Liner Notes: Summer concert season takes shape with Avril Lavigne, Gary Clark Jr. and others

After a slow January, summer bookings start rolling out at a steady pace.

Daisy Ridley on fighting the dark side and developing dark comedy

The actor dishes on her latest movie, her death stare and not being the baby anymore on the “Star Wars” set.

‘NCIS: Hawai’i’ star Vanessa Lachey joins Wilmer Valderrama of ‘That ‘70s Show’ fame as USO Global Ambassador

As a USO Global Ambassador, actress Vanessa Lachey will join actor Wilmer Valderrama in helping “further the USO mission to strengthen the well-being of the people who serve and their families through its core programs,” a USO announcement said.

Liner Notes: Grande thumbs her nose at drama, comes back with chart-topper

‘Yes, and?,’ with a House groove straight out of 1991 Madonna’s vault, is a fun twist in the legacy of Grande’s post-modern pop.

New documentary tells untold story behind the 1985 all-star charity single, ‘We Are the World’

‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ documentary, which premiered at Sundance this month and arrived on Netflix Monday, offers an immersive, richly detailed account of the Grammy Award-winning song’s high-pressure creation — not just the one-night recording session with its 46 performers but also the weeks of advance planning required to figure out whom to enlist, where and when to do it and how to keep it secret. It features some archival footage from an earlier documentary but also new interviews as well as hours of unearthed behind-the-scenes audio recorded by journalist David Breskin, who was on the scene to report a story for Life magazine.

A strong start to 2024

Many of the most anticipated video games of the year are scheduled to arrive early.

Liner Notes: ‘Saviors’? Maybe not. But Green Day’s pop-punk has aged to perfection.

Call them what you want, but the 15 tracks on the band’s new albums sound like hits.

Jon Stewart returns to ‘The Daily Show’ for 2024 election cycle

Jon Stewart is coming back to “The Daily Show” after nearly a decade. He will take up hosting duties on Monday nights beginning Feb. 12.

‘There was a sense when we were making it that we might be on to something special’: Jeffrey Wright on his first Oscar nod for ‘American Fiction’

The actor, who previously won a Tony for his performance in “Angels in America” and an Emmy for the same role in HBO’s adaptation of the show, and is also known for his roles in: “Basquiat,” the “Hunger Games” franchise, three of the recent James Bond films, “The Batman,” “The French Dispatch” and “Asteroid City,” as well as the television series “Westworld,” discusses the nomination and how he approached playing professor and writer Thelonious “Monk” Ellison in the film, which is based on the 2001 novel ‘Erasure’ by Percival Everett.

Miniseries spotlights the heroics of Georgia-born Mighty Eighth Air Force

The docudrama “Masters of the Air” chronicles the Mighty Eighth’s contributions through the airmen of the 100th Bomb Group, or “Bloody Hundredth”, one of 40 Eighth Air Force bomber groups that battled the Nazis in the skies above Western Europe.