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Just as pop singing wasn’t the same after Elvis or the guitar didn’t recover after Hendrix, neither was rock orchestration the same after Paul Buckmaster, the half-British, half-Italian string arranger who died Tuesday at age 71 of undisclosed causes. Even if his name doesn’t ring any bells (or, more appropriately, …

Roy Halladay, the two-time Cy Young Award-winning pitcher who played for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies, died Tuesday when the single-engine plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. He was 40. Known by the nickname “Doc” for the surgical way …

Twenty years into her recording career, Lee Ann Womack found herself searching for a musical optimism she had in some ways lost. “When I was growing up in East Texas, I was full of hope [and] full of dreams,” she says. “I was at the beginning of something. I had …

The arguments of this edition of the Bootleg Series are familiar — a disparaged period in Dylan’s career (in this case, the gospel years) was better than you think; the studio recordings don’t tell the story as well as the live shows; he was so busy chasing the moment that …

Walker Hayes’ new album, Boom., hits stores December 8th, bringing with it a tracklist of genre-jumping songs about breakups, babies and beautiful women. His first major-label release in six years, the album has already spawned a hit in “You Broke Up with Me,” which entered the Top 20 this week. …

Like a candy-colored Jack Kirby acid trip, Thor: Ragnorak bounces all over the Nine Realms – taking its hammer-wielding hero from Asgard to Earth and some truly mind-blowing places in between. Yes, the latest adventure from the comic-book blockbuster factory ticks all the customary Marvel boxes. It’s a spirited adventure …

Prior to their preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday, players and coaches on the New York Knicks locked arms during the national anthem. They did so as a “sign of unity” and as a means to bring attention to the issues of “gun violence, poverty, equal justice, access …

Bob Segerand the Silver Bullet Band postponed the rest of their 2017 Runaway Train Tour after the rocker received doctor’s orders to treat a medical issue concerning his vertebrae. “I’m so disappointed to have to suspend the tour as the band is on a great roll,” Seger said on his …

During the past decade, we’ve come to know Ezra Koenig as the frontman of the genre-jumbling, Grammy-winning indie-rock act Vampire Weekend and, more recently, the wry host of Time Crisis, his wonderfully all-over-the-place Beats1 show. Now, he’s added an unexpected line to his resume by creating Neo Yokio, an animated …