No one would have expected Taylor Swift’s “The Life of a Showgirl” to lose its grip on the album chart in week 2, and it indeed held on at the top of the Billboard 200, with 338,000 equivalent album ...

Lady Gaga could dominate the 2026 Grammy nominations with Mayhem and its singles “Abracadabra” and “Disease" — will her standards album Harlequin earn any love?

Batesville, Ark. (KATV) — Lyon College's Harlequin Theatre is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a special production of "Miss Lulu Bett" by Zona Gale. The Harlequin Theatre, founded in 1925 by ...

Great artists who are the opposite of prolific are always a thorny subject. Many of our most romantic ideas about creativity tend to view “genius” as a kind of vessel state, from which beauty and ...

In the beginning there was Hamilton Fyfe, newspaper editor, playwright and twice-failed candidate for Parliament. In 1926 he travelled to the United States to write a Radio Times article titled “The ...

Taylor Swift hit a historic 4 million in sales in one week with the debut of her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” This marks the singer’s 15th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart ...

The first issue of Paste came out in July 2002. Since then, this site has catalogued the best and worst contemporary music the industry and the underground have had to offer. This week, we’re focusing ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. The news that Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl has recorded the biggest sales week for any album ever is an astonishing milestone in the annals of ...

With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming ...

Nielsen Music started tracking point-of-sales data for US music releases in 1991. In the three decades since, only 25 albums have sold at least 1 million copies in one week. Taylor Swift has achieved ...

The first four Danzig albums are being re-released on vinyl. This is the first vinyl reissue of the lps since their initial release, though bootlegs have abounded. The new ones are out via Universal ...

When The Life of a Showgirl dropped last week, Taylor Swift’s newest album quickly generated buzz for featuring some of the raunchiest lyrics she’s ever released. The song “Wood,” in particular, ...