Music

Greg Brown, Guitarist Who Wrote Cake’s Biggest Hit, Dies at 56

Nico Santiago - 13 February 2026

His song “The Distance,” released in 1996, became an anthem for the disaffected members of Generation X. Source link

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Tamas Vasary, Pianist of Power and Sensitivity, Dies at 92

Nico Santiago - 12 February 2026

He bought technical brilliance and stylistic authority to Romantic-era music, particularly the works of Chopin and Liszt. Source link

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Britney Spears Sells Her Song Catalog

Nico Santiago - 11 February 2026

The pop hitmaker, who hasn’t released a new album in 10 years, sold the rights to her music to Primary Wave. Source link

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Iván Fischer’s Budapest Festival Orchestra Illuminates Mahler’s Third

Nico Santiago - 10 February 2026

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra led an illuminating journey through one of Mahler’s less heard symphonies at Carnegie Hall. Source link

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Green Day Condemns ICE as Part of Super Bowl Festivities

Nico Santiago - 9 February 2026

The band’s frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, urged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to quit their jobs, warning that the Trump administration would inevitably abandon them. Source link

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Brad Arnold, Rocker Who Fronted 3 Doors Down, Dies at 47

Nico Santiago - 8 February 2026

He wrote the band’s breakout hit, “Kryptonite,” in a high school math class, and would go on to be nominated for three Grammy Awards. Source link

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Lil Jon’s Son Is Found Dead in a Georgia Pond, Police Say

Nico Santiago - 7 February 2026

Nathan Smith, whose stage name is DJ Young Slade, was reported missing on Tuesday after running out of his home in a community north of Atlanta. Source link

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Carnegie Hall’s 2026-27 Season: What We Want to Hear

Nico Santiago - 6 February 2026

Highlights include the hall’s first “Ring,” cycles of sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart and a birthday celebration for Steve Reich. Source link

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10 Composers, 2 Directors, 1 Opera: ‘Complications in Sue’

Nico Santiago - 5 February 2026

Opera Philadelphia’s latest premiere is like an exquisite corpse, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson and starring Justin Vivian Bond. Source link

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Chuck Negron, Hitmaking Singer With Three Dog Night, Dies at 83

Nico Santiago - 4 February 2026

His tenor anchored generational hits like “Joy to the World” and “One” by one of pop music’s commercial powerhouses of the early 1970s. Source link