The six-member J-pop group self-releases a 22-minute EP that runs every summer convention — and then closes the season before ...

Barack Obama’s 2026 summer playlist opens with a tribute to Glen Hansard and features The Strokes, Doechii, SZA, David Bowie, ...

Ahead of Patti LaBelle's three Bay Area performances, the "Godmother of Soul" opens up about her dream of singing opera and her first R&B album in 20 years.

Studios and filmmakers often make decisions that upset or even alienate their audiences, even before the film has begun preproduction. Typically, such an occurrence happens in response to a film's ...

The Ian Gillan-led band’s best-known song Smoke On The Water tells the story of Montreux Casino burning down in 1971 during a ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the choreopoem’s Broadway debut in 1976. It was only the second play written by a ...

Ronnie Scott's began as a small basement venue in London and became one of the world’s most famous jazz clubs, hosting the ...

Grammy and Emmy award-winning singer, composer, actor and icon Harry Connick Jr.’s spirited performance at Heinz Hall reminded audience members that the piano — no matter how grand — is a percussion ...

The Tony-winning orchestrator shaped dozens of Broadway productions and worked with legends from Nina Simone to Burt Bacharach. Harold Wheeler, ...

Simone Biles won't let negative comments get her down, especially not on vacation. The seven-time Olympic gold medalist clapped back at a critic who questioned why she was taking "traveling selfies" ...

Simone Biles found time to respond to Instagram users with very few followers this week, after the users commented mocking the gymnast for posting vacation photos days after revealing an apparent near ...

Wesley Morris is a Times critic who writes about art and popular culture. Here we are, near the end of “Mississippi Goddam,” Nina Simone’s first original protest song of the civil rights era. It ...