Saturday, August 2, 2025
Jeannie Seely, a country star of the '60s and '70s who had been a favorite of Grand Ole Opry audiences from her induction in 1967 up until the present day, died Friday at age 85. Seely last …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24AM[SHARE]Friday, August 1, 2025
Lady Gaga is having a ball… and so are we. It's been a hell of a 2025 for her: A few months ago, she put out what might be the most purely enjoyable album of her career, "Mayhem." Now, she…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 30, 2025
The world of Warren Zevon devotees should become an excitable fan base upon hearing that a tribute show for the late singer-songwriter is being slated for this fall in Los Angeles, with Jack…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:47PM[SHARE]Early on in his headlining appearance at the Greek in Los Angeles, Father John Misty offered his closest equivalent to an invocation for the evening, calmly telling the full house in Griffit…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2025
FireAid has hired a law firm, Latham & Watkins, to review the dispersal of roughly $100 million in funds that were raised in conjunction with a massive benefit concert earlier this…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
Tom Lehrer, the sardonic singer-songwriter-pianist who rose to national fame after his dark, tartly funny topical songs were used on the comedic '60s TV news show "That Was the Week That Was…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:32PM[SHARE]Beyoncé did not let her "Cowboy Carter" tour ride off into the sunset without allowing Destiny's Child to ride again, too. The crowd for the closing show of the tour in Las Vegas erupted wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:56AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
Cleo Laine, considered by many to be the U.K.'s preeminent jazz singer, and an accomplished theater actress in her home country as well as on Broadway, died Thursday at age 97. The death was…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:25PM[SHARE]Fans of Adam Lambert and of the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar" may consider next Friday a particularly good Friday. That's when Lambert and the show's composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, wil…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 24, 2025
Jazz musician Chuck Mangione, who had one of the biggest pop-jazz instrumental crossover hits of all time with "Feels So Good" in the 1970s, died Tuesday at age 84. The death was reported by…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 17, 2025
Lady Gaga is kicking off her 2025 "Mayhem Ball" tour Wednesday night in Las Vegas, and fans nationwide and around the world are following reports out of the T-Mobile Arena to find out what s…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2025
Lining up for her brew in a Silverlake coffee shop, Wet Leg singer Rhian Teasdale is telling a friend about some valuable celebrity advice she once got. It's not surprising that she took it …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 12, 2025
Here comes rhymin' Simon. It's not a phrase we would have imagined saying again, in the context of a concert tour, after Paul Simon wrapped up his official farewell tour seven years ago. The…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
On any list of the most admired composers working in film today, Alexandre Desplat would be either at the top or very close to it. That's not just for the quality of the work " although, as …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:58PM[SHARE]Ozzy Osbourne may have given his final performance, but he hasn't yet given fans his final writings " or "Last Rites," as he punningly puts it. His new memoir of that name will come out this…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Not every music artist can do shows so individualized that fans will be talking about the merits of a specific night years or decades later, the way that Deadheads or some jam-band aficionad…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 6, 2025
It takes a concerted effort to stay hopeful during these times. Live music is still your best entertainment value, when it comes to soul-feeding and body-rumbling. Here, in no particular ran…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 5, 2025
The original lineup of Black Sabbath reunited for the first time in 20 years on Saturday in the U.K. " and for the last time ever, since the performance was also billed as the final concert …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2025
"I'm now the most famous drummer on welfare," jokes Zak Starkey, and few music fans who follow the news at all will have any trouble knowing what he's talking about. Few musicians have been …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Sabrina Carpenter's work with Plus1, a nonprofit organization and platform that assists artists with advocacy campaigns, has done some serious good in the short time since its founding. The …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2025
When Chely Wright came out of the closet in 2010, revealing to Nashville and to millions of country fans that she was gay, that emergence put her in a position to become a spokesperson and a…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2025
The design of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which just opened up to previews for LACMA members and media in the past few days, has reasonably been described as controversial, to …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
"You're in the tornado, man." That is Paul Freeman, the principal audio artist at Sphere Studios, talking, offering a plainspoken assurance to cinematic thrill-seekers about the enhanced ver…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:35PM[SHARE]Six months after she performed the last concert of the Eras Tour, Taylor Swift was finally ready to shake off her hiatus from the stage " at least for the length of one rousing song " as she…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2025
After months of delays that pushed the venue past its planned spring opening, L.A.'s own branch of the Blue Note Jazz Club now has an opening date in Hollywood set for Aug. 14. But beyond th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:55PM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2025
Dolly Parton has not been out on the road since her "Pure & Simple" tour wrapped up in 2016, with only scattered one-off full concerts in the years since. So fans have an understanding o…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 21, 2025
It doesn't have to be a Great Depression " yet " for musicians who lack health care to get downtrodden about their prospects. To that end, the Sweet Relief charity has put together a new com…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:04PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
There was a good share of on-stage comedy happening at Rhiannon Giddens' all-star roots music night Wednesday at the Hollywood Bowl. That much was assured, with Ed Helms hosting the evening,…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
The singer for the alternative rock band Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is looking to make the audiences at their shows great again by making their crowds free of outright MAGA supporters again. In …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2025
For the last quarter-century, no one shared more musical moments with Brian Wilson than Darian Sahanaja, who was part of the Beach Boys architect's solo band from his return to live shows in…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 8, 2025
Never ask Halsey to be just one thing at a time, whether it's on record or in person. The singer's current outing, dubbed the "For My Last Trick" Tour, is one of this year's most impressive …
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