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In addition to fronting Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan also worked with Queens of the Stone Age, The Gutter Twins, Isobel Campbell and Mad Season. (Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images)
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Arts & Entertainment

Mark Lanegan, Screaming Trees singer and voracious collaborator, dies at 57

Mark Lanegan, the versatile rock musician and Screaming Trees singer, died Tuesday of unspecified causes at his home in Killarney, Ireland.

4 years ago

Mary J. Blige performs at the halftime show
Arts & Entertainment

Roots Picnic returns this summer with Mary J. Blige, Summer Walker, Jazmine Sullivan, and more

Now expanded to two days, the Fairmount park event will take place from Saturday, June 4, through Sunday, June 5.

4 years ago

Betty Davis in New York in 1969. (Anthony Barboza/Getty Images)
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Arts & Entertainment

Game was her middle name: The world was never ready for Betty Davis

Her songs were filled with gritty yet sultry style of electrified funk — dirtier than James with more blues than Sly.

4 years ago

Jillian Patricia Pirtle, CEO of the Marian Anderson Museum & Historical Society, holds a letter written by Marian Anderson. Pirtle and actor Bryan Anthony Wilson will perform dramatic a reading of letters sent between Anderson and husband, Orpheus Fisher, at Philadelphia’s Penn Museum on February 13, 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Hear Marian Anderson’s love letters performed in time for Valentine’s Day

The 60-year romance between the famed opera singer and her architect husband, as documented in their private letters, will be made public, on stage, on Sunday.

4 years ago

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FILE - Neil Young poses for a portrait at Lost Planet Editorial in Santa Monica, Calif. on Sept. 9, 2019. (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP, File)
Arts & Entertainment

Neil Young tells Spotify workers to ‘get out of that place’

Not satisfied with urging fellow musicians to leave Spotify, Neil Young wants the company's employees to jump ship, too.

4 years ago

Operatic soprano Angel Blue rehearses with the Philadelphia Orchestra for a performance of ''This Is Not a Small Voice.'' The poem by Sonia Sanchez was put to music by Valerie Coleman. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Sonia Sanchez poem ‘This is Not A Small Voice’ is now a piece of orchestral music

Composer Valerie Coleman said the words of Sanchez’s poem about the innocence of Black children naturally translated to notes for a new work by the Philadelphia Orchestra.

4 years ago

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Todd Rundgren performs at the Broward Center
Arts & Entertainment

Todd Rundgren’s ‘Something/Anything?’ celebrated with a 50th anniversary charity tribute album

Proceeds from the ‘Someone/Anyone?’ tribute album will benefit the Spirit of Harmony Foundation started by Upper Darby’s favorite son.

4 years ago

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Singer Joni Mitchell attends a reception for Kennedy Center honorees hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden in the East Room at the White House on December 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in protest against Spotify

The singer-songwriter is the first high-profile musician to join Young's protest against the streaming service over its hosting of Joe Rogan's podcast.

4 years ago

File photo: (From left) Regina King, and Ian Alexander, Jr. in Backstage Creations Giving Suites at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theatre L.A. Live on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Arnold Turner/Invision for Backstage Creations/AP Images)
Arts & Entertainment

Ian Alexander Jr., only child of Regina King, dies at age 26

King said in a statement that her son was 'such a bright light who cared so deeply about the happiness of others.'

4 years ago

File photo: Singer Meat Loaf performs in support of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. Meat Loaf, whose
Arts & Entertainment

Meat Loaf, ‘Bat Out of Hell’ rock superstar, dies at 74

Meat Loaf, the rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album, has died at age 74.

4 years ago

Jerry Blavat poses for a photo
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

New exhibits, Jerry Blavat, mom’s night out, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Baby, it’s cold outside … but there’s still lots of fun to be had this week, including new exhibits, concerts, and a great mom’s night out.

4 years ago

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In this 1960 file photo, Martin Luther King Jr. speaks in Atlanta. The civil rights leader had carried the banner for the causes of social justice — organizing protests, leading marches and making powerful speeches exposing the scourges of segregation, poverty and racism
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Celebrating a King, Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday, dino domination, and a ‘Streetcar’ stops in Philly in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman are celebrated, and dinosaurs roam again in weekend event highlights in and around Philadelphia.

4 years ago

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FILE - Ronnie Spector appears in the press room after performing at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on March 15, 2010, in New York. Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock 'n' roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as
Arts & Entertainment

Ronnie Spector, ’60s icon who sang ‘Be My Baby,’ dies at 78

Spector died Wednesday after a brief battle with cancer, her family said.

4 years ago

BETHEL, NY - AUGUST 18:  Michael Lang, co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969 attends the Richie Havens Memorial Celebration and Aerial Scattering of Ashes at Bethel Woods Art Center on August 18, 2013 in Bethel, New York.  (Photo by Charles Norfleet/Getty Images)
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Arts & Entertainment

Michael Lang, a co-creator of the Woodstock festival, has died at 77

4 years ago

The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. (Grammy Museum)
Arts & Entertainment

Rider University now an affiliate of the Grammy Museum

The college in Lawrenceville, N.J., will have access to music industry resources from the U.S. Recording Academy, a.k.a. the Grammy Awards.

4 years ago

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