A judge in Texas is to hear arguments in rap star Travis Scott's request to be dismissed from a lawsuit over the deadly 2021 Astroworld festival in Houston
April 15, 2024
Maggie Rogers wrote and recorded her new album, “Don’t Forget Me,” over five days last winter
April 12, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Taylor Swift's eagerly anticipated album “The Tortured Poets Department,” a family of ducks is coaxed into flying south for the winter in the kid-friendly animated movie “Migration” and Conan O’Brien makes himself the brunt of jokes in his new travel show “Conan O’Brien Must Go” for Max
April 12, 2024
The final curtain will come down this summer on Cirque du Soleil’s long-running Las Vegas show “The Beatles Love.”
April 09, 2024
Billie Eilish announced that her highly anticipated third studio album, “Hit Me Hard and Soft,” will be released on May 17
April 08, 2024
New Orleans R&B singer Clarence “Frogman” Henry has died at age 87
April 08, 2024
Aligning with Monday's total solar eclipse, Missy Elliott announced her first ever headlining arena tour
April 07, 2024
Fans are celebrating 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.”
April 06, 2024
Kiss agreed to sell their catalog, brand name and IP to Swedish company Pophouse in a deal estimated to be over $300 million
April 04, 2024
Tilman Michael will become chorus director of the Metropolitan Opera next season following the retirement of Donald Palumbo after 17 years as chorus master
April 03, 2024
Pepe Aguilar says he feels like a superhero when he puts on his charro suit
April 02, 2024
Klaus Mäkelä has been hired to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891
April 02, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from hip-hop hitmaker Bryson Tiller and percussion master Sheila E
March 29, 2024
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurie Anderson and the president of the Harlem School of the Arts, James C
March 29, 2024
Green Day will headline a United Nations Human Rights-backed global climate concert on Tuesday at the famed Fillmore in San Francisco
March 28, 2024
The Fair Grounds Race Course, which plays host to the 2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, begins its annual transformation in earnest Tuesday as organizers prepare to take over the field this spring for two weekends of music, food and fun
March 26, 2024
Bruce Springsteen is the first international songwriter to be named a fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U
March 26, 2024
Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic is two-stepping out of Texas to the Philadelphia area
March 26, 2024
The last few years haven’t been kind to Shakira
March 25, 2024
Grammy-winning Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini has died
March 23, 2024
The online auction of a trove of letters, photos and other items that Pattie Boyd, who was at the heart of the Swinging 60s, has surpassed all expectations
March 22, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Beyoncé's “Act ll: Cowboy Carter,” a Amazon Prime docuseries about BTS member J-Hope and “Madu,” a documentary about a Nigerian boy who dreams of being a professional ballet dancer
March 22, 2024
The bones that embody an album can take many shapes
March 22, 2024
Michael Tilson Thomas is to conduct the opening subscription program of the New York Philharmonic season, three years after the conductor announced he was treated for a brain tumor
March 19, 2024
Every year since 2021, Spotify has published its “Loud & Clear” report, an attempt to be more transparent about its payments
March 19, 2024
Can you feel the Kenergy
March 18, 2024
The mansion that was Freddie Mercury's sanctuary in London and where he lived the final decade of his life is on sale for the first time in nearly 45 years
March 18, 2024
Acclaimed American classical pianist Byron Janis has died at the age of 95
March 17, 2024
British musician Steve Harley, whose band Cockney Rebel had a huge hit with the song “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me),” has died
March 17, 2024
The cable car dedicated to the late Tony Bennett rolls past the landmark Fairmont hotel where the singer first performed the song that would forever tie him to San Francisco
March 15, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Shakira's first album in seven years, Jake Gyllenhaal starring in an update of the pulpy cult classic “Road House” and “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf dips into the true crime world with a new docuseries on Netflix
March 15, 2024
Pattie Boyd was at the epicenter of the Swinging 60s, but not always the center of attention
March 15, 2024
James Conlon will retire as music director of the Los Angeles Opera at the end of the 2025-26 season, ending a 20-year run that will have spanned half the company’s history
March 13, 2024
In the past, adolescents’ musical palettes were dominated by the Top-40 artists, creating a widely shared – if perhaps narrow – repertoire of musical knowledge.
March 13, 2024
Singer-songwriter Eric Carmen, who fronted the power-pop 1970s band the Raspberries and later had soaring pop hits like “All by Myself” and “Hungry Eyes” from the hit “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack, has died
March 12, 2024
What were Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell made for
March 11, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from Justin Timberlake and Kacey Musgraves, the launch of season 20 of “Grey’s Anatomy” and Taylor Swift’s concert film “The Eras Tour” landing on Disney+
March 08, 2024
Karol G made history at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony
March 08, 2024
Steve Lawrence, a singer and top stage act who as a solo performer and in tandem with his wife Eydie Gorme kept Tin Pan Alley alive during the rock era, died Thursday
March 07, 2024
A male bastion from its founding in 1842 until 1997, the Vienna Philharmonic has 24 female players among 145 members with three vacancies as it tours the United States this week
March 06, 2024
New York prosecutors have abruptly dropped their criminal case midtrial against three men who had been accused of conspiring to possess a cache of hand-drafted lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits
March 06, 2024
The winner of the 2nd Frederic Chopin Competition on Period Instruments all but traveled through time to commune with the Romantic-era piano virtuoso and composer on the day marked as his birthday
March 06, 2024
The estate of Sinead O’Connor has asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies
March 04, 2024
The Cove is a pop-up, 18-and-up Christian nightclub in Nashville, Tennessee
March 02, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a new album from pop princess Ariana Grande, a docuseries on National Geographic that follows female leaders of the animal kingdom and the Emma Stone-led “Poor Things” landing on Hulu, just in time for the Academy Awards
March 01, 2024
Oscar-winning composer John Williams has joined a new academy: the American Academy of Arts and Letters
February 29, 2024
Legendary pop icon Cyndi Lauper, who rose to fame in the 1980s with hits such as “Time After Time” and “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” has entered a partnership with the Swedish masterminds behind the immersive virtual concert ABBA Voyage
February 29, 2024
Don Henley has finished telling a court why he contends that drafts of lyrics to “Hotel California” and other classic Eagles songs should never have shown up at auctions
February 28, 2024
Singer Marian Anderson is getting new recognition 30 years after her death
February 28, 2024
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s home is being renamed Marian Anderson Hall in honor of the pioneering Black American contralto, a rare case of an artist's name replacing a corporation
February 28, 2024
Don Henley has resumed testifying in a trial surrounding handwritten drafts of lyrics to Eagles hits including “Hotel California” and his decade-long effort to reclaim the pages
February 27, 2024
Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda has made a triumphant return to Teatro alla Scala in an informal role as cultural ambassador, leading the U.S. National Symphony Orchestra
February 27, 2024
You gotta have more than “Faith” to pocket the new George Michael coin
February 26, 2024
Cuban singer and cabaret diva Juana Bacallao has died
February 24, 2024
A former auction house executive says the explanation he was given for the source of 13 pages of drafts of lyrics to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” raised red flags
February 23, 2024
South Korea's police say Lee Ho-yang, a prominent K-pop composer and producer better known by his professional name of “Shinsadong Tiger,” has been found dead
February 23, 2024
The Cincinnati Opera will present an Afrofuturist-themed production next year that commemorates the Juneteenth holiday
February 22, 2024
An unusual criminal trial is set to open over the handwritten lyrics to a classic rock blockbuster: the Eagles' “Hotel California.”
February 20, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from MGMT and Allie X, “Avatar: The Last Airbender” gets the live-action treatment from Netflix and the seventh and final season begins of the hospital drama “The Good Doctor.”
February 16, 2024
A bass stolen from Paul McCartney more than 50 years ago has been found and returned to the Beatle
February 16, 2024
Jimmie Johnson and Creed are headed to the Daytona 500
February 16, 2024
Although Vince Staples has been in the limelight for more than a decade, he still thinks fame is a weird thing
February 15, 2024
Bradley Cooper hopes his film “Maestro” will increase awareness about Leonard Bernstein
February 15, 2024
Throughout her career, Jennifer Lopez has been praised as an epochal, prolific and hard-working artist
February 15, 2024
“Dark Matter” is the name of Pearl Jam's forthcoming album
February 13, 2024
Before there was John and Yoko, there was just Yoko Ono
February 13, 2024
The violins, violas and cellos played by the Orchestra of the Sea in its debut performance Monday at Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala carry with them tales of desperation and redemption
February 13, 2024
Usher and longtime partner Jenn Goicoechea got a marriage license last week in Las Vegas, days ahead of the 45-year-old R&B superstar’s headline performance at the Super Bowl halftime show
February 12, 2024
Beyoncé is
February 12, 2024
Usher emerged at Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium for the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show, an immediate confirmation of his position as the ideal halftime performer: one with timeless, well-known hits, masterful choreography, and a devoted audience
February 12, 2024
A pioneering rock ‘n’ roll drummer who played behind the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee, has died
February 10, 2024
Mary J
February 10, 2024
Will she make it
February 10, 2024
Among those paying tribute to MC5 guitarist Wayne Kramer are prison reform advocates
February 10, 2024
A judge has ruled that jurors in the trial of two men charged with killing Young Dolph will come from outside of Memphis because of intense media coverage of the shooting in the rapper’s hometown
February 09, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include “Young Sheldon” returning for its seventh and final season, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. exploring the power of gospel in a two-part PBS documentary and two projects from Jennifer Lopez, a movie about her love life and a 13-track album
February 09, 2024
World-renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa has died of heart failure at his home in Tokyo, his management office said Friday
February 09, 2024
Dutch music producer DJ Tiësto has withdrawn from performing at Sunday's Super Bowl due to an undisclosed family matter
February 09, 2024
Andra Day normally deals with with nervousness before any big show — especially in front of her peers
February 09, 2024
What does Usher have planned for his upcoming Super Bowl halftime performance
February 08, 2024
Carnegie Hall’s 2024-25 season will feature a festival celebrating Latin music titled “Nuestros Sonidos (Our Sounds).”
February 07, 2024
The work remains a crowd favorite. But more and more scholars are starting to see ‘Rhapsody’ as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.
February 07, 2024
Taylor Swift fans in Tokyo are excited to see the American pop superstar’s first performance immediately after her latest Grammy win and the announcement of a new album this week
February 07, 2024
The title of Spain’s Eurovision song “Zorra" can be translated as an anti-female slur, and it's causing a storm among conservatives and feminists
February 07, 2024
R&B icon Usher has announced a new North American tour
February 06, 2024
The world premiere stage adaptation of Prince’s film and album “Purple Rain” is set for spring 2025 at an appropriate place — Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis
February 06, 2024
Killer Mike says an “over-zealous” security guard contributed to the physical altercation that led to his arrest after the rapper and activist won three awards at the Grammys
February 06, 2024
A day after Taylor Swift made music history at the Grammy Awards, a band formed long before she was born made their own history
February 05, 2024
It all comes down to Taylor Swift, doesn't it
February 05, 2024
Forget her “Reputation.”
February 05, 2024
The usually off-the-hook Grammys red carpet kicked off early Sunday when the music industry gathered for the non-televised portion of award-giving
February 04, 2024
Clive Davis held his annual star-studded pre-Grammys gala Saturday at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California
February 04, 2024
It’s almost time for the Grammy Awards, the daylong celebration of music that on Sunday also marks the start of an epic week for Taylor Swift
February 04, 2024
The 66th Grammy Awards will take place Sunday at the Crypto
February 04, 2024
The Los Angeles Opera opens its 2024-25 season Sept. 21 with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” reimagined in a film studio and will present the company premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar” while reducing its offerings from six main-stage productions to five
February 03, 2024
New Jersey was front and center in Los Angeles two nights before the Grammy Awards
February 03, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include “Abbott Elementary” debuting its third season on ABC, Charlie Kaufman's animated movie “Orion and the Dark” and Usher's “Coming Home.”
February 02, 2024
Victoria Monét and Coco Jones brought smooth R&B and studied choreography, Noah Kahan and Gracie Abrams — friends up for the same Grammy — dueted their introspective folk, and Jelly Roll brought out Lainey Wilson
February 02, 2024
Bruce Springsteen's mother, Adele Zerilli Springsteen, has died at age 98
February 01, 2024
Ricky Ian Gordon’s ”This House,” with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber, will be given its world premiere at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis in June 2025
February 01, 2024
At the 2024 Grammys, boygenius — the major label rock band built of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus — are up for six awards, tying the likes of Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish
February 01, 2024
A dissident Russian rock band angered by Moscow’s war in Ukraine has arrived in Israel after being deported from Thailand under suspected pressure from the Kremlin
February 01, 2024
Pearl Jam's forthcoming album shows the rockers are not mellowing with age
February 01, 2024
When the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday to advance to the Super Bowl, the question on fans’ minds quickly became: Will Taylor Swift be able to attend to support her partner, Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, if she has a concert in Tokyo the day before
January 31, 2024
Trevor Noah is ready to face one of the toughest audiences of his career, the millions watching as he once again hosts the Grammy Awards
January 31, 2024
When the Super Bowl halftime show was born, college marching bands were the main on-field attraction
January 31, 2024
The 66th annual Grammy Awards are right around the corner, airing live from Los Angeles’ Crypto
January 31, 2024
The man accused of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay can’t have his rap lyrics used against him at trial
January 31, 2024
The second chapter in Olivia Rodrigo’s musical story began similar to the first: with a big-hearted, full-throated piano ballad about a relationship gone awry
January 30, 2024
Members of a rock band that has been critical of Moscow’s war in Ukraine remain locked up in a Thai immigration jail, fearful that they could be deported to Russia as a reported plan to let them fly to safety in Israel was apparently suspended
January 30, 2024
Award-winning musician Branford Marsalis is taking on a new job in his hometown of New Orleans
January 30, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include the launch of the final season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm" on Sunday, Donald Glover starring as a spy in the new TV series “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and a documentary on Run-D
January 26, 2024
Andris Nelsons has agreed to a rolling contract as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
January 25, 2024
No one will confuse musician John Leventhal with being the hot new thing
January 25, 2024
Melanie, a singer-songwriter behind 1970s hits including “Brand New Key,” has died
January 25, 2024
Billy Idol normally takes advantage of riding his motorcycle on Super Bowl Sunday knowing there’s hardly any traffic because millions are glued to their televisions
January 25, 2024
For a rock star, Ty Segall may come across as surprisingly unassuming and demure
January 24, 2024
Sarah Nance uses geologic data and a variety of artistic media to help people think about their place in the landscapes they use and occupy.
January 19, 2024
Country music singer Chris Stapleton, Foo Fighters, Queen Latifah and New Orleans’ own Jon Batiste are among the star power set to join The Rolling Stones as headliners of this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
January 18, 2024
Franz Welser-Möst is back on the Cleveland Orchestra’s podium, concentrating again on music instead of his health
January 18, 2024
A federal jury has convicted six alleged gang members in the 2020 fatal shooting of Chicago rapper FBG Duck
January 18, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include albums from indie rock heroes Sleater-Kinney and the pop-punk trio Green Day, the Finnish romantic comedy “Fallen Leaves,” and the big, fun action movie “Fast X” racing to Prime Video
January 12, 2024
When the 2024 Grammy nominations were announced in November, one thing was immediately apparent: Women outpaced men
January 12, 2024
The Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium gender barrier was broken at the annual showcase of Richard Wagner’s operas
January 11, 2024
Looking to waste away with a cheeseburger in paradise
January 10, 2024
Marin Alsop will become principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra next season, succeeding Nathalie Stutzmann
January 09, 2024
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an album by Colombian-American musician Kali Uchis, Seth MacFarlane revives his filthy teddy bear character Ted in a new series for Peacock and Martin Scorsese’s true-crime epic “The Killers of the Flower Moon” begins streaming on Apple TV+
January 05, 2024
Coco Jones went from being a Disney child star to reshaping her image and finding her musical voice en route to five Grammy nominations, including best new artist
January 03, 2024
The Austrian government says that it is giving the country’s world-famous Vienna Boys Choir 800,000 euros ($884,000) to help it out of severe financial difficulties
December 30, 2023
Pop star Shakira has been immortalized in her Colombian hometown of Barranquilla, where officials unveiled a giant bronze statue of the music diva known around the world for her catchy tunes and exhilarating moves
December 27, 2023
Aigul Akhmetshina says she’s a fighter — and she’s had to be to make it to the Metropolitan Opera, where she leads a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” opening on New Year’s Eve
December 27, 2023
Buckle up, cowpoke
December 26, 2023
This year has been good to Gracie Abrams
December 21, 2023
Countertenor David Daniels is no longer a member of the union for singers following his guilty plea to a charge of sexual assault
December 21, 2023
“The Nutcracker” is a holiday staple, and for Ballet Arizona and many other productions around the world, a pit full of musicians is part of the tradition
December 19, 2023
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Bradley Cooper’s loving look at the life of Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” Percy Jackson finds out that Greek myths aren’t just a history lesson in “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” and PBS celebrates chef Lidia Bastianich
December 15, 2023
Kris Bowers grew up in Los Angeles, just a few minutes away from The World Stage performance space, and immersed in jazz
December 13, 2023
For a 23-year-old, Reneé Rapp has had a lot of practice telling powerful people no. Her first time came at 19, when Tina Fey and Lorne Michaels offered her one of the lead roles in the national touring production of the “Mean Girls” musical
December 13, 2023
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a Christmas TV special from country star Cody Johnson, Taylor Swift’s concert movie “The Eras Tour” lands in homes to celebrate her birthday and the second season of “Reacher” starring Alan Ritchson hits of Prime Video
December 08, 2023
Nicki Minaj’s highly anticipated fifth studio album, “Pink Friday 2,” is here
December 08, 2023
Ryan Seacrest will usher in 2024 on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” from Times Square, with satellite locations in Los Angeles and San Juan, Puerto Rico
December 07, 2023
J Balvin has released his latest single, “Amigos.”
December 07, 2023
It's that time of the year
December 04, 2023
New Kennedy Center honorees including comedian Billy Crystal and rapper and actor Queen Latifah have been feted at a star-studded event commemorating their lifetime achievement in arts and entertainment
December 03, 2023
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include a Nicki Minaj album dropping on her birthday and the return of Tony Shalhoub's OCD private investigator Adrian Monk with a final case
December 01, 2023
A judge has sided with Daryl Hall in his request to keep temporarily blocking John Oates from selling his potentially lucrative share of the Hall & Oates duo’s joint venture without his longtime partner’s permission
November 30, 2023
Four decades into his career, which includes 20 studio albums, a Grammy, and the Guinness World Record for bestselling jazz artist, saxophonist Kenny G is nowhere near done
November 30, 2023
A pop singer’s use of a Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn for parts of a music video has led to its pastor being penalized
November 28, 2023
Daryl Hall has sued his longtime music partner John Oates, arguing that his plan to sell off his share of a joint venture would violate a business agreement the duo had
November 24, 2023
This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Dove Cameron and Peter Gabriel, Harrison Ford’s last hurrah as Indiana Jones swings onto Disney+ and Elvis will be honored with a starry special “Christmas at Graceland” featuring Post Malone, Alanis Morissette, John Legend, Kacey Musgraves and Kane Brown
November 24, 2023
Ringo Starr’s latest project is for fans of music and of fashion
November 24, 2023
Country singer Jason Aldean’s hit song triggered renewed attention on vigilante justice, racism and urban America.
November 22, 2023
What is a holiday season without festive music
November 21, 2023
Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler will sell off a collection of guitars he considers “old friends” at a Christie’s auction in London next year
November 21, 2023
E-40 created his own lane with an unorthodox rap flow that’s worked for more than 30 years
November 17, 2023
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include Adam Sandler playing a 74-year-old elementary class lizard in the latest Netflix animation offering “Leo” and “Oppenheimer” finally arriving on home screens
November 17, 2023
Karol G, Bizzarap, Shakira and Natalia Lafourcade, won big at the Latin Grammy Awards held Thursday
November 17, 2023
EDM DJ Steve Aoki will release the second album in his “HiROQUEST” series of concept albums on Friday
November 16, 2023
Researchers successfully treated diabetes in mice by engineering cells to make insulin in response to the music of Queen.
November 14, 2023
This week’s new entertainment releases include an album of rock songs by Dolly Parton, the first half of the final season of “The Crown” returns to Netflix and three dudes from “Saturday Night Live” get their first feature-film shot
November 10, 2023
Dozens of conservative Muslims are calling for the cancellation of Coldplay’s concert this month in Indonesia
November 10, 2023
Davyd Booth believes strongly that people everywhere are the same and that music touches the heart of everyone
November 09, 2023
Putting together a collection of Bush’s greatest hits was relatively easy
November 08, 2023
Backstage at the second Los Angeles show of Lauryn Hill and the Fugees' anniversary tour, Pras Michel was optimistic
November 06, 2023
This week’s new entertainment releases include country superstar Chris Stapleton’s fifth studio album, Michael Fassbender playing a hitman in David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Tim Allen putting on his Santa suit for season two of “The Santa Clauses.”
November 03, 2023
Sheryl Crow and Olivia Rodrigo kicked off the 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony Friday night and Missy Elliott closed the show more than four hours later with a roof-shaking set, as the hall celebrated a strong representation of women and Black artists
November 03, 2023
A former Southern California street gang leader has pleaded not guilty to orchestrating a 1996 drive-by shooting that killed rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas
November 02, 2023
While Usher gears up for his 2024 Super Bowl halftime performance, the singer will lean on his previous experience of hitting the NFL’s biggest stage to help him prepare
November 01, 2023
Huey Lewis, who with his band The News stormed radio in the 1980s with such rock-pop hits as “The Power of Love” and “I Want a New Drug,” is about to take his music to a Broadway stage
November 01, 2023
At age 90, Willie Nelson is looking back on the songs he's written across seven decades
October 30, 2023
There's Mark Tuan, the K-pop musician
October 27, 2023
This week’s new entertainment releases include a studio album from Jason Aldean and a posthumous release from Jimmy Buffett, a new Hulu series inspired from Charmaine Wilkerson’s novel “Black Cake” and Annette Bening portrays a real-life hero who swam the treacherous passage from Cuba to Key West in 2013
October 27, 2023
Taylor Swift’s reimagined “1989” is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift era — revisited at the height of her massive pop culture dominance
October 27, 2023
This is it — the last “new” Beatles song
October 26, 2023
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the music industry is at an intriguing crossroads. The introduction of AI has brought up exciting new opportunities and challenging new barriers in the realm of music production and listening. AI’s infiltration into music has been steady and impactful. Notably, the rise of AI-powered music startups, such as Mayk.It, signals a paradigm shift in music production. Mayk . In the same way that apps like Instagram and TikTok have made picture and video editing accessible to more people, this new paradigm in music production makes writing and producing music easier for everyone. Mayk.It leverages
October 25, 2023
There isn’t much Cher hasn’t done in her career
October 20, 2023
The Rolling Stones celebrated the release of their first collection of new original songs in 18 years with a club gig in Manhattan before a few hundred invited guests
October 20, 2023
In July, country music star Craig Morgan re-enlisted in the Army Reserves at age 59
October 19, 2023
The MTV Europe Music Awards canceled its ceremony next month, citing the Israel-Hamas War
October 19, 2023
The Streets' Mike Skinner acts as director, writer and leading man in his film project “The Darker the Shadow, the Brighter the Light.”
October 18, 2023
Madonna's Celebration Tour has kicked off at London's O2 Arena
October 14, 2023
Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive with an eye for bestsellers and a passion for music and public life, has died
October 14, 2023
This week’s new entertainment releases include a Rolling Stones album, a revealing documentary about spy novelist John le Carré and “Living for the Dead,” a new Hulu series that's like “Queer Eye” meets “Ghost Hunters.”
October 13, 2023
On Friday, Migos rapper Offset released his ambitious second solo album, “Set It Off.”
October 13, 2023
Troye Sivan was initially going to begin his third full-length album with a ballad, a wistful song looking back at a lost love
October 12, 2023
On Saturday, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams embarked on her 2023 tour, kicking off at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville
October 07, 2023
Rapper 21 Savage can now legally travel outside the United States and plans to make his international performance in his native London
October 07, 2023
This week’s new entertainment releases include Offset’s sophomore solo album, the return of “Frasier” starring Kelsey Grammer, and Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones leading the crowd-pleasing courtroom drama “The Burial."
October 06, 2023
In just four songs on his latest EP, “Live For Me,” Omar Apollo processes death, grief, acceptance and the lack of it — big, traumatic emotions — through intimate, lush sounds
October 06, 2023
The three original members of the legendary R&B band Tony
October 05, 2023
The CEO of the Motown Museum says full construction on the final phase of the Detroit facility's expansion will get underway in the spring of 2024
October 05, 2023
The Missouri-bred pop superstar of the future Chappell Roan released her glittery debut album “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess” late last month
October 03, 2023
There was some doubt whether the indie rock band would release another album
October 03, 2023
Two helicopters zoomed through the starlit skies before producing spotlights over a Las Vegas desert and U2 frontman Bono, who kneeled to ground while singing “Vertigo.”
September 30, 2023
Growing up on the border between Mexico and the United States, Becky G spoke English, but sang corridos, boleros and mariachi in Spanish
September 30, 2023
This week’s new streaming entertainment releases include an album by Drake and another by Reba McEntire playing acoustic covers, the corporate thriller “Fair Play” starring Phoebe Dynevor from “Bridgerton,” and “Jane the Virgin” scene-stealer Jaime Camil hosts a new game show on CBS called “Lotería Loca.”
September 29, 2023
iHeartRadio has unveiled its star-studded 2023 Jingle Ball lineup, including performances by Olivia Rodrigo, Usher, Nicki Minaj, SZA, Niall Horan, and Jelly Roll
September 29, 2023
iHeartRadio has unveiled its star-studded 2023 Jingle Ball lineup, including performances by Olivia Rodrigo, Usher, Nicki Minaj, SZA, Niall Horan, and Jelly Roll
September 29, 2023
There are rock stars, and then there is Ringo Starr
September 28, 2023
Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Dave Matthews, H
September 28, 2023
The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola has suffered a heart attack while performing in Romania’s capital
September 28, 2023
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recovered from a multi-drug resistant germ infection, is appearing in “Doppleganger,” a staged version of Schubert's final songs
September 27, 2023
Quincy Jones will receive the inaugural Peace Through Music Award at a launch event for the U.S. Department of State’s new Global Music Diplomacy Initiative
September 27, 2023
On Tuesday night, the elusive pop producer Jai Paul opened his tour leg at the Los Angeles' Mayan Theater
September 27, 2023
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023 tour will be postponed until 2024, citing doctor’s advice
September 27, 2023
Modern music education is giving students more and more opportunities to create their own tracks.
September 26, 2023
Louisiana folklorist Nick Spitzer and Mississippi blues musician R
September 23, 2023
This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Ed Sheeran centered on his relationships, a spinoff of “The Bachelor” starring a 72-year-old widower and Wes Anderson returns for a second time this year with “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” starring Benedict Cumberbatch
September 22, 2023
Composer Rene Orth's “10 Days in a Madhouse,” based on the 1887 book by trailblazing reporter Nellie Bly, opened Opera Philadelphia's O23 Festival
September 22, 2023
Before Doja Cat released her stellar fourth full-length album, the take-no-prisoners “Scarlet,” she bit the hand that feeds
September 22, 2023
Thousands have marched across Nigeria over the mysterious death of an Afrobeat star whose body has been exhumed for an autopsy as authorities investigate the cause of his demise
September 21, 2023
Grammy- and Oscar-nominated indie musician Sufjan Stevens is relearning how to walk after the autoimmune disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome left him immobile, representatives confirmed to The Associated Press
September 20, 2023
In an era where rock bands seem endangered and most of the genre often seems formed in the last millennium, Måneskin has become something of an anomaly
September 20, 2023
For nearly four decades, the Talking Heads documentary “Stop Making Sense” has exerted an inexorable pull on all who encounter the frenetic fever of arguably the finest concert film ever made
September 20, 2023
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky are giving the world the first look at their second child together, a boy they’ve named Riot Rose
September 19, 2023
Kim Petras fans, the wait is over — the Grammy-winning pop star has surprise released her previously shelved and partially leaked debut album, “Problematique.”
September 18, 2023
Jann Wenner, a founder of both Rolling Stone magazine and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall’s board of directors after making disparaging comments toward Black and female musicians
September 16, 2023
This week’s new entertainment releases include an album from Doja Cat, a reboot of Robert Rodriguez’s “Spy Kids” franchise with a film starring Gina Rodriguez and Zachary Levi and the critically-acclaimed “Sex Education,” one of Netflix’s most popular shows, returns for its fourth and final season
September 15, 2023
Like so many tennis fans around the world, Nathan Willett was captivated by Carlos Alcaraz’s five-set victory over Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final this summer
September 15, 2023
If Sean “Diddy” Combs had a choice, the self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur would be hunkered down in a recording studio rather than running his many successful businesses
September 14, 2023
Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s next book will be one for music lovers
September 14, 2023
Bannon attacks Harris in first speech out of prison
Suriname to hold off on new IMF program until next year's election
Chicago area high school Dad Squad greets students, highlights importance of fathers
Moldovan presidential challenger Stoianoglo seeks measured movement to Europe, prepared to meet Putin
What are the legal questions raised by Israel's ban on UN Palestinian aid agency UNRWA?
UK's new finance minister Reeves lines up tax hikes and borrowing in first budget
Investors take cover in Asia ahead of US election
US governors push back on PJM after record-high power plant prices
San Francisco 49ers’ Charvarius Ward mourns death of daughter
World Series Game 3 averages 13.64 million, beats 'Monday Night Football'
Political art mysteriously pops up in DC ahead of Election Day