Audiences are told about classical music like a history lecture. Musicians think of key signatures and structure.

"Star Wars: Episode IX" director JJ Abrams posts the first photo of Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac in character as Rey, Finn, and Poe Dameron as filming wraps on the Skywalker Saga.

As the Laker Girls twirled to a thumping dance remix of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” indie rocker Stephen Malkmus leaned back in his seat at Staples Center and explained a counterintuitive idea: Not enough classic-rock legends have died over the last few years. “More of them need to go,” said Malkmus,...

When 18-year-old Nathaniel Rateliff moved with a missionary group from his rural hometown of Hermann, Mo., to Denver, the journey was more difficult than he anticipated. "We actually were caught in a pretty gnarly blizzard. Interstate 70 closed behind us as we were going west. And there was just...