Music

In tweeting about her reasoning for missing Monday’s Met Gala in New York, the pop star implied that she had yet to be vaccinated - something the gala required.

A former jazz club owner and aspiring pianist, Wein launched the Newport Jazz Festival under pouring rain and with a lineup for the heavens — Billie Holiday and Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Lester Young.

The group has been creating the live show with George Lucas’ special-effects company, Industrial Light & Magic.

After more than a year without live music, promoters, bands and fans are eager to keep the concerts going, but uncertainty remains over whether the vaccine or negative-test requirements actually make large concerts safe even if held outdoors.

“Black Girl Songbook,” by veteran music journalist Danyel Smith, will premier a second season Wednesday via The Ringer and Spotify.

Spencer Elden is famous for being the naked baby on Nirvana’s landmark album “Nevermind.”

Watts had announced he would not tour with the Stones in 2021 because of an undefined health issue.

Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering Everly Brothers whose harmonizing country rock hits impacted a generation of rock ‘n’ roll music, has died. He was 84.

om T. Hall, the singer-songwriter who composed “Harper Valley P.T.A.” and sang about life’s simple joys as country music’s consummate blue collar bard, has died. He was 85.

The Grammy-winning band will perform Friday and Saturday at the Alaska State Fair. Members talked with the ADN about the highs and lows of lockdown and finding their way back to Mat-Su.

At the doors, concertgoers were required to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.

The band has three shows scheduled for their Alaska tour, two in Anchorage and one in Fairbanks.

Also, have you ever done The Moose Loop? This Saturday you can bike it with a friendly crew.

Guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard said in a Facebook post that Hill died in his sleep at home.

New coronavirus cases have jumped more than 57% in the last week, fueling concerns music festivals could become super spreader events.

Ava Earl, Nichole-Lee, Bethlehem Shalom, Erin Heist, Kodi Hannah and Liz Snyder are all releasing new music this summer.

If you can’t make it to the big-name performances, free concerts are happening around Anchorage, too.

The genre’s catchy songs, savvy use of social media and dedicated fans are a formula for global success.

Markie, who birth name was Marcel Theo Hall, became known within the rap genre realm as the self-proclaimed “Clown Prince of Hip-Hop” for lighthearted lyrics and a humorous nature.