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Seventeen’s Tiny Desk Proves K‑Pop Has Officially Cracked the “Serious Music” Canon
Seventeen just made Tiny Desk history as the first K‑pop group to perform an in‑office concert at NPR, delivering a nine‑song medley with a live band squeezed behind the famous shelves. The set, which Music Connection highlighted in its January “Song Biz” column, strips away arena‑scale production in favor of tight harmonies, reworked choreography for a cramped stage and arrangements tailored to Tiny Desk’s intimate, musician‑forward format. With only part of the group present and an audience o
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Rock Wasn’t Dead, It Was Offstage
Metallica are still running their M72 stadium loop into 2026, My Chemical Romance are stretching their Long Live the Black Parade run across another year, and a reunited Rush is out on a “Fifty Something” tour with Anika Nilles behind the kit, selling the kind of tickets algorithm‑pop can’t touch. Loudwire’s tour guide, The Rock + Metal Bands Touring in 2026, treats those acts as just three pillars in a crowded calendar that also includes Iron Maiden, Ghost, System of a Down and Korn doing the
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Remembering James Van Der Beek: Dawson’s Creek Star Passes Away at 48
James Van Der Beek, best known for playing Dawson Leery on Dawson’s Creek, has died at 48 after a years‑long battle with colorectal cancer. His wife, Kimberly Van Der Beek, announced that he “passed peacefully this morning,” saying he met his final days with “courage, faith, and grace,” and asked for privacy for their family in an Instagram post titled “Our beloved James David Van Der Beek passed peacefully this morning.” Van Der Beek revealed in November 2024 that he had been diagnosed with st
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After Sonya Massey’s Death, An Illinois Jury Delivers a Rare Murder Verdict
In July 2024, Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson responded to a 911 call from 36‑year‑old Sonya Massey, a Black woman in Springfield, Illinois, who had reported a possible intruder at her home. Body‑camera footage shows deputies asking her to check a pot of hot water on the stove, warning “we don’t need a fire while we’re here,” then Grayson shouting that he would shoot her “right in the face” before ordering her to drop the pot and firing as she ducked and apologized; investigators l
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The Max Mara Art Prize for Women Goes Global, Starting With Jakarta
The Max Mara Art Prize for Women is entering a new phase, bringing in New York–based curator Cecilia Alemani to oversee its 10th edition and adopting a nomadic format that debuts with Jakarta’s Museum MACAN. As noted in ArtAsiaPacific’s “Weekly News Roundup: January 26, 2026”, the prize, launched in 2005 for women artists working in the UK and long tied to London’s Whitechapel Gallery, will now travel to a different country for each edition while still offering a six‑month residency in Italy and
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Pink to Guest Host The Kelly Clarkson Show
Pink is set to guest host The Kelly Clarkson Show in March, temporarily taking over the reins of the daytime talk show from her longtime friend. According to early details from network and entertainment reports, she will handle the opening monologue, celebrity interviews and at least one musical performance, effectively putting her own stamp on the established format. The booking comes as the show experiments with occasional guest hosts while keeping Kelly Clarkson as its primary face, a strate
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