Liv Tyler has reflected on the moment she learned her birth father was Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
Speaking on Kate and Oliver Hudson’s Sibling Revelry podcast, the 47-year-old said she was only “11 or 12” at the time.
Up until that moment, Liv believed that musician Todd Rundgren, whom her mother dated between 1972 and 1978, was her father.
It wasn’t until her mother, Bebe Buell, brought her to an Aerosmith concert that the truth was revealed. She said she knew something was off when her mother started crying.
“I looked at my mom, and I was like, ‘Mom?’ And she just started crying. My mom just, like, balled. And I was like, ‘Is Steven my dad?’ And she just burst [into tears],” Liv recalled. “And then she took me to a bench and we sat on a bench at this outdoor amphitheater and she told me the whole story in the most sincere, beautiful way.”
Don’t call Soledad Rodríguez Zubieta a DJ. She prefers the term “Selector — a small, but important distinction.
The Argentine artist, entrepreneur, and influencer has built a career through careful, intentional curation. After earning a psychology degree from The University of Buenos Aires, she worked in radio at 95.9 FM, managed festival events, and founded Modular, a bespoke music curation company catering to brands, restaurants, and hotels around the world.
Behind the decks, she’s played internationally, performing in cities like New York, Miami, Madrid, and South America. If you’re outside Buenos Aires, you might know her from Instagram. As of publication, Zubieta, who uses the tag “SRZ” for most of her artistic work, has amassed 212,000 followers in just a few years of serious engagement.
Her curatorial eye extends to social media, where followers admire her mid-century modern listening room in a recently renovated 1920s, English-style home. The space has all the makings of eye candy — hundreds, perhaps thousands of records placed on custom-built block shelving, warm lamp lighting, a speaker visualizer, and the must-have for any vibey listening room — an Eames chair (she’s not afraid to admit it’s a replica, she’d rather spend the money on records.) In what appears to be a separate area of her home, there are 4,000-5,000 CDs beautifully cataloged along the length of a wall.
People aren’t just drawn to her space — Zubieta also serves as a go-to source for music discovery. She regularly shares album recommendations, curating selections under different themes. In one video, she highlights rising Brazilian artists like Pulma, Bruno Berle, Sessa, Ana Frango Elétrico, and Gabriel Da Rosa. In another, she spotlights essential Argentine indie records, including Silencio by Los Encargados, Flopa Manza Minimal by Flopa, Manza, Minimal, La Misma Tierra by Copiloto Pilato, and Sentidos Congelados by La Sobrecarga — her longtime white whale. “I found it by chance at a fair in a park, at a good price, and I even knew the seller, who gave me a discount. Absolute happiness when something like that happens.”
Curating comes naturally to her — it’s in her DNA. She has been obsessed with music for as long as she can remember, shaping her role as a tastemaker since childhood.
“I was the one making mixtapes for friends, always wanting to share music,” Zubieta said. “That’s the motivation behind what I do. I try to remember what first drove me — loving a song so much that I wanted others to feel the same way. It’s nice to keep that in mind because, in the end, that’s still what I do at work and on social media.”
Randy Baumann & the DVE Morning Show recount past Grateful Dead/Pittsburgh confluences, including two 1989 shows marred by violent clashes between deadheads and police outside the venue.
Tonight at the Kennedy Center, legendary alternative rock band Guster took the stage to perform with the National Symphony Orchestra. But the audience got an extra surprise when the band brought on part of the cast of Finn—a children’s musical whose run at the center was recently canceled because of the new presidential administration’s vicious crackdown on the arts—to help them perform their song Hard Times.
What used to be one of the most prestigious venues in the nation has fallen from grace since Donald Trump’s inauguration and subsequent dismantling of the cultural institution’s board of directors—and the radical overhaul has led to cancelled performances and fear about what it means to perform at the center in its current iteration.
The cancellation of Finn’s run at the center was announced shortly after Trump installed a team of loyalists to the board, including Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, and Andrea Wynn, the wife of billionaire Steve Wynn.
Guster performed Friday night at the Kennedy Center, with the band using their show to stage a protest of sorts amid the Trump administration’s sweeping changes at the historic Washington, D.C. venue.
During the concert, Guster brought out the cast of Finn – an LGBTQ+ musical with trans themes whose own Kennedy Center performances were canceled after Trump named himself chairman – to perform with the band and the National Symphony Orchestra.
“I have a friend named Michael who wrote the songs for a musical called Finn,” singer Ryan Fisher told the audience (via The Handbasket). “In the before times they were booked to play here at the Kennedy Center. But as all of you know, things happened, and the show is no longer presenting here. As the new administration has made abundantly clear, Finn‘s themes of inclusivity, love, and self-acceptance aren’t going to be welcome in this building while they are in control.”
Fisher continued, “So tonight our band is here to say our stage is your stage. We are your allies, we stand with the LGBTQ community, and we want you to sing with us. Please welcome the cast of Finn and composer Michael Kooman. They belong here.”
Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings — founding guitarist and classic-era singer of the Guess Who, respectively — have been in talks about a Guess Who reunion tour in 2026.
“[Burton is] finishing up his stuff this year, I’m finishing up my BTO stuff,” Bachman told American Songwriter. “And we have a plan for 2026 to be the Guess Who, where … we do a set list of about 30 hit songs, and it’s probably gonna be a two- or three-hour Springsteen kind of marathonic show. And we’re all geared to do that in 2026. It’ll be the unveiling of ‘The Guess Who are back.’”
Bachman already has a lot on his plate, as he will embark on an extensive North American tour with the newly revived Bachman-Turner Overdrive from April through August. He’s also promised the band’s first new album in more than 40 years. Cummings, meanwhile, released A Few Good Moments in 2024, marking his first album in 12 years. He has a handful of solo tour dates scheduled through August.
News of a prospective Guess Who reunion tour also arrives after an intense legal battle in which Bachman and Cummings fought to prevent a different version of the band from touring under the name.
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