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Recording Academy President and CEO Neil Portnow said the organization will launch an independent investigation into practices that hamper women in the music industry.

Recording Academy will launch investigation into Grammy gender bias

May 11, 2019 at 11:06 a.m.

The Recording Academy will launch an independent investigation of the organization’s policies and practices “to overcome the explicit barriers and unconscious biases that impede female advancement in the music community,”...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

Emmylou Harris and Chris Stapleton pay tribute to Tom Petty at the Grammys

May 11, 2019 at 11:06 a.m.

Sunday's Grammys featured a subtle example of the so-called six degrees of separation when lifetime achievement award recipient Emmylou Harris and Grammy darling Chris Stapleton teamed up to honor the...

Peggy Lee, left, presents the album of the year Grammy to Henry Mancini for "Peter Gunn" at the first-ever award ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in 1959.

The Grammy Awards at 60: What a long, strange trip it’s been

May 11, 2019 at 11:05 a.m.

Since the very first ceremony on May 4, 1959, the Grammy Awards have been unflaggingly in tune with innovations in popular music, consistently singling out the most visionary artists, groundbreaking...

Grammy-award winning rocker Tom Petty, photographed at his home in Malibu on Sept. 27, 2017, "died ... doing what he loved," his daughter has written on Instagram.

Tom Petty’s daughter shares thoughts after release of autopsy report

December 17, 2018 at 4:31 p.m.

One of Tom Petty’s children has gone public with her response to the autopsy report that concluded that his death on Oct. 2 at age 66 was the result of...

Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers: The dreams of what they thought lay ahead

June 1, 2018 at 11:19 p.m.

The Heartbreakers knew. When Tom Petty's band gathered backstage a couple of hours before the grand finale of its sold-out, three-night homecoming stand at the venerated Hollywood Bowl last month,...

Mike Campbell, left, and Tom Petty of the Heartbreakers perform at Wrigley Field on June 29, 2017, in Chicago.

Tom Petty: The final interview

June 2, 2018 at 3:02 a.m.

This is not the Tom Petty story that I intended to write. Though I was more than thrilled to catch up with Petty, whom I had interviewed before, I had...

Smithsonian honors Sting for musical and philanthropic contributions to American culture

December 17, 2018 at 4:48 p.m.

Sting was honored Friday by the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History for his musical and his philanthropic contributions to American culture. The English singer, songwriter and former frontman...

The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album to get deluxe 50th-anniversary edition

June 5, 2018 at 8:01 a.m.

The most ambitious reissue yet of an individual album from the Beatles' catalog is coming May 26 with an expanded and newly remixed edition of the Fab Four's 1967 pop...

‘Rogue One’ tops box office once again over New Year’s weekend

December 17, 2018 at 5:23 p.m.

Moviegoers bid adieu to 2016 and welcomed in 2017 over the four-day holiday weekend, spending about $200 million to see just the 10 top-grossing films, a pack led once again...

The atrium of Prince's Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minn. Prince's handwritten notes are still sitting out inside the control room of Studio A, where he recorded some of his greatest hits.

Prince’s Paisley Park to open permanently for tours starting Friday

August 23, 2019 at 2:29 p.m.

Prince's elaborate Paisley Park recording complex and residence in Minnesota will open permanently for public tours after the Chanhassen City Council unanimously approved the plan Monday. Two tours are being...

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