Katie Atkinson

Jan 9, 2025 | yahoo.com | Katie Atkinson

John Mayer is sending a message to victims of the devastating wildfires across Los Angeles County, recognizing that many of the losses suffered this week are truly and tragically irreplaceable.

Jan 8, 2025 | yahoo.com | Katie Atkinson

Katie AtkinsonThu, January 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM UTC2 min readRod Wave‘s concert scheduled for Wednesday night (Jan. 8) at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California, has been canceled due to the ongoing L.A. County wildfires, the rapper announced on social media. “Concert Tonight Cancelled By Gov. Officials,” reads a post on Rod Wave’s Instagram Story from Wednesday afternoon, over ABC News footage of fires raging across Los Angeles. “I Hope Everyone Stays Safe,” the rapper added with a prayer-hands emoji.

Nov 26, 2024 | blbrd.cm | Trevor Anderson |Katie Atkinson |Griselda Flores |Gil Kaufman

(This list is a project that Billboard initially published in 2018, and which we’ve updated in some form every year since. In honor of our associated Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century list finally nearing its conclusion — we’re publishing our No. 2 essay today (Nov. 26), with No. 1 coming next Tuesday (Dec. 3) — we’re republishing the project, now updated until 2023, and in a more easily navigated form.

Nov 26, 2024 | blbrd.cm | Trevor Anderson |Katie Atkinson |Griselda Flores |Gil Kaufman

Pop stars existed before 1981. You could credibly call either Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley the first teen idol, just like how you could call The Beatles the first boy band, assessments that carry the weight of history. Nevertheless, none of these 20th Century icons feels like a modern pop star the way that Blondie — or perhaps more specifically, frontwoman Debbie Harry — still does. Blame this modernity on how Blondie was a product of the downtown art-punk scene of New York City.

Nov 20, 2024 | blbrd.cm | Jenny Regan |Katie Atkinson

The 2024 CMA Awards took over Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday night (Nov. 20) to honor country’s brightest stars, from fresh talent like new artist of the year winner Megan Moroney to CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award honoree George Strait.