Doug Seegers calling his new album “A Story I Got to Tell” (BMG) is an understatement. The soft-spoken singer-songwriter’s road to late-life success is nothing short of amazing. In 2014, the West Islip High School graduate was 62 and homeless in Nashville, living under a bridge after being laid off from his woodworking job, when he was discovered by a Swedish documentary team, who filmed him doing one of his own songs “Going Down to the River.” When people saw his moving performance and heard...

Debbie Gibson is making a mental checklist for her return to NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum with New Kids on the Block’s “The Mixtape Tour” on Sunday. The Merrick native is thrilled to see her Long Island fans, as well as friends and family, again. She is eager to see what has changed at the arena where she rehearsed for her 1989 “Electric Youth” world tour, following its $165 million renovation and reopening in 2017. And she is wondering if she can order enough pizza from Galleria Ristorante &...

Leave it to the New Kids on the Block to take an old form and turn it into something that suits them perfectly. There’s a reason the Boston group has been hangin’ tough for more than three decades. Though the New Kids’ “Mixtape Tour” has a decidedly throwback name in the age of streaming and playlists, the hit-filled show at NYCB Live’s Nassau Coliseum Sunday night seemed modeled after the revues of more than a century ago, when numerous singers would join forces to perform on the same...

Taylor Swift says she is “sad and grossed out” about the sale of her former record company Big Machine Records — which owns the rights to all the music she released before 2017’s “Reputation” — to music exec and Justin Bieber manager Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings. “This is my worst-case scenario,” Swift wrote in a Tumblr post after hearing of the reported $300 million deal on Sunday. “This is what happens when you sign a deal at 15 to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a...

The Stray Cats will bring its 40th anniversary tour home to Long Island with a special invitation-only concert for SiriusXM subscribers at the intimate, 300-capacity Revolution Bar & Music Hall in Amityville on Aug. 2. The Massapequa natives and Long Island Music Hall of Famers will return to that tiny stage under better circumstances than the last time they played there. “In 1977, we auditioned at the Revolution [formerly Past Times Pub] down the road from our house, and didn't get the gig,”...