Music

Jann Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone magazine, has been removed from the Hall of Fame’s board of directors after denigrating Black and female musicians in a New York Times interview.

The Grammy-winning band with Alaska roots will join Medium Build and Quinn Christopherson for a limited-capacity free show Thursday at a downtown art gallery.

Swift took home the top prize at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards for her “Anti-Hero” music video on a night full of surprises.

Artists will join the Ilakus Iñupiaq Dance Group for a Friday concert benefiting Qargi Academy Tribal School, which provides an education rooted in the Iñupiaq culture, language and ways of being.

Bryan was arrested Thursday in northeastern Oklahoma after getting into an argument with a highway patrol officer. He apologized on social media.

The band’s manager, Robert Hayes, said Harwell “passed peacefully and comfortably” Monday morning surrounded by family and friends at his home in Boise, Idaho. The cause of death was acute liver failure, Hayes said in a statement.

“Margaritaville” would become Jimmy Buffett’s biggest hit and the cornerstone of a branding empire that included restaurants, a Broadway musical and retirement communities.

Buffett created beach bum soft rock with an escapist Caribbean flavor song and turned that celebration of loafing into an empire of restaurants, resorts and frozen concoctions.

“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” as the movie is called, will bring to the screen Swift’s first road show since 2018. AMC Theatres will distribute the film.

Organizers want to make sure they reach as many musicians as possible, from traditional drummers to church choir singers to professional artists.

The Alaska Music Census runs through Sept. 2.

‘That song has nothing to do with Joe Biden,’ the singer says, criticizing conservatives who champion the song and liberals who slam it.

A few weeks ago, Oliver Anthony was an unknown. Today, thanks to a bare-bones song and video heralded by right-wing pundits, he sits atop the Billboard Hot 100.

What’s known about Anthony, who has a minimal news or paper trail up to this point, comes largely through a YouTube monologue he put up a few days before releasing “Rich Men.”

Here’s how hip-hop is able to pinpoint Aug. 11 as its 50th anniversary, why it matters to fans and artists, and some resources to help mark the moment.

The music genre germinated 50 years ago as an escape from the poverty and violence of New York City’s most distressed borough, the Bronx, where few wanted to invest in its businesses or its people.

Lanez pleaded for mercy before the sentence was delivered and appeared stunned while it was being read.

The superstar announced another expansion of her massive stadium tour, adding 15 dates in North America next year, including a long-awaited six-night stint in Canada.

Lizzo’s statement Thursday says she’s open with her sexuality, but she can’t let people use that openness to make her something she’s not.

The band will be joined by Sierra Ferrell as a headliner at the 2023 edition of the festival.

Thursday’s show was the last outdoor summer concert hosted by the Anchorage Concert Association. Anchorage musicians Rosie Rush and Medium Build performed.

Called “the sweetest man in the music business” by former bandmate Don Felder, the baby-faced Meisner joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon in the early 1970s to form a quintessential Los Angeles band and one of the most popular acts in history.

With his new book “Northbound Heart,” the songwriter has collected poems, essays and stories from his two decades touring Alaska and elsewhere.