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Jonathan Schwartz, a big-time supporter of music from the Golden Age, is leaving SiriusXM, citing his age. The quiet but terribly important battle to keep popular standards playing in our contemporary culture has just suffered a couple of setbacks. This past Friday, Jonathan Schwartz left SiriusXM satellite radio after more than a decade as its most prominent popular standards host ...

Mark Bonifacio/New York Daily News Valerie Hager’s play, ‘Naked in Alaska,’ reveals her experiences working as a stripper for ten years. The play will be one of the productions at New York International Fringe Festival. Like every personal journey, Valerie Hager’s individual odyssey has its ups and downs. Hers just happens to be on a stripper pole. The 350-pound portable ...

BigSeanVEVO via YouTube Miley Cyrus struts her stuff in Big Sean’s ‘Fire’ music video.  Miley Cyrus just can’t stop strutting her stuff. The 20-year-old “We Can’t Stop” singer stars in a racy music video for rapper Big Sean’s “Fire,” flaunting several barely-there outfits in the three-minute video. BigSeanVEVO via YouTube The ‘We Can’t STop’ singer sported several barely-there outfits for ...

Courtesy Derek Sexton Horani Robert Leslie, a folk musician from England, performs on a rooftop on the upper East Side. He lives in Bushwick but was a globetrotting troubadour until about five months ago. These subway buskers are about to scale new heights. A Cobble Hill man created a monthly concert series where subterranean musicians will get paid to perform ...

Mike Mitchell/AP This Feb. 11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, N.M., shows a photograph of the Beatles taken by photographer Mike Mitchell during a news conference before the band’s first live U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Snow and frigid temperatures didn’t stop thousands of screaming teenagers from crowding into the Washington Coliseum ...

Yong Kim/AP Eagles wide receiver Riley Cooper says the video of him using the N-word at a Kenny Chesney concert is ‘the lowest of lows. … This isn’t the type of person I am.’ As Riley Cooper works to rehabilitate his image after spewing a racial slur at a Kenny Chesney concert, the country star wants to make sure one ...

STEVE MARCUS/REUTERS Travis had been at the Dallas area hospital since July 7. Country music star Randy Travis is out of the hospital three weeks after he was admitted with congestive heart failure and later suffered a stroke. A statement Wednesday says Travis has been discharged from The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano near Dallas, where he’d been admitted July 7. ...

David Handschuh/New York Daily News The Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W 17 St. in Manhattan, where the museum director allegedly sexually harassed a former worker. A worker at a Manhattan art museum claims in a lawsuit that her boss fawned over her as if she were a priceless work of art. Cindy Sherling says that Jan Van Alphen, a ...

Theo Wargo/TAS/Getty Images for TAS Carly Simon joined Taylor Swift onstage tonight at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. in front of a sold-out crowd of more than 55,000 fans for a special duet performance of her iconic hit. Taylor Swift learned the art of a good breakup ballad from one of the best. Swift, who was dressed like she was ...

vevo In the video, Timberlake stops by a bodega, has a dance-off with a local kid, and enjoys a night club, all without missing a beat. Justin Timberlake knows how to give fans an experience and his latest music video for the single “Take Back the Night” doesn’t disappoint. The 32-year-old singer debuted the video Tuesday, which marks the first ...