If you were not one of the lucky fans who got to see Justin Bieber‘s secret show in L.A. over the weekend, don’t fret: It was just a taste of what’s to come.
On Tuesday (March 31), Bieber shared a compilation of clips to X from his recent one-night-only performance at The Roxy Theater, a 500-capacity venue in West Hollywood, Calif. Alongside the under 90-second sequence, Bieber wrote the caption, “See you all soon.”
The video starts with a shirtless Bieber taking a bow on a small stage in what is clearly a packed room. The next clip is a look at the theater’s marquee outside, which simply reads “Justin Bieber / Tonight Only.” The following shows an exclusive T-shirt from the event that says “Justin Bieber Live The Roxy Theater” with the date of the performance.
Then viewers get a taste of the performance Bieber gave to the fans lucky enough to be at the Roxy Theater on Sunday night. The singer performed a series of hits from his 2025 albums Swag and Swag II. For his renditions of his Billboard Hot 100 hits “Speed Demon,” “Yukon,” “Walking Away,” “Go Baby” and No. 2 hit “Daisies,” Bieber traverses the small stage alone, at times shirtless and at others donning a TLC CrazySexyCool World Tour tee.
“You guys having fun?” Bieber asks the audience in between songs. The crowd cheers back enthusiastically in response.
Though he performs alone for a majority of the video, toward the end Bieber is joined by two guitarists for an acoustic performance of “Everything Hallelujah.”
“Well, I just want to say thank you so much for coming tonight,” Bieber says at the end of the montage. “This is so beautiful. It’s a little sneak preview into Coachella which is gonna be so much fun.”
Fans who didn’t get into his secret performance at the Roxy Theater will be able to see Bieber headline both Saturday nights — April 11 and April 18 — at this year’s Coachella, either in person or via Coachella’s live YouTube feed.
Watch Bieber’s secret show montage below.
Kid Rock is not worried about the flight crews who recently conducted a flyby past his Nashville home over the weekend.
In an interview with Nashville’s WKRN News, the singer shrugged off the ongoing Army investigation of the aviators involved in the unauthorized flight, suggesting that the pilots have nothing to be worried about.
“I think they’re going to be all right,” Kid Rock said when asked about how he feels about the investigation. “My buddy is the Commander-in-Chief.”
Kid Rock has been a prominent supporter of Trump since 2016 and has maintained a close relationship with the president. Last year, he appeared at the White House as Trump signed an executive order targeting ticket scalping in the live entertainment industry.
The investigation came about after Kid Rock shared a video to X of himself saluting the helicopter hovering near his home. The video of the flyby garnered immediate attention, as it was posted the same day millions of Americans nationwide participated in a third No Kings protest against the Trump administration. One of these demonstrations was held in downtown Nashville.
In the interview with WKRN, Kid Rock referenced the demonstrations, saying that he thought being able to salute the helicopter pilots was “a great thing” when the No Kings protests were happening.
“There were people flipping them off,” he said, alleging protesters’ actions toward the helicopters. “I don’t care what your politics are … if you’re flipping our military off, you’re on the wrong side of things.”
While Kid Rock was into the flyby incident, ultimately calling it “harmless” and “cool,” the U.S. Army did not feel the same. On Monday, the Army’s 101st Airborne Division confirmed that they were reviewing the flyby, referencing the “strict safety standards, professionalism and established flight regulations” that flight crews must adhere to.
Despite Kid Rock’s prediction that they’ll be “all right,” the flight crews have been temporarily relieved of their duties for the time being.
“The personnel involved have been suspended from flight duties while the Army reviews the circumstances surrounding the mission, including compliance with relevant FAA regulations, aviation safety protocol, and approval requirements,” said Major Montrell Russell, a spokesperson for the Army. “The Army takes any allegations of unauthorized or unsafe flight operations very seriously and is committed to enforcing standards and holding personnel accountable.”
A federal judge has once again dismissed a lawsuit against Showtime that claimed George & Tammy — a TV series about country music legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette — unfairly turned her late husband into “the villain.”
The case, filed in 2024, alleged that the Showtime series conveyed a “negative and disparaging portrayal” of the late George Richey, a songwriter and producer to whom Wynette was married for decades after her split from Jones.
Though a judge initially dismissed the case last year, he gave Richey’s widow (Sheila Slaughter Richey) a chance to fix her claims and refile the case. But in a ruling Monday (March 30), that same judge dismissed the lawsuit for good.
“I dismissed Sheila’s claim once but gave her leave to amend,” Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote Monday. “This time, her claim fares no better, and I now dismiss it [permanently].”
Released in December 2022, George & Tammy was well-received by critics — particularly Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain’s respective portrayals of Jones and Wynette. Both were later nominated for Emmy Awards for their performances.
Sheila filed her case in January 2024, claiming the series had depicted Richey as a “devious husband” who engaged in physical abuse, facilitated Wynette’s drug addiction, and committed “financial and managerial manipulation” of the late country icon.
Accusations about a harmful depiction of a real-world person would typically be filed as a defamation lawsuit, but Sheila didn’t sue Showtime for defamation. And that’s likely because she couldn’t: Under U.S. law, defamation cases can only be filed by living people, not on behalf of the deceased.
Instead, Sheila claimed the show indirectly violated a 2019 legal settlement in which Wynette’s daughter, Georgette Jones, promised not to make disparaging statements about Richey. Since George & Tammy was a licensed adaptation of Georgette’s 2011 memoir about her parents, the lawsuit alleged that Showtime had been unjustly enriched by Georgette’s decision to violate her agreement with Sheila.
But in both last year’s ruling and the new decision on Monday, Judge Bibas said Sheila had failed to meet the strict legal requirements to bring such a case.
“Sheila’s claim fails for the same basic reason: A plaintiff bringing an unjust-enrichment claim must have an interest in the benefit that was conferred,” the judge writes. “Yet Sheila has not shown an interest in anything that Showtime got from Georgette.”
The ruling echoes what the judge said the first time: That Sheila’s dispute was really with Georgette. In that earlier ruling, he also suggested she had instead sued the network because of the potential for a larger judgment.
“Sheila could have sued Georgette for breaking their agreement,” Bibas wrote at the time. “But George & Tammy had been a hit, and Showtime had presumably profited handsomely from Georgette’s breach. So instead of going after Georgette for whatever damages her breach caused, Sheila set out for bigger game.”
Bad timing might be a genetic trait in David Handler’s family. As he tells it, his grandfather moved from Ireland to the United States just two weeks before the markets crashed in 1929. Then, nearly 80 years later, he co-founded the New York City venue (Le) Poisson Rouge (LPR) alongside Justin Kantor in 2008 at the height of the Great Recession.
“[My grandfather] was still alive when I opened LPR, and he looked at me once and was like, ‘This is the worst time since the Great Depression to be doing what you’re doing,” Handler tells Billboard. “We were just trying to figure it out. I was 27 [years old]. I had never even tended bar, let alone run a place. It was an intense time.”
Despite the recession (and the pandemic a little over a decade later), the Greenwich Village venue persisted in providing a space for artists of all audience sizes to flex their creative muscles on Bleecker Street.
“The reason Dave and we all wanted to do this was because we liked really heady music, but we couldn’t see very heady music anywhere but a place where we were told to shush,” Brett Tabisel, LPR partner and director of programming, tells Billboard. “We’re like an opera house with tattoos, as cliché as that sounds.”
In June 2008, with the paint barely dry, the multi-room venue opened to align with the JVC Jazz Festival (currently known as Newport Jazz Festival), debuting with an invite-only DJ set from Vampire Weekend before hosting shows from classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein, Mos Def, Dean & Britta and more. “The idea was, and still is, to push the popular palette as far and as often as we possibly can,” says Handler.
The venue, which has mainly been used as one big space since the pandemic, was built for sound, explains Handler. Almost two decades later, he still sounds starstruck when noting that acoustician John Storyk (who designed Jimi Hendrix’s famed Electric Lady Studios) designed LPR as well.
Despite the care the LPR team took to create a respectful cultural space, the neighborhood was skeptical of another music venue opening in the co-op building, which includes apartments.
“It was a lot of the older residents of the neighborhood who had moved to the Village at a time in their life with an adventurous enough bone in their body to want to be on the cusp of vibrant nightlife,” says Handler. “Then, of course, as they get older, they would like for the neighborhood to get as quiet as they are getting.”
The neighbors may have been a bit jaded after the same space held the queer nightclub Club Life in the late 1990s. According to Handler, Club Life, which welcomed everyone from Madonna to Prince to Grace Jones, was not the most responsible tenant and had subwoofers that reverberated straight up the building.
“Just to get a liquor license there, I had to bring my violin to the community board meeting,” says Handler, who is a violinist and composer. “I kept trying to tell the neighborhood block association that we want to do serious music in here and we’re trying to bring artistic vision back to this neighborhood.”
For close to four decades before Club Life, the space that now holds LPR was a legendary venue called Village Gate, which opened in 1958. Village Gate originally focused on jazz music, hosting greats like Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and more. It soon became a major cultural site, hosting gigs from Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin, who made her stage debut at the Gate.
Village Gate owner Art D’Lugoff was famous in his own right — most notably for suggesting Bob Dylan find another career after the young musician came to him looking for a gig.
Handler was concerned D’Lugoff would be territorial over an unknown 27-year-old taking over the space, but instead, the former owner helped pick out chairs for LPR. “There were a lot of ways that he could not have embraced it, and yet he really did, and saw that we wanted to honor the tradition of the Gate,” says Handler of D’Lugoff, who passed away in 2009. “Still couldn’t get any pearls of wisdom on how to operate. He told us not to do surf and turf. That was one of his real gems and he said it like it was the gospel.”
“He was a really sweet man,” adds Handler, “as long as you weren’t Bob Dylan.”
Despite the lack of advice from D’Lugoff, LPR has managed to honor its commitment to bring an artistic vision back to Greenwich and has become a hub for singular performances. LPR has welcomed stars including Damien Rice, Jeff Mangum, Lou Reed, Quincy Jones, as well as those who were about to break at the time, including PinkPantheress, Olivia Dean, Noname and Lorde for her first New York show.
They’ve had cellist Yo-Yo Ma performing alongside breakdancer Lil Buck and helped debut an Arvo Pärt symphony as the opener for Japanese heavy metal band MONO. When Mumford & Sons wanted to do a phoneless show years before companies formed to offer this service, the staff used IKEA baskets to form a system to collect and return smartphones.
LPR has built a brand on finding solutions and offering more than just a brick-and-mortar venue. They offer their own orchestra, called Ensemble LPR, and have a permanent 360-degree PA and lighting rig, allowing for true in-the-round performances. The venue’s configuration is flexible in size and features a round stage under the main stage that can be lifted to accommodate special performances.
In recent years, LPR has also gained a reputation for offering Boiler Room EDM shows (events where the DJ is set up in the middle of the floor and surrounded by fans, rather than on an elevated stage). “I’m always trying to find ways to give artists an opportunity to do something that they haven’t done before or play in a way that they haven’t done before,” Tabisel says.
The LPR venue has also become a go-to spot for underplays, including Lady Gaga in 2013 and Skrillex, Four Tet and Fred again.. the night before they played the 22,000-capacity Madison Square Garden in 2025. When the Sunday night of the 2019 Governors Ball festival was cancelled, LPR managed to relocate Charli XCX to its room in roughly three hours.
But fighting to stay alive in one of the most expensive cities in the world as an independent venue, facing recessions and pandemics, has been a test of fortitude. Their solution, LPR marketing director Shannon Wiles says, has been volume. Late-night events that run from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. on the weekends bring in additional revenue. LPR also works with blockchain ticketer KYD Labs, which allows them to access more data on their fans, better target ads and track their sales in real time. Overall, LPR puts on around 400 shows a year in the venue, while its promotional arm, LPR Presents, promotes gigs at other, sometimes larger, spaces, including an upcoming Robert Plant show at the more than 130-year-old Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
“We’re scrappy. We’re dedicated,” says Tabisel. “We’re willing to make far less to do very cool things, which doesn’t really happen that much in this industry.”
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The annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival features the best in pop, rock, country, hip-hop and more all coming together at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California for two consecutive weekends of music and art starting on Friday, April 10 and ending on Sunday, April 19.
For 2026, massive recording artists like Sabrina Carpenter, The Strokes, Karol G, Justin Bieber, Turnstile, David Byrne, KATSEYE and others are set to perform. Check out a complete list of recording artists performing at Coachella here.
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