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

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 -- Billy Ocean is angry. But you won't hear it in his music.Now 70, he's frustrated by structural racism and by Black people being shot by police.

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.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhen veteran music producer Hal Willner passed away due to complications believed to be associated with Covid-19 on April 7, a day after his 64th birthday, the music community in New York and beyond was devastated.

Andy Cohen's eyes.According to a new report in Page Six, the Bravo scion was livid after Dorinda Medley cracked a joke at the expense of former "Real Housewives of New York" castmate Tinsley Mortimer's desire to get pregnant.The quip came over dinner during an episode of "The Real Housewives of New York City" in which Tinsley said she was leaving the Big Apple for Chicago to be with her fiancé, Scott Kluth."I've got a turkey baster — maybe try and have a baby," Dorinda said.

Billie Eilish? Where was Harry Styles? Where was Megan Thee Stallion?The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards — held Sunday night in New York as the first major live awards show of the COVID era, with Lady Gaga as the big winner — was missing some of the hottest pop stars of the moment.Instead, we got the Black Eyed Peas closing the show, giving us a has-been feeling.While the pandemic no doubt presented unprecedented challenges this year — forcing the awards show to move from Barclays Center to various

Demi Lovato and her new fiancé Max Ehrich didn't make their in-person red carpet debut at the MTV VMAs tonight. The couple opted not to travel to New York City for the ceremony, instead staying in Los Angeles amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Samia’s debut album ‘The Baby’ feels like an ideal accompaniment to these strange, discombobulating times. Over eleven sonically diverse and emotionally complex songs, the 23-year-old’s music goes beyond fleeting indie-pop and speaks directly to the soul.Landing somewhere between country story-telling and grunge, Samia’s unique sound comes from an eclectic range of influences.

No more broadcasting from home or Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest.

Madison Beer has opened up on how her own personal battles with mental health inspired the title of her forthcoming debut album.The New York singer/songwriter told NME that her upcoming debut album ‘Life Support’ is heavily influenced by the escapism it provided after she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder in 2019.“I was going through a really tough time when we were making this album.

Frank Ocean and director Luca Guadagnino reportedly have, or at least had, a secret project in the works. Guadagnino, director of Call Me By Your Name and Kid Cudi's upcoming HBO series We Are Who We Are, told New York Times writer Kyle Buchanan that he and Frank were “collaborating on a music video that never happened.” He went on to add a plea for the project to come to fruition.