Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Two days before releasing her new "Returning to Myself" album, Brandi Carlile has announced a global tour for 2026, set to touch down in arenas in the U.S. in the early part of the year and …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 19, 2025
Sabrina Carpenter, the host as well as musical guest for this week's "Saturday Night Live," used her monologue to riff on her risque image, suggesting that she wants to be known for more tha…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2025
If ever a play seemed tailor-made " tailor-braided? " for the Mark Taper Forum stage, at least in the 2020s, it's "Jaja's African Hair Braiding." The most intimate of the three Music Center …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2025
"Can you believe it? We're in Los Angeles!" exulted Chappell Roan, about halfway through the first of two appearances at Brookside at the Rose Bowl. It was understood, what she was saying. L…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 8, 2025
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has rolled out a list of performers and presenters who will be appearing in tribute to the honorees at the Nov. 8 ceremony in Los Angeles. The lineup ranges …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 6, 2025
The Troubadour has probably never been mentioned as many times from the stage of the Greek as it was Friday night. This was because the headliner, country star Megan Moroney, had to keep pin…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PM[SHARE]Cyndi Lauper may have said farewell to touring, but it wasn't a farewell to live shows altogether. Making good on her promise that her goodbye tour this year did not mean an end to concerts …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2025
The equation has been reversed on CBS' recent "Grammy Salute" specials: They were traditionally all-star salutes where the legendary artist being feted makes a cameo appearance at the end (a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:20PM[SHARE]Friday, October 3, 2025
"Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl" has begun unspooling in cinemas nationwide for its limited three-day engagement, and the theatrical event's behind-the-scenes footage…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2025
There is a mild buzz outside the open door of Amanda Shires' dressing room backstage at the Grand Ole Opry House. "Sorry, there's a tour going on out there," she says, looking over a visitor…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:15PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2025
There aren't very many shows where you can reasonably claim that if it ended after the first number, you'd have gone home happy. And maybe even in the case of Paul McCartney's concert Friday…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Is "Eureka Day," a Tony-winning comedy now on the boards at the Pasadena Playhouse, as uproariously funny as it is because the script feels veritably ripped from today's headlines? Or does i…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:33PM[SHARE]If Andrea Bocelli only laid claim to being the world's most popular operatic voice, that would be reason enough for a documentary. Any real music lover might take an interest in what goes in…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 20, 2025
I can say that I did not expect to be leaving the Who's visit to the Hollywood Bowl this week holding myself back from breaking into complete bawling. Yes, it's a farewell tour, and one we'r…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2025
There's a fine line, if any, between "Wish You Were Here" and FOMO. When David Gilmour returned to touring last year after eight years of not doing live dates, it was only in four cities, gl…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PM[SHARE]A release date for "Wicked: For Good " The Soundtrack" was announced Tuesday morning, and with it, intriguing news of not just one but two songs included in the forthcoming film that were wr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Before Jesse Welles was Jesse Welles, Neil Young was Jesse Welles. Which is to say, the reigning paragon of protest music. He reminded his audience of that Monday night at the Hollywood Bowl…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 14, 2025
Bobby Hart, a songwriter who co-wrote some of the greatest hits of the Monkees, and a performer in is own right who made the top 10 as a member of the duo Boyce and Hart, died Wednesday at a…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:48AM[SHARE]Motley Crue began a residency in Las Vegas Friday night that was supposed to commence last March, and singer Vince Neil has now revealed the reason for the six-month delay: He suffered a deb…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 10, 2025
The Americana Music Honors & Awards handed out its top competitive trophies to Sierra Ferrell, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, I'm With Her, MJ Lenderman and Gillian Welch &am…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:53PM[SHARE]Monday, September 8, 2025
"SmartLess" is coming to the Hollywood Bowl this fall for what is certain to be one of the most well-attended podcast tapings ever. Hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes will bring…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 4, 2025
With a movie dramatizing the making of the album due in theaters shortly, Bruce Springsteen has announced plans to release a deluxe edition of his classic 1982 album "Nebraska," complete wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Brandi Carlile has announced her first solo album in four years, "Returning to Myself," set to come out Oct. 24. Carlile's co-producers on the project are Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Just…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Go-Go's were good and all, but you know who really had the beat? The DJs who powered KHJ and KRLA in the 1960s and early '70s, when seemingly every kid in Los Angeles was tuned in to one…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:24PM[SHARE]Monday, September 1, 2025
Among the many men and women of the hour during this weekend's Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, Ethan Hawke was soaring arguably higher than even some the other featured guests, due to h…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 31, 2025
Of all the panels and Q&As happening during this year's Telluride Film Festival, probably the most anticipated one featured a visit from rock royalty in the form of an unbilled (but not …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 30, 2025
If you watched Ken Burns' 16-hour "Country Music" documentary when it came out in 2019, you might've been wishing that every legend whose life flashed by too fast could get his or her own br…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:20AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2025
For the last decade or so, Sarah McLachlan has been building a mystery " the mystery of when or even if she'd release newly written material. That might not have been intentional on her part…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Some of the top stars in contemporary Christian music " with a special focus on the leading lights of '70s, '80s and '90s CCM " will participate Saturday in an online benefit for Bruce Brown…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
Loving "Jesus Christ Superstar" is one thing, but loving the myriad staged productions of "Jesus Christ Superstar" is another. The Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice masterpiece existed arguably i…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:45PM[SHARE]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 …
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