Melissa Ruggieri is an experienced arts and entertainment reporter, with a wide range of publications she writes for, including The Oak Ridger, LLC, Yahoo Sports Canada, AOL, Inc., The Clarion-Ledger, USA TODAY, and more. Melissa covers a variety of topics within the entertainment industry, including concerts, celebrity news, lawsuits, and rankings of movies, music, and TV shows.
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Melissa's coverage primarily focuses on event coverage and entertainment news, particularly music-related events like concerts, tours, and pop culture moments. She also covers lawsuits related to celebrities.
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We talk to Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal about Tears for Fears' renaissance.
By: Melissa Ruggieri
In 2022, the duo released their first new album in 17 years, “The Tipping Point,” to collective acclaim, its combination of piercing lyrics about loss and grief meshing artfully with plush arrangements.
By: Melissa Ruggieri
The Grateful Dead will be “Truckin'” toward another honor as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year.
Few things will make you feel more alive than a Bruce Springsteen concert But when Springsteen and the E Street Band returned to the stage in 2023 after a six-year break, the through line of the tour was death.
By: Melissa Ruggieri
It only took 25 years for Little Big Town to become members of the Christmas Album club.
By: Melissa Ruggieri
WASHINGTON – Cyndi Lauper should name her next album, “Anyway, I Digress.”
By: Melissa Ruggieri
BALTIMORE – For the past couple of years, Duran Duran has developed a hunger for Halloween.
By: Melissa Ruggieri
In the eight years since Gwen Stefani's last studio album, the No Doubt alum was hardly idle.
By: Melissa Ruggieri
Linkin Park knows a successful return isn't a given. While many fans will be ecstatic the rock band has returned with a new album and
By: Melissa Ruggieri
“ From Zero,” Linkin Park Emily Armstrong, the former Dead Sara singer who now trades mighty vocal wallops with Mike Shinoda, who co-founded the band in 1996.
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