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Billy Porter talks triumphant disco album, surviving the AIDS crisis and earning his age By

“I’m alive. What an accomplishment for my kind. … This is what 54 looks like, honey,” says  the Grammy/Tony/Emmy-winning Kinky Boots and Pose star, as he returns to the “mainstream music...

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Wynonna Judd opens up about moving forward after mother’s death: ‘I’m peacefully optimistic most of the time. And then when I’m not, I’m in hell.’ By

As she releases a Judds tribute album while looking ahead to new music, the candid and complex country music survivor tells me she’s on her way “to absolutely being on...

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Milli Vanilli’s Fabrice Morvan recalls media’s cruel suicide jokes and Rob Pilatus’s last days: ‘I tried forever to save him’ By

“When I was looking at my friend, my brother, I was like, ‘Man, he’s gone. There’s no way I can get him back,’” says the surviving member of the disgraced...

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How ‘The Lost Boys’ sexy saxophonist Tim Cappello ended up in that ‘greased-up, hip-popping, jumping-around, ultra sort of balls-out’ concert scene By

One of the most memorable, if infamous and incongruous, moments in Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys is that crazy concert scene, when a hulking, shirtless, and most...

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Joey Fatone on being in a ‘Better Place’ with *NSYNC and Justin Timberlake, 22 years after split: ‘We thought he was just going to… come back’ By

Fatone explains to me why his boy band broke up in 2001 at the peak of their creative powers, how their reunion has sparked a new wave of appreciation for...

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Shaquille ‘DJ Diesel’ O’Neal on how dubstep was the ‘only thing’ that got him out of his post-retirement funk: ‘I was down’ By

“When you’re being a DJ, it’s nonstop. When you’re playing basketball, it’s nonstop. I was definitely missing that,” says the NBA champ-turned-superstar DJ, who was “in a funk” after retiring...

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David Byrne talks ‘Here Lies Love,’ ‘Stop Making Sense,’ Armisen’s impersonation and why radio once thought Talking Heads were ‘a little too funky for white folks’ By

With his Studio 54-inspired Broadway musical coinciding with the anniversary of Talking Heads’ landmark concert film, Byrne looks back on a time when “there was an intersection with rock and...

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Tim McGraw talks new album, Taylor Swift’s ‘Tim McGraw’ and the tune that brought him and Faith Hill together 27 years ago By

One track on McGraw’s new album, Standing Room Only, is called “Some Songs Can Change Your World.” Here, the country star opens up to me about which songs changed his....

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Keanu Reeves recalls ’90s band Dogstar’s shambolic early gigs opening for Weezer and Bowie: ‘The nerves for me are making sure I don’t f*** up’ By

As the reunited “garage band” returns, bassist Reeves, drummer Robert Mailhouse, and singer/guitarist Bret Domrose look back on their early days, when they were “like children playing with pots and...

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De La Soul on carrying on, honoring Trugoy the Dove’s legacy: ‘Every member has to actually die before this thing can be over’ By

Ahead of De La Soul’s performance at the Blue Note Jazz Festival, founding member Maseo opens up to me about his final conversation with Trugoy, getting out of a “dark...

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