These are the artists who’ll be going home with a Grammy
The 60th annual Grammy Awards will air Sunday night on CBS. Here, Post music critic Hardeep Phull predicts who will take home the top prizes. Record of the Year “Redbone” — Childish Gambino “Despacito”...
View ArticleHow the Grammys handled social issues, Trump
The 60th Grammy Awards peaked in the first five minutes. Kendrick Lamar’s scintillating opening performance at Madison Square Garden on Sunday was a statement of intent — not just on the rapper’s part,...
View ArticleThese celebs are pretty pissed off about the Grammys
Music’s biggest night? More like music’s biggest gripe. The 60th Grammy Awards were supposed to be a glittering display of the pop world’s finest acts. But some celebs still found reasons to take...
View ArticleToto’s ‘Africa’ is somehow a millennial frat anthem — and the band is ‘boggled’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY You can still hear it blasting out of classic rock and golden oldies stations all over the world, and against all odds, Toto’s “Africa” has become a...
View ArticlePeople hated ‘Scarface’ until hip-hop gave it cred
Brian De Palma’s “Scarface” has a rightfully earned reputation as a blood-fest, but the reviews it received upon release in 1983 were almost as gory. “An overblown B-movie,” was New York Magazine’s...
View ArticleEven Beyoncé can’t stop Coachella from sucking
If your social media feed was abuzz with snaps from the annual Coachella festival this weekend, it probably looked like an idyllic gathering of the world’s most beautiful people, all living their best...
View ArticleJourney’s keyboardist didn’t want his song to win a Grammy
It’s the song that truly does go on and on and on … Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” was a Billboard Top 10 hit upon its release in 1981, but it’s a song that still gets blasted out of TV shows,...
View ArticleThat time Dee Dee Ramone tried to seduce a music mogul
In 1982, music business mogul Seymour Stein — the co-founder of Sire Records — was at Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side, recuperating from a heart operation, when he listened to a demo by a...
View ArticleNBA star Kyrie Irving: Acting is harder than hoops
At more than 7 feet tall, and over 300 pounds, it’s safe to assume that Shaquille O’Neal is someone you don’t want to irritate. But that’s exactly what Boston Celtics star Kyrie Irving had to do while...
View ArticleThe Beastie Boys have kept a giant penis in storage for 30 years
When the Beastie Boys first hit it big in 1987, they were seen as “Animal House” frat dudes, thanks to the video for first single “(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party),” which became an MTV...
View ArticleThis 70-year-old LI couple is punk rock royalty
Next time you’re at a rock show in New York and security opens the VIP section for incoming patrons, the chances are it’s probably not Taylor Swift or a member of the Strokes. It’s most likely for an...
View ArticleThis street photographer captured the sex and danger of ’80s NYC
Hookers, users, mentally disturbed transients . . . and that was just the neighbors. It was the experience Jane Dickson and her husband, filmmaker Charlie Ahearn, had, while living right by Times...
View ArticleFreddie Mercury, Elton John and Rod Stewart wanted to form a supergroup
When Freddie Mercury made his final on-camera appearance in the music video for “These Are the Days of Our Lives” in 1991, AIDS had left him gaunt and frail. The Queen frontman could barely walk...
View ArticleWhy toddlers are suddenly the hottest tastemakers in music
When friends and colleagues found out my wife and I were expecting, they instantly pegged me — a music writer who’s covered rock and pop for 20 years — as a potential “cool dad.” I tried to live up to...
View ArticleHow Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo went from ‘quiet life’ to viral ‘Africa’ sensation
When Weezer’s 2018 cover of Toto’s “Africa” earned the band its biggest Hot 100 smash since 2005 (and hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart), singer Rivers Cuomo marked the occasion in his...
View ArticleJohn Lennon dropped big bucks at House of Oldies record store
Any store would be thrilled to have a member of The Beatles browse their shelves. But when John Lennon would walk in to the West Village record store House of Oldies during the early 1970s, owner Bob...
View ArticleSecrets behind ‘Born in the USA’ as Bruce Springsteen’s classic turns 35
Surprising stories about the album that made The Boss a household name.
View ArticleHow ‘Blinded by the Light’ writer got Springsteen’s attention
In his 1984 track “No Surrender,” Bruce Springsteen famously wrote, “We learned more from a three-minute record, baby, than we ever learned in school.” Sarfraz Manzoor knows that feeling. Growing up as...
View ArticleHow cocaine, fame and the Mafia destroyed Diego Maradona
Diego Maradona passed away on Wednesday at the age of 60. The Post’s Hardeep Phull wrote this feature previewing HBO’s 2019 documentary on the controversial Argentinian legend. One night in January...
View Article‘Purple Rain’ star Morris Day opens up about Prince’s ‘Jesus complex’
If Morris Day had his way, the star of “Purple Rain” would have been Prince’s black eye. As The Time frontman, who was Prince’s on-screen and off-screen rival, reveals in his new book “On Time: A...
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