Music

People may know Scotty McCreery from winning the 10th season of “American Idol” in 2011 at age 17. Soon after beating out his reality TV competitors, his debut album “Clear as Day” went to the very top of the Billboard charts to begin an illustrious career. McCreery also made history as the youngest male artist of any genre and first country artist to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200.

Nancy Wilson, at age 70, can still perform her signature kick move while sporting her guitar. “I can do that and more!” she told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a Zoom call from her home in Sonoma, California, on the eve of the 2024 Heart tour. “I can’t not dance and move.”

On Friday, April 26, Texas country star Cody Johnson will return to the Arena with his own brand of authentic country music and a couple of star-studded openers.

Country artist Michael Ray has navigated the ever-changing music industry for over a decade.

Iconic rock band Stone Temple Pilots are coming to Spokane on Friday to headline the annual Heart Strings fundraiser for the MultiCare Inland Northwest Foundation, injecting a bit of rock and roll into the effort to raise money for behavioral health programs.

On Monday, April 29, Michael W. Smith will bring his discography of countless Christian and worship classics to the Fox Theater.

In celebration of Imagine Dragons’ new album out June 28, the pop rock band announced Monday that its largest North American tour yet would make a stop Sept. 28 at the Gorge Amphitheatre.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse announced Monday they will play the Gorge Amphitheatre on July 26 as part of their “Love Earth Tour.”

Ozzy Osbourne, Cher and Mary J. Blige are among the acts in this year’s class of inductees at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  

For a little more than a minute on Saturday night, the only sound that could be heard in the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox was the pure, silvery tone of a single violin. The hundreds of people in the audience must have been breathing, but if they were, they were very quiet about it, lest they intrude on the hypnotic beauty emanating from the stage. The violinist was Glenn Dicterow, and the music was the beginning of Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade after Plato’s ‘Symposium’ ” (1954), the second piece in the eighth concert in this season’s Masterworks series by the Spokane Symphony.

If you’re old enough to remember DJ’s Sound City, you might recall the first 45 record you purchased, those iconic yellow spindle inserts or perhaps just an obscure one-hit wonder, such as “Popcorn,” by Hot Butter or “Playground in My Mind,” by Clint Holmes.

The Bing Crosby Theater is one of Spokane’s most legendary buildings, so it seems fitting that a musical great like Al Stewart will take to the historic stage on Thursday, April 25.

LOS ANGELES — It's the dawn of a new era — a new Taylor Swift Era, that is. This week, the 14-time Grammy Award-winning artist will release her 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department," which she first announced at the Grammys in February. While accepting the pop vocal album award for "Midnights" — her first of two wins that night — Swift thanked her fans by divulging "a secret that ...

Among his tour stops in the Pacific Northwest, Kameron Marlow bring his latest country hits to the Spokane Tribe Casino and Resort on Friday.

On Friday, Niko Moon will bring his brand of pop-country to the Knitting Factory for a sold-out show.

In the eighth rendition of the Spokane Symphony’s recent Masterworks series, “Power to the People!” will take two days to display music of important political leaders and famed composers.

Managers reportedly advised Toni Braxton against going public with her lupus diagnosis back in 2010. The 56-year-old singer-songwriter revealed in a recent sit-down that her handlers told her to hide her chronic illness out of fear it would impact her ability to get work.

Donald Glover is retiring his Childish Gambino persona after releasing two more albums, the entertainer announced. He shared the news on an Instagram Gilga Radio livestream that aired Sunday night. 

It’s been a few years since renowned Southern rock band 38 Special joined fellow beloved rockers Rush at the historic Spokane Coliseum, but they’ll make another venture to the Inland Northwest when they take the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort stage on Thursday, April 18.