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SAN FRANCISCO -- Longtime benefactor of the arts and culture in San Francisco Ann Getty died Monday.

Taylor Swift returns to Number 1 on this week’s Official Irish Albums Chart, denying metal legends Metallica the top spot.

Arcade Fire‘s Richard Reed Parry has detailed his debut solo film score for the Jude Law-starring The Nest.The movie follows a family on their move to England from America in the 1980s, and was written, directed, and produced by Sean Durkin.

Metallica‘s new ‘S&M2’ box set.“I got a really special present in the mail and I just want to show you some of it. It’s got everything in it, man.

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Chris Willman Music WriterIf you want to see and hear Metallica with strings, the group’s latest collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony, the live album/documentary “S&M2,” will be released for home entertainment August 28.But if you want to experience Metallica with horns — car horns, that is — the band will be coming to drive-ins on August 29 with a one-night-only concert film.Their performance will mark the third presented on drive-in screens this summer by Encore Live, and the first

teetered on the brink of closure before being saved last month, and Band on the Wall has had to lay off 26 people after what they described as 'the biggest crisis in our history' forced them to shut in order to bring forward previously-planned renovation work.

Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich has defended the much-maligned sound of his snare drum on the band’s 2003 album ‘St Anger’.Fans and drummers have consistently criticised the thin, snapping sound of the drum throughout the album, which was recorded at a time when the band were at breaking point.In an interview with SiriusXM’s Eddie Trunk yesterday (July 29), Ulrich defended the record when asked if he stands behind the divisive snare sound.“I stand behind it 100% because, at that moment, that was the

Metallica has entertained restless fans through the coronavirus pandemic with concerts from its archives every Monday. But come Aug.

Syrian diaspora in Europe are playing Sunday in the 24th friendship concert conducted by Riccardo Muti, this year at the Paestum archaeological site in southern Italy, but the coronavirus pandemic blocked others from arriving directly from Syria.

Capital Concerts will be hosting a 40th anniversary presentation of its July 4th tradition on PBS, A Capitol Fourth.

The Fourth in America, a primetime special which hopes to honor Americans, demand equality and pay tribute to those on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.Andy Grammar, Barry Manilow, Burt Bacharach & Musicians from the Berklee College of Music, Carlos and Cindy Santana, CeCe Winans, Don McLean, Harlem Gospel Choir, Jesse Colin Young and Little Kids Rock, Jewel, Kenny Loggins, Martina McBride, The O’Jays, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo as well as The Original Broadway

When it comes to soups, tomato soup alone stands as the queen of all soups. The only downside to tomato soup is I often crave it in the Fall but its main ingredients, tomato and basil, are at their freshest and tastiest in the middle of summer.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorComcast plans to allocate $100 million toward fighting injustice and inequality toward Black Americans and other communities.The new initiative will encompass social-justice programs aimed at inequality against “any race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or ability,” chairman/CEO Brian Roberts announced in a companywide memo Monday.Comcast’s pledge will comprise $75 million in cash and $25 million worth of advertising inventory over the next three

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Kelvin Harrison Jr. has compared writer-director Aaron Sorkin to a “conductor orchestrating the best symphony” after working with him on crime drama The Trial of the Chicago 7.

The legendary guitarist was due to hit the road next month

Fiona Apple has dropped her new album Fetch the Bolt Cutters, which is her first album in eight years!

Classic FM has released the results of its 25th Hall Of Fame survey, with Beethoven and Mozart among the most popular composers.

Your enjoyment of the new Netflix comedy “ Coffee & Kareem ” may depend on whether or not you find insanely vulgar middle schoolers funny. It’s not just cursing either. Oh no, this is a whole symphony of vulgarity that would make Seth Rogen blush.

A longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra flutist and musical trailblazer has died, the orchestra said Monday. Doriot Anthony Dwyer was 98.

Manchester's craft beer scene is one of the best in the world.

NEW YORK -- Charles Wuorinen, winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer of the operas "Brokeback Mountain" and "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," died from injuries sustained in a fall last September. He was 81.

Charles Wuorinen, winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer of the operas Brokeback Mountain and Haroun and the Sea of Stories, died from injuries sustained in a fall last September.

Musician and composer Brett Dean has been hospitalized in Australia with the new coronavirus. British agent Intermusica confirmed on Thursday (March 5) that the violist and conductor was in isolation in an Adelaide hospital with the COVID-19 illness.

BOSTON -- Strike up the band: Keith Lockhart is marking 25 years as the conductor of “America's Orchestra.”

The National Symphony Orchestra canceled the five remaining performances in Japan of its Asian tour because of a new virus epidemic.

NEW YORK -- Dan Brown's next book will have a lighter, more musical touch.

TOKYO – The Live Nation-owned Ticketmaster announced it will be expanding into Asia with the purchase of Tixcraft in Taiwan and the launch of Ticketmaster in Singapore. This will increase Ticketmaster’s presence to 32 countries worldwide.The news follows a December 2019 announcement that Ticketmaster successfully secured a place on the Sports Hub panel in Singapore.

The National Symphony Orchestra has canceled two concerts in Beijing and one in Shanghai next month following China’s virus outbreak.

The lineup for the 14th edition of the MusicNOW festival was released on Tuesday (Feb. 4) and once again it brings together a vast range of musical and performing artists setting up in unique spaces all over downtown Cincinnati.

The Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, N.C. has set out to make $100 million in renovations to the 80-year-old facility that has hosted some of the nation’s biggest touring names including Bob Dylan, David Byrne and Dave Chappelle.

In 2017, progressive metal fans rejoiced when former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian, along with legendary bassist Billy Sheehan, formed Sons of Apollo, which also features guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (Guns N’ Roses) and veteran vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, who has logged time with Journey and Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force.

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