Yusuf / Cat Stevens has announced that his North American "Cat on the Road to Findout" Book Tour will be postponed due to unspecified visa issues. "Sadly, my 'Cat on the Road to Findout' Boo…
British singer Lola Young posted that she is "OK" after collapsing onstage during her performance at the All Things Go festival in New York on Saturday. Young suffered an unspecified medical…
On Thursday night, the City Parks Foundation 2025 Dinner & Dance Party Benefit, this year honoring Grammy-and-Oscar-winning drummer, filmmaker, author, DJ and producer Ahmir "Questlove" …
Bruce Springsteen talks about a lot of things in his new Time magazine cover story: fame, family, therapy, touring with the E Street Band and the 50 th anniversary of his epochal "Born to Ru…
Cardi B will join the lineup for the Global Citizen Festival in New York this Saturday, the festival has announced, replacing the Weeknd, who will no longer perform at the event due to perso…
Sonny Curtis, who wrote such classics as "I Fought the Law," "Walk Right Back" and the theme for the "Mary Tyler Moore" show, "Love Is All Around," died Friday after a sudden illness, accord…
If Lorde is seen by some as one of pop music's great mystics, she is also a master of decreation " or unmaking her persona and herself. Midway through her performance at the Chicago stop of …
As a music journalist of a certain age, people often ask about my all-time favorite interview. And there's no question what it is: the three-decade-old Spinal Tap interview that follows belo…
We're going to assume that anyone clicking on this article knows that "This Is Spinal Tap" is the greatest rock and roll film of all time, that its long-awaited sequel "Spinal Tap II: The En…
Adam Gardner is a guitarist with the long-running rock band Guster and a co-founder of Reverb, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to creating a more sustainable music industry "Â click here for m…
Two days after her four big wins at the 2025 MTV VMAs, Lady Gaga has announced a second North American leg of her "Mayhem Ball" tour. The new dates, which follow jaunts in Europe, Australia …
Any questions about how '80s-influenced Doja Cat's next chapter will be were laid to rest within the opening minutes of the 2025 MTV VMAs: After being introduced first by LL Cool J and then …
David Byrne has been a part of the pop-culture bedrock for nearly 50 years " so long that it's sometimes easy to take him for granted. After the creative burst that vaulted him into the publ…
Jazz at Lincoln Center will launch its "Mother Africa" season with the world premiere of "Afro!," a new commission by managing and artistic director " and jazz legend "Â Wynton Marsalis, o…
United Talent Agency has signed EGOT-winning multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter John Legend and his production company, Get Lifted, for global representation in all areas, the company …
Whenever Tom Waits and his wife and longtime collaborator Kathleen Brennan pay tribute " or write seemingly anything "Â it is in the unique tone that has been a hallmark of his and their c…
Sheila Jordan, whose cool and supple voice carried her name through decades of jazz recordings, performance and education, died Monday in New York, her family confirms to Variety. No cause o…
Amanda Shires, Brittney Spencer, Cecilia Castleman, Haven Madison, M'Lynn and Queen Anne will headline the second installment of its celebration of female voices and genre …
It's hardly a surprise given the widespread fan speculation, but two sources close to the situation confirm to Variety that Lady Gaga will release a song titled "Dead Dance" that will appear…
Flaco Jiménez, the San Antonio-born accordionist whose music has been a hallmark of Tex-Mex, Tejano and conjunto music for seven decades, died Thursday, according to a statement from his fa…
In the op-ed below, Rachel Landy, an assistant professor at Cardozo School of Law specializing in contracts and copyright law, makes a the case for why states legislatures, not Congress, …
Even though she's dropped an album every four years, Lorde's career has felt so start-stop that it's surprising to realize we've had a dozen trips around the sun since "Royals" lofted her, a…
At a time when even mid-level concert tickets sell for extortionate prices, finding an affordable night of music can be a challenge. But the New York-based Burwoodland entertainment company …
Songwriter-producer-entrepreneur Swizz Beatz and showrunner Chris Brancato ("Narcos," "Godfather of Harlem") will be developing new ideas for podcasts, television and film in a newly formali…
Professional audio technology specialists L-Acoustics, in collaboration with Black Meteor, have launched "The Art of Sound," a three-part documentary series that merges scientific discovery …