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Shania Twain and Brandi Carlile on Teaming Up for an All-Female-Headliner Festival, and Why Women Supporting Women Is Always ‘Right on Time’

Shania Twain‘s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” wasn’t literally written to be sung along with by a nearly all-female audience, but the ’90s smash might have received its ultimate culmination...

‘Diane Warren: Relentless’ Review: Doc Portrait Digs Into the Offbeat Personal Iconoclasm Behind All Those Mainstream Songs

Not many non-performing contemporary songwriters are quite interesting enough to sustain a 90-minute documentary, but then, not many are Diane Warren, one of the great characters of modern Hollywood. Despite having...

Carrie Underwood to Sing ‘America the Beautiful’ at Trump Inauguration

Carrie Underwood will sing “America the Beautiful” at the inauguration ceremony immediately prior to president-elect Donald J. Trump being sworn in next week. Her reps and the Trump-Vance inaugural committee confirmed...

‘Wicked’ Music Producer Greg Wells on Losing a World-Class Studio as Well as Family Home in the Fires — and the Sorrow of Saying...

For most of the film and TV industry, the devastating L.A.-area fires of the last week have at least avoided scorching the studios where the work largely occurs. But there’s no...

Sam Moore, Half of Sam & Dave Duo That Rose to Fame With ‘Soul Man’ and ‘Hold On I’m Comin’,’ Dies at 89

Sam Moore, who had classic hits with the soul duo Sam and Dave in the 1960s, died Friday morning  in Coral Gables, Florida. He was 89. The cause of death was...

Making the Public Domain Even More Horrifying: Modest Proposals for Turning 1920s Classics Into Slasher Fare, From Mickey to Hemingway (Column)

It’s become an annual ritual: Every Jan. 1, more classic works of art or characters enter the public domain, and exploitation filmmakers with a tiny budget and a big taste for...

Francis Ford Coppola Rings in the New Year at American Cinematheque With an Epic Salon About Money, Politics and Power

“Happy New Year. For me, this is a dream come true,” said Frances Ford Coppola, surveying the audience that had come to see his passion project, “Megalopolis,” at an American Cinematheque...

The Best Concerts of 2024

This unfortunately postponed tour is a key element of Donald Glover’s self-proclaimed “final” project from his Childish Gambino persona and involves his latest album, the excellent “Bando Stone and the New World,”...

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