Paul McCartney News

Humble Quest, the highly-anticipated new album from Grammy-winner Maren Morris, is out today on Sony Music Nashville’s Columbia Nashville imprint. The video for “Humble Quest” also debuts today. Furthermore, Maren’s Humble Quest Tour will see her play headline dates across the U.S. this year. Check out the complete list of tour dates now!

With a book by David West Read, the Emmy Award-winning writer of “Schitt's Creek,” and music from five-time Grammy Award-winning songwriter/producer Max Martin, & Juliet uses some of the most beloved pop songs of the last three decades to tell a multi-generational story of self-discovery, empowerment and love.

It took a global pandemic to sideline the world's largest and longest-running annual celebration of The Beatles, but after two long years and several Virtual Fests in between, The Fest For Beatles Fans is back!  The NY Metro Fest takes over the Hyatt Regency in Jersey City for three days of peace & love April 1, 2, 3.  In keeping with the times, this year's Fest will be both in-person AND virtual, making it now possible for everyone to enjoy no matter where they are.

Morrissey, once voted the second-greatest living British cultural icon, takes on this residency as his third theatrical outing following a hallmark sold-out Broadway residency at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, a string of acclaimed tour dates with alt-rock icons Interpol last fall, and the release of his 13th solo album “I Am Not A Dog on a Chain.”

The Producers Guild of America (PGA) hosted the 33rd Annual Producers Guild Awards on the evening of Saturday, March 19, 2022 at the Fairmont Century Plaza. A full list of winners is below. 

Today, Austin-based songwriter Tody Castillo released a new single entitled “What It Means To Be A Man” from his forthcoming album Old Rodriguez. Produced by Castillo and recorded with Grammy Award-winning engineer Steve Christensen (Steve Earle, Robert Ellis, Khruangbin, Paul McCartney), Old Rodriguez is set for release on April 8 via Athens, GA-based label Strolling Bones Records.

Like some kind of time-hopping wizard with preternatural melodic sensibilities, M Ross Perkins is back with his sophomore full-length, E Pluribus M Ross. The album, his first for Colemine/Karma Chief Records, is another masterclass in home recording with 12 shimmering slices of purely perfect psychedelic pop.

Metropolitan Entertainment and NJPAC announce the return of Grammy Award winning and multi-platinum jazz singer Diana Krall to NJPAC in Newark on Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 7:30pm.   

San Diego Opera's 2021 2022 will close with the West Coast Premiere of Aging Magician a hybrid opera/theatre piece that combines singing, choral work, puppetry, and performance art to create an incredibly unique theatrical experience.

The Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA) is pleased to announce the occasion of KPAA Executive Director and Kronos Manager Janet Cowperthwaite’s 40th Anniversary.

Additionally, Maren unveils a new song, “Nervous.' Written by Maren, Jimmy Robbins and frequent collaborator and The Highwomen bandmate Natalie Hemby, the track is taken from her forthcoming album, Humble Quest. Plus, check out Morris' upcoming tour dates. Tickets are on sale now!

Five-time GRAMMY Award winner, singer songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter returns to DPAC on August 17, 2022.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center is set to present two returning arts companies for two theatrical performances later this month in Castle Theater. Lucky Plush Productions will present their pandemic-delayed performance of Rink Life on Thursday, March 24. Indian Ink Theatre will present a new play, Paradise or The Impermanence of Ice Cream, on Saturday, March 26.

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the live concert, Paul McCartney: The Early Years, a celebration of the legendary musician's 80th birthday, performed by local favorites The Moondogs on Saturday, April 30, at 8 p.m. at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae announced today that her first solo headlining tour in more than five years will include a one-night-only performance at Wynn Las Vegas' Encore Theater on Friday, July 15, 2022. Tickets for the GRAMMY Award winner's SUNLIGHT / SUNLIGHT! Tour will go on sale to the public on Friday, March 4, 2022 at 10 a.m. PST.

Produced, engineered, and mixed by GRAMMY® Award-winner John Congleton (St. Vincent, Explosions in the Sky, Sharon Van Etten) at Elmwood Recording Studio in Dallas, TX, For The Sake Of Bethel Woods marks Midlake’s first time recording with an outside producer. Listen to the new single now! Plus, pre-order the upcoming album.

Alan Parsons, the Grammy Award-winning legendary music icon and “sonic master of progressive rock,” was born into a family with an impressive history in entertainment. Alan had dabbled with live performance in his late teens as a folk/blues acoustic player and as a lead guitarist with a blues band called The Earth in the late sixties in his hometown of London.

Eisemann Center Presents The Brit Pack at the Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Drive in Richardson, Texas on Friday, March 4, 2022 at 7:30 pm in the Bank of America Theatre.

The original drum kit used in the Quarry Men, the pre-Beatles group formed by John Lennon and Madonna’s iconic “Material Girl” pink gown ensemble, will headline a lineup featuring over 1,000 spectacular collectibles and memorabilia owned and used by some of the world’s most influential and music artists of our time will be offered.

For Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore, two of roots music’s most accomplished songwriter/ instrumentalist/ vocalists, the ghosts chose to appear right as Covid became entrenched — when live music evaporated and people were isolated from each other.