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Ariana Grande used to be a bit of a nerd at school.

"Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack..." Swift tweeted first, channeling her own "Shake It Off" vocal cadence.

Bruno Mars cried at a video of a school dancing to Uptown Funk.

If versatility is an important characteristic when it comes to sneaker purchases then this latest shot by adidas is sure to receive high marks. The adidas Originals Top Ten Hi has been reworked in a way that fits any nic...

Coming into the new year, the five guys who curate the Black Market — Ian Chainey, Aaron Lariviere, Wyatt Marshall, Doug Moore, and me — had a few long discussions on what we might do to improve this feature in 2015 ...

Taylor Swift regularly invited a wide range of surprise all-star guests onstage during her Red world tour, including Carly Simon, Jennifer Lopez and Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump. As the tour wound down in London last Feb...

Sly Stone was awarded $5 million after a Los Angeles Supreme Court jury found that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was cheated out of over a decade's worth of royalties by his former manager and an entertainment lawyer. ...

Never one to sound stagnant, JD Reid remains a favorite of mine.

While 2 Chainz contemplates running for mayor in metropolitan Atlanta, he's released his latest mixtape, 'T.R.U. Jack City.'

It's a good week for independent rap. New York rapper Joey Bada$$ earned amazing first-week sales for his 'B4.Da.$$' album, beating out veteran Lupe Fiasco's 'Tetsuo & Youth.'

The biggest-selling boy band of all time, Backstreet Boys have never been more honest and revealing about where they are in their now 22-year-long career than in their new documentary, Show 'Em What You're Made Of. Openi...

My latest treasure to be uncovered and cherished is: Appleby (pronounced Apple-bee), a 23-year-old from Chicago with a sultry voice and emotive words to match. While most artists, today, rely on their appearances (or rat...

Gun violence in America is a problem. The second half of 2014 played out like a nightmare in slow motion, riddled with violent, senseless gun-related deaths. Protests related to the shooting death of unarmed black teenag...

Many of the martial soul-pop songs in the Swedish singer Seinabo Sey's short set at Le Poisson Rouge were inspired by a doomed romance.

Alexandre Tharaud, the French pianist, performed a program of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Couperin, among others, at Zankel Hall.

If you want to "Party Like It's 1989" to "This Sick Beat," you better ask Taylor Swift's permission first. The pop star has trademarked those phrases - along with "'Cause We Never Go Out of Style," "Could Show You Incred...

Bill Frisell Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015 Yoshi's Bill Frisell is a transcendent guitarist. I don't mean just that he erases lines between genres, or that his unparalleled technical facility matched with his tendency to loop h...

Quartet Life in Film are experiencing that sort of effortless success that happens when there's something really special musically, not to say that they haven't put their work in. New single "Get Closer" is that perfect ...

The messy saga of Blink-182's apparent dissolution continues, as Mark Hoppus has revealed his side of the story in an interview with

Two veteran producers are planning to open "King Charles III," Mike Bartlett's future-history play, on Broadway this fall.

Selena Gomez now has more Instagram followers than Justin Bieber. (22.35 million people check out Sel’s selfies, while her ex-boyfriend has to settle for an audience of just 22.33 million). The stunning development was...

By now, you would think an artist would refrain from trying to board an airplane with a gun, but unfortunately that's not the case with Benzino. The former 'Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta' star was arrested in an Atlanta airpor...