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Fans watch Brockhampton perform at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on Saturday, April 21, 2018.

Coachella promoter AEG sets mandatory vaccination policy for fans and staff

August 13, 2021 at 3:44 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — Concert giant AEG Presents, which runs marquee festivals like Coachella and Stagecoach along with local clubs like the Roxy and El Rey Theater, announced a mandatory vaccination...

Eddie Vedder performs at the Vax Live concert at SoFi Stadium on Sunday, May 2, 2021 in Inglewood, California. (Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

20 music festivals in the Western US this summer

June 1, 2021 at 3:25 p.m.

How will it feel to finally part a festival gate for the first time in 2021? Relief? Trepidation? Absolute unbridled exuberance to be seeing music, any music, on a stage...

Thomas Middleditch attends the L.A. premiere of "Uncut Gems" at the ArcLight Hollywood on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, in Los Angeles, Calif.

Thomas Middleditch, ‘Silicon Valley’ actor who worked in Chicago improv, accused of sexual harassment at L.A. goth club

March 23, 2021 at 9:01 p.m.

Hannah Harding parted a thick wooden gate and walked into the barely lit labyrinth of the Hollywood club Cloak & Dagger on Oct. 22, 2019. An evening at the Goth...

BTS fails to win Grammy for pop duo/group performance, and their Army is not pleased

March 14, 2021 at 10:56 p.m.

No one should ever be too surprised to lose a Grammy to a collaboration by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande. But the BTS Army — the fans of the South...

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Daft Punk’s 10 greatest moments

February 23, 2021 at 6:30 p.m.

The French duo of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, known worldwide as Daft Punk, was already beloved before they took the stage at Coachella in 2006. It had three...

Cady Groves poses during Bamboozle Music Festival on June 19, 2010, in Cincinnati.

COVID-19 wreaked havoc with their lives. Now, musicians battle another epidemic: addiction

December 30, 2020 at 2:42 p.m.

One of the last songs the 30-year-old country singer Cady Groves ever recorded was about being alone and not sure where to look for hope. "Got a million scars, don't...

The 50 best songs of 2020

December 10, 2020 at 4:17 p.m.

Looking back years from now, we may or may not remember how we encountered the songs that defined 2020 — on the radio, on a streaming service, on TikTok as...

FILE - In a Jan. 23, 2020 file photo, Taylor Swift attends the premiere of "Taylor Swift: Miss Americana" at the Eccles Theater during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Swift is coming back to her roots with a performance at this year's Academy of Country Music Awards. The nine-time ACM award winner will perform from the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee, where the awards show will be broadcast Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 on CBS. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

As Election Day nears, Taylor Swift and A-list artists finally rally behind Biden

October 13, 2020 at 2:17 p.m.

Unlike a lot of her peers in the music industry, Diane Warren was a Joe Biden supporter from day one of the 2020 primaries. "He was always my guy," said...

David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen of rock band Van Halen celebrate Sunday, July 9th, 1978 at the Long Beach Arena during the rock band's return to town. Eddie Van Halen has died at age 65 of cancer.

Remembering Eddie Van Halen: His 20 greatest performances

October 7, 2020 at 5:02 p.m.

A technical virtuoso with a rock star's natural flair, Eddie Van Halen played instantly identifiable electric guitar — so identifiable, in fact, that his namesake band spent decades cycling through...

Migos rapper Takeoff accused of sexual assault

August 5, 2020 at 7:33 p.m.

A new civil lawsuit filed Wednesday morning in Los Angeles Superior Court alleges that rapper Takeoff, of the popular hip-hop group Migos, raped a woman at a party in Encino...

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