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The actress starred in Spring Awakening composed by the late musician Lea Michele has paid tribute to Duncan Sheik, the songwriter-composer who worked with Michele and died on Thursday at age 56. The actress starred in Spring Awakening, which was composed by Sheik who won two Tonys in 2007 — Best Original Score, alongside Steven Sater, and Best Orchestrations — for the musical. “I met Duncan when I was 14 years old,” the Glee star wrote, captioning a photo of them together on her Instagram story. “I listened to a demo on tape of him singing songs from Spring Awakening…

The Department of Defense’s experimental, unpredictable use of artificial intelligence nearly caused a catastrophic diplomatic incident in the middle of the Iran war this spring, when an AI-generated intelligence report suggested that a Chinese vessel in the region was carrying nuclear weapons components.  According to a report by CNN, the U.S. military scrambled jets and armed servicemembers prepared to board the vessel. But right before the mission went underway, analysts at the DOD finally checked their work: the report, sources told CNN, was “entirely false.” The internal chatbot that a specialist command analyst had used to prepare the report had…

Donald Trump, who has repeatedly vowed to protect free speech as president, is escalating his effort to silence media outlets who don’t lick his boots, this time by attempting to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House press pool.  “I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW … and Politico … from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS,” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social.  “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United…

The Recording Academy may be a tad less stodgy these days, but there is still plenty of daylight between what the Grammys considers quality and what, say, the purveyors of online music magazine Pitchfork dot com champions. So let’s try to meet in the middle. Below, we’ve provided some far-too-early Grammys prognostication on albums and songs that should be up for awards at next year’s ceremony. We’ll find out how right or wrong we were on November 16, when the official nominations are revealed. The 2027 Grammys will air February 7 on ABC.Album of the YearBlood Orange: Essex HoneyGeese: Getting…

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast has shared details of her upcoming new book. Find all the info below. The singer-songwriter is due to publish Thank You for Your Suffering on April 27 via Knopf. Pre-order here. Comprising 224 pages, the memoir will explore Zauner’s year spent living in South Korea, “learning Korean in an impossibly challenging language school and forging extraordinary new relationships” with her late mother’s family. According to the official description, the book will take fans on an “immersive and deeply personal journey through the heart of South Korea”. It charts “Zauner’s dream of learning her mother’s native…

Shogun star Tadanobu Asano stars in latest visual for singer’s first album in seven years and spiritual companion to Sea Change and Morning Phase Beck marked the release of his new album Ride Lonesome on Friday with the video for standout track “Run Away.” After enlisting famed French actor Denis Lavant for Ride Lonesome’s “In the Night” visual, Beck recruits another arthouse favorite for “Run Away,” casting Ichi the Killer and Shogun star Tadanobu Asano to lead the lonely journey through Tokyo. “At the end of a long hot summer we went to Japan. I looked up my friend [Kunichi…

Katie Pruitt is one of those rare artists who bravely navigates the world through the songs she writes. Her first two albums were defined by her frank and candid reckoning with her sexuality and Catholic upbringing. Now, on her third, she’s letting listeners in on her broken heart. “All of us, including myself, are just trying to find reasons to keep going and keep hope alive,” she says. “Writing these songs was really cathartic.” On Friday, the 32-year-old Georgia native released Fools for the Fleeting on Rounder Records, her first studio LP since Mantras in 2024. The 10-track project, which…

Mike Campbell began his acceptance speech at the 25th Annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Wednesday night with a line that landed less like a joke than a promise. “Lifetime achievement? I’m not done yet,” he said. Minutes earlier, the Tom Petty guitarist and career-long second-in-command led his Heartbreakers bandmates and fellow honorees — keyboardist Benmont Tench, bassist Ron Blair, Swiss Army-knife sideman Scott Thurston, and drummers Stan Lynch and Steve Ferrone — through a three-song opening set that saw contemporary living legend Chris Stapleton pinch-hitting for Petty. The namesake leader of the rock band died in…

Michael P. Desronvil, the sole juror whose holdout in the case against Lindsay Clancy who was on trial for killing her three young children led to a mistrial on Sept. 4, stood by his vote to convict Clancy, saying he did not hold doubts on her being guilty. In a statement on Friday, Dersonvil said that during deliberations other jurors cut off his attempts to discuss theories about the case, as The New York Times reports. One of the jurors, Paula Devlin, described Dersonvil as “very arrogant” in an interview earlier in the month with NBC10 and that while “he…

Tune-Yards is embarking on a U.S. tour titled The Ones That Love You. Starting November 5 in Chicago, the Oakland band will make stops in Cleveland, Boston, Cincinnati, and more. The pop duo Rituals of Mine will open each date. Scroll down for the full schedule.This spring, Tune-Yards wrote and released the score for Boots Riley’s offbeat comedy-crime film I Love Boosters, the follow-up to their composition work for Riley’s debut feature, 2018’s Sorry to Bother You. Tune-Yards put out their sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, in 2025.Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly noted this tour was only…