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The Celebration Tour is the upcoming twelfth concert tour by American singer Madonna,visiting cities in North America and Europe and anticipating 78 shows. The tour is scheduled to start on October 14, 2023, at The O2 Arena in London, England, and it is set to conclude on April 24, 2024, at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico. As Madonna's first retrospective tour, it highlights her more than four decade-long recording career.

Eric Alper is a Canadian music correspondent, blogger, radio host and former director of media relations, at eOne Music Canada based in Toronto, Ontario. Since 2016, Alper has run a music public relations company, That Eric Alper, and is the host of @ThatEricAlper show on SiriusXM.

Our wonderful Terry explains why he's lost faith . . . 

What should we expect from Madonna's Celebration Tour? Was there a hoax? Was she really sick? And guess what? Kylie Minogue has a new album out.

Tension is the upcoming sixteenth studio album by Australian singer Kylie Minogue. It will be released on 22 September 2023 by BMG Rights Management and Minogue's company, Darenote. It was announced in May 2023, marking Minogue's first new body of work since her 2020 disco album, Disco.

Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue is an Australian singer, television personality and actress. Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first gained recognition for her appearances on the television show Young Talent Time and for her role as Emma Jackson on the soap opera Home and Away. 

“Cream (Take 2)” is the latest previously-unheard track to come from forthcoming Prince & The Power Generation album reissue Diamonds & Pearls. Released on Thursday (September 7), the song was unveiled from “Prince’s legendary vault,” with performances from Power Generation drummer Michael Bland, bassist Sonny Thompson, keyboardist Tommy Barbarella, guitarist Levi Seacer, Jr. and percussionist Kirk Johnson. The song was originally released as the erotic “Cream,” also the last Prince single to make the Billboard Hot 100.

It's been the week of lining up on behalf of Minogue Empires. We talk all things Kylie, Dannii, Prince . . . Doja Cat and Troy Sivan. 

Feel the Tension

It's dividing fans but, more importantly, will it be a mega hit?

"Tension" is a song by Australian singer Kylie Minogue, taken from her upcoming sixteenth studio album of the same name (2023). It was released as the album's second single on 31 August 2023 by BMG Rights Management and Minogue's company, Darenote. "Tension" was written by Minogue, Anya Jones, Camille Purcell, Jon Green, Duck Blackwell and longtime collaborator Richard Stannard.

Sure, Madonna was always changing, but with the release of Erotica on Oct. 20, 1992, she fully shed her ebullient ’80s pop skin, donned a leather cat mask, and kicked open a rusty back alley door that previous chart-toppers only dared to scratch at.

You didn’t need to pick up a copy of her celebrity nude-filled coffee table book, Sex, to realize it. You didn’t even need to see Madonna Veronica Louise Ciccone, whip in hand, mugging for the camera in the video for the title track. All you needed to do was press play on the album and let the impossibly thick, libidinous bass line of “Erotica” start vibrating throughout your body. Forty seconds in, the sampled horns of Kool & the Gang’s “Jungle Boogie” flare up, but instead of sounding reassuring and familiar, they seem disembodied and eerie. Then, Madonna’s latest alter ego addresses you, low and firm: “My name is Dita / I’ll be your mistress tonight.”