Phil Collins becomes an honorary Texan

A-list acts including Garth Brooks, Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Jason Aldean and George Strait are set to perform April 19 at the Academy of Country Music's 50th awards show.

On a recent afternoon at a Burbank rehearsal studio, Jussie Smollett and Bryshere Y. Gray, two of the breakout stars of Fox's soapy hip-hop musical "Empire," joked their way through a photo shoot while a band in the room next door worked through an arrangement of one of the show's standout...

The next wave of important jazz recordings shows musicians experimenting with new forms and revivifying old ones.

I first heard the score of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in about 1975, when my childish self (for I was but a babe) gave the original concept album a whirl on the old turntable. Ian Gillan, the incomparable lead singer of Deep Purple and one of rock's great voices, turned the anthemic...

Who is Will Butler?

He is a virtuoso harpsichordist, conductor, accompanist and coach who collaborates with some of the leading figures of the European and American early music brigade. He appears regularly as a concerto soloist, in repertory ranging from J.S. Bach to Michael Nyman. Both of most recent...

Before Chance the Rapper performed at sold-out concert venues, he practiced his rhymes in front of an intimate crowd of roughly a dozen people at Harold Washington Library. Now the rapper is trying to return the favor, one open mic at a time.

In August 2005, August Wilson picked up the phone and called two reporters to tell them he was dying.