Celebrated singer. songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens announced Tuesday that she will be headlining and curating a festival of her own making, Biscuits & Banjos, celebrating Black culture with a particular emphasis on roots musicians. The first-ever festival will take place in Durham, North Carolina on April 25-27, 2025. Besides performing as a solo artist, […]

Backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, Cher confirmed that she had once declared she “didn’t give a flying fuck if I got in.” But if the pop superstar (pictured above in an opening duet of “Believe” with Dua Lipa) found her way toward being completely glee about the Saturday night occasion, […]

At Joni Mitchell’s Hollywood Bowl show Saturday night, the revered singer-songwriter offered the rapt audience a first-ever live performance of… Wait, let’s just take a time-out right there and let those words sink in. At Joni Mitchell’s Hollywood Bowl show. What were the odds? Right?… Sorry, we now return to our regularly scheduled review. At […]

Here’s who wasn’t taking a load off: the house band at Thursday’s tribute to Robbie Robertson at the L.A. area’s Kia Forum. Starting a little after 7 and ending at midnight, the all-star show dubbed “Life Is a Carnival: A Musical Celebration of Robbie Robertson” clocked in at just a little under five hours, which […]

After headlining Stagecoach in May 2024, country superstar Morgan Wallen will spend a weekend in May 2025 headlining his own newly created music festival, dubbed Sand in My Boots, named after one of his most popular singles. Wallen’s festival will take place May 16-18 on the shores of Gulf Shores, Alabama, it was announced Thursday. […]

Litmus Music has acquired Randy Newman’s music publishing and his stake in his recorded music catalog, the company announced Thursday. The deal includes both songs and film scores from throughout his entire career, which dates back to the 1960s. Among the more famous songs in Newman’s catalog that are part of the acquisition are “I […]

Before “Almost Famous” and all his other directorial efforts, Cameron Crowe immortalized a different kind of golden god: Tom Petty. A nearly forgotten documentary he co-directed about Petty & the Heartbreakers in 1983, titled “Heartbreakers Beach Party,” has been pulled out of the vault and restored, for showings that will take place in theaters across […]

Las Vegas’ Sphere will no longer be a one-of-one. A second Sphere has been announced, for Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. No target date for the construction or opening was revealed in the announcement made jointly on Tuesday by Sphere Entertainment Co. and Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT). “The vision […]

Libby Titus, a singer who recorded two albums in the late 1960s and ’70s before retiring from the music scene, later becoming the wife of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, died Sunday at age 77. No cause of death was given. Fagen announced her death on Steely Dan’s website. “My beautiful wife, Libby Titus Fagen, passed […]

For a leading man in a massive series, Mark Harmon got to play Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs as a bit of a man of mystery on the “NCIS” franchise mothership series, at least up to the point that it had to exhaust whatever it was that put that haunted look in his baby blues. […]

Following virtually every Jack White show, his website posts a selection of concert pictures taken that night by his in-house photographer, David James Swanson, and occasionally they’ll throw in a crowd shot. After Friday night’s gig at the Mayan in downtown Los Angeles, the pictures posted online included one of a fan toward the front […]

By now almost everybody has at least an inkling that Jelly Roll has become one of the biggest superstars of country music in the past two years. But, of course, there are parts of the show-biz world that remain stubbornly country-uncognizant … those who are still not ready for that Jelly. And so, when the […]

The name Yola is not to be confused with YOLO, but if her moniker were to be an acronym, it might stand for You Only Live Awe-Inspiringly. The British-born singer has been expanding her horizons rather widely since being nominated for best new artist at the 2020 Grammys, particularly in the acting realm, starting with […]

The estate of Patsy Cline has signed a partnership with Sandbox Succession, the legacy division of manager-executive Jason Owen’s Sandbox Entertainment, to expand the country legend’s presence in media, licensing and other interests. The Cline agreement adds to a growing portfolio under Sandbox Succession president Josh Matas. The company has already entered into agreements in […]

However sad you are expecting “From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir” will be, take heed: it’s sadder than that. This new volume, started by Lisa Marie Presley before her 2022 death and completed recently by daughter Riley Keough, falls squarely into the realm of autobio-tragedy — bracingly looking at how depression and addiction […]

Riley Keough sat down with Oprah Winfrey at her family’s estate, Graceland, for a one-hour CBS special devoted to discussion of the new book “From Here to the Great Unknown,” which Keough completed after her mother began dictating memories for a memoir before dying in 2022. Among the revelations that were arising Tuesday, with the […]

The Music Forward Foundation returned to hold its annual brunch celebrating music industry leaders who have paved the way for helping young people in the business, an event that honored the band Incubus, the Lollapalooza festival, BMG, the Brooklyn Bowl and Gina Belafonte’s Sankofa, among others. The Music Forward Brunch also paid tribute to two […]

Serenity and arena-rock are two great tastes that don’t really go great together, for the most part. And so, even if you came away admiring Kacey Musgraves’ latest album, “Deeper Well,” which came out this past March, you might have had some reasonable questions about whether its tranquil qualities were really apt as the crucial […]

The Songwriters of North America honored creators and business figures it sees as leaders in the industry during its annual SONA Warrior Awards on Sunday night, with Raye, Thomas Scherer, Ross Golan, Willie “Prophet” Stiggers and the late Andrea Martin being celebrated at L.A.’s Skirball Cultural Center. Songwriters Shane Stevens (Selena Gomez, Ariana Grande) and […]