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Haruki Murakami to be celebrated with an evening of words and music in New York City
NEW YORK (AP) — Japanese author Haruki Murakami will be honored this December in Manhattan with an evening of words and music.
The Japan Society and The Town Hall are presenting “The Murakami Mix Tape,” which will include readings from…
Sarah McLachlan talks Lilith Fair, her first new album in 11 years and yes, that ASPCA commercial
NEW YORK (AP) — Sarah McLachlan's first album in over a decade was supposed to be her last.
At least, it felt that way to her for a short while. Out Friday, the release, titled “Better Broken,” has been many years in the making. “It had…
Music Review: ‘Buckingham Nicks’ is an engaging blueprint for the classics to come
The long-awaited digital reissue of “Buckingham Nicks” offers two perspectives on the 1973 pre-Fleetwood Mac album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. For newcomers, the Friday release is a taste of vintage Los Angeles singer-songwriter…
Bad Bunny leads the 2025 Latin Grammy nominations, dethroning Édgar Barrera’s 2-year run
Bad Bunny leads the 2025 Latin Grammy nominations this year with 12 nods. That means he has dethroned producer/ songwriter Édgar Barrera. Barrera previously topped the list in 2023 and 2024 with 13 and nine nominations, respectively. Don’t…
Brazilian musician Hermeto Pascoal, known as ‘The Mad Genius,’ dies at 89
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Hermeto Pascoal, an eccentric and prolific Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger known affectionately as “The Sorcerer of Sounds” and “The Mad Genius,” has died. He was 89.
“With serenity and love, we…
Bobby Hart, co-wrote ‘Last Train to Clarksville’ and other hits for the Monkees, dead at 86
Bobby Hart, who co-wrote some of the Monkees' biggest hits, has died. He was 86. Along with Tommy Bryce, he was a key part of the Monkees' multimedia empire. Boyce and Hart wrote hundreds of songs and were a top team in the mid-1960s,…
A Lebanese dancer defies extremist threats and social norms with his sold-out performances
BEIRUT (AP) — Alexandre Paulikevitch put on his white dress and wig and danced his way to center stage, knowing that the extremist groups who had threatened him before his controversial recital might be waiting for him outside the theater.…
Jane Austen fans honor 250 years since her birth with grand costumed balls and dancing
Fans of Jane Austen are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the beloved author's birth with costumed balls and themed events. This weekend, thousands of Austen devotees from all over the world are descending on Bath, England, for a 10-day…
Music Review: Spinal Tap almost goes to 11 on ‘The End Continues’ soundtrack
The ostensibly fictitious hard-rock band Spinal Tap has been together, off and on, slightly longer than Katy Perry has been alive, and as of Friday, has released four studio albums and two feature films. Their latest album, “The End…
Music Review: Ed Sheeran returns to his roots on ‘Play,’ a cross-cultural playground
NEW YORK (AP) — Ed Sheeran has long sought to bring people together with his music, whether it be his emotionally resonant acoustic ballads or unproblematic, danceable pop hits. “Play,” his eighth studio album out Friday, stays in that…
Hitmaker Bert Berns is posthumously included in Songwriters Hall of Fame
NEW YORK (AP) — Songwriter and producer Bert Berns, who had a hand in some of the biggest hits of the 1960s, including co-writing “Twist and Shout” for the Isley Brothers and the plaintive “Piece of My Heart” sung by Janis Joplin, has been…
A new Whitney Houston duet? How Calum Scott made ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ with the late star
NEW YORK (AP) — It sounds impossible, but that's the magic of it. On Thursday, a new Whitney Houston song arrives 13 years after her death.
English singer Calum Scott is responsible. The single is a duet between Scott and Houston, a…
Movie Review: The guys from Spinal Tap are back together, but is the reunion worth it?
In an early scene from “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” the blisteringly obtuse Nigel Tufnel asks his wife a question after he and his bandmates have reunited after many years: “I don't know whether this was a good idea or not.”
Fans may…
Movie Review: Paul Mescal, Josh O’Connor collect folk songs in tender ‘The History of Sound’
If the algorithm was overseeing casting for a tender, queer romance, it’s likely that at least one combination would involve Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor. They are two of Hollywood’s most promising next generation stars, and, not…
David Bowie archive opens in London chronicling five decades of icon’s restless creativity
LONDON (AP) — When David Bowie died in 2016, he left a vast musical legacy – and a trove of unrealized projects.
Tantalizing details of those abandoned and unfinished ideas are revealed in Bowie’s archive, which opens to the public this…
