The Hollywood Bowl has unveiled the lineup for its 2026 summer season, and a key touchstone will be a week in August celebrating Gustuvo Dudamel's 17th and last season as music and artistic …
The group Young the Giant will be looking to turn North America's amphitheater circuit into its own private "Victory Garden" this summer, with a nearly three-month tour behind the forthcomin…
The majesty is not just in the purple mountains: It's in the voice of Brandi Carlile, who has one of the most celebrated vocal ranges in modern American music, and was an apt pick by the NFL…
No "Joke": Brandi Carlile is one of the few vocalists out there with so powerhouse of a voice, she could almost be considered overqualified to sing "America the Beautiful." That's what she'l…
The evening before Music's Biggest Night, there is always Music's Smallest but Mightiest Night. That could serve as one way to describe the Americana Music Association's annual Grammy Eve co…
Bruce Springsteen brought his protest song "Streets of Minneapolis" to the actual streets of Minneapolis Friday afternoon, making an unadvertised appearance at a daytime benefit concert orga…
Lady Gaga has recorded her version of the theme song from the classic children's show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" for a Super Bowl commercial. If that sounds at all campy, you probably don't …
For many of the attendees at this year's Girls Just Wanna Weekend festival in Mexico, one of the highlights of the four-day gathering came when founder Brandi Carlile stepped out to join co-…
The Kennedy Center has lost another one of the few remaining stars on its 2026 schedule, as the legendary soprano Renée Fleming has dropped out of an appearance at the embattled venue previ…
"Comedy is my day job," says Eddie Izzard. "Shakespeare started with his comedies, then he moved to his dramas and tragedies, and that's what I'm doing." Even the Bard might have to step bac…
When the history of great voices in 21st century pop is told, Brandi Carlile and Sam Smith will both be part of the discussion. That's before getting to the conversation about queer icons of…
Neil Young will be the artist feted at this year's Americana Pre-Grammy Salute, the Americana Music Association announced today today, with an annual tribute concert again scheduled for Gram…
MusiCares has announced a lineup of artists set to perform the music of Mariah Carey at the org's Person of the Year gala benefit this month, with a diverse cast that runs from fellow pop-R&…
In an unbilled performance Saturday night at the Light of Day festival in New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen took solemn time out during an otherwise celebratory 75-minute set to dedicate "The Pr…
Contemporary viewers may watch the 1976 film "All the President's Men" and ask: Could it happen today? No, not the Nixon administration's crimes and cover-ups " not much need to question whe…
In a statement probably anyone could have seen coming, Richard Grenell, the controversial president of Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center, spoke out to claim that it was the organization's le…
Rock legend Nick Cave might have been a natural to ask to write a theme song for "Train Dreams," even if he didn't have any personal connections or ins with the filmmakers or cast. One of hi…
Backstage at the benefit that took place Wednesday night under the name A Concert for Altadena, star and co-organizer Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes was talking about how he came close to thinkin…
A new David Byrne cover version of Olivia Rodrigo's "Drivers License" has been released to celebrate Thursday's fifth anniversary of the release of her blockbuster debut single. It's the fir…
The Resonator Awards will return in late January in what is being billed as a "kick-off" to Grammy week, with Chaka Khan, St. Vincent and Haim among the figures being honored in a program be…
Stephen Schwartz, the songwriter behind classic musicals from "Godspell" and "Pippin" to "Wicked," has revealed he will not be taking part in a program spotlighting him at the Kennedy Center…
Some pop fans might have gone into 2025 anticipating a year's worth of the shakes, suffering from Eras Tour withdrawal. But there was no need for anyone to go cold turkey on live music these…
Christmas albums still have a bit of a stigma among fans of higher-cred artists. It can be difficult, first, to overcome the expectation that they're either cash grabs or sops to sentimental…
Elizabeth Chan is in her 15th consecutive year of releasing a new Christmas album every year, and going through a divorce and becoming a single mom was not about to put a stop to that person…
It will be A Very Harlequin Christmas for Lady Gaga fans. The singer is announcing today that her long-awaited concert film "Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live " One Night Only" will arrive down fa…