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BTS and their management company Big Hit Entertainment donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter earlier this week, Variety reported Saturday. While the K-pop superstars didn’t comment on the donation on social media, both Black Lives Matter and Big Hit confirmed the transfer. Black Lives Matter managing director Kailee Scales told Variety, “Black people all …

If the narrator of popular rock docuseries “Breaking the Band” sounds familiar, that’s because it’s former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider — who’s parlayed his hard-rockin’ raspy pipes into a successful voiceover career. “I’m blessed with a voice that people like hearing,” says Snider, 65, on the phone from Belize, where he and his wife …

Jesse McCartney paid tribute Wednesday to former Dream Street bandmate Chris Trousdale, who died Tuesday at the age of 34 after battling coronavirus. “It pains me to say that an old friend, Chris Trousdale, from my early days in the music industry has passed away due to complications from COVID-19,” McCartney, 33, penned on Instagram. …

Chris Trousdale, a former member of short-lived boy band Dream Street, has died following a battle with COVID-19. He was 34. TMZ, who is reporting the news, says Trousdale died Tuesday in a hospital in Burbank, Calif., of complications from the coronavirus, according to a family member. “Chris left this earth at 8:44 pm yesterday …

The management company for BTS star Suga released a formal apology after social media backlash to the South Korean rapper’s use of cult leader Jim Jones’ voice on his new mixtape. In 1978, Jones notoriously had 918 of his followers — 304 of them children — commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide-dosed Flavor Aid at …

The Strokes named their latest album “The New Abnormal” well before knowing what our new normal would be. “It feels so prescient because of the parallel between something like coronavirus,” says Julian Casablancas, 41, lead singer and lyricist of the New York garage-rock band. “But the name came from the [2018 California] fires, when Malibu …

REO Speedwagon lead singer Kevin Cronin turns to his kids for advice when deciding on new projects — including the band’s recent cameo on Netflix’s “Ozark.”  “If I want to see if something is cool to do or not, they’re my sounding board,” he told Page Six of his 23-year-old daughter and 20-year-old twin sons. …

Forty years ago, on the morning of March 20, 1980, Morty Gilbert was sitting in his Midtown office at Elektra Asylum Records when a stranger arrived in his doorway. The man was wearing a down jacket and jeans. He carried a briefcase. “He looked very average,” Gilbert, the record company’s then-sales manager, recalled. “He seemed to …