Of all the words of wisdom my mother has passed on to me, the earliest ones I remember have been the most useful. She told me I could achieve any goal I set for myself, but being Black, I wo…
Dolly Parton has reimagined her classic 1980 song "9 to 5" as "5 to 9" for a Squarespace commercial celebrating office workers getting their entrepreneurial side hustles going after hours. T…
Rita Moreno's most indelible screen moment, which had her and a "West Side Story" ensemble sizing up the pros and cons of their adopted U.S. homeland, remains an eternally clever musical arg…
Florida Georgia Line member Brian Kelley's plan to bring a country-music musical to life as a legit stage production is now extending to a movie version that is being developed simultaneousl…
Ariana Grande was nearly able to make her song "34+35" add up to No. 1, by releasing a hit remix that includes Megan Thee Stallion and Doja Cat. The song moves up to second place on the new …
There are two songs that are completely guaranteed to be played over the PA at any 4th of July celebration in America: Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" and Katy Perry's "Firework." Since …
While no tribute may ever go down as the one David Bowie actually deserves, Saturday's three-hour "A Bowie Celebration" livestream came within spitting distance of giving the duke his due, w…
If you ever loved, liked or even hated "Rent," there's a fair chance that you've never been able to hear a set of numerals large enough to include a comma without having that musical's signa…
Fresh from taking over family home entertainment centers for yet another holiday season with her vocal appearances in the "Frozen" films, Idina Menzel is un-animating herself with a new web …
Whatever else it may be, Ariana Grande's Sweetener World Tour is not a "get to know your superstar" affair. On record, Grande has ably followed Taylor Swift down the trail of openly autobiog…
Bruce Springsteen hasn't made too many public predictions about whether he'd ever record or tour with the E Street Band again. Sunday night, he answered a firm yes to both those questions. A…
In their conversation Sunday night at a private Netflix event honoring "Springsteen on Broadway," Bruce Springsteen and Martin Scorsese spent close to a third of the 45-minute chat discussin…
It was fitting that ASCAP president/chairman Paul Williams took the stage Thursday morning at the opening of the 14th annual "I Create Music" Expo to the strains of Kermit the Frog crooni…
Bruce Springsteen was a surprise guest at the Asbury Park Music and Film Festival for a viewing of his own documentary of clips culled from the Bruce Springsteen Archives Saturdsy at theÅ
Motown has almost certainly never had more ancillary projects happening at once in the realms of TV and theater than it does in 2019. Among the offshoots keeping the catalog alive in multipl…
"She used to be mine" " that's how a lot of Sara Bareilles fans probably felt, losing her to the legit stage, at least as a recording and touring artist, for the better part of five years. W…
Earlier this week, Jezebel published an op-ed in which Tracy Clark-Flory says that Alanis Morissette's iconic, multiple Grammy-winning 1995 album "Jagged Little Pill," which she loved when s…
The ASCAP Screen Music Awards has announced several honorees to be feted at a May 15 ceremony in Beverly Hills, with "Captain Marvel" composer Pinar Toprak, "Incredibles 2" scorer Michael Gi…
Siddhartha Khosla, one of the busiest composers in TV with ongoing assignments for "This Is Us," "The Kids Are Alright" and "Marvel's Runaways," has made the move to ASCAP, the performing-ri…
"I know it's been a really long time since I made a record," said Sara Bareilles, introducing a night of mostly new music at the Troubadour Tuesday. Hearing some shouted assents from the aud…
Myspace-related news travels very, very slowly in the late 2010s. So while the company had quietly acknowledged a massive data loss in response to user inquiries last year, it took until thi…
Aretha Franklin is going on tour " or, rather, the concert movie she stars in is, as "Amazing Grace" is being booked for a solid week's worth of premieres across the country at the end of Ma…
One of this year’s most nominated artists at the Grammys, Brandi Carlile, won all three of the awards she was up for in the pre-telecast ceremony Sunday afternoon. She was one of two p…
A few months before the film version of "The Sound of Music" hit the silver screen, a song plugger working the catalog of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein approached label owner Dave Ka…
In a year when Lady Gaga stands to win at least one Oscar next month and has a decent chance at two, it may sound like a case of premature congratulation to suggest that she's already enjoye…