His new album, “Oh Yeah?,” marries the offline charms of nineties R. & B. with the disaffection of a life lived through a ...

My youngest son is 10 years old now, and since November, he’s been taking guitar lessons. With a love of Metallica in his heart and a Squier Strat over his shoulder, I bring him to Blue Sky Studios in ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of a glorious six-string explosion — a long, twisted, ...

Bruno Mars has a relatively clean record as far as pop stars go. His first three albums, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Unorthodox Jukebox and 24K Magic, all spawned hits of immortal magnitude, each of them ...

LAS VEGAS - It's been almost a decade since Bruno Mars was on tour, as the "I Just Might" singer primarily situated himself in Las Vegas for his longstanding residency at Park MGM or jaunted overseas ...

The long-awaited return of one of commercial pop music’s biggest stars has finally arrived. The Romantic, Bruno Mars’ first solo project in a decade and his fourth overall, feels both nostalgic and ...

When pop superstar Bruno Mars announced in January the release of his fourth solo album, it was disorienting to realize it had been almost a decade since his third. In the interim he has put out a ...

“New Video. New Album. New Chapter,” wrote Mars in an Instagram post on Feb. 27 Jack Irvin has worked at PEOPLE since 2022. He covers and edits daily music news, and he's interviewed both ...

Bruno Mars is back — did you miss him? The 16-time Grammy Award-winning Mars is an undisputable hitmaker, and that trend continues with the nine-track "The Romantic," his fourth full-length album.

But for Mars’ first solo album in 10 years, “The Romantic,” it is as if disco never happened. It is a time machine back to the mid-1970s, just before dance music took over, with a heavy, heavy ...

Valentine’s Day is, of course, one of the most popular times of year for a romantic dinner — and notoriously one of the most difficult nights to land a reservation — but the right restaurant can make ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...