Post-pandemic, many musicians are only now getting the artistic automobile out of the garage and getting the engine gently purring again. But meanwhile, composer Rufus Wainwright is already tooling ...

The New York artist is touring Spain. In the midst of Pride he collected the Muestra T Award for his commitment to LGTBIQ+ ...

Rufus Wainwright wanted to make it clear his new music video for "Sword of Damocles" is a direct address to President Trump — in fact, he opened the clip with a card that reads, "Dear Mr. President." ...

Rufus Wainwright has lent his voice to some timeless words over the years, from modern classics penned by Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell to the traditional songs on last year’s Folkocracy project.

Iris DeMent was one of the most distinctive voices in the 1990s—a lyricist who inspired John Prine to write the liner notes for her 1992 debut album and a vocalist who inspired Merle Haggard to say, ...

Dubbed Folk Cancer: The Kate McGarrigle Project, the initiative is inspired by the Wainwright sibling’s late mother Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010 from cancer. McGarrigle was herself a folk ...

Over the rumble of kettle drums, farty blasts of trombone and kid sis Martha’s wailing—quite literally—about “fire and brimstone,” Rufus Wainwright repeats a straightforward question on Release the ...