Two rarities during the musical performances on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend: actual rock ‘n’ roll was performed. Even rarer than that, Thomas Jefferson was quoted — prominently and at length...
Is there such a thing as… an intimate arena? That may seem like the type of oxymoron that could only belong to the show-biz hype lexicon. But plenty of southern Californians...
Brandi Carlile‘s “Returning to Myself” album, her first solo release in four years, is likely to debut in the top 10 when album chart results come in this weekend. Her appearance...
Kaitlin Butts, the country singer who had a breakout viral hit this year with “You Ain’t Gotta Die (to Be Dead to Me),” has signed a deal with Republic Records, the...
Somebody up there who likes epic baseball games also likes Brad Paisley. “I would like to be called Mr. More Baseball,” the country star tells Variety, the day after singing...
What does it say that a Warren Zevon tribute concert Friday night featured more than 30 songs, was performed by well over 50 musicians, and stretched nearly to four hours in...
It’s Warren Zevon season. That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog...
Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultaneous historical...
