Barry Manilow has paused his touring schedule until October 8, days after canceling two Las Vegas residency nights over “technical and vocal problems.” He says the summer run — 29 shows in 68 days — was pushing a little too hard.
President Trump ordered American flags to half-staff nationwide for a week after Dolly Parton’s death at 80. She had twice declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom from his first administration, and a third time from Joe Biden.
Dolly Parton has died peacefully in Nashville at 80, her family announced in a video posted to her own Instagram account. No cause of death was given.
Guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live on August 24, Jelly Roll spent his monologue going after Donald Trump’s flag-waving, his motorcade and his weight. The reaction from country fans who assumed the singer was MAGA became the bigger story.
Shelley Fabares topped the Billboard Hot 100 at eighteen with “Johnny Angel,” played opposite Elvis Presley three times, and spent four decades on American television. She died Saturday in Los Angeles at 82.
Dr. Dre told the New York Times that AI is no different from the drum machine, and that only people who struggle to create see it as a threat. The remark landed days after a publisher sued two AI companies for up to $1 billion apiece.
ZZ Top returned to the stage in Austin on Saturday for the first time since Frank Beard’s death, and Billy Gibbons revealed that Beard had personally asked the band to bring in his replacement.
The Poison frontman played his first show since emergency kidney stone surgery on Friday night in Georgia. Doctors and paramedics assessed him the moment he came offstage and pulled him off the road for several months.
Dolly Parton has given her most direct account yet of the health problems that have kept her off stage, telling People she let them slide while caring for her husband Carl Dean before his death in March 2025.
Tony Hicks, 80, is stepping away from the road for health reasons, and drummer Bobby Elliott, 84, has chosen to retire rather than carry on without him. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band announced the end of its touring career on Instagram.