Friday, May 15, 2026

Music

Jack Black’s Song ‘Steve’s Lava Chicken’

Don’t call him a one-hit wonder. Jack Black made a surprise return to the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week with another unlikely song from a video game movie: “Steve’s Lava Chicken,” a 34-second song from “A Minecraft...

David Briggs, a Music Force in Alabama and Nashville, Dies at 82

David Briggs, a keyboardist and studio operator who played a pivotal role in establishing Muscle Shoals, Ala., as a recording hub in the 1960s before helping to revitalize mainstream country music, died on Tuesday in Nashville. He was...

‘Just in Time’ Review: Jonathan Groff Channels Bobby Darin

When Jonathan Groff says “I’m a wet man,” he means it.The admission comes near the start of “Just in Time,” the Bobby Darin bio-musical that opened on Saturday at Circle in the Square. It’s a warning to the...

Jed the Fish Dead: KROQ DJ Who Pioneered New Wave Radio Was 69

Jed Gould, the influential Los Angeles disc jockey known as Jed the Fish, who used his off-kilter sensibility and deep musical knowledge to shine a light on artists like the Cure, Depeche Mode and the Offspring at the...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Loses Request to Remove All Hotel Assault Video From Trial

Lawyers for Sean Combs lost their bid to keep all footage of his 2016 hotel assault on his former girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, out of his racketeering and sex trafficking trial, which starts next month.At a hearing on Friday,...

Yale Will Teach a Course on Bad Bunny’s Cultural Impact

Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga are among a handful of living pop artists who have amassed enough cultural clout to result in college classes being taught about them. At 31, the global superstar Bad Bunny is about...

How Japanese Engineering Transformed Pop Music

On the morning of Monday, Aug. 18, 1969, during the last set of the Woodstock festival, Jimi Hendrix wielded a white Stratocaster to play “The Star-Spangled Banner.” His guitar solo was one psychedelic peak in a long heritage...

An Ode to the Blues’ Many Guises, Inspired by ‘Sinners’

Listen to an imagined set list for a supernatural juke joint featuring Albert King, Outkast, Cécile McLorin Salvant and more. Source link

Goose Rules the Jam-Band Roost (Sorry, Haters)

The quartet earned the respect of its elders and scores of young fans by making their live sets, and themselves, super available. So why are some still not sold? Source link

Mozart’s ‘Figaro’ and ‘Magic Flute’ at the Metropolitan Opera

Joana Mallwitz is in calm, stylish command making her debut with Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” running in repertory with “The Magic Flute.” Source link
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The Team Behind Netflix’s ‘Chef’s Table’ Is Launching Its First Food Festival This Summer

Chef groupies, gird your loins: This August, 70 internationally acclaimed chefs and food world luminaries are headed to...
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