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1. Legendary Music Exec Clive Davis Dies At 94

   Clive Davis, the legendary music executive whose career touched virtually every corner of popular music, died today (June 22) at his Manhattan home. He was 94.

2. Olivia Rodrigo Launches Massive All-Female Fest

   Olivia Rodrigo is taking her advocacy off the stage and turning it into one heck of an event.

3. Goose Salutes Fan Who Died During MSG Show

   Less than 24 hours after a fan died during Goose’s concert at New York's Madison Square Garden, the band honored him with a moment of silence and a night dedicated to healing.

4. Chris Stamey Flips the Radio Dial on ‘Modernism’

   Chris Stamey is looking back. Last year he released Anything is Possible, an album of mostly original songs that paid homage to the kind of pop music that the co-founder of the dB’s grew up on. A year later, Stamey returns with Modernism, a collection of covers of hits and obscurities from the ’60s and […]

5. Mind the Gap

   If music can be a time machine, the Instagram account @gapplaylists is a DeLorean. Exactly what it sounds like, Gap Playlists shares the monthly in-store music playlists from Gap, from the early 1990s through today. Each post activates your sense memory, taking you back to the inside of a mall in, say, September 1998. Scrolling […]

6. A Love Song, a Restaurant, and a Cookbook

   Remember a time when you first heard a song that changed your life? Nikki Hill really remembers when she first heard singer-songwriter Claire Wadsworth’s “Vows.” Every detail. “It was at our wedding,” Hill says, laughing alongside Wadsworth as the two Zoom from the kitchen of their home in the Southern California high-desert town of Landers. […]

7. We’re With the Banned

   There are two questions people ask me straightaway when they learn that I am a teacher librarian at a high school: 1) “Do you still use the Dewey Decimal System?” and 2) “Do you carry banned books?”  I suspect they expect my answer to both to be “No,” but it is a resounding “Yes!” While […]

8. Fab 5 Freddy Is the Fly Boy

   While new wave and punk were dominating Manhattan clubs in the ’70s, hip-hop was starting in the Bronx. In 1981, Blondie debuted their single “Rapture” and, lo and behold, Debbie Harry was rapping.  “Fab 5 Freddy told me everybody’s fly…”  With those words, Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite — a New York City-based visual artist,...

9. Taylor Swift Wrote ‘Toy Story 5’ Song In A Day

   Taylor Swift didn’t spend long searching for inspiration when it came to Toy Story 5.

10. Ken Carson Crafts New LP, ‘Xperiment’

    Ken Carson isn’t wasting any time following the success of More Chaos.