Clear Channel’s “big announcement” for iHeartRadio has been revealed. The company will host a multi-act, multi-format, two-day concert—dubbed the iHeartRadio Music Festival—Sept. 23-24 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The company is billing the festival as “the biggest live music event in radio history.” The official announcement is coming Monday morning at 8:15am Eastern Time, and via Jennifer Lopez’ appearance on The Today Show.

The show is being staged to launch an updated version of iHeartRadio, which will be available this fall. It will include not just existing radio station streams, but “custom radio, like Pandora but with more songs, more control and no commercials through the end of the year.” (Read more… )

New York may be a concrete jungle, but the bright lights of Broadway have inspired Alicia Keys to produce Lydia R. Diamond’s play “Stick Fly” for the Lyceum Theater at the end of the year. Press representatives for the show said on Monday that Ms. Keys, the “Empire State of Mind” songstress, will present the play, which she is producing with Reuben Cannon and Nelle Nugent, and which will be directed by Kenny Leon, the director of last year’s Tony Award-winning revival of “Fences.”

This incarnation of “Stick Fly,” which chronicles the interactions and revelations within a well-to-do black family at its home in Martha’s Vineyard, will mark the Broadway debut for Ms. Diamond, a widely produced playwright whose other works include “Voyeurs de Venus,” “The Gift Horse” and “The Bluest Eye,” an adaptation of the Toni Morrison novel. (Read more… )

Ms. Keys and her piano took the stage last night at the BET Awards, performing “A Woman’s Worth”, “Typewriter” and “Fallen.”

Tomorrow, the songstress will be celebrating the anniversary of her debut album, ”Songs In A Minor”, by unveiling her wax figure at the famous Madame Tussauds.

The 10th anniversary deluxe edition, which features 4 bonus songs including “Typewriter”, will also be available in stores.

An eager participant in the creation of her wax figure, Keys spent more than three hours with a team of Madame Tussauds studio artists who took hundreds of precise measurements and photos and worked over three months to ensure the figure fully captured her unique style, exact eye color, posture, and overall image. (Read more… )

Last night Alicia Keys attended the Keep A Child Alive Black Ball UK in London where she raised money for her organization Keep A Child Alive.

Monday night as part of the celebration of the release of Songs In A Minor 10th Anniversary Edition Alicia performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England.

Last night as part of the celebration of the release of Songs In A Minor 10th Anniversary Edition Alicia performed at the Palais Des Congres in Paris, France.

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“I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew,” says Alicia Keys. “We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn’t want to be all dressed up, all made up—I wanted to be myself, which hadn’t been done before.” (Read more… )