Spanish court summons Shakira to answer tax evasion charges
MADRID — A Spanish court investigating Shakira for possibly evading $16.4 million in taxes has called on the pop music star to testify in mid-June. Prosecutors charged the singer in December for not paying taxes in Spain between 2012 and 2014, when she lived mostly in the country despite having...
Country music star Toby Keith schedules fall Pittsburgh concertVideo
Country music star Toby Keith will play Highmark Stadium in Pittsburgh on Sept. 27. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. March 1 at 412-325-7241, ticketmaster.com and highmarkstadium.com. Tickets also will be available from 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the venue box office, 510 W. Station Square...
Photos: Michael Bublé brings ‘Love’ to PPGArena
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Michael Bublé brought his “An Evening with Michael Bublé” tour to PPG Paints Arena Friday night. The hit singer recently released his tenth studio album, Love. Bublé has four Grammy Awards and has sold over thirty million records worldwide. He is originally from Burnaby in Canada. His...
Pittsburgh Symphony and the Hill District community team for ‘Lift Every Voice’ concert
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has teamed with Hill District community members for the annual “Lift Every Voice” concert, a celebration of the neighborhood’s cultural legacy The concert is at 8 p.m. March 2 at Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts in Downtown Pittsburgh. Symphony and associate conductor Andres Franco will...
Peter Frampton’s farewell tour coming to Pittsburgh’s Benedum CenterVideo
Another rock legend has announced his farewell tour. Guitarist Peter Frampton has confirmed “Peter Frampton Finale — The Farewell Tour,” with a July 2 date at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh. Tickets will go on sale to the general public at 10 a.m. March 1 at livenation.com. Citi cardmembers will...
Review: Coach Cowher helps America celebrates 50 years of hits
Few things are more enjoyable then the warmth of getting together with old friends in a comfortable environment indoors on a late winter’s night. …Especially when that friendship goes back half a century. The reunion of ardent Pittsburgh fans with Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley (aka America) at the Byham...
Peter Tork, bassist for The Monkees, dead at 77
Peter Tork, one of the four lovable wisecracking musicians in The Monkees, died Feb. 21 at age 77. The Washington Post reports Tork’s death was confirmed by his sister, Anne Thorkelson. She didn’t divulge how or where he died. In 2009, Tork was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare...
Dan + Shay, Chris Stapleton lead ACM nominations
NASHVILLE — Chris Stapleton and Dan + Shay lead the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards with six nominations each while Grammy album of the year winner Kacey Musgraves comes in with five nominations. Reba McEntire, who is hosting the show for a record 16th time, announced the nominees in...
Michael Buble returns to Pittsburgh with new sense of freedomVideo
The very first time he heard Michael Buble sing, Hempfield’s John Noble asked out loud, “Who is that?” “The second thing I said was ‘What kind of name is Buble — ‘boo-blay!!’?” recalls the veteran entertainer and popular Frank Sinatra tribute artist with a smile. While he has always been...
Oh, yeah — ‘The Dirt’ tells the story of Motley Crue
Nothing exemplifies the ’80s more than a hard-rockin’ hair band. And atop that hair-sprayed heap stood Motley Crue. With the tagline — “Their music made them famous. Their lives made them infamous.” — Netflix released the trailer for the biopic “The Dirt” today. It tells the true story of the...
David Crosby to play the Carnegie of Homestead Music HallVideo
David Crosby, a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and co-founder of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, will appear June 2 in the Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. show in the venue at 510 E 10th Ave,...
Disturbed to bring Evolution tour to PPG Paints Arena
Two-time Grammy nominee Disturbed is bringing its Evolution World Tour to Pittsburgh at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at PPG Paints Arena. This multi-platinum selling rock band has seen its single “Are You Ready” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Chart. It is the group’s 12th No. 1 single...
‘A Night at the Oscars’ latest Pittsburgh Symphony Pops offering
For many decades film music wasn’t heard in concert halls. That’s changed so much that not only are there entire symphonic programs devoted to film music, now technology has enabled films to be shown with live orchestras playing the soundtrack. Jack Everly will conduct the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops in “A...
Vandal topples wax statue of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
NEW YORK — Police say someone attacked a statue of Sean “Diddy” Combs at Madame Tussauds wax museum in New York, shoving the rap impresario’s likeness so forcefully it lost its head. Investigators were continuing Monday to look for a suspect in the strange episode Saturday night. Police say a...
West Deer’s John Vento uses music as force for goodVideo
For a guy who admits that he had a late start in taking original music seriously, John Vento certainly is making up for lost time. In the past 20 years, the West Deer singer-songwriter, who grew up in Penn Hills, has recorded three albums with his John Vento Band, five...
Mandy Moore says she’s ready to return to music
Actress and singer Mandy Moore said that she be making new music soon. “I’ll be recording music during the hiatus,” Moore told reporters at Paramount Studios last week, according to People.com. She said that she will be making music with new husband, musician Taylor Goldsmith. “Yes! With...
Country star Miranda Lambert reveals secret marriage
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country star Miranda Lambert celebrated Valentine’s Day weekend with the announcement that she secretly got married. A representative for the singer confirmed the marriage after Lambert posted photos on social media Saturday showing her in a white lace gown with her new husband, Brendan Mcloughlin. She wrote...
21 Savage ‘wasn’t hiding’ being British, feared deportation
ATLANTA — The Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage said in an interview aired Friday that he didn’t talk about his British citizenship before because he didn’t want to get deported. The Grammy-nominated artist, whose given name is She’yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested Feb. 3. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement called it...
Review: Brickman delivers a musical valentine to Pittsburgh
Sometimes, in life, certain things just seem so right: • Snow on Christmas Day • The first robin of spring • Fireworks on the Fourth of July • Jim Brickman playing a concert on Valentine’s Day. Pittsburgh fans were treated to the latter last night as the pianist’s schedule brought...
Avenatti says he has new video evidence against R. Kelly
CHICAGO — Attorney Michael Avenatti said Thursday that he has given Chicago prosecutors new video evidence of R&B star R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl. Avenatti said the video is not the same evidence used in Kelly’s 2008 trial, when he was acquitted on child pornography charges. CNN,...
50 years on, America looks back at freeze-frame moments of fameVideo
When Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley of America look back on half a century of freeze-frame moments, the highlights begin right out of the gate. “We have been very fortunate to be able to start our career with such success. Our very first album (‘America’) and single (‘Horse with No...
Violinist joins Westmoreland Symphony for Valentine’s concert
Smart concert programming always takes the audience into account. That’s what Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra music director Daniel Meyer did when planning the special nature of the ensemble’s next concert. “We wanted a program that is immediately accessible, straight up the middle, because we know we get a lot of first-time...
Tommy James still draggin’ his line of hits, 53 years laterVideo
Tommy James was born in Ohio, raised in Michigan, now lives in New Jersey, recruited his band in Greensburg and calls Pittsburgh his second home. “I love coming back to Pittsburgh, where it all started for me,” he says. “I owe Pittsburgh a great deal, I truly do. It began...
Love is in the air thanks to Cupid’s Harp by Chatham Baroque
Cupid, the Roman child god of love, is older than Valentine’s Day. He’s a renamed and modified version of a Greek god – Eros. His mother was Venus and his father was either Mercury or Mars (the god of war) according to different accounts. Although we think of Cupid’s arrows...
Report: 7 women claim singer Ryan Adams was inappropriate
NEW YORK — A New York Times report says seven women have claimed singer-songwriter Ryan Adams offered to help them with their music careers but then turned things sexual, and he sometimes became emotional and verbally abusive. In the story published Wednesday, a 20-year-old female musician said Adams, 44, had...
