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There’s a lot for music-loving travelers to like about the Guitar Hotel at Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida.

The place has a 7,000-seat entertainment venue, suites suitable for a pop sensation, and a lagoon-style area with bungalows perfect for hiding from paparazzi. But the thing that stands out most about the property is its shape. The Guitar Hotel is literally configured like 450-foot, back-to-back guitars. If...

Chicago house pioneer Vince Lawrence recalls witnessing Disco Demolition Night as a teenager, and later recognizing the racist undertones of the infamous incident, in a new clip from the fascinating documentary, Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, premiering on Rolling Stone.

Directed by Elegance Bratton, Move Ya Body digs into the origins of house music on the South Side of Chicago, where Lawrence and his peers crafted a new sound with emerging synth technology and perfected it in underground clubs like the Warehouse. The birth of house music in the 1980s was also,...

The Human Rights Campaign (Hrc) – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization proudly announces a talented slate of speakers, presenters and performers for this year’s Hrc Greater New York Dinner, taking place on February 1st.

The program’s key speakers include trailblazer and US Congressional Representative Sarah McBride who became the first openly transgender member of Congress. Hrc President Kelley Robinson will also address guests about the fight forward for LGBTQ+ equality. Also participating in the program will be actress and Hrc board member Sophia Bush alongside her partner, former soccer superstar Ashlyn Harris. The event will include a performance by American Idol runner-up, prolific singer/songwriter and LGBTQ+ icon David Archuleta. The live auction will be hosted by comedian Dana Goldberg. After-party entertainment will be provided by NYC nightclub personality, legendary drag queen and musical performer Kevin Aviance.

Where:

New York Marriott Marquis

1535 Broadway New York,...

A lawsuit against Beyoncé and Sony Music over Renaissance‘s lead single “Break My Soul” has been dropped. On Thursday, the copyright lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed several months after members of bounce group Da Showstoppaz sued the singer for allegedly using their 2002 song “Release a Wiggle” without credit, per the filing obtained by Bloomberg Law.

In the original filing, the group alleged that Beyoncé sampled Big Freedia’s 2014 track “Explode,” which they claimed illegally used “copyrighted lyrics, melody, and musical arrangement” from “Release a Wiggle.” Da Showstoppaz claimed Beyoncé legally sampled Freedia’s song,...

Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour may not technically be magic, but you might be forgiven for wondering if it could be. As captured in Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé — which the star also wrote, directed and produced — the stage concert is never short on jaw-dropping delights: acrobatic choreography and soaring vocals, designer outfits upon designer outfits, sets that seem to dwarf the very arenas they’re in. Above all, there’s the sheer pulsing ecstasy of a crowd who feed off their queen’s energy and reflect it back to her a thousandfold.

But if magic can be exhilarating, getting to see how the trick is done can be an even deeper pleasure. Were Renaissance the movie simply a recording of the show, it’d be a treat in itself. By weaving in behind-the-scenes footage and interviews that reveal where Renaissance came from and how it got to be here,...

Beyoncé paid homage to a fan who was fatally stabbed over the weekend in a possible hate crime.

After hearing the heartbreaking news that O’Shae Sibley, a professional dancer, was killed at a Brooklyn gas station, Beyoncé honoured the 28-year-old on her official website, writing: “Rest In Power O’Shae Sibley.”

On Saturday, Sibley was voguing to a Beyoncé song, surrounded by his friends, when he was suddenly targeted by a group of men who viciously attacked him. One of Sibley’s friends, Otis Pena, happened to be documenting the night out, filming Sibley’s dance moves for a Facebook Live post. In his video, the group of men are seen approaching the dancer and his pals while shouting gay slurs. Things eventually escalated and Sibley was stabbed.

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Sibley, who was left...

Among the litany of reported reasons that Fox News fired Tucker Carlson last month, perhaps the one that raised the most eyebrows — aside from his racist text messages — was his apparent affinity for a certain word. In a workplace that was allegedly rampant with misogyny, Carlson used “cunt” to describe both a senior Fox News executive and former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell.

He wasn’t the only TV news figure to get the chop over the word in April, either: ESPN fired baseball reporter Marly Rivera after she was...

Since announcing her first solo album of new material in more than five years, Beyoncé has yet again taken over the cultural conversation. As always, the legendary musician didn’t disappoint. From the instant hit “Break My Soul” to her photo shoot for British Vogue and making physical copies available for pre-order on her website (sorry, they’re currently sold out), the release of Reniassance has been one of the more refreshing, and exciting, rollouts of the past year. Even an unexpected leak two days before the July 29 release date sparked controversy,...

Ari Gold, the New York City-based dance music artist and DJ, has died at 47 after a long battle with leukemia, according to multiple reports.

Since drag icon RuPaul posted the news on his Twitter account, his friends and collaborators have shared tributes and remembrances. Gold appeared in RuPaul’s 2007 movie Starrbooty and called him “the closest thing I’ve known to a mentor.” On Instagram, director and musician John Cameron Mitchell wrote: “What a light and a pioneer in pop. He was out long before it was fashionable and took so many artistic risks.

YouTube at 15 is our package of stories celebrating the streaming site’s anniversary. It’s hard to imagine, but there really was a time before makeup tutorials, conspiracy explainers, on-demand music videos — really, viral videos at large. Since it’s become such a ubiquitous part of culture, we set out to look at how it’s changed our world. First, read Rob Sheffield’s investigation into its surprising origins. Here, we look at how drag performers were affected by the platform.

You could hypothesize the internet killed drag or upended...

It's hard to pinpoint exactly what has brought Lady Bunny the most fame.

The legendary drag queen, who created the non-defunct annual New York City drag festival Wigstock in the mid-80s, has been performing, DJing, releasing music and appearing in films and on TV shows like "RuPaul's Drag Race" and "RuPaul's Drag U" for nearly three decades.

Known for hilarious -- and filthy -- parody covers of tracks by pop stars like Katy Perry, Bunny released an uncharacteristically straight forward dance single, "Take Me Up High" (see the video above) in July and the track has already climbed to number 29 on the Billboard Dance Chart.

We caught up with Bunny to chat about her new song, her connection to the transgender community, how her life changed after 9/11 and more.

The Huffington Post: This is the first song of yours in a long time that doesn’t feature lyrics about...