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The 10 hottest songs of summer 2024, from Kendrick Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter to Shaboozey
We count down the 10 hottest songs of summer 2024.
Bruce Springsteen addresses farewell tour rumors
“Hell no … Farewell to what? Thousands of people screaming your name? Yeah, I wanna quit that." - Bruce Springsteen
Roots rapper Black Thought looks back on 10 years of 'The Tonight Show' — and three decades of hip-hop impact: 'We changed the game'
On Friday night, the Roots will headline SummerStage in Central Park — just about 20 blocks uptown from the Rockefeller Center studios where they have served as the house band...
American tennis star has eyes on prize at US Open after skipping Olympics
As the consummate team player on the rare occasions that it’s called for in a highly individual sport like tennis, it hurt Frances Tiafoe to his heart not to play...
DJ Cassidy explains how he picked the songs for his mic-drop moment at the DNC
DJ Cassidy turned his “Pass the Mic” franchise into a state-to-state bop-along for 75 epic, invigorating minutes.
Gavin Rossdale looks back on 30 years of Bush and his Gwen Stefani divorce: 'All that — and then nothing'
At 58, Gavin Rossdale remains blessed by the rock-star hair gods — and the vocal lords of the universe — as Bush celebrates its 30th anniversary on its “Loaded: The Greatest...
How the Ramones rocked NYC's CBGB 50 years ago and became the poster punks of a music movement
The Ramones led a punk-rock revolution that started at CBGB 50 years ago on Aug. 16, 1974.
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars deliver the duet we didn't know we'd 'Die' for this summer
Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga were hardly on our dance-card couplings for 2024.
How Mick Jagger's partner went from a prima ballerina to an erotic novelist
Mick Jagger's partner of 10 years, former American Ballet Theatre star Melanie Hamrick, is making her own sexy moves, pirouetting into coital choreography as an erotic novelist.
Missy Elliott's first-ever headlining tour is the hottest concert of the summer
Missy Elliott's first headlining tour — which turned Jay-Z's house into her own at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Monday night — was the ultimate victory lap after she became the...
Stephanie Mills takes the yellow brick road back to Broadway — 50 years after 'The Wiz': 'It's been a wonderful journey'
For the first time since “The Wiz,” R&B legend Stephanie Mills is back in another Tony-winning Broadway musical, as Hermes in “Hadestown.”
'Wiz' legend Stephanie Mills defends Michael Jackson decades after dating him: 'I don't like when people try to target what he's built'
The R&B icon dated Michael Jackson in the '70s and remains protective of his legacy despite the child molestation allegations.
Lauryn Hill shuts down haters after abruptly canceling tour with Fugees: 'No one is more disappointed ... than I am'
As the Fugees and Ms. Lauryn Hill were about to set out to celebrate 25 years of her historic solo debut, 1998’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” — which became...
When they come around to NYC: Green Day still rocking stadiums 30 years after 'Dookie'
On their "Saviors" tour, the punk-rock triumvirate Green Day is celebrating two milestones: the 30th anniversary of "Dookie" and 20 years of "American Idiot."
Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard won't see 'Deadpool & Wolverine' — despite their big 'Like a Prayer' scene
"Like a Prayer" co-writer Patrick Leonard isn’t hyped up about the "Deadpool & Wolverine" hoopla that led Madonna to license the song for the blockbuster movie after an in-person plea...
Richard Simmons musical collaborator sent late fitness guru 'something the day he passed that he never heard'
Before his death on July 13, the fitness guru was toning up tunes for a musical about his legendary life with longtime Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard.
OMG! Usher going from Super Bowl to big screen with upcoming concert film
Are you ready for even more Usher?
Billy Joel, packing up his piano, on his Garden goodbye … for now: 'We'll come back'
"This has been the best gig that we’ve ever done, ever," said Billy Joel on the final night of his monthly Madison Square Garden residency after 10 years.
Billy Joel ends historic MSG residency, going down as a one-man franchise
There were moments in the final show of Billy Joel's monthly residency at MSG were it suddenly dawned on you that New York’s resident Piano Man was really movin’ out of...
Billy Joel's emotional coming-home story behind 'New York State of Mind' — as he says goodbye to his MSG residency
For Billy Joel, writing his own ode to the Big Apple — inspired on a Greyhound bus ride back from Highland Falls, New York — became a very personal mission.