Guitarist Tom Verlaine, co-founder of Television, dies at 73
January 28, 2023 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Tom Verlaine, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal proto-punk band Television who influenced many bands while playing at ultra-cool downtown New York music venue CBGB alongside the Ramones, Patti Smith and Talking Heads, has died.
Lorne Michaels of ‘SNL’ to be honored at PEN America gala
January 23, 2023 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — This year's PEN America Literary Gala will be notable for the presence of “Saturday Night Live.”
R.E.M., Blondie, Snoop Dogg get nods for Songwriters Hall
November 14, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Bryan Adams, R.E.M., Blondie, Snoop Dogg, Gloria Estefan, Heart and The Doobie Brothers are among the nominees for the 2023 Songwriters Hall of Fame, part of a dazzling list of talented acts who left their mark on country, pop, rap, Broadway, post-punk, Latin and New Jack Swing.
How does it f-e-e-e-e-l? Bob Dylan museum opening in Tulsa
May 6, 2022 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Elvis Costello, Patti Smith and Mavis Staples will be among the dignitaries expected in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend for the opening of the Bob Dylan Center, the museum and archive celebrating the Nobel laureate's work.
Ani DiFranco to be honored at John Lennon benefit show
October 1, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — When she was 9 years old, singer Ani DiFranco's guitar teacher gave her a Beatles songbook. She now has reason to consult it again.
A group that holds a John Lennon benefit concert has selected DiFranco for its John Lennon Real Love Award, and she'll perform his music at the tribute on Dec.
Santana, LL Cool J, Manilow join Central Park concert lineup
July 27, 2021 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Santana, LL Cool J and Barry Manilow are among the performers who will join previously announced headliners Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Hudson at next month's Central Park concert to celebrate New York City's recovery from COVID-19, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday.
Annual Lennon tribute, in 40th year, goes online
September 24, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Like many other events, an annual John Lennon tribute concert that takes place in his adopted city of New York on his Oct...
Amy Poehler, Issa Rae recognized for their entrepreneurship
June 13, 2019 GMTBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — In a night of commanding words from some of the most accomplished women in entertainment at the annual Women in Film Gala Wednesday night in Beverly Hills, from the likes of Issa Rae, Viola Davis and producer Cathy Schulman, Amy Poehler put her own unconventional spin on the "empowerment speech...
Patti Smith found turning 70 ‘challenging’
May 5, 2019 GMTPatti Smith found the year she turned 70 "challenging".
The 'Because the Night' hitmaker is writing a follow-up to her 2015 memoir 'M. Train', which will cover the year 2016 because it was a period she found so difficult.
Goldberg, Hathaway, Bourdain among NJ Hall of Fame nominees
November 16, 2018 GMTATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Actresses Whoopi Goldberg and Anne Hathaway, comedian Chris Rock, "Seinfeld" star Jason Alexander, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Anthony Bourdain are among the latest nominees to the New Jersey Hall of Fame...
Appreciation: Sam Shepard embodied, examined American myth
August 1, 2017 GMTLOS ANGELES (AP) — No one really got to know Sam Shepard — and that was the way he seemed to like it. Despite dozens of blatantly personal plays to his name, movie stardom and the spotlight of celebrity and acclaim, Shepard remained throughout his life an inscrutable figure, an American myth in plain sight...