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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic After some confusion in news media and social apps about what will be happening with the music part of South by Southwest in 2026, the festival is clarifying the status of SXSW Music. According to spokespeople, the show will very much go on next year, albeit with some differences that may take a moment for longtime festivalgoers to wrap their heads around. The first distinction from this and other past years is that the second weekend of SXSW, which has been devoted exclusively to its music offerings, has been dropped.

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Ed Sheeran and Weezer Join Coachella Bill, as Both Weekends’ Set Times Are Announced

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Two prominent last-minute additions have been made to the Coachella 2025 lineup, with the announcement of set times revealing that Ed Sheeran and Weezer have both joined the bill. Festivalgoers won’t get both artists in the same weekend, though. They are playing virtually in the same time slot in the same venue on respective Saturdays, with surprisingly early start times.

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Neil Young, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers Joining Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Anti-‘Oligarchy’ Rally in L.A.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been holding “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies in cities across the U.S., and, perhaps not surprisingly, they are pulling in a bit more musical firepower at an upcoming stop in Los Angeles than at the appearances scheduled for Boise or Tempe. At a tour stop at L.A.’s Grand Park on April 12, the senators will be joined by a potent lineup of musicians that includes Neil Young, Joan Baez and Maggie Rogers. Admission for the event is free with sign-up on Sanders’ website.

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Elton John and Brandi Carlile on Reinventing the Collaborative Album With ‘Who Believes in Angels?’: ‘We Couldn’t Do Steve and Eydie — We Had to Go In Hell-for-Leather’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The album title “Who Believes in Angels?” may or may not be a rhetorical question, but it’s OK to stick with that lofty circumlocution long enough to consider the idea that Elton John and Brandi Carlile may actually be a match made in heaven, figuratively or otherwise. These longtime friends share that sense of being touched by virtuosity and endless melodic capability on a level few of their pop-rock peers ever could be.

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MTV Video Music Awards to Air on CBS for the First Time in 2025

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The MTV Video Music Awards, long seen on MTV and its sister cable outlets without a live broadcast component, will air on CBS for the first time in 2024, the network announced Thursday. The show will air on CBS — and be “simulcast” on MTV, as the announcement puts it — from the UBS Arena on Sept. 7 at 8-11 p.m.

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Laufey Begins Her Next Album Era With ‘Silver Lining’ Single and Music Video

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Laufey is offering fans what is believed to be the first taste of her next project with Thursday’s release of “Silver Lining,” a new single and music video that prefaces her third album, which is expected some time later this year. “‘Silver Lining’ is a love song about being able to set your true personality free when you fall in love,” Laufey said in announcing the single.

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Bruce Springsteen Reveals Full ‘Tracks II’ Details: Boxed Set Sports Seven Previously Unheard ‘Lost Albums’ Recorded Between 1983-2018

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Almost ever since Bruce Springsteen released his “Tracks” boxed set of unreleased material in 1998, fans have clamored for a followup volume. Twenty-seven years later, they’ll get it.

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Alison Krauss on Her First Album With Union Station in Over a Decade, ‘Arcadia,’ and the Long Tour to Follow: ‘I’m Champing at the Bit’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Alison Krauss will sell no high, lonesome sound before its time. Her fans don’t have to be reminded — although we will anyway — that it’s been 11 years since the last tour by her bluegrass band, Alison Krauss & Union Station, and an even longer 14 since the group’s last album. She and the other members have had side hustles, of course, like Krauss spending the last three summers on the road with a Robert Plant co-bill, which is no one’s idea of slumming.

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Sparks on the Duo’s U.S. Summer Tour, New ‘Drowning in a Sea of Tears’ Single, Forthcoming ‘Mad!’ Album and That John Woo Movie Musical (EXCLUSIVE)

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic North America will be “Mad!” about the boys when Sparks embarks on a U.S. and Canada tour this summer, which the duo is announcing today on the heels of previously announced overseas dates for 2025. Also new to global Sparks fans today is a fresh single, “Drowning in a Sea of Tears,” the third song to come out as a teaser for the group’s “Mad!” album, due May 23.

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Neil Young Fears He Won’t Be Allowed Back in U.S. After European Tour, Due to Speaking Out Against Trump, ‘Worst President in the History of Our Great Country’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Neil Young is concerned that he may be barred from returning to the U.S. by the Donald Trump administration after he embarks on a forthcoming European tour, saying that he fears his outspokenness against Trump may make him a target, in light of recent deportations of activists. “When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J.

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President Trump Joined by Kid Rock for Signing of Executive Order Aimed at Ticket Scalping

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic President Donald Trump was joined in the Oval Office by Kid Rock Monday for the signing of an executive order aimed at what the White House is calling “exploitative ticket scalping.” The order calls upon the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to “rigorously enforce” existing laws, so it’s not immediately clear what immediate effect the executive order might have on the ticketing industry. Trump told reporters that he had been told by his friend Kid Rock about “scalping and all of the gouging that you’ve been reading about it… And I didn’t know too much about it, but i checked it out and it is a big problem.

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Morgan Wallen Stirs Speculation With Abrupt ‘SNL’ Walk-Off and ‘Get Me to God’s Country’ Social Post

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Country superstar Morgan Wallen performed two songs from a forthcoming album that is expected to be one of the year’s biggest blockbusters on “Saturday Night Live,” but it wasn’t the music that stirred up the most chatter after the episode ended. It was his abrupt walk-off during the usual group hugs at the close of the show, followed by a social media post that suggested he was in a hurry to get out of New York, both creating speculation about whether or not Wallen was sending signals that his “SNL” experience was not a happy one.

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Benmont Tench on His New Solo Album, ‘The Melancholy Season,’ and His Unmelancholy Delight in Being a Survivor: ‘I’m Finally Getting Good, You Know?’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Benmont Tench has not really been out of sight for any truly extended stretch since the Heartbreakers necessarily went their separate ways …. at least not if you have strong eyesight.

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Rising Singer Allison Ponthier Turns the Bitter Pill of Being Dropped by a Major Into a Sweet Indie Single, ‘Karaoke Queen’: ‘I Was Terrified, but This Song Comforted Me Through That’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Rising singer-songwriter Allison Ponthier has a lot going for her right now — including prominent endorsements from superfans like Elton John, who featured her in his recent documentary, and Brandi Carlile. But everything was not coming up roses last summer, when she learned she’d been dropped from her label, Interscope, after several years’ worth of singles and EPs but no full-length album. That was a bitter pill, but she makes something sweet out of the experience with “Karaoke Queen,” her first single as an independent artist, which comes out today.

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Grace Potter to Finally Release Shelved Album She Recorded With T Bone Burnett 18 Years Ago, ‘Medicine’: ‘It’s Like Treasure That’s Been Sitting at the Bottom of the Ocean’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Grace Potter has a “new” T Bone Burnett-produced release coming out, “Medicine,” and it’s something that her label put out a press release announcing and she even did interviews touting… in the late 2000s. Fans didn’t forget this would-have-been, should-have-been album from early in her recording career, but it seemed destined to remain in the land of lore, until now.

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Lucy Dacus on Writing Sweet and Tart Love Songs for Her Sensational Post-Boygenius Album, ‘Forever Is a Feeling’: ‘Why Not Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve?’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It sounds contradictory, perhaps, to note that Boygenius captivated an entire indie-pop nation with the trio’s 2023 album “The Record” and a subsequent sold-out tour… and that most of those fans were then rooting for the supergroup to go separate ways. But it’s not so oxymoronic when you consider that the devotees of Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers were smart enough to realize that three solo records could be three times as rewarding as a consolidated group effort.

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ACM Awards Nominations Led by Ella Langley, Cody Johnson, Lainey Wilson and Morgan Wallen

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic When rising country singer Ella Langley sang “You Look Like You Love Me,” the Academy of Country Music was apparently powerless to do anything but respond: mm-hm. In a surprising turn, Langley is the leading nominee for the 2025 ACM Awards, ahead of the pack with nine nominations in a field that was revealed Thursday morning. Just behind Langley with eight nominations were Lainey Wilson, Cody Johnson and Morgan Wallen, tied with seven each.

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Johnny Mathis Announces Retirement From Concerts After Seven-Decade Career, ‘Due to Age and Memory Issues’

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Johnny Mathis is retiring from live performance at age 89, due to “age and memory issues, which have accelerated,” his Facebook account announced Wednesday. The declaration said that Mathis would still a handful of upcoming dates, with his final concert now being scheduled for May 18 at the Bergan Performing Arts Center in Englewood, NJ.

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A Todd Rundgren-Led ‘Burt Bacharach Songbook’ Tour Delivers Melodic Thrills From One of Popular Music’s Greatest Catalogs: Concert Review

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic So, you say you like melodies? Putting your priorities there may consign you to minority status among 2025’s wider bloc of pop fans. But for the sonorously starved among us, a bit of manna from a more euphonious heaven has arrived in the form of “What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live in Concert,” a multi-artist outing whose generous setlists are, fortunately, as long-winded as the tour’s title.

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Kenny Chesney, June Carter Cash, Tony Brown Announced as Country Music Hall of Fame’s 2025 Inductees

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Kenny Chesney, June Carter Cash and producer Tony Brown were announced Tuesday as the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, due to be officially inducted in a formal ceremony in fall 2025. The new trio of inductees were revealed during a morning news conference hosted by Vince Gill, who shared personal connections with all three of the incoming honorees.

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Allison Russell Joined in a ‘Superlover’ Duet by Annie Lennox, Making Her First Vocal Appearance on Record in Seven Years

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Allison Russell has released the first taste of her next full-length project with “Superlover,” a plea for peace. Joining her in a duet is Annie Lennox, and it’s a rare one, marking her first vocal appearance on a recorded song since her 2018 movie theme “Requiem for a Private War”; Lennox’s last full album was 11 years ago.

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Lainey Wilson, Blake Shelton, Eric Church Set as Performers for May’s ACM Awards Show

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic With the 60th ACM Awards now six weeks away, the Academy of Country Music and Dick Clark Productions have announced the first rollout of performers for the Prime Video webcast, with Blake Shelton, Eric Church and Lainey Wilson set to perform from Texas on May 8. All three are in demand, each of them also having just been seen on the highly rated “Opry 100” special. Shelton is currently back on the scene with “Texas,” his first single for Big Loud after decades with Warner Nashville.

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