Tuesday, May 1, 2018
The Tony Awards will honor Bruce Springsteen in June for his production of “Springsteen on Broadway.” In the live-streamed ceremony early Tuesday morning announcing this year&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24AMMonday, April 23, 2018
Thanks to nearly two decades of over-the-top performances and secret guest spots, Coachella’s first weekend is under an international microscope, and this year sets like Beyonce’s Saturd…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:15AMMonday, April 9, 2018
The Mattel-owned American Girl doll line — familiar to virtually any adult with female children — today announced a partnership to launch a new musical production inspired by the storie…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMWednesday, March 21, 2018
Bruce Springsteen will extend his “Springsteen on Broadway” one-man show until December 15, he announced today. Eighty-one additional shows will go on sale for performances July 10 thro…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:14AMMonday, March 19, 2018
French composer and multiple Oscar- and Grammy-winner Michel Legrand is scoring Orson Welles’ final film, “The Other Side of the Wind,” Variety has learned. This will mark …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:10PMThursday, March 15, 2018
A constant question hanging over “Springsteen on Broadway”’s ongoing seven-or-so-month-long run has been: How long can he do it? How long can veteran road warrior Bruce Springs…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:10PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Independent music publisher Big Deal Music Group announced today that they have entered into a long-term worldwide administration agreement with Notable Music, the company founded by legend…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Dan Cohen has joined Nonesuch Records as vice president of marketing, the company announced today. Cohen comes to the Warner Music Group label from Republic Records, where he was vice presid…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PMThursday, January 25, 2018
For 42 years now, “The Clive Party” — officially Clive Davis and The Recording Academy Present “The Pre-Grammy Gala” — has been the hottest ticket in the music industry, …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:02PMThursday, January 18, 2018
Scooter Braun, founder of SB Projects and Variety’s Industry Hitmaker of 2017 will receive the first-ever Hall of Fame Award at the Midem conference in Cannes, France in June. Braun, whose…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:59AMFriday, December 15, 2017
On Friday morning, a press release arrived from “Hamilton” mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda announcing The Hamildrops, which is basically a long-term mixtape, with unspecified “new ‘Ham…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:40AMWednesday, November 29, 2017
Sony/ATV Music Publishing has announced an exclusive consultancy with music industry veteran Jay Landers and his Lighthouse Company that will see him mining Sony/ATV’s catalog of songs and…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
As expected, on Monday evening, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation into law that will repeal the 91-year-old “cabaret law” that has long bedeviled nightclub owners.…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PMMonday, November 27, 2017
Bruce Springsteen announced today that “Springsteen on Broadway,” his 16-week series of performances at Jujamcyn’s Walter Kerr Theatre will be extended, with additional sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:38PMMonday, November 6, 2017
Marilyn Manson caused a fair amount of outrage in San Bernardino on Sunday when, on the day of yet another mass shooting — Sunday’s in Texas, where 26 people were killed — he turned a …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:40PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Overturning a 91-year-old rule that has long bedeviled nightclub owners in New York, city lawmakers have voted Tuesday to repeal the “cabaret law,” according to The Associated Press.…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:25PMThe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballots were mailed out to 800 potential voters this week, and Bon Jovi already has one big supporter in their corner: Bette Midler. Speaking to Variety on the…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PMMonday, October 30, 2017
“Saturday Night Live” announced the lineup for two more November shows on Monday morning, and it includes a bounty of musical guests: Chance the Rapper will host on Nov. 18 — with Emin…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMWednesday, October 25, 2017
A new song by Bruce Springsteen is featured during the end credits of the new Miles Teller film, “Thank You for Your Service.” The song, “Freedom Cadence,” was written specifically f…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:03PMFriday, October 20, 2017
“We’re three sisters from the Valley playing the Greek,” marveled Este Haim, one-third of the sisterly trio bearing their last name. “I’m ‘Stone Cold’ Steven Austin when it com…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:57PMThursday, October 19, 2017
“Hamilton” mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda has been among the most vocal agitators raising awareness about the devastation Hurricane Maria has wreaked upon Puerto Rico. He’s been outspok…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMWhile his “boss,” Bruce Springsteen is lighting up Broadway with an acclaimed one-man show, E-Street Band guitarist/consigliere Little Steven Van Zandt is rocking the Sunset Strip 3,000 …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee made the leap from goth-rocker to opera diva last night, as she and the band led a 20-piece orchestra through a sold-out performance at the Greek Theater Sund…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:59PMThursday, October 12, 2017
As Bruce Springsteen began the last verse of “The Promised Land” on Tuesday night, he wandered away from the microphone but kept singing, and his voice carried, purely under its own powe…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57PMFriday, October 6, 2017
Walking in to this most iconic of music venues, under a full harvest moon, concert-goers were greeted by a digital billboard of Tom Petty and the stark message, “1950-2017.” So i…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:13PM“Hamilton” mastermind Lin-Manuel Miranda has collaborated with an all-star lineup of artists to release “Almost Like Praying,” a hurricane relief single in support of Puerto Rico. Pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:33AMWednesday, October 4, 2017
During the course of Variety’s cover-story interview with Bruce Springsteen, we asked who some of his favorite contemporary songwriters are. “Let me get my computer and get it for ya,”…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMTuesday, October 3, 2017
While they were unquestionably kindred spirits, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen never really collaborated, apart from sharing stages at events like the 1979 “No Nukes” concert, a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:27PMThis is part one of Variety’s two-part cover story with Bruce Springsteen. For part two, click here. The woodsy rolling hills and vivid green pastures of central New Jersey are ab…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMThis is part two of Variety’s two-part cover story with Bruce Springsteen. For part one, click here. If you ran for governor of New Jersey, you’d win — is that ever a temptati…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMSunday, October 1, 2017
Things got a little reckless at the Invictus Games in Toronto when Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams got together for an onstage jam Saturday night (Sept. 30). Springsteen — who performed …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AM 
