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February 23, 2026
‘Melania’ Producer Marc Beckman on the Jonny Greenwood Dispute, the Tricky Politics of Licensing Stones or Prince Songs, and the First Lady’s Forthcoming Docuseries: ‘I Think Amazon MGM Got a Very Good Deal’
When a dispute arose over orchestral music originally composed for “The Phantom Thread” appearing in the new Melania Trump documentary, “Melania,” aficionados of music, film and politics all stood ...
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February 23, 2026
Taylor Swift’s ‘Opalite’ Reaches No. 1, Putting Her in a Tie for Third Place for the Most Hot 100 Leaders Ever
Taylor Swift fans kept “hope-alite” alive that “Opalite” would become her 14th No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, even though it faced some competitive headwinds in reaching the summit. The infect...
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February 23, 2026
Viva Baz Vegas! Baz Luhrmann on the Burning Love That Went Into ‘EPiC’: ‘We Are Giving Elvis the World Tour He Dreamed Of, Playing on the World’s Biggest Screens’
Baz Luhrmann is about to dive back into his long-aborning Joan of Arc movie. But before he does, he had to return to the Elvis well, and the King’s new and returning subjects are glad he did. “EPiC...
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February 22, 2026
Kid Rock Predicts God Will ‘Cut Down’ Journalists for Reporting (Accurately) That He’s Charging Up to $5,000 for Tour Tickets
Kid Rock wasn’t kidding around when sang a song about finding Jesus to conclude the recent Turning Point USA alternative halftime show. He got religious again on social media Friday, although this ...
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February 21, 2026
How Much Are Bruce Springsteen Tickets? The Promised Range for ‘The Promised Land’ Is $87-$3,007, With Nearly Row-by-Row Variations In-Between
Another Bruce Springsteen tour on-sale; another bout of elation among those who procured tickets. Along with, of course, another round of debate over how easy it was or wasn’t to get those tickets…...
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February 21, 2026
Barry Manilow Reveals ‘Very Depressing’ Surgeon’s Orders to Postpone More Shows, Extend Recovery Time After Cancer Treatment
Barry Manilow expected to be back on the road a week from now for the resumption of an arena tour. But life and his surgeon had other ideas. Manilow took to multiple media platforms Friday to share...
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February 21, 2026
‘Here Lies Love’: David Byrne and Director Snehai Desai on Adapting the Dance Musical for L.A.’s Taper, and Why Imelda Marcos’ Story Nervously Parallels Contemporary America
Fascism has arrived and settled into Los Angeles. And before you say “Tell us something we don’t already know,” this refers to the opening on this coast of “Here Lies Love,” the David Byrne-created...
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February 20, 2026
Dierks Bentley on His Summer Tour, and Picking Acts Like Hero Ricky Skaggs and Kaitlin Butts as Support: ‘Selfishly, These Are People That I Wanna Go Watch Their Show’
Free and easy down the road he goes… but not unencumbered by company. Because country star Dierks Bentley is nothing if not a solid curator of younger opening acts and heroes alike. His summer Off ...
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February 20, 2026
Amy Grant on Making Her First New Album in 13 Years, ‘The Me That Remains,’ After Asking: ‘Am I Doing People a Disservice in My Sixties, Singing Songs From the Perspective of a 30-Year-Old?’ (EXCLUSIVE)
With the just-released title track of her forthcoming album, “The Me That Remains,” Amy Grant refers to the 2023 bike accident that left her with a serious head injury: “Life cut me wide open / Whe...
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February 20, 2026
Steve Perry Declares It’s ‘Not True’ He Might Appear on Journey’s Farewell Tour, After Jonathan Cain Floated That Perry Was ‘Thinking About It’
In a much-publicized interview published this week, Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain said that former frontman Steve Perry was “thinking about” coming out to the band’s farewell tour to perform wi...
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February 17, 2026
Beach Boys ‘We Gotta Groove’ Boxed Set Revives Cult Love for Classic ‘Love You’ Album: Producers and Engineers Tell What Went Down in the ‘Brian’s Back’ Era
Any new boxed set in the series of Beach Boys compendiums that have been released sequentially over the years has been highly anticipated by hardcore fans. Now, with the newly released “We Gotta Gr...
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February 17, 2026
Bad Bunny Gets His First Solo No. 1 on the Hot 100 With ‘DtMF,’ One of Four Songs He Has in Top 10 Post-Super Bowl
After debuting on Billboard’s Hot 100 more than a year ago, Bad Bunny’s “DtMF” has finally topped the chart, representing his first time capturing that top spot as a solo artist and not just a feat...
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February 17, 2026
Young the Giant Sets Summer ‘Victory Garden’ Tour for Amphitheaters and Arenas (EXCLUSIVE)
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 forthcoming album...
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February 16, 2026
Billy Steinberg, Songwriter Who Co-Wrote Smashes Including ‘Like a Virgin,’ ‘True Colors,’ ‘Eternal Flame’ and ‘So Emotional,’ Dies at 74
Billy Steinberg, a longtime member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame who is regarded as one of the most successful tunesmiths of the ’80s and ’90s, died Monday in California at age 75. He died after ...
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February 16, 2026
August Ponthier on Coming Out as Non-Binary and Exploring the Tension Between Home and Freedom With a Remarkable Debut Album, ‘Everywhere Isn’t Texas’
It’s early in 2026, but August Ponthier’s full-length debut album, “Everywhere Isn’t Texas,” should still be remembered 11 or 12 months from now as one of the year’s best fresh starts. There are a ...
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February 15, 2026
J. Cole Debuts at No. 1 With Best First Week for an R&B/Hip-Hop Album in Nearly a Year; Bad Bunny Hits a New Sales Peak After Super Bowl
In the week after the Super Bowl, Bad Bunny had a super week as far as consumption of his recorded music. On the new Billboard 200 album chart, he has two albums in the top 10 for the first time, a...
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February 15, 2026
Poll Surprise: Bad Bunny Comes Out Ahead of Trump When U.S. Adults Are Asked, ‘Who Better Represents America?’
A new Yahoo!/YouGov poll shows more Americans approving of Bad Bunny than of his recent nemesis-in-chief, Donald J. Trump, in the wake of controversy over last weekend’s Super Bowl halftime show, b...
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February 13, 2026
Lemonheads Singer Evan Dando Hospitalized for Mental Health Issues, After Fan Posts Account of Receiving Unsolicited Sexual Videos
Singer Evan Dando, founder of the alternative-rock band the Lemonheads, was hospitailzed Thursday after sending a fan unwanted pornography, the latest in a long series of setbacks for the musician,...
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February 13, 2026
Foo Fighters Use Website to Release 10 New… Riffs
The Foo Fighters have released a whole batch of new music on their website — in miniature. The landing page for the band’s site contains 10 new riffs… which, for those hoping for actual new songs f...
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February 13, 2026
As Johnny Blue Skies, Sturgill Simpson Returns to Atlantic With a Physical-Release-Only, Non-Streaming ‘Dance Record,’ ‘Mutiny After Midnight,’ Led by New Song ‘Make America F— Again’
Modern country great Sturgill Simpson was not kidding around when he redubbed himself Johnny Blue Skies for his last album, 2024’s “Passage du Desir.” He’s coming back next month with a second albu...
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February 9, 2026
Kid Rock’s ‘All-American Halftime Show’ Goes Light on Politics, Feeling More Like an Old CMT Special Than Super Bowl Protest Event
Turning Point USA clearly saw Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime booking as an affront to the nation that needed to be met by an alternative event for conservative viewers, but the “All-American Halft...
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February 8, 2026
Brandi Carlile Brings the Majesty to ‘America the Beautiful’ in Super Bowl Pre-Game Performance: Watch
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 to sin...
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February 7, 2026
Brandi Carlile on What It Means to Sing ‘America the Beautiful’ at the Super Bowl in a Time of Turmoil: It’s a Song of ‘Fragile Hope… for Where America Could Be’
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’ll be do...
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February 7, 2026
Singer Brantley Gilbert Defends TPUSA’s Alternative Halftime: ‘It’s Been More Than 20 Years Since a Country Artist Has Been Asked to Play the Super Bowl Halftime Show’
Country singer Brantley Gilbert has taken to social media to defend the controversial alternative halftime show being put on Sunday by Turning Point USA, insisting “I’m not playing this show to be ...
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February 7, 2026
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong Implores ICE Agents to ‘Quit Your S—ty Jobs’ at Super Bowl Party, Says Trump ‘Will Drop You Like a Bad Habit… Come on This Side of the Line’
Two days prior to taking part in the Super Bowl’s opening ceremony, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong made it clear that football fervor has not tamped down his conscience about current events. Duri...
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February 5, 2026
If They Gave Grammys for Live Shows, the AmericanaFest Salute to Neil Young at the Troubadour Would Be a Contender: Concert Review
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 concert a...
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February 4, 2026
Record Store Day 2026 Lineup: Vinyl Exclusives From Pink Floyd, ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Bruce Springsteen, Katseye, Bruno Mars, Tom Petty, the ‘Wicked’ Cast and 350 More
What do you get when you combine Pink Floyd with Katseye? No, not pink-eye… you get the wild-ranging roster for Record Store Day 2026. The full lineup of exclusive releases, mostly but not entirely...
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January 28, 2026
Nicki Minaj Holds Donald Trump’s Hand and Declares Herself ‘the President’s No. 1 Fan’: ‘God Is Protecting Him’
Hip-hop superstar Nicki Minaj doubled down on her controversial support for President Donald J. Trump with a short speech at a “Trump Accounts Summit” session on Wednesday, telling the assembled au...
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January 28, 2026
Bruce Springsteen Releases Protest Song About ICE and ‘State Terror,’ ‘Streets of Minneapolis,’ ‘in Memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good’
Bruce Springsteen released a freshly written song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” on Wednesday, in response to what he called “the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis,” which he dedica...
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January 27, 2026
Lady Gaga Covers Mr. Rogers’ ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’… and Kills It
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 know Ga...
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