Let the gramophone derby begin. The nominations for the 67th annual Grammy Awards — music’s biggest honor, bestowed by the Recording Academy — were announced on Friday morning And, as expected, Grammy darlings Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish continued their pop-diva domination. The three perennial contenders are all up for Album of the Year: … Read more
Bruce Springsteen has a hungry heart for the stage. The singer, who turned 75 in September, has been performing sold-out arena around the world for close to half a century. And the 20-time Grammy winner has no plans to stop anytime soon. Bruce Springsteen performs during the last show of the 1985 ‘Born in the … Read more
Will Jennings, an Oscar-winning lyricist and co-writer of the iconic “Titanic” theme, “My Heart Will Go On,” has died at the age of 80, according to multiple reports. Jennings won an Academy Award for Best Original Song along with composer James Horner for the haunting ballad from the 1997 disaster film, which was made legendary … Read more
The feeling when one of your biggest hits is played, 35 years later, in the biggest blockbuster of the summer. That’s the kind of puffed-out chest you’d expect Patrick Leonard would be flexing right about now — after “Like a Prayer,” the 1989 smash that he co-wrote and co-produced for Madonna, was featured in an … Read more
Richard Simmons was famous for revolutionizing the workout world by “Sweatin’ to the Oldies.” And before his death on July 13 — a day after celebrating his 76th birthday — the fitness guru was toning up tunes for a musical about his legendary life with longtime Madonna collaborator Patrick Leonard. “He had sent me some … Read more
There’s Batman & Robin, there’s Bert & Ernie, and there’s Hall & Oates. And when news broke last November that Daryl Hall got a restraining order against John Oates — his blue-eyed-soul brother in the best-selling duo in pop history — it seemed as if the pair that ruled the ’80s with their big hair … Read more
With a classic catalog spanning five decades from the Police to his solo career, Sting says it never gets old when one of his songs gets a brand new spin. And the timeless tunes of the artist born Gordon Sumner get a fresh flip in the new dance theater production “Message in a Bottle,” which … Read more
Are you ready for it? Taylor Swift’s 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” is about to turn us all into wannabe bards when it is dropped from the pop heavens. The LP got the grandest of announcements on the Grammy stage in February — after Swift won Best Pop Vocal Album for 2022’s “Midnights.” … Read more
The eclipse will “turn around bright eyes” across the nation. The 1983 hit song “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is getting a surge of love ahead of Monday’s solar eclipse. Over four decades after its release, the power ballad, the biggest career hit for Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, is the No. 1 song added to user-generated “eclipse” playlists on … Read more
He may live at the top of the charts, but nobody’s putting The Weeknd up for a Nobel Prize for literature. A new study showing a steep decline in songwriting skills over the last 40 years used folk crooner Bob Dylan’s award from the sainted Swedish institution of an example of how much music has … Read more
As one of the biggest breakouts in pop this year, Teddy Swims has rode the wave of his soul-crushing smash “Lose Control” all the way to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. And it’s taken a triumvirate of music’s mightiest — Beyoncé, Kanye West and Ariana Grande — to keep the singer-songwriter born Jaten … Read more
It was the sound of running water — not the sound of silence. That was the mundane muse behind the angelic ascension of “The Sound of Silence” — the chart-topping classic that had Simon & Garfunkel making all kinds of noise after their 1964 debut. “I used to go into the bathroom of my parents’ … Read more
There was getting to be the feeling that “I’m Just Ken” might actually win Best Original Song over “What Was I Made For?” — Billie Eilish’s far superior “Barbie” tune. After all, another Oscar win would make Eilish, 22, and her producer brother, Finneas, 26, the youngest two-time Academy Award winners in history after their … Read more
“Barbie” — the summer blockbuster that none other than Meryl Streep said “saved the movies” in 2023 – may have been snubbed in some of the major categories at the 2024 Academy Awards. (Shout-out to Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig!) But there is no stopping that arch-footed doll in at least one category — Best … Read more
Yes, folks, Paul McCartney still longs for “Yesterday.” Indeed, Macca remains haunted by a regretful remark he made to his late mother Mary — a lament that lives on in a legendary line from the Beatles’ 1965 No. 1 single. While “Yesterday” — which was ostensibly a McCartney solo song, with the singer strumming acoustic … Read more
Taylor Swift has seemingly won everything in sight at the Grammys, so it’s no wonder she’s so souped up about her boo thang Travis Kelce bringing home a different kind of coveted prize — the Vince Lombardi Trophy — when the Kansas City Chiefs tackle the San Francisco 49ers at Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11. … Read more
Vivid Seats is the New York Post’s official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. The land may be inhospitable — and so are we — but Mitski sure isn’t. Fans of the wistful indie icon will be pleased to hear that she’s added … Read more
With the string of hits that Taylor Swift had on “1989” — including “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” “Style,” “Bad Blood” and “Wildest Dreams” — it’s tough to see how she could have any good stuff left over from that era. But with Friday’s release of “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” — her re-recording of her fifth … Read more
For Sheryl Crow, the biggest honor of being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame comes not from the Cleveland institution, but from right at home in Nashville, Tenn. “My kids are teenagers, and I’m wildly not cool right now to them,” the nine-time Grammy winner tells Alexa. “But I will say that … Read more
Olivia Rodrigo is feeling “SOUR.” Rodrigo confessed on Audacy’s The Julia Show that she fought to keep the pivotal phrase “fame f—er” in the chorus of her new hit single “Vampire,” while co-writer Dan Nigro pushed her to take it out. “Some people said, ‘It kind of isolates you from people, you can’t really say things … Read more