wide range of diverse talent from returning network staples to newcomers covering everything from food and friendship to internet celebrity, fringe science and skateboarding.

In a first look at Howard Stern's episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, premiering on May 31st, Stern recalls how President Trump's candor always made him a great guest. In the interview, they also discuss Stern's childhood, how both of their careers had an affect on their personal lives, and of course, Letterman's beard.

The “2018 Billboard Music Awards,” hosted by “The Voice” coach, Kelly Clarkson, was an emotional and celebratory night of nostalgic and one-of-a-kind musical performances and touching moments all to celebrate this year's biggest and best in music! This year's show aired live on both coasts from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 20 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on NBC.

In a series of social media posts over the last several days, music mogul, cultural influencer and icon DJ Khaled announced that he has entered into a business partnership with ProSupps, LLC on the Hyde Power Potion performance energy beverage. "When seeking out a partner that embodies our core values of energy and performance, DJ Khaled was the first to come to mind," ProSupps founder TJ Humphreys said. "After months of strategic collaborative discussion with DJ Khaled and our friends at RocNation, we couldn't be happier having him as the voice and mouthpiece for Hyde Power Potion."

Superstar recording artists Jason Aldean, James Bay, Florence + the Machine, Halsey featuring Big Sean, Dua Lipa and season 13 winner Chloe Kohanski are set to perform on the live two-hour Tuesday, May 22 season finale (9-11 p.m. ET/PT) of NBC's four-time Emmy Award-winning musical competition series "The Voice." 

HeadCount, a non-partisan organization that works with entertainers to promote participation in democracy, is planning a remarkable summer mobilization to encourage voter registration and turnout across the United States.

dick clark productions today announced SiriusXM's Sway Calloway, AJ Gibson, Erika Jayne, Justine Skye and Jaymes Vaughan as the hosts of “BBMAs Red Carpet Live presented by Pepsi,” the official pre-show for the “2018 Billboard Music Awards,” exclusively on Twitter. Gibson and Jayne will be hosting the V LIVE stage, Skye and Vaughan will host the Artist Stage and Calloway will be at the Arrivals Stage at the top of the red carpet.

THE HOLLYWOOD ADRIANA was named One of The Top Five Events of The Week by METROSOURCE MAGAZINE when it opened the DIXON PLACE 2018 QT: RAINBOWS ACROSS THE DIASPORA reading series in January of 2018. The Hollywood Adriana has received the honor of being invited to both the world-renowned HOT! FESTIVAL at DIXON PLACE (July 2018 45-minute version), and to premiere the full script at UNITED SOLO THEATRE FESTIVAL (October 2018 90 minute duration). Hollywood Adriana is the eroticized love child of Reader's Theatre and Medieval Morality play: a poetic novella/solo performance piece designed for the stage, screen, and reader's chair. On the constructed stages of his surreal reality, Rupert's story of obsession, thwarted love, innocence lost, murder, suicide, and catharsis implodes the boundaries of time and place into a continuum of Now, unfolding through his encounters with Sarah Bernhardt, Ramon Novarro, Maya Plisetskaya, Hector Berlioz, hustlers, drag queens, and altar boys.

For three years, I have obsessed over the Original Broadway Cast Album of Lin-Manuel Miranda's ingeniously constructed, powerfully-rendered musical masterpiece HAMILTON, mostly because it just wasn't possible for me to see the show at its home at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York. Fast forward to Fall of 2017 and the show finally makes its long stop in Los Angeles. I snagged a ticket and it was transcendent. Fast forward again to now May 2018, and the show's second national tour has finally arrived in my back yard at OC's Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa for a three-week run through May 27. This production not only successfully reignited my love for this show, but it has also promptly solidified it as, in my humble opinion, one of the best musicals of all time. Apart from being one of the most undeniably creative stage shows ever produced for the American theater, HAMILTON is also one of the most deeply moving and shrewdly intelligent stage musicals I have ever experienced---made even better thanks to an insanely talented ensemble cast that raps, sings, and acts their way into this gripping, very American story. All that hype? Completely justified.