New York Times — Ms. Lauper, who wrote the score for “Kinky Boots” and contributed to “SpongeBob” for Broadway, will take on the adaptation of the 1988 film. more info

New York Times — The musical, which features songs by a long roster including David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper and John Legend, will open this fall at the Palace Theater. more info

Popdose — The ascending Pittsburgh quartet Soda Club treated a hometown crowd to its lazy Sunday brand of guitar-driven indie-pop on a Saturday this month, peppering a highly danceable, hour-long set of originals with covers of 80s classics by The Violent Femm... more info

MSN Music — Rod Stewart is in hot water after his wife Penny Lancaster posted a video that seemingly showed the musician carrying out a mock-ISIS-style “execution” in the Abu Dhabi desert before a show in the Arab Emirates. In the now-deleted Instagram clip ... more info

The Mirror — "Anger is not better than clarity and humanity," The Girls Just Wanna Have Fun singer told Andy Cohen more info

Idolator — They didn’t “serve our purpose.” more info

Stereogum — This past weekend Madonna delivered a rousing speech at the Women's March On Washington, one in which she told Donald Trump to "suck a dick," dropped several F-bombs on live TV, and admitted the following: "Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blow... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Mavis Staples, Cyndi Lauper, Michael McDonald, Jackson Brown, Gary Clark Jr, Dr. John, Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks, Warren Hynes, Marc Cohn, the Blind Boys of Alabama and more will all be performing at NYC's Beacon Theatre on March 9... Contin... more info

411 Mania — Yahoo reports that Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper have announced plans for a US tour, which begins in Hollywood, Florida on July 6. More details[.........] more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — Rod Stewart, with special guest Cyndi Lauper, will make a summer tour stop in south suburban Tinley Park on Aug. 5, when the duo’s summer tour rolls into the Hollywood Casino Amphitheater. The show is among an 18-city tour that kicks off July 6 in ... more info