Edna Gundersen

As Beyonce, the Stones and Beatles won and Taylor Swift lost, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and AARP-generation tunes sung by young performers made the music industry’s top awards show a winner

It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas — here are the all-star shows to watch

Hear the new sounds from Dolly Parton, Coldplay, Herb Alpert, Willie Nelson and more

See a video of him performing his CSN kiss-off tune ‘Thrasher’

The singer shares stories of her late country star father, celebrated in the TV tribute ‘Toby Keith: American Icon’

Jun 28, 2024 ... Johnny Cash's Son Tells AARP the Secrets of His Dad's New Album, 'Songwriter' · John Carter Cash explains how he helped finish a long-lost LP by ...

Her true colors? All of them. In a career stretching 47 years, Cyndi Lauper, 70, has taken on pop, punk, dance, funk, blues, country and Broadway. And don’t forget the literal colors, from her shifting Day-Glo hair and kaleidoscopic eyeshadow palette to a vibrant, flamboyant fashion sense that would startle a peacock. The singer-songwriter is bringing her four-octave vocal range, eccentric style and brash-tawkin’ personality to the road one last time on her “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Farewell To…

The 31 songs on the expanded version of Taylor Swift’s new The Tortured Poets Department album rehash breakups, nurse grudges and revel in fresh romance. America’s favorite prom queen doesn’t stray far from her signature confessional pop tunes littered with guess-who clues about ex-boyfriends. But she’s also showing off her increasingly scholarly report card. The 34-year-old megastar has alluded to highbrow writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Robert Frost in earlier songs, but the heartbreak-hea…

After a massive slump during COVID, the concert industry is again sh-boom, sh-booming! The gross for the top 100 North American tours in 2023 reached $6.63 billion, up 39.5 percent over 2022, with attendance nearly doubling, to 15,008 per show, according to Pollstar. And this year is shaping up to be another box office blowout. Despite the national outrage over price spikes for eggs, airfare and gas, music lovers seem immune to ticket shock. Ticket prices climbed 22 percent last year, to an aver…

“Every day is a winding road,” Sheryl Crow, 62, sang in 1996, but her own road has been a superhighway. From her Missouri high school days as a majorette, track athlete and Paperdoll Queen beauty contest winner to her meteoric rise (nine Grammys, 50 million albums) to her life as a mom, home-studio musician and activist, the singer/songwriter has zipped to victories, with occasional crashes (cancer, sexism, depression). She claimed to quit her recording career with 2019’s Threads, on which she c…