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After 4 decades in music and major vocal surgery, Jon Bon Jovi is optimistic and still rocking
Bon Jovi is marking its 40th anniversary. A new docuseries called “Thank You, Goodnight," debuts Friday on Hulu and recounts the band's beginning and rise to super stardom. It also details some low points, including when front man Jon Bon…
Music Review: Neil Young delivers appropriately ragged, raw live version of 1990’s ‘Ragged Glory’
The venerable Neil Young offers a ragged and raw live take of his beloved 1990 album “Ragged Glory” with a new album, titled “Fu##in’ Up.”
Of course, the 2024 version doesn't have the same semi-youthful energy that the 44-year-old Young put…
Imagine Dragons’ Dan Reynolds talks new album ‘Loom’ — ‘Heavy concepts but playful at the same time’
The ambiguity of Imagine Dragons’ next album starts from the cover. Two figures stand in the distance separated by a dawning sun. Or is it setting? Lead singer and songwriter Dan Reynolds, who dreamed it up, sees it both ways. From the…
Mary J. Blige, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, A Tribe Called Quest and Foreigner get into Rock Hall
Mary J. Blige, Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest, Kool & The Gang and Ozzy Osbourne have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The class of 2024 also will include folk-rockers Dave Matthews Band and singer-guitarist…
Theater Review: Not everyone will be ‘Fallin’ over Alicia Keys’ Broadway musical ‘Hell’s Kitchen’
If you were to close Alicia Keys ’ big semi-autobiographical musical on Broadway with any of her hit songs, which would it be? Of course, it has to be “Empire State of Mind.” That’s the natural one, right? It’s also as predictable as the R…
Theater Review: ‘Stereophonic’ is a brilliant ‘Behind the Music’ play on Broadway
It's July 1976 in a Northern California recording studio and the rock ‘n’ roll band cutting their latest album is exhausted and wary. The coffee machine is broken. Never mind, there's always cocaine — and heaps of it.
“That’s not the same…
Here’s how Phish is using the Sphere’s technology to give fans something completely different
Phish opened its four-night stay at the Sphere Thursday with a four-hour show. The concert used the advanced technology in the $2.3 billion Las Vegas arena to give even the fans that have seen Phish hundreds of times something they’ve never…
Jonathan Tetelman recalls his journey from a nightclub DJ to an international opera star
Jonathan Tetelman transformed from nightclub DJ to international opera star. He stopped singing in 2011 and mixed music for New York's club kids at spots like Webster Hall and Pacha. The 35-year-old’s gigs nowadays are at posher places such…
Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is here. Is it poetry? This is what experts say
On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” But just how poetic is it? Is it even possible to close read lyrics like poems, divorced from their musical source material? The Associated Press asked…
Mandisa, Grammy-winning singer and ‘American Idol’ alum, dies at 47
Contemporary Christian singer Mandisa, who appeared on “American Idol” and won a Grammy for her 2013 album “Overcomer,” has died. She was 47. A representative for the singer told The Associated Press that the singer was found dead in her…
Rock trailblazer Heart reunites for a world tour and a new song
Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.” The Rock & Roll…
Taylor Swift drops 15 new songs on double album, ‘The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology’
Could there be a Taylor Swift new album rollout without a few additional surprises? No. On Friday, the pop star released her 11th album, “The Tortured Poets Department." It is an amalgamation of her previous work and reflecting the artist…
Music Review: Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ is great sad pop, meditative theater
Who knew what Taylor Swift's latest era would bring? Or even what it would sound like? Would it build off the moodiness of “Midnights” or the folk of “evermore”? The country or the '80s pop of her latest re-records? Or its two predecessors…
John Adams’ Nativity oratorio ‘El Nino’ gets colorful staging at the Met
Composer John Adams’ work is returning to the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in a decade in a new staging of his Nativity oratorio “El Nino.” The show, which premieres April 23, melds biblical verses and modern Latin American poetry,…
Musician T Bone Burnett is trading his dystopian sensibilities for some warm-hearted acoustic music
T Bone Burnett is best known for production work like the `O Brother, Where Art Thou?' soundtrack. Now, he's making. some big changes to his life and is putting some of his own music forward. He's moved from Los Angeles to Nashville and is…
