He tracked the rise of grunge as the editor of the Seattle music magazine The Rocket. He also wrote acclaimed books about two of the city’s most celebrated rock luminaries.Charles R. Cross, a Seattle music writer who edited The Rocket, a local rock bible, during the city’s grunge-era flowering in the 1990s, and who wrote acclaimed biographies of two of the city’s most venerated musical figures, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain, died on Aug. 9 at his home in Shoreline, Wash., He was 67.His death was announced in a statement from his family. No cause was given.Mr. Cross was the editor of The Rocket, a biweekly magazine, from 1986 through 2000, a period when Seattle bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam redefined rock. It was considered a must-read for musicians looking to join the wave.It would be “impossible to imagine the music or community of Seattle in the 80s and 90s without charles r. cross,” Chris Walla, a former member of Death Cab for Cutie, the critically acclaimed alternative rock band from Bellingham, Wash., wrote on social media.Mr. Cross was also a well-known sage to fans of Bruce Springsteen: He turned his self-produced fanzine into Backstreets Magazine, a trove of Springsteen arcana that was well known to the artist himself.At a concert in Pittsburgh on Sunday, Mr. Springsteen paid tribute to Mr. Cross, telling the audience that his “help in communicating between our band and our fans will be sorely missed” before launching into his song “Backstreets.”Mr. Cross published the first of his nine books, “Backstreets: Springsteen, the Man and His Music,” in 1989, followed two years later by “Led Zeppelin: Heaven and Hell,” an illustrated history that he wrote with Erik Flannigan, with photographs by Neal Preston.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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When admitting that he has since learned to take a more laid back approach, the One Direction member claims to have found confidence as solo artist because of fans’ warm welcome.

Feb 22, 2021
AceShowbiz – Pop star Harry Styles has learned not to try too hard when he’s in the recording studio, because it often results in his “worst music”.
The “Fine Line” hitmaker has learned to take a more laid back approach to creating new material in order to showcase his most authentic self.
He said, “I have always made my worst music when I’m trying the hardest and when it feels a little bit too easy and feels a bit safe and it’s just like, ‘Oh yeah, this is what people want’. I try to write music as a fan of music. I just don’t really know how else to do it, I guess.”
“Ultimately, everyone who works in music are just fans. Like, I’m just a fan of music and get to make some, so I try to make it from that perspective.”

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Harry finally felt confidence as a solo artist when he was given a warm welcome by fans at his post-One Direction shows.
Speaking on SiriusXM, he added, “The confidence came after feeling accepted by the crowds. When I went out to do shows on my own, I was amazed people were coming to see me.”
His music career aside, Harry recently made headlines for his relationship with Olivia Wilde. The “Don’t Worry Darling” co-stars first sparked romance rumors when they were filmed attending his manager Jeffrey Azoff’s wedding together over the weekend. In the clip published by Page Six, the pair walked and held hands at the venue which took place at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California.
Prior to dating Harry, Olivia was engaged to comedian Jason Sudeikis, whom she shares two children with, for seven years. As for Harry, the musician was last linked romantically to several names including Camille Rowe, Taylor Swift and British presenter Caroline Flack.

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‘Toosie Slide’ marks the Canadian rapper’s first official solo single in 2020 after previously joining forces with Future on ‘Life Is Good’ and with Lil Yachty and DaBaby on ‘Oprah’s Bank Account’.
Apr 4, 2020
AceShowbiz – Drake has released the full version of his song “Toosie Slide” following its huge popularity on TikTok after he posted the snippet of the spot. Making its way out online on Thursday, April 2, the video sees the Canadian star demonstrating how to execute the “Toosie Slide” moves in his luxurious mansion.
Taking fans to a virtual tour to his $100M crib, Drake dances around for the OZ-produced track. “It go right foot up, left foot, slide/ Left foot up, right foot, slide,” the OVO star raps. “Basically, I’m saying, either way, we ’bout to slide/ Can’t let this one slide.”
The song set social media ablaze after social media influencer/dancer Toosie posted a how-to video of the record’s titular dance on Sunday, March 30. Talking about his collaboration with the “In My Feelings” hitmaker, Toosie previously revealed to Rolling Stone, “Drake hit me up and was like, ‘Yo, I need your help.’ So he sends the record. It was just an idea at the time.”
“It was just the hook and a verse. I came up with this dance. [Drake said,] ‘What you think? You think you can come up with a dance for this song that I made?’ So I sit down, listen to it. Luckily, I’m at Ayo and Teo’s house with Hii Key and all of us. We all chilling. We came up with it pretty fast. We just all pieced it together. We all contributed,” he went on to explain.
“Toosie Slide” marks Drake’s first official solo single in 2020. He previously joined forces with Future on “Life Is Good” and collaborated with Lil Yachty and DaBaby on “Oprah’s Bank Account”. Additionally, he released, “When to Say When” and “Chicago Freestyle”.

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In response to the ‘Given to Fly’ band’s opposition, New Jersey Representative Bill Pascrell Jr. States that they ‘have been led astray’ about his BOSS Act legislation.
Feb 22, 2020
AceShowbiz – Pearl Jam’s objections to a bill that would result in an overhaul of the concert ticketing industry in the U.S. have been dismissed.
In January, the “Given to Fly” group wrote to New Jersey Reps. Bill Pascrell, Jr. and Frank Pallone, Jr. to oppose the BOSS Act, which aimed to bring greater transparency to the ticketing business and give consumers easier access to tickets through primary and secondary markets.
The bill included provisions such as banning non-transferable ticketing, and requiring primary ticket sellers to disclose the total number of tickets that would be offered to the general public a full week before the sale.
However, the group claimed the legislation would hurt, rather than protect, consumers, and scalpers who resell tickets on the secondary market, often at highly inflated prices.
The “Last Kiss” hitmakers conceded that they agreed with a number of other elements in the bill, including provision that would prevent the use of bots and require disclosing all ancillary fees upfront, but remained opposed to it in its entirety.
In a response, Pascrell rebutted Pearl Jam’s arguments against the bill, which he and Pallone first introduced in 2009, and reintroduced last June.
“Pearl Jam may know a thing or two about making great music, but they’ve been led astray about my legislation,” he said in a letter to the band on Thursday, February 20. “I would be happy to speak with the band about why Live Nation-Ticketmaster doesn’t care about their fans and wants to preserve a corrupt marketplace.”
Pascrell’s letter ends with a summary of the bill’s provisions, including greater transparency from secondary sellers which would inhibit them from knowingly reselling tickets at a higher price.
Pearl Jam has yet to respond to the dismissal.

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Casandra Ventura, the singer and model known as Cassie, said that the relentless sexual demands and routine violence she experienced from Sean Combs over the course of their decade-plus relationship left her emotionally devastated and led her to consider suicide. In dramatic testimony on Wednesday, Ms. Ventura spent a full day of Mr. Combs’s federal trial describing physical violence that she said culminated in a rape after she left him in 2018.Ms. Ventura is widely considered the star witness at the trial, where Mr. Combs is charged with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. He has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers have vehemently denied that any of his sexual arrangements were not consensual.After maintaining her composure for most of her two days on the stand, where she had remained largely dispassionate, Ms. Ventura finally broke down while discussing why she entered drug rehab and trauma therapy in 2023. “I was spinning out,” she said. “I didn’t want to be alive anymore at that point.”Beginning to cry, Ms. Ventura recalled putting their children to bed one night and telling her husband, “You can do this without me. You don’t need me here anymore.” She tried to walk out of the door into traffic, she said, but he stopped her.It was the emotional peak of a day of testimony that saw Ms. Ventura spend lengthy stretches responding to a prosecutor’s questions about individual instances of physical violence delivered by Mr. Combs. Her testimony on Wednesday afternoon began with her recollection of the first time that he physically abused her in 2007 or 2008. It was early in their relationship, she said, and she had caught him flirting with someone else at dinner. Later, in a car, he hit her on the side of her head, in view of the driver and security guard, sending her flying onto the floor.“I was just shocked,” she said.Answering questions about events that did not always follow a linear timeline, Ms. Ventura appeared weary, even resigned at times, as she cataloged her injuries — bruises on her body, a gash on her eyebrow, a busted lip — which were documented in photos that were shown to the jury as evidence.She testified that there were times she initiated violence against Mr. Combs and fought back against his abuse but, Ms. Ventura said, it did not stop his attacks.During one night out early in their romance in 2009, Ms. Ventura testified, she punched him in the face after he insulted her. His demeanor changed. “I remember his eyes went black,” she said, and he beat her in a car, stomping on her face with his foot. She said she was then sneaked into a hotel to heal in secrecy.When she went with some friends to a party in Los Angeles where Prince was to perform — a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” — she was afraid to tell Mr. Combs, she said. According to her account, he appeared at the event and she rushed out, falling into some bushes in out front, and fled to a hotel. He burst into the room, she said, where they fought, and he beat her. “He was throwing luggage at me, just calling me all kinds of names,” she testified.Ms. Ventura also testified about Mr. Combs’s reaction when he learned — by looking through her phone during a freak-off — that she had begun dating the rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi. Mr. Combs, furious, told her he was going to hurt both of them, and that Mescudi’s car would be “blown up.”Later, the three had a meeting to “discuss the relationship that we were no longer in.” According to Ms. Ventura, Mr. Mescudi said, “‘What about my vehicle?’ And Sean said, ‘What vehicle?’” Ms. Ventura recounted. “And that was the end of the meeting.”Mr. Combs was also violent with other people, Ms. Ventura said. She testified that she witnessed him assaulting employees and assistants, punching one man in the head and dragging another, a woman — known at trial as Mia, or Victim-4 — out of bed once during a vacation.During the afternoon testimony, she repeatedly mentioned wanting to hide the abuse from her mother. After a fight led to her recuperating at a hotel, Ms. Ventura said, her mother sent her a blind item from a gossip publication that Ms. Ventura testified had reported the incident accurately. Her mother asked if it was her, and she denied that it was.A couple of years later, in late 2011, she wrote an email to her mother saying that Mr. Combs had threatened to release two sexually explicit tapes of her around Christmas, and that he would arrange to have someone “hurt” her and Mr. Mescudi, while Mr. Combs was out of the country.According to her testimony, Ms. Ventura was visiting her mother’s house in Connecticut at Christmas and showed her the bruises on her backside and thigh that were the result of Mr. Combs’s abuse. She said she lied and told her mother that it had been the first time he physically hurt her.She wasn’t ready to tell her mother about the freak-offs yet.“You can’t justify it to anyone,” she said. “Especially not your mom.”Near the end of her testimony, Ms. Ventura described a sort of farewell dinner in 2018 for her and Mr. Combs, seeking closure at the end of their relationship. She said that after a pleasant night, he raped her in her home. “I just remember crying and saying no, but it was very fast,” she said.After suing Mr. Combs in 2023, Ms. Ventura reached a $20 million settlement in one day, but that did not prevent her from becoming the central witness in the criminal case against him.As the last hour of her testimony reached a tearful climax at its conclusion on Wednesday, Ms. Ventura addressed why she was choosing to testify. “What’s right is right and what’s wrong is wrong,” Ms. Ventura said on the stand. “I’m here to do the right thing.”When Ms. Ventura finished her direct testimony, Mr. Combs turned to his family members in the spectators’s gallery. He mouthed to them, “I’m OK.”Olivia Bensimon More