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Chris Willman Music WriterThe PBS live performance series “Austin City Limits” has announced a lineup for its new season, which, perhaps expectedly due to the pandemic, includes a higher-than-usual amount of retrospective programming, but does sport freshly filmed sets as well. The 13-episode 2020-2021 season kicks off Oct.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSting, Norah Jones, Trey Anastasio of Phish and many more will perform tonight (Thursday, Sept. 17) at SummerStage Jubilee, a free benefit concert supporting City Parks Foundation’s programs in parks, taking place via livestream at 8 p.m.

Rufus Wainwright is like a reborn artist.

Rufus Wainwright has teamed up with 1,500 singers from around the globe to perform a socially-distanced rendition of The Beatles’ ‘Across The Universe’.

Rufus Wainwright has put a global spin on a Beatles classic.

Rufus Wainwright has been singing his whole life. But after the pop stylings of 2012’s Out of the Game, the child of two singer-songwriter parents, Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, found himself needing to scratch other musical itches.

Rufus Wainwright captured a liberal’s lament with American politics in his dramatic song “Going to a Town.”“I wrote it under Bush Junior, but since Trump’s been elected, it’s kind of come back with a vengeance,” the singer-songwriter says. “The song is a kind of perennial of sorts, so it’s a bit disconcerting.

Unfollow the Rules is about as close to a conventional Rufus Wainwright album as you can imagine. Aside from “You Ain’t Big,” a quick foray into country, he mostly cleaves to his signature brand of piano pop, marked by orchestral flourishes and his characteristically languid vocals.

first opera, “Prima Donna,” is due to stage a new production in Stockholm this fall. “It was an amazing time.

Rufus Wainwright tells NME of his mindset after four months in lockdown. “I seem to keep either encouraging myself or deluding myself that this is all part of the parcel of a brand new scheme of things – whether that’s the world or my career.

Pageant, Vice’s music site Noisey declared them “America’s Next Great Rock Band,” and in the days that followed, NPR shined a spotlight on the duo by featuring an advance stream of the record on its website, The New York Times readied a profile, and Rufus Wainwright interviewed them for Billboard.By mid-May, as Hopkins put it, PWR BTTM were canceled.

Rufus Wainwright will perform his upcoming album in its entirety at a livestream concert this Saturday (June 27).

Barbra Streisand, John Legend, Jennifer Hudson, Andra Day and Jay Leno, who will take part in a June 11 virtual "Fabulous Evening" fundraiser.

RELEASESRufus Wainwright has released new single ‘You Ain’t Big’ from his upcoming new album ‘Unfollow The Rules’.The Cribs (along with Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo) have got together over that internet to record a live version of 2007 song ‘Be Safe’. “Got the old band back together”, say the old band, “despite being separated by thousands of miles, for a fashionably late isolation video, our first ‘live’ performance in almost two years.

By Ted Johnson

By Ted Johnson

After months of campaigning from his basement in Delaware, democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is ready to rock out. And he's bringing along some A-list friends.

Darren Criss and Mark Hamill will make history next month (June 2020) when they feature on the first major-label soundtrack release for a Quibi show.

Update (May 26): Quibi has debuted the trailer for Royalties, which will launch on June 1. Republic Records will release the series’ original soundtrack, out June 12 and marking the first major label release for a Quibi show. Darren Criss is the latest in the long list of high-profile talents to set a series at

By Gene Maddaus

His sister Martha Wainwright, along with Anna Mcgarrigle and Jane Mcgarrigle, helped him close out his 60-day quarantine series

Rufus Wainwright is closing the curtain on his “Quarantunes” Robe Recitals series, sharing a video of his final performance on Saturday.

Paloma Faith, Nick Cave, and Johnny Marr are among the stars who have put their names to a letter calling on the U.K. government to bail out arts organisations amid the Covid-19 crisis.

More than 400 figures from the creative community have warned that the U.K. will become a "cultural wasteland" unless the British government provides urgent financial support for the creative industries.

They're calling for "urgent" government support

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Some of the world’s biggest stars have come together to support the LGBTQ+ nightlife industry with a benefit concert.

In an effort to support LGBTQ nightlife workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the Stonewall Gives Back Initiative partnered with World of Wonder Productions for a live-stream concert on Thursday featuring Rufus Wainwright, Cyndi Lauper, Kristin Chenoweth, Troye Sivan and more. The event was hosted by Michelle Visage and Tyler Oakley, with proceeds going toward an emergency fund for industry workers.

From his new album 'Unfollow The Rules', due out today but delayed by coronavirus