Rachel Accurso, the children’s entertainer known as Ms. Rachel who rose to prominence on YouTube before striking a deal to bring her videos to Netflix, announced on Instagram that she is matching Macklemore’s $1 million donation to organizations supporting Palestine. “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it […]

Barbra Streisand is speaking out against Pres. Donald Trump’s controversial handling of the Kennedy Center . “In 2008, I was deeply honored to be included in the 31st annual class of Kennedy Center Honorees,” Streisand wrote in a statement posted Thursday on her official website. “For me, and for so many artists, that honor represented […]

Zara Larsson blasted the White House for using her song “Midnight Sun” in a TikTok post depicting ICE agents handcuffing and deporting people, captioned “Never ending deportations.” Larsson replied with a video on her personal TikTok, holding an “L” up to her forehead and saying, “I’m just sad. My heart is heavy seeing that, because […]

The professionals featured in Variety’s 2026 Women’s Impact Report navigated yet another crazy year in show business. Despite the mergers, layoffs and the ongoing transformation brought by AI, the box office returned with a bang and small-screen series captured imaginations. The resilience and determination to create, execute and deliver great entertainment by this year’s honorees […]

Wednesday night’s Americana Music Honors & Awards in Nashville found the love being spread among a handful of the Americana’s brightest lights — among them Brandi Carlile, Molly Tuttle, Tyler Childers and the duo of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings — on top of some high-profile and highly emotional honorary awards or tributes being afforded […]

The second single from She’s the Best prominently samples a timeless Madonna hit

Their first official run of dates together is a celebration of the duo’s 2016 album

A new video for “Stone Over Water” accompanies the announcement of North American dates

The second book from the Japanese Breakfast auteur documents her year abroad in South Korea

Sophie Allison wrote her latest during “a difficult time when I would often take my telescope out into the yard to look at the moon or at planets”