The band is creation a uninformed start of sorts subsequent season. A new executive director, Matthew VanBesien, who many recently ran a Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia, will be in place. And government and a players have usually staid on a new labor contract. The agreement lasts usually dual years and puts off a vicious [...]

And you’d be surprised how long a scar lasts. The urge to cover it up, to hide from the story it tells, must be overwhelming. That is certainly true of Chris Brown and Rihanna, who on Monday each released a new song featuring t

Details from the cover of Norah Jones’s new album, “Little Broken Hearts,” and the poster for Russ Meyer’s “Mudhoney.”The names “Mudhoney” and “Norah Jones” represent pretty distant points on the musical spectrum. One is a clas

Dylan Martinez/ReutersAdele won two top prizes at the Brit Awards, Britain’s version of the Grammys, in London on Tuesday.It’s been another great week for Adele, with two more prominent awards and an avalanche of record sales in the wake of he

“This morning found me up at 6 to feed the dogs, then back in bed, where I read a little more of Dante’s ‘Inferno,’ ” begins one blog post by Kevin Gordon, who has a master’s in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Worksho

The aim seems to have been similar in Mr. Wainwright’s first opera, “Prima Donna,” which had its American premiere on Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of New York City Opera’s abbreviated season. The story of an

Adam Levine, like the other three coaches on the NBC singing competition “The Voice,” selects a bit more of his 12-member team in Monday night’s episode. He says he’s pleased with the singers who have ended up in his stable thus far, but h

Mr. Combs will unveil on Tuesday his plans for a music-oriented cable channel called Revolt, a public relations agency managing the announcement said Monday. The channel may start by the end of the year. Mr. Combs will bill Revol

She also came to praise her friend Whitney Houston. She was not overcome with emotion; in performances and television interviews over the last week this has been something like an official duty for Ms. Franklin. (She was expected to sing the ne

Sleigh Bells’ new album, “Reign of Terror” (Mom + Pop Music), doesn’t need to wallop any harder. Instead, the songs expand in other ways. They offer long-lined melodies instead of chants, more extensive layers of guitar, and lyrics that