Music

Just days after their performance on “Saturday Night Live,” Foo Fighters will be playing a full set livestreamed from the Roxy in Hollywood this Saturday, Nov. 14, starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. Tickets are $15 and available from the band’s website, and the full stream can be replayed for 48 hours from the

New Orleans’ legendary music venue Tipitina’s has announced “Save Tip’s,” a free livestreamed event benefiting the venue which, like most concert venues, has been financially devastated by the pandemic shutdown. The three-hour-plus livestream and fundraising event will take place on Saturday, November 14 at 9 p.m. ET 6 p.m. PT and will feature performances and

Beyonce and the popular fitness platform Peloton have announced a multi-year partnership “rooted in the celebration of music — a central component of the Peloton class experience — and pro-social initiatives.” The launch of the collaboration with Beyoncé —  the most requested artist by Peloton’s global community of more than 3.6 million members, according to

Celebrities and philanthropists are joining forces to honor our Nurse Heroes with an all-star concert to be broadcast worldwide on Thanksgiving, Thursday November 26, 2020. The event will feature artists including Black Eyed Peas, Andrea Bocelli, Céline Dion, Gloria Estefan, Emily Estefan,  David  Foster,  Katharine  McPhee  Foster,  Josh Groban, Carole King, Maluma, Leslie Odom Jr.,

Ashley Gorley was named songwriter of the year for an eighth time as the ASCAP Country Awards unveiled its annual list of winners Monday. Song of the year went to the Old Dominion hit “One Man Band,” written by songwriter Josh Osborne with band members Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen and Brad Tursi. Warner Chappell won

Ross Copperman received the BMI Country Awards’ songwriter of the year honor in accolades that were announced Monday. “Whiskey Glasses,” a hit for Morgan Wallen that was co-written by BMI writer Ben Burgess, was named song of the year. Warner Chappell was awarded publisher of the year honors for the third straight year in the

YG’s song “F— Donald Trump” is four and a half years old and was released when a Trump presidency still seemed far-fetched. But its moment truly arrived last week and particularly on Saturday, as the presidential election gripped the country and finally — apparently — resulted in Donald Trump’s defeat. The song could be heard

Billie Eilish promised a new song would drop this month, and sure enough, “Therefore I Am” will arrive on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET/ 10 a.m. PT, she announced on her social media accounts Monday afternoon. Beyond adding “I’M SO EXCITED FOR THIS ONE!,” further details were not available at press time, but the song’s

It was November 6, 2018. I’d just won my third game of “Jeopardy!” and if you’d been playing the Alex Trebek drinking game, you’d have taken another sip of Chardonnay, Alex’s favorite drink. “Yeah, enjoy the moment,” Alex said. I was enjoying the moment, though I took the comment as a simple throwaway. It was,

UPDATED: Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line revealed Monday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the second performer slated for Wednesday’s CMA Awards telecast to have to pull out on account of a COVID-19 diagnosis. “Some of y’all guessed it,” Hubbard wrote on Instagram. “Got the Rona. Asymptomatic. Quarantining on bus. 

When you think of the music genre that’s most military-amenable, you may think country music, simply because there are so many country songs that depict military themes. But the next step may not be leaping to think about songs that reflect wartime and post-combat trauma. That’s one of the reasons a new partnership between the

UPDATED: Two top country stars, Morgan Wallen and Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley, have called out Biden supporters celebrating in the streets as “hypocritical” and used the spontaneous rallies to buttress their positions that live concerts need to resume immediately. “Time to start booking shows,” wrote Wallen on his Instagram Story, accompanied by a photo

As a performer, Sia has long been known for her dazzling visuals — from the fantastical wigs she wears to her sublime music videos — ideas she comes up with both in her waking hours watching television and in her dreams. One of those visions, Sia’s first movie, “Music,” was 15 years in the making.

Stu Bergen, Warner Music’s longtime head of international, is stepping down from his post at the end of January 2021, he announced Monday morning. No specific reason was given for his departure beyond a desire to “start a new chapter,” and judging by internal memos obtained by Variety, it’s a more than amicable exit. “This

It’s a mild Saturday evening in early November and South Kensington is a scene of hushed tranquillity. Like the rest of the U.K., this plush corner of West London is back in pandemic-enforced lockdown. A man walks his dog in an otherwise empty street. A gabble of Deliveroo drivers loiter silently outside a takeaway. There’s

Wednesday night’s CMA Awards are down one performance slot after country star Lee Brice tested positive for coronavirus, forcing him to forego his slot on the show. Brice was to have sung a duet with Carly Pearce on their song “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” which went to No. 1 on the country airplay charts

BTS was, once again, the big winner at this year’s MTV European Music Awards (EMAs), going home with prizes for best song and best group. The Korean band won four awards in total, including best virtual live and biggest fans. The mega-group was recently featured in a Variety cover story, where Jin (Kim Seok-jin) said

Capping off a surprising run of recent veteran rock act bookings on “Saturday Night Live,” Foo Fighters utilized their eighth career appearance on the NBC show last night (Nov. 7) to debut “Shame Shame,” the first single from their 10th album, “Medicine at Midnight.” The project will be released Feb. 5, 2021 via Roswell/RCA. The

Veteran stars and music-biz types who’ve been attending Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies since they began in the late 1980s like to talk about how they at their best in the early days, when the proceedings were just for those in the room, and hadn’t yet been turned into a television show. That

Bruce Springsteen inducted manager Jon Landau into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the rare honor of receiving the Ahmet Ertegun Award, which is reserved for songwriters, producers, record company executives during the virtual ceremony aired on HBO Saturday night). Springsteen talked about first coming across Landau’s work as a rock critic, years

Charlize Theron inducted electronic music pioneers Depeche Mode into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday night, enthusiastically declaring the group’s music as “the soundtrack to my life.” Theron — who was recently seen portraying Megyn Kelly in her Oscar-nominated performance in “Bombshell” — recalled seeing the band in concert and coming home in

Miley Cyrus’ 2009 hit single “Party in the U.S.A.” re-entered the charts on Saturday, following the announcement of the Democratic ticket’s presidential election win. When the news broke in the morning, a non-official Twitter account under President-elect Joe Biden’s name wrote: “Go celebrate! Listen to Miley Cyrus’ ‘Party in the U.S.A.’” The account was later

Notorious B.I.G.’s son CJ Wallace (Christopher Wallace JR.) is keeping his father legacy alive with his Think B.I.G. initiative. Launched with longtime friend Willie Mack in March 2018, the company embraces a social movement that includes fighting for global cannabis legalization and criminal justice reform. Originally born out of CJ’s passion for cannabis as a

The first-ever virtual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Special will air on Saturday via HBO at 8 p.m. ET. Viewing options are narrow, as this is very much an exclusive: Watching the special requires a subscription to HBO or HBO Max. But for any non-subscribers curious to see the program, but worried that

Chicago rapper King Von, whose debut album “Welcome to O’Block” was released on Oct. 30, died early Friday morning in a shooting incident in Atlanta that also killed two other men. He was 26. The rapper, whose real name was Dayvon Bennett, was visiting the Monaco Hookah Lounge on 255 Trinity Avenue when two men

If the way that a person reacts to art has as much to do with the person — what’s going on around and inside them — as the music itself, what on earth does that say about the way we’re reacting to music during this almost unprecedentedly insane week, at a time when everyone’s questioning their

Oscar-winning composer, Grammy-winning arranger, jazz pianist and bandleader, pioneer in the digital recording world: Dave Grusin could retire on his laurels. But at 86, he’s itching to get back on the road and perform again. “Oh, if they ever let us,” he tells Variety from his Montana ranch. “Not to have anything to do, it’s

In this week’s installment of “Live From My Den,” electronic music duo Phantogram, fresh off the release of their fourth album “Ceremony,” perform songs from their Los Angeles home studio Harmonie West. The weekly series from Variety and Artists Den showcases today’s top musicians performing live from the intimate settings of their home studios. Hailing

Brazilian superstar singer Anitta is the latest performer to join the lineup for the 21st Annual Latin Grammy Awards, taking place on Nov. 19. She will be performing a medley including her latest hit “Me Gusta” from the Lapa Arches in Rio de Janeiro. “I am so happy to once again join the Latin Grammys,”

In a surprise move, the Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down has released its first new music in 15 years. Led by frontman Serj Tankian, the quartet’s prior achievements include a 2006 Grammy award, four additional nominations, and the distinction of having three of their five studio albums debut at No. 1 on