The FIFA World Cup Final Halftime Show provided an answer to the burning question of how you fit Madonna, BTS, Justin Bieber, Shakira, Burna Boy, Gustavo Dudamel, Chris Martin and the Muppets into a single 11-minute segment: as fleetingly as possible. Although there were reports that the halftime extravaganza would be allowed to go over […]

Jennifer Finch, bassist, singer and songwriter for the veteran indie-rock band L7, died Saturday after a battle with an aggressive form of brain cancer, according to a statement from the band’s rep. She was 59. A popular and well-known presence on the indie-rock scene of the 1990s, earlier in her career Finch played with Courtney […]

Elon Musk’s tirades against Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey proved to be less epic and more ephemeral as the box office haul proved. Musk, a fan of repeating the right-wing mantra “go woke, go broke” who blabbed about The Odyssey’s casting choices and gave baseless opinions concerning Nolan’s intentions with putting…

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The 11-minute spectacle included performances by Shakira, Justin Bieber, BTS, Burna Boy, and Coldplay’s Chris Martin

The grunge musician died on Saturday after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer

To paraphrase Aaliyah: Cast size ain’t nothing but a number. In the realm of the theater, no one exactly equates the number of headshots on a Playbill page with the ultimate fulfillment a stage show provides. Still, a question may arise: How few people can you have in a musical and still generate just as […]

Following the news that the FIFA World Cup final will feature its first halftime show in history, The Cure’s Robert Smith took to social media to slam the announcement. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH… #Breadandcircuses #MUGWANK #pleasejustfuckoff,” Smith wrote on The Cure’s Instagram account. Curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin, performers will include Madonna, Justin Bieber, Shakira and BTS. In […]

Freddy Cannon, a veteran of the early rock scene whose hits of the late ’50s and early ’60s included the top 10 hits “Palisades Park,” “Tallahassee Lassie” and “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans,” died Friday at 89. A representative said Cannon, who lived in Oxnard, California, died at a hospice facility after very recently […]

Apple is hiking the prices of Apple Music subscription plans — the tech giant’s first rate increases for the service since the fall of 2022, citing higher music licensing costs. The new pricing is effective in many of the markets worldwide where Apple Music is available, including the U.S. Under the new U.S. prices for […]

BMG has announced its acquisition of the remaining interests in the songwriting works of the publishing catalogs of John Lee Hooker, Hal David, and ARC Music — three major archives that it is no understatement to say helped shape American popular music. The deal completes a transaction first announced in 2016, when BMG acquired a […]