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Chuck Arnold

Chuck Arnold

Background

As Senior Entertainment Writer, Chuck Arnold covers the music beat, with reviews, critical commentary, artist profiles, in-depth features, trend pieces and music news stories. While Chuck has interviewed music icons such as Ringo Starr, Mary J. Blige, Dave Grohl and Alicia Keys, Chuck also writes about movies and TV, having profiled actors such as Liam Neeson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Daniel Kaluuya and Taron Egerton. A veteran music journalist who has also written for People, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and Billboard, Chuck got his start as managing editor of his college newspaper, The Review, at the University of Delaware. He then was entertainment editor at the Philadelphia Daily News — in his hometown — and YM magazine. And when he’s not at a concert or listening to music on the headphones that are permanently attached to him, Chuck’s also a diehard tennis fan who doesn’t miss the US Open.

Latest Articles

Lil Wayne reflects on Super Bowl 2025 halftime show going to Kendrick Lamar

“I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt," said Lil Wayne about not getting to headline the...

Usher admits his post-Super Bowl surprise wedding was 'abrupt': 'We decided at the last minute to do it'

Getting hitched after arguably the biggest performance of his career — the 2024 Super Bowl halftime show — was the ultimate victory celebration for Usher Raymond IV.

Usher doesn't sweat going shirtless at 45: 'I look good, I make love good'

“To stay shirtless at 45 is work, man,” said Usher of baring his torso on his current Past Present Future Tour and new concert film "Usher: Rendezvous in Paris."

Usher reflects on 30-year music career— and he says he's not done yet

Three decades after he made his album debut, 2024 has been the Year of Usher, from his latest album "Coming Home" and the Super Bowl halftime show to his new...

VMAs 2024: Best and worst moments, from Taylor Swift and Eminem to Sabrina Carpenter and Katy Perry

While it’s no longer the must-attend affair that it once was, the 2024 VMAs still had the almighty Taylor Swift, who won her fifth Video of the Year award for...

How the Moonman was born: Inside the first MTV VMAs that shot 'unknown' Madonna to superstardom 40 years ago

Forty years ago, the idea for the VMAs — which will take place at the UBS Arena in Elmont, NY on Wednesday — came about as a way for MTV...

Beyoncé snubbed in 2024 CMAs nominations — despite topping country charts with 'Cowboy Carter'

There were no CMA nominations for “Cowboy Carter” or its hit single “Texas Hold ’Em,” which went No. 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums and Hot Country Songs charts,...

Usher is a master of soul seduction at Brooklyn opening show

Usher had the crowd caught up with his sexy slow jams, whether he was putting his hand down his pants, humping the stage or pouring a bottle of water over...

Elton John reveals 'severe eye infection' has limited his vision

The Rocket Man has been battling a serious optic infection that has left him with “limited vision” in one of his eyes.

The 10 hottest songs of summer 2024, from Kendrick Lamar and Sabrina Carpenter to Shaboozey

We count down the 10 hottest songs of summer 2024.

Bruce Springsteen addresses farewell tour rumors

“Hell no … Farewell to what? Thousands of people screaming your name? Yeah, I wanna quit that." - Bruce Springsteen

Roots rapper Black Thought looks back on 10 years of 'The Tonight Show' — and three decades of hip-hop impact: 'We changed the game'

On Friday night, the Roots will headline SummerStage in Central Park — just about 20 blocks uptown from the Rockefeller Center studios where they have served as the house band...

American tennis star has eyes on prize at US Open after skipping Olympics

As the consummate team player on the rare occasions that it’s called for in a highly individual sport like tennis, it hurt Frances Tiafoe to his heart not to play...

DJ Cassidy explains how he picked the songs for his mic-drop moment at the DNC

DJ Cassidy turned his “Pass the Mic” franchise into a state-to-state bop-along for 75 epic, invigorating minutes.

Gavin Rossdale looks back on 30 years of Bush and his Gwen Stefani divorce: 'All that — and then nothing'

At 58, Gavin Rossdale remains blessed by the rock-star hair gods — and the vocal lords of the universe — as Bush celebrates its 30th anniversary on its “Loaded: The Greatest...

How the Ramones rocked NYC's CBGB 50 years ago and became the poster punks of a music movement

The Ramones led a punk-rock revolution that started at CBGB 50 years ago on Aug. 16, 1974. 

Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars deliver the duet we didn't know we'd 'Die' for this summer

Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga were hardly on our dance-card couplings for 2024.

How Mick Jagger's partner went from a prima ballerina to an erotic novelist

Mick Jagger's partner of 10 years, former American Ballet Theatre star Melanie Hamrick, is making her own sexy moves, pirouetting into coital choreography as an erotic novelist.

Missy Elliott's first-ever headlining tour is the hottest concert of the summer

Missy Elliott's first headlining tour — which turned Jay-Z's house into her own at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Monday night — was the ultimate victory lap after she became the...

Stephanie Mills takes the yellow brick road back to Broadway — 50 years after 'The Wiz': 'It's been a wonderful journey'

For the first time since “The Wiz,” R&B legend Stephanie Mills is back in another Tony-winning Broadway musical, as Hermes in “Hadestown.”