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TORONTO — Something about being called a first-time Grammy nominee makes Molly Rankin a little itchy.

NEW YORK (AP) — It's a little late for John Leventhal to be considered a hot young thing in music.

TORONTO — Canadian singer-songwriter Tate McRae will perform during the second intermission of the NHL All-Star Game. The 20-year-old McRae, of Calgary, is a nine-time Juno Award winner and multiplatinum artist.

TORONTO — Canadian indie rock band Tokyo Police Club is calling it quits. The Newmarket, Ont.-formed act says it's planning "one last big bash" later this year and will play two nights in Toronto before breaking up.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For a rock star, Ty Segall may come across as surprisingly unassuming and demure — perhaps even quiet.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The often-nominated Diane Warren and past winners Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell are among the nominees for music awards at the 2024 Oscars .

Twenty years ago, the Grammy Award winning pop-punk trio Green Day released “American Idiot” — their ambitious rock opera, a treatise on a world power in decline written by a band with cultural clout and consequently, political power.

Willi Carlisle's folk music focuses on the folks in the shadows of the hills and hollers, or, as he calls it, “Critterland.” That’s the title of his new album, a compelling follow-up to Carlisle’s 2022 breakout release, “Peculiar, Missouri.

Avery Hellman possesses an affable alto that’s quirky, as is the perspective from which Hellman writes. “Sitting alone on the porch I think / About the things we washed down the sink,” goes one couplet.

Avril Lavigne plans to keep it simple on her 2024 concert tour with performances of only her greatest hits.