Halsey can be tricky. The tour she opened up in L.A. this week is ostensibly intended to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of her “Badlands” album — and the ostensibly there is...
Sabrina Carpenter, the host as well as musical guest for this week’s “Saturday Night Live,” used her monologue to riff on her risque image, suggesting that she wants to be known...
If ever a play seemed tailor-made — tailor-braided? — for the Mark Taper Forum stage, at least in the 2020s, it’s “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.” The most intimate of the three...
Taylor Swift can’t stop making chart history with “The Life of a Showgirl.” Shortly after it was announced that her album debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 with record...
When the Raspberries came out of the gate as a thirsty band from Cleveland in the early 1970s, they were scrappy underdogs — notwithstanding the smooth polish of some of their...
“Can you believe it? We’re in Los Angeles!” exulted Chappell Roan, about halfway through the first of two appearances at Brookside at the Rose Bowl. It was understood, what she was...
Is the primary audience for “Ozzy: No Escape From Now” metalheads … or caregivers? There’s not often a significant crossover audience there. But there’s no mistaking that the Paramount+ documentary about...