Stereogum — Cyndi Lauper, who picked up a best original score Tony Award in 2013 for her first foray into Broadway musicals, Kinky Boots, has locked down her next project in the field. The pop veteran will write music and lyrics for a Broadway-bound stage mu... more info

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