Lil Wayne Reportedly Dying, on Life Support, Awaiting Last Rites

Lil Wayne (born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) is reportedly near death. Earlier this week on Tuesday, the 30-year-old rapper was admitted to Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. He was released the next day. But just hours later, one of Carter’s bodyguards discovered him, unconscious on the floor of his room. He…

Ultra Music Festival 2013: “LED Screen Fell and Injured Two Workers”

The Ultra Music Festival 2013 stage looks epic. Unfortunately, according to eyewitness reports and a statement from UMF reps, “a section of an LED screen fell and injured two workers.” The accident apparently took place at about 8 p.m. this evening, while Ultra organizers and workers were prepping for tomorrow’s…

Robert Sillerman’s SFX Entertainment and Opium Group: “The Deal Is Off”

The $1-billion EDM pledge. That’s what has most recently made SFX Entertainment mogul Robert F.X. Sillerman famous. During the summer of 2012, the New York billionaire, who built his fortune throughout the 1990s by consolidating regional rock promoters into the company that eventually became Live Nation, announced his intention to…

Deadmau5 at Ultra Music Festival 2013

He’s admittedly “more tech than Mozart or whatever the hell,” and he has “never really felt like a musician.” Yet Joel Zimmerman — the chart-topping, 32-year-old computer geek otherwise known as Deadmau5 — will still coheadline two consecutive weekends of Ultra Music Festival, one of the world’s most massive electronic…

Snoop Lion at Ultra Music Festival 2013

Over the summer, Snoop Dogg (born Calvin Broadus) announced he was tired of rap. Even more bizarre, the superstar — best known for hits such as “Drop It Like It’s Hot” and “Gin & Juice” — revealed he’d change his name and go in a new artistic direction: reggae. Turns…