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Morgan Wallen Stirs Speculation With Abrupt ‘SNL’ Walk-Off and ‘Get Me to God’s Country’ Social Post

Country superstar Morgan Wallen performed two songs from a forthcoming album that is expected to be one of the year’s biggest blockbusters on “Saturday Night Live,” but it wasn’t the music...

Will Smith’s ‘Based on a True Story’ Foregoes Fun for Self-Help Soliloquies: Album Review

Remember when Will Smith was the fun rapper? The enormously affable, uncomplicated rapper? The giddily cheerful Fresh Prince behind “Parents Just Don’t Understand,” the Big Willie Styling hunk of “Jiggy Wit...

A Todd Rundgren-Led ‘Burt Bacharach Songbook’ Tour Delivers Melodic Thrills From One of Popular Music’s Greatest Catalogs: Concert Review

So, you say you like melodies? Putting your priorities there may consign you to minority status among 2025’s wider bloc of pop fans. But for the sonorously starved among us, a...

Larry Tamblyn, Co-Founder of Garage-Rock Band the Standells and Brother of Russ Tamblyn, Dies at 82

Larry Tamblyn, who co-founded the garage-rock cult-favorite band the Standells, famous for the 1965 single “Dirty Water,” died Friday, the group announced on social media. The keyboard player and sometimes lead...

Dead & Company, Night 2: Still More Visual Content Added to Sphere Residency, in What Fans Herald as a Peak Performance

Las Vegas is filled with even-better-off Deadheads, now that Dead & Company has played the second night of its second Sphere residency, and captivated multi-night attendees with a show that added...

Miranda Lambert on Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of ‘Kerosene’ With First Vinyl Edition and an Unreleased Song: ‘It’s Baby Me, but the Same Feisty...

Miranda Lambert keeps referring to the version of her that was captured on her 2005 debut album, “Kerosene,” as “baby me.” Fortunately, as an artistic toddler, Lambert was a pyromaniac. The...

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Reestablish That, in the Realm of Acoustic Music, Nobody Does It Better: Concert Review

Are we in a golden age for acoustic music? You’d just about have to think so, if you are privy to a couple of significant tours coming through California right now,...

Ingrid Andress Talks Frankly About the National Anthem That Made Her ‘America’s Punching Bag,’ What She Learned in Rehab, and Being ‘Terrified’ Before Her...

When Ingrid Andress sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a pro hockey game in Denver earlier this month, it certainly counted as one of the most fraught renditions of the national anthem...

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