Friday, May 15, 2026
Hayley Williams has some mixed feelings about both Los Angeles and Nashville, evidently. Kicking off a three-night stand at the Wiltern Wednesday night to conclude her “Hayley WIlliams at …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2026
Rita Wilson is hardly the first Hollywood actress who’s complained of a dearth of interesting parts for women, or to have met that by realizing that she might have to proactively create ch…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 2, 2026
There’s something deeply counterintuitive about the idea that we would go to a pop concert — the most communal-seeming of all gathering places, outside of a football game or church — i…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2026
“Who’s Madeline?” is still the year’s preeminent pop-music question. But coming up close behind that: “Where the eff is Randy Newman on the New York Times’ list of the 30 greates…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:50PM[SHARE]At the annual ASCAP Screen Music Awards Tuesday night, the performing rights organization announced the winners of its Composers Choice Awards, a set of honors voted upon by members, with tr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 26, 2026
Ringo Starr, crooner. It’s not everyone’s first go-to when we’re talking about someone who has rightly earned a reputation as the most important, and many would say best, drummer in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2026
The Indigo Girls have been receiving an outpouring of support and love from fans and famous admirers, after the duo released a video statement in which Emily Saliers got exceptionally frank …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:41PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2026
Headed into an upcoming residency at Las Vegas' Sphere, No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont revealed in a video statement over the weekend that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease years ago,…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:20AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2026
When Bruce Springsteen brought his "Land of Hope and Dreams Tour" to the Los Angeles area this week, it followed the same template as the opening night of the tour in Minneapolis exactly sev…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:16PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Mitchell Fink, whose career as a celebrity gossip columnist and entertainment journalist included stints ranging from People magazine to the New York Daily News to the Los Angeles Herald Exa…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2026
As Mitski played a five-night engagement at Hollywood High School this past week, any teachers who might have made it into the school auditorium for the shows must have been insanely jealous…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:21PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 4, 2026
When Mitski wraps up a five-night residency at Hollywood High School this weekend, it will conclude an engagement that follows in a very limited tradition of rock or pop stars doing shows in…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 1, 2026
First of all, let's dispense with some Bruce Springsteen mythology: It is a fallacy that all his concerts last three hours. Opening a fresh tour Tuesday night at the Target Center in Minneap…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Bruce Springsteen has said that his 2026 "Land of Hope and Dreams" tour with the E Street Band will be political, and he was not exaggerating. On the tour's opening night in Minneapolis, aft…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 28, 2026
Playing the first of two nights at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood Friday night, Paul McCartney acknowledged the tiered arrangement that had VIPs up in the balcony and the hoi polloi down on …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
A benefit for Music Will, described as the largest non-profit school music education program in the U.S., will salute T Bone Burnett, Master P and Maren Morris as its honorees at a gathering…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Chip Taylor, the Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee who is best known for writing the classic hits "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing," died Monday at age 86. The death was reported on so…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:17PM[SHARE]Bob Dylan's touring continues to appear never-ending, to use the catchphrase that fans long ago applied to his near-constant bouts of road work. Now the west coast will be the beneficiary of…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Willie Nelsons Outlaw Music Festival will return for an 11th anniversary tour in summer 2026, it was announced Tuesday. But for some fans of these Americana extravaganzas, it may require a b…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2026
Taylor Goldsmith, the frontman of Dawes, was addressing the crowd from the stage at the grand opening of Pacific Electric, a brand new venue near downtown L.A., when he made it clear that he…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2026
The title of Taj Mahal's just-announced album, due out May 1, is "Time," a simple concept that the blues-folk-soul-reggae artist is better equipped to address than most musicians, in part be…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
How many phenomenal young British female singers can one world withstand? It's hard to imagine a more enjoyable onslaught than the wave that has brought us Olivia Dean, Raye and Sienna Spiro…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Paul McCartney is putting on sale two performances in an intimate setting at Hollywood's Fonda Theater for March 26-27, his first shows since wrapping up an arena tour in November. The conce…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PM[SHARE]Fresh off the road from a stint with Heart, Ann Wilson will undertake another tour in the coming months " this time hitting theaters, clubs and museums with the rolling premiere of a new doc…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 15, 2026
Diane Warren is taking her latest Oscar loss in stride, posting on social media after the ceremony: "Well at least I'm consistent! And I set a new record tonite!! But U know me, I will be ba…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12PM[SHARE]Barbra Streisand brought the audience at the Oscars ceremony to its feet by capping an In Memoriam speech offered in tribute to Robert Redford with a stanza from the theme song for "The Way …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:07PM[SHARE]The Shaggs may be the unlikeliest group since the dawn of rock 'n' roll to have attracted a cult of hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans, all of whom take their place on different …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Noah Kahan has stepped up with a spirited defense of Chappell Roan, after the "Pink Pony Club" singer went viral for tearing into paparazzi and professional autograph seekers that surrounded…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2026
If you wrote a terrific batch of material as a young artist, would you immediately set out to record it, or would you put it into a time capsule, bury it and think, "This might come in handy…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 7, 2026
As some institutions and individuals have headed for the exit door at the beleaguered Kennedy Center, the National Symphony Orchestra has thus far stayed put, after a 55-year association. Bu…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35PM[SHARE]Stephen Hibbert, a writer and actor who went from the Groundlings to writing for "Late Night With David Letterman" and "Mad TV" to a cult role as the Gimp in "Pulp Fiction," died March 2 in …
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