Billie Eilish and Green Day kicked off the show with a duet. Joni Mitchell made a rare public appearance. Katy Perry pranced around the stage waving a state flag as she belted the 2010 banger, “California Gurls.”Over almost...
‘Margaret’s Gay Sons Featuring Dylan Adler and Sam Oh’Jan. 31 at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, Manhattan; publictheater.org.As part of her residency at Joe’s Pub, the comedian Margaret Cho has been presenting artists whom she...
Since the year 2000, more and more Black women have been nominees for album of the year: India.Arie, Missy Elliott, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Janelle Monáe, Cardi B, H.E.R., Lizzo, Doja Cat, SZA and Mary J. Blige....
Idina Menzel was sitting on a bench in a California redwood grove, yearning for silence. It was late one autumn afternoon, and I had been trying for months to get her to meet me in a forest where...
The protracted delay mirrors the many obstacles the musicians faced as migrants to the U.K. decades ago. While the pair now live in Anguilla, for the interview, conducted by video, Scipio spoke from his children’s home in Kent,...
If you’re “Saturday Night Live” and you need someone to play Alexander Hamilton in an opening sketch about the Founding Fathers, there’s only one person you can turn to: Lin-Manuel Miranda.And then you make him stand there in...
Feb. 14, 1981Funky 4 + 1Invited by the host and “Rapture” hitmaker Debbie Harry of Blondie, the Funky 4 + 1 became the first hip-hop group to perform on national network TV, rapping their giddy funk bomb “That’s...
It began as a scoop in a weekly tabloid: the allegation that a middle-aged former boy-band star turned top television host had paid hush money to a woman for unspecified wrongdoing.Other articles followed, asserting that it was a...
Mr. Hudson continued to be sought after and widely admired, performing and recording with dozens of musicians, including Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty and Roger Waters, the Pink Floyd singer-songwriter and bassist.For a group that captured so much of...
Did anything come out of nowhere and surprise you?The Fear story was one that I wanted to know about forever. When I first got to 30 Rock in 2009 , I purposely waited six months to figure out...
