She’s too savvy to be completely heart-on-sleeve, so for Valentine’s Day, Kacey Musgraves went heart-on-sweater — a big, bubble-gummy blob sewn into the front of the thing.
Instead of cowboy boots, the 24-year-old Texas native wore black high tops with skinny jeans, an itty-bitty nose ring and sunglasses with lenses the size of beer...
Performing at an Annapolis, Md., nightclub a year ago, Iris DeMent announced she was recording an album of original songs.
One could immediately see heads perking up throughout the club. It had been almost 16 years since DeMent had released a collection of new songs, and here was the news her most devoted fans had almost despaired of...
MOSCOW — Music stars including Peter Gabriel, Sting and Madonna rallied behind three members of a Russian all- female punk group facing seven years in jail for a protest act against Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Christ the Savior cathedral.
Sting, who performed in Moscow and St. Petersburg last week, said it was “appalling” that the Pussy...
MINNEAPOLIS — When tickets for Alabama Shakes’ Twin Cities debut on Thursday went on sale in April, they were gone within 24 hours — and that should come as no surprise. Everything has happened at a breakneck pace for the young Southern rock band, one that was playing barroom Zeppelin covers in its hometown of Athens, Ala., just two years ago...
LOS ANGELES — On Christmas Eve 1955, “champagne music” bandleader Lawrence Welk introduced the Lennon Sisters — Dianne, Peggy, Kathy and Janet — on his popular ABC musical variety series, “The Lawrence Welk Show.” And before you could say “a-one-and-a-two,” the girls, ages 9 to 16, were an overnight phenomenon.
Their harmonies were pure...
