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April 10, 2026
Bruce Springsteen Turns L.A.’s Forum Into the Promised Land With a Show That Mixes American Resistance and Rapture: Concert Review
When Bruce Springsteen brought his “Land of Hope and Dreams Tour” to the Los Angeles area this week, it followed the same template as the opening night of the tour in Minneapolis exactly seven days...
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April 9, 2026
ACM Awards Nominations Led by Megan Moroney, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson
Megan Moroney, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley and Lainey Wilson are the leading nominees for the 2026 ACM Awards, the Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark Productions announced Thursday. Moroney ...
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April 8, 2026
Mitchell Fink, Gossip Columnist, Author and Entertainment TV Personality, Dies at 82
Mitchell Fink, whose career as a celebrity gossip columnist and entertainment journalist included stints ranging from People magazine to the New York Daily News to the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, ...
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April 7, 2026
Ty Myers on Going ‘Heavy on the Soul’ With His New Album, and Bringing John Mayer and Stevie Ray Vaughan Influences to Country Music as an Old Soul of 18
You could say that 18-year-old country music upstart Ty Myers seems like a perfect example of the Old Soul, with his love for and knowledge of the blues and classic songwriters, and with prodigious...
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April 7, 2026
Coachella Announces Set Times, With Jack White as Surprise Last-Minute Addition
Coachella-goers — and home streaming viewers — can start setting alarm times for the coming weekend on their watches now. Set times for the first weekend of performances this Friday through Sunday ...
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April 7, 2026
David Schwimmer Says Kanye West Hasn’t Properly Apologized, Thanks Wireless Festival Sponsors for Pulling Out: ‘I Believe in Forgiveness, but It Takes Much More Than This’
Actor David Schwimmer took to social media Monday to thank several corporate sponsors who have pulled their support from the U.K.’s Wireless Festival, where Ye, formerly Kanye West, is set to headl...
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April 6, 2026
Mitski Brings Mania and Serenity to a Momentous Residency at Hollywood High School: Concert Review
As Mitski played a five-night engagement at Hollywood High School this past week, any teachers who might have made it into the school auditorium for the shows must have been insanely jealous of how...
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April 5, 2026
Pepsi Cancels Sponsorship of U.K. Festival Where Kanye West Is Set to Headline, Hours After Prime Minister Decries ‘His Previous Celebration of Nazism’
The scheduled three-night headlining appearance by Ye, formerly Kanye West, at the Wireless Festival in London is only growing in controversy. The festival’s sponsor, Pepsi, announced Sunday that i...
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April 4, 2026
Hollywood High Forever: Mitski’s Residency Shines a Fresh Light on the Famed School’s Rich Show-Biz History
When Mitski wraps up a five-night residency at Hollywood High School this weekend, it will conclude an engagement that follows in a very limited tradition of rock or pop stars doing shows in the sc...
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April 3, 2026
U2 Releases the Band’s Second Six-Song EP of 2026, ‘Easter Lily’
U2, which until this year had not released a batch of newly written material since 2017, is really starting to prolifically make up for lost time. At the stroke of midnight on the east coast, as Go...
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April 2, 2026
Tzruya ‘Suki’ Lahav, Original Bruce Springsteen Violinist Who Played on ‘Jungleland’ and Toured With E Street Band, Dies at 74
Tzruya “Suki” Lahav, an Israeli songwriter and poet who is best remembered by American music fans as a violinist who recorded and toured with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in the mid-’70s...
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April 2, 2026
Dan + Shay on the Suicide Prevention Theme of Their New Song, ‘Say So,’ and Dedicating It to Their Late Mentor, Warner Chappell Head Ben Vaughn (EXCLUSIVE)
As one of the most popular duos in country music (or country-pop crossover), Dan + Shay are known as serious romantics, to the point where they acknowledge and joke about how many marches down the ...
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April 1, 2026
Bruce Springsteen Isn’t Just Doing Protest Songs — With His ‘Land of Hope and Dreams’ Trek, He’s Embarked on a Whole Protest Tour: Concert Review
First of all, let’s dispense with some Bruce Springsteen mythology: It is a fallacy that all his concerts last three hours. Opening a fresh tour Tuesday night at the Target Center in Minneapolis, S...
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April 1, 2026
Bruce Springsteen Slams Trump, ‘the Richest Men in America’ and Pam Bondi in Fiery Speech at Minneapolis Tour Opener: ‘We Have a President Who Can’t Handle the Truth’
Bruce Springsteen has said that his 2026 “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour with the E Street Band will be political, and he was not exaggerating. On the tour’s opening night in Minneapolis, after star...
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March 31, 2026
‘Noah Kahan: Out of Body’ Trailer: Netflix Doc Looks to Show Breakout Singer’s Self-Doubt as He Becomes a Stadium Act
Netflix issued a trailer Tuesday for “Noah Kahan: Out of Body,” with scenes promising the April 13 release will go well behind the scenes in documenting the personal life of one of the biggest brea...
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March 31, 2026
Taylor Swift Releases ‘Elizabeth Taylor’ Music Video Featuring Clips of the Screen Icon
Taylor Swift released a music video for “Elizabeth Taylor” Tuesday morning, putting visuals to her salute to one of the most recognizable and vibrant screen stars of the 20th century. In contrast t...
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March 30, 2026
Ezekiel Lewis Named Epic Records Chairman-CEO
Sony Music has appointed Ezekiel “Zeke” Lewis as chairman and CEO of Epic Records, the company announced Monday. Lewis had served as Epic’s president since 2023, leading the A&R division while ...
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March 28, 2026
Paul McCartney Gives His Regards to Hollywood in a Fantastic Underplay at the Fonda: Concert Review
Playing the first of two nights at the Fonda Theatre in Hollywood Friday night, Paul McCartney acknowledged the tiered arrangement that had VIPs up in the balcony and the hoi polloi down on the flo...
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March 27, 2026
Tift Merritt Is Set to Bring the ‘Sugar’ With Her First New Album in Nine Years: ‘I Got Back in Front of That Microphone and Was Like, Oh, This Is My Place’ (EXCLUSIVE)
With Tift Merritt revealing that she has an album of new material on the way after nine years without one, fans may have an instinctual reaction to the fact that it’s titled “Sugar,” as if to say, ...
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March 26, 2026
T Bone Burnett, Maren Morris and Master P to Be Honored at NYC Benefit for Top School Music Education Program, Music Will
A benefit for Music Will, described as the largest non-profit school music education program in the U.S., will salute T Bone Burnett, Master P and Maren Morris as its honorees at a gathering at New...
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March 26, 2026
Paul McCartney Releases New Single, ‘Days We Left Behind,’ to Be Followed by First Album in Nearly Six Years, ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’
After five years of reports about an album in progress, Paul McCartney released a new single, “Days We Left Behind,” Thursday morning. The single, a love letter to Liverpool, arrived concurrent wit...
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March 26, 2026
Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts, Duo Behind ’70s Smashes ‘Summer Breeze’ and ‘Diamond Girl,’ Dies at 85
Dash Crofts, who as half of the duo Seals and Crofts helped define the sound of “soft rock” in the 1970s with hits like “Summer Breeze,” Wednesday at age 85. The news was first announced on social ...
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March 25, 2026
‘NCIS’ Boss Explains Director Vance’s Stunning Exit After 18 Seasons: ‘This Storyline Was Floating Around for Years… It Was Not an Easy Decision, I Can Tell You That’
Few “NCIS” fans, if any, were prepared for the much-touted 500th episode of “NCIS” to turn out to be a ticket to a wake. So much mourning is still going on in the fandom over the unexpected exit of...
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March 25, 2026
‘NCIS’ Shocker: Rocky Carroll Tells All on His Unexpected [SPOILER] and Playing Director Vance for Nearly Two Decades
“NCIS” has not been shy about letting some of its tertiary characters die a dramatic death, but when it comes to letting any of the show’s main cast come to a sad end, there’s been more of a histor...
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March 24, 2026
Chip Taylor, Songwriters Hall of Fame Member Who Wrote ‘Wild Thing’ and ‘Angel of the Morning,’ Dies at 86
Chip Taylor, the Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee who is best known for writing the classic hits “Angel of the Morning” and “Wild Thing,” died Monday at age 86. The death was reported on social me...
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March 24, 2026
Bob Dylan Adds West Coast Dates to 2026 Summer Touring
Bob Dylan’s touring continues to appear never-ending, to use the catchphrase that fans long ago applied to his near-constant bouts of road work. Now the west coast will be the beneficiary of that, ...
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March 24, 2026
‘NCIS’ Hits Episode 500: Showrunner Steven D. Binder on Surviving Cast Turnover and Why He Believes ‘There Will Be Always Be an ‘NCIS,’ Barring the Total Collapse of the Network Broadcast Model’
There’s the Indy 500, and then there’s the NC-500. “NCIS” will air its 500th episode Tuesday night — a rarefied air shared in scripted prime-time television only by “Gunsmoke,” “Lassie,” a couple o...
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March 24, 2026
Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival Returns for 2026 to a Scaled-Back 12 Cities, With Avett Brothers, Sheryl Crow, Wilco, Stephen Wilson Jr. Among Openers
Willie Nelsons Outlaw Music Festival will return for an 11th anniversary tour in summer 2026, it was announced Tuesday. But for some fans of these Americana extravaganzas, it may require a bit more...
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March 24, 2026
Noir City Hollywood Carries a Tune: Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode on the 2026 Fest’s ‘Face the Music!’ Theme, and How Jazz Lent a Serious Subtext to Classic Crime Films
For 28 years, the Noir City film festival has been unfolding every spring under the aegis of the American Cinematheque, give or take a couple of early name changes since it began in 1999. The festi...
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March 23, 2026
Ronnie Bowman, Leading Bluegrass Singer Who Wrote Hits for Chris Stapleton, Kenny Chesney and Other Country Stars, Dies at 64
Ronnie Bowman, a preeminent bluegrass singer who was also renowned for co-writing songs recorded by top country stars like Chris Stapleton, Kenny Chesney and George Strait, died Sunday at age 64. B...
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