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Grammy Nominations 2025 Announced, These NJ Artists Are Shining Bright Grammy Nominations 2025 Announced, These NJ Artists Are Shining Bright
Grammy Nominations 2025 Announced, These NJ Artists Are Shining Bright Two of New Jersey’s music stars are shining bright in the 2025 Grammy nominations. Nominations for the at the 67th annual ceremony were announced Friday, Nov. 8. The Grammy Awards will be held on February 2, 2025, at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, honoring music released between September 2023 and August 2024.  The following nominees have Garden State ties: SZA, 34: The R&B powerhouse from Maplewood who recently bought a pizza lunch for hundreds of high schoolers, has earned several major Grammy nods, including Best R&B Song for her hit “Saturn.” Known f…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Popstar Pink Visits Hersheypark Disguised As Mario Popstar Pink Visits Hersheypark Disguised As Mario
Popstar Pink Visits Hersheypark Disguised As Mario It was not "Me Mario" hanging out at the so-called "Sweetest Place on Earth" over the weekend, it was the three-time Grammy-winning pop star Pink.  Pink, who grew up in Doylestown where she went by her real name Alecia Moore, was outfitted with the disguise by her husband, who also bought similar glasses disguises of Batman and Bluey for their kiddos.  The 44-year-old mom of two posted some videos and photos of the undercover visit on her Instagram.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by P!NK (@pink) In the video, she poked fun at he…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Music Where Your Heart Lives: The Mighty Keb' Mo' Headed Toward BergenPAC Music Where Your Heart Lives: The Mighty Keb' Mo' Headed Toward BergenPAC
Music Where Your Heart Lives: The Mighty Keb' Mo' Headed Toward BergenPAC Keb' Mo' is peaking once more. Playing with a stellar backing trio -- a nimble-fingered keyboardist and a rhythm section tighter than a clam -- he's shredding again, picking deftly again, melding sexy blues, bounce, swing and just-plain-funky licks with that sweet-sweet roots music that hits that warm spot where your heart lives. And he's bringing it all back to BergenPAC in Englewood on June 16. It's always a party with Kevin Roosevelt Moore, but his latest tour is much more. The setlist sequencing is superb (even when he goes rogue) and his soulful combo is equally effective in adding a…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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The Wolves More Than Survive: Los Lobos Celebrate 50 Years With Upcoming NJ College Gig The Wolves More Than Survive: Los Lobos Celebrate 50 Years With Upcoming NJ College Gig
The Wolves More Than Survive: Los Lobos Celebrate 50 Years With Upcoming NJ College Gig Like the characters in many of their songs, Los Lobos remain humble but proud. “Thank you for still liking us,” guitarist César Rojas will often tell audiences. The original five Wolves not only have survived: They are at a high point artistically as they begin a year-long celebration of what will be a half-century of performing when they come to Kean University on Feb. 18, 2023. Not bad for “just another band” that started out playing mariachi for weddings and barrio parties in East L.A. The cross-cultural multiple Grammy winners would've been a fairly sizable success on their own even …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Grammy Winning Rapper Spotted At PA Restaurant 3 Days In A Row Grammy Winning Rapper Spotted At PA Restaurant 3 Days In A Row
Grammy Winning Rapper Spotted At PA Restaurant 3 Days In A Row While touring with multi-Grammy winner Post Malone, another Grammy award-winning rapper has been stopping by a central Pennsylvania restaurant to feed his spicey food needs.  Spice Kings Kitchen in Lancaster recently shared that 23-year-old rising rap star, Roddy Ricch, has frequented the restaurant not once or twice, but three times in a row! The "Ballin'" chart-topper's favorite dish has been "the fried shrimp and Chicken Hibachi xtra chicken with our Exclusive fresh squeezed Purp Lemonades," the Kitchen shared on its Instagram. View this post on Instagram …

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by Jillian Pikora
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Dim All The Lights: Stephen Sondheim Dies At 91 Dim All The Lights: Stephen Sondheim Dies At 91
Dim All The Lights: Stephen Sondheim Dies At 91 The lights will go out throughout all of Broadway following the death Friday of Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim, 91, was an unquestionable giant among American musical masters -- among them, Porter, Berlin, Bernstein and the Gershwins, as well as Richard Rogers and the man considered his surrogate father, Oscar Hammerstein. His death, following Thanksgiving with family at his Roxbury, Connecticut home, brought expressions of grief, love and deep appreciation. "Farewell Steve, the musical theatre giant of our times, an inspiration not just to two but to three generations," Andrew Lloyd Weber twe…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Do You Recognize The NJ Diner In Grammy Winning Artist's New Music Video? Do You Recognize The NJ Diner In Grammy Winning Artist's New Music Video?
Do You Recognize The NJ Diner In Grammy Winning Artist's New Music Video? A popular New Jersey diner served as the setting of the band Bleachers' latest music video. "Stop Making This Hurt" was filmed during the winter at the Bendix Diner on Route 17 in Hasbrouck Heights. The band's lead singer Jack Antonoff is a five-time Grammy Award-winning artist who grew up in New Milford. He also is the guitarist and drummer for the band "Fun." "Stop Making This Hurt" is part of the Bleachers' new album "Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night" out this summer.

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by Cecilia Levine