When Kevin Cahoon got his Tony and Drama Desk nominations in 2023 as a featured actor in Broadway’s “Shucked,” he played a hayseed character whose sexuality might or might not have been known to everyone in his straight-laced, corn-fed community. But in “La Cage aux Folles,” now playing at the Pasadena Playhouse, taking on the […]

The nominations for the 2025 International Folk Music Awards have been announced, with such names as Allison Russell, Sarah Jarosz, Sierra Ferrell, Nick Lowe and Aoife O’Donovan on the list of contenders. The Folk Alliance International (FAI) also announced that Indigo Girls will receive a lifetime achievement award at the ceremony, held on the first […]

Long absent from the scene while group members pursued other projects, Alison Krauss & Union Station will reunite in 2025 for a 73-show North American tour and a new album. The tour will mark the first time the group has gone out on the road in 10 years, while the album will be their first […]

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Beatlemania… but maybe it’s been a while. “Beatles ’64,” the new Martin Scorsese-produced documentary on Disney+, aims to recapture the shrieks that greeted the Beatles’ arrival on American shores at the beginning of 1964. Under the direction of David Tedeschi, the film brings back the tears of […]

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour-commemorating hardback book hit stores Friday, just nine days before she performs the show for the final time. And as much as we thought we knew about these concerts from the 21 months of it being dissected, the pop superstar still has some things to reveal about the epic, record-breaking outing in […]

If you’re lining up for Record Store Day Black Friday 2024, you may be experiencing just a little whiff of Record Store Day Black Friday 2023 deja vu. That’s because last year at this time, if you did a survey of people waiting in the cold to see the exclusive vinyl titles they were most […]

To paraphrase Cyndi Lauper and Paul Simon: She’s still so unusual after all these years. Lauper, at 71, is nearing the end of the U.S. leg of what is being billed as a farewell tour. And as much as she remains something of a unicorn now, it’s a chance to force ourselves to recall how […]

“Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book” hits stores on Black Friday, and among the more than 500 images included are close-up looks at what may be her most important stage arsenal… or what might be at least in a tie with the famous wardrobe. That would be the superstar’s full complement of acoustic guitars, […]

When the sing-along screenings of “Wicked” go down beginning Christmas Day, I’ll be there — but not because I have any intention of personally raising my voice in song. (Or maybe I’ll join in just with Dr. Dillamond, the goat professor, whose glottal peculiarities probably come closest to the sounds I could produce.) I do […]

Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett might seem like portraits in courage, for anyone who has followed their individual and collective musical trail-blazing, but at the moment, they’re studies in Coward-ice. They portray their long-time alter-egos, Henry and Howard Coward, in the new scripted Audible Original series “The True Story of the Coward Brothers,” which […]

Composing legend Hans Zimmer was the top individual winner at the 15th annual Hollywood Music in Media Awards ceremony held Wednesday night, with three wins. The film “Emilia Pérez” also picked up three wins, followed by “The Wild Robot” and “Deadpool & Wolverine” with two apiece. The HMMAs gave out honors for songs and scores […]

The 58th annual CMA Awards show is being telecast live by ABC from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Scroll down to see the 2024 winners as they are named over the course of the three-hour show. Artists claiming trophies so far include Chris Stapleton, Lainey Wilson, Cody Johnson, Megan Moroney and Brooks & Dunn. Stapleton won the […]

The Morgan Wallen smash “Last Night” continued its dominance of performing rights organizations’ awards, as the tune was named song of the year at the 72nd annual BMI Country Awards, held Tuesday night at the org’s headquarters in Nashville. BMI’s most played song of the year was co-penned by BMI writers John Byron and Charlie […]

The suspense wasn’t killing anyone: Ashley Gorley was named songwriter of the year as the winners of the ASCAP Country Awards were revealed in Nashville Monday night, claiming the honor for the 11th time. Gorley came up for other kudos, too. One of the hits he co-wrote, Morgan Wallen’s crossover smash “Last Night,” earned ASCAP’s […]

Welcome back, Sting +2 … or, in the parlance of the current tour, “Sting 3.0.” Power trios are a thing, and roughly four decades after he was last officially a regular, ongoing member of one, Sting has come back around to seeing the glory of the maxim that triads are rad. (Sorry, we actually just […]

When Gracie Abrams opens the final dates on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Canada in early December, fans may be putting in even more of an effort than usual to arrive early. By then, Abrams could have something that no opening act for Swift could previously claim over the tour’s nearly two-year run: a No. […]

The city of Ojai has a long-established reputation as one of California’s most quintessentially laid-back small towns. But residents and frequent visitors who have a love for movies may actually have to work up some adrenaline to keep up with the aggressive film programming schedule being announced for the reopening of the Ojai Playhouse, a […]

Elton John harbors a strong resistance to living in the past, so even though the new documentary “Elton John: Never Too Late” is filled with retrospective glories, it made sense that he would want the film to go out on a brand new song. Or, as the case may be, a Brandi new song. Brandi […]

A dozen more performers have been added to the talent lineup for next week’s CMA Awards telecast, with the three-hour show now boasting musical turns by the duo of Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahan, Kacey Musgraves, Jelly Roll, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Eric Church, Brooks & Dunn, Riley Green, Megan Moroney, Bailey Zimmerman and Ella […]