At 70, Billy Ocean returns with an album to 'lift you up'

NEW YORK -- It's been four years since Rihanna released an album but the singer is working hard on recording new music.The pop star, 32, told The Associated Press for her new album she's already held “tons of writing camps" — where songwriters are put into groups to create original tracks for artists.Now, she said she's asked herself the questions: “What do I feel personally? What do I want to put out, and as an artist, how do I want to play it with my art? How do I want to interpret that?"“How

COVID-19 is still taking lives, whether certain politicians are forcing schools to open or not. And no, it isn’t just something otherwise healthy people don’t have to worry about.

Covid-19 lockdown restrictions. International student Reese Chamberlain, 18, was told that he would receive three meals per day while isolating.

Celebrities have been taking to Twitter to share strong reactions after an explosive report claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years.

Jordan Moreau In a new investigative report published on Sunday, The New York Times has uncovered more than two decades’ worth of President Donald Trump’s tax records.Every president since the 1970s has released his tax information, but Trump broke that tradition as he was running for president in the 2016 election.

NEW YORK -- Two weeks shy of a year after abruptly quitting Fox News Channel with a declaration that “truth will always matter,” Shepard Smith returns to television this week at his unexpected new home.He begins a general interest nightly newscast Wednesday at 7 p.m.

Machetes, myths and murky storytelling all find their way into Tragic Jungle (Selva Trágica), the lushly made, if highly enigmatic, fifth feature from Mexican writer-director Yulene Olaizola (Fogo), which screened in the main slate of the New York Film Festival after premiering in the Horizons section in Venice.

By and Photography by Styled by “Money helps women have power,” says Billie Jean King. It’s August, and King has been watching the U.S.

Fleet Foxes have released their surprise new album – listen to ‘Shore’ in full below.The album was shared at 2.31pm (BST) today (September 22) to mark the beginning of the autumnal equinox.

Jimmy Fallon has been loving life with his family of four since becoming a father in 2013.The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon host and his wife, Nancy Juvonen, first welcomed daughter Winnie, and she became a big sister the following year when Frances arrived.After their eldest child’s arrival, the New York native opened up to Savannah Guthrie about why he and Juvonen opted to use a surrogate for both baby girls.“My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby,” the Saturday Night Live

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe upcoming season of Encores! at New York’s City Center will include an adaptation by Pose‘s Billy Porter of The Life, a musical last seen in New York on Broadway in 1997.Porter’s adaptation, which he’ll direct, is one of two upcoming Encores! productions reviving rarely staged Broadway musicals centering on Black lives; also in development is director Kenny Leon’s production of 1983’s The Tap Dance Kid.

NEW YORK -- Fiction by Ocean Vuong and Yoko Ogawa, a prison memoir by Alfred Woodfox and a graphic memoir based on actor George Takei's childhood in a U.S.

NEW YORK -- Bruce Springsteen will release a new rock album that he recorded in his New Jersey home studio with the E Street Band.The Boss said Thursday the album is called “Letter To You” and he and the band recorded it in just five days. It will be released on Oct.

Michele Amabile Angermiller On-air personality Chris Booker returned to New York City’s radio airwaves today (Sept. 11), hosting the afternoon drive shift at alternative rock station WNYL (Alt 92.3).

Suzanne Vega, “An Evening of New York Songs and Stories” (Amanuensis/Cooking Vinyl)Suzanne Vega has had a symbiotic relationship with New York City since moving there as a toddler and the metropolis is a recurring presence in her tunes.Her new live album, “An Evening of New York Songs and Stories,” was recorded last year at Manhattan’s Café Carlyle with a small combo, and its 16 tunes, plus some between-songs chatter, form an intimate appreciation of the city and some of its many roles and

Action Bronson has dropped ‘Golden Eye’ from his upcoming new album ‘Only For Dolphins’ — you can listen to the track below.The New York rapper will release ‘Only For Dolphins’, his first album on Loma Vista Recordings, digitally on September 25, with a physical release following on October 16.‘Golden Eye’ is the second preview of ‘Only For Dolphins’, following on from the July release of the track ‘Latin Grammys’.You can hear the reggae-inspired, Budgie-produced track below.Bronson has also

NEW YORK -- If you're very lucky, one day Chick Corea will make your portrait. And because he's a formidable musician, it will be a portrait entirely in musical notes.Corea likes inviting volunteers onto the stage during solo concerts, sitting them down near his piano and creating spontaneous, entirely subjective tone poems about the person.“It starts as a game — to try to capture something I see in music,” he says.