Phil Collins trades stadium bombast for something rawer on this 1994 MTV Unplugged set, recorded live at Fountain Studios in Wembley, London, on August 30. The full performance moves through ten songs that span his solo catalog and his Genesis-era reach, opening with “I Don’t Care Anymore” and rolling through “Both Sides Of The Story,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “One More Night,” and “Separate Lives.” The back half delivers the goods longtime fans come for, including a stripped-down “In The Air Tonight,” a playful run at The Beatles’ “Lady Madonna,” and a closing “Sussudio.” Stripped of the big production, Collins leans on his voice and his songwriting, and the set makes a strong case for both. The video also folds in behind-the-scenes footage from the session.
Video: Phil Collins Strips It All Down On His 1994 MTV Unplugged Set At Wembley
Knicks Hero Jalen Brunson Ends A 53-Year Wait: 53 Things To Know About The Finals MVP
The Knicks are champions for the first time since 1973, and Jalen Brunson is the engine that got them there. He capped a five-game NBA Finals win over the San Antonio Spurs with a 45-point masterpiece in the Game 5 closeout, walking away with Finals MVP honors after also claiming Eastern Conference Finals MVP. The undersized point guard with the old-man footwork and the bottomless bag of clutch shots delivered a title to the most title-starved fanbase in basketball. One fact for every year of the wait, here are 53 things to know about the man who ended it.
- He was born August 31, 1996, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- His father is Rick Brunson, who spent nine seasons in the NBA.
- His parents met at Temple University, where Rick played basketball and his mother Sandra played volleyball.
- As a kid, Jalen hung around Knicks locker rooms while his dad played there and future coach Tom Thibodeau worked as an assistant.
- His mother roomed with Kobe Bryant’s sister, Sharia Washington, on Temple’s volleyball team.
- Like his father, he’s a left-handed player.
- His family moved seven times before settling in Lincolnshire, Illinois, in 2010.
- At Stevenson High School, he scored 57 points in a double-overtime game as a junior, setting school single-game and career scoring records.
- He set the IHSA playoff single-game scoring record with 56 points against Jahlil Okafor’s Whitney Young team.
- He won Illinois Mr. Basketball in 2015, taking 99 of 132 first-place votes.
- He led Stevenson to the first state title by any Lake County school, scoring a Class 4A title-game record 30 points in the final.
- That same year, Stevenson became one of just a few schools to win football and basketball state titles in the same year.
- He was a McDonald’s All-American and won the skills competition at the 2015 event.
- He committed to Villanova over Illinois, choosing the Wildcats in September 2014.
- He won two NCAA championships at Villanova, in 2016 and 2018.
- As a freshman, he hit the clinching free throws in the 2016 Elite Eight win over Kansas.
- In 2018, he swept national player of the year honors, winning the Wooden, Naismith, AP, and Oscar Robertson awards.
- He was also a two-time Academic All-American and was on pace to graduate the summer after his junior year.
- Sporting News named him college basketball’s Player of the Decade in 2019.
- Villanova retired his No. 1 jersey in 2023.
- The Dallas Mavericks drafted him 33rd overall in 2018, in the second round.
- He was the fourth and final Villanova player taken in that draft.
- He made his NBA debut on October 17, 2018, against the Phoenix Suns.
- He spent his first four seasons in Dallas, largely as a sixth man before breaking out.
- He finished fourth in Sixth Man of the Year voting in 2020-21.
- In the 2022 playoffs, with Luka Dončić sidelined, he dropped 41 points on the Jazz in a single game.
- He signed with the Knicks as a free agent in July 2022 on a four-year, $104 million deal.
- His father was hired as a Knicks assistant coach just weeks before Jalen signed.
- The Knicks were docked a 2025 second-round pick for tampering in his free agency.
- On December 15, 2023, he scored a then-career-high 50 points and went 9-for-9 from three.
- That was the first 50-point game in NBA history without a missed three-pointer (minimum eight attempts).
- He became the first NBA player to shoot 8-for-8 on threes in a single half.
- He set the NBA record for most threes in a half without a miss (8).
- He tied the NBA record for most threes in a game without a miss (9).
- On March 29, 2024, he poured in a career-high 61 points against the Spurs.
- He earned his first All-Star selection in 2024 and made the All-NBA Second Team that same year.
- In the 2024 playoffs, he scored 47 in a game against the 76ers, a Knicks single-game playoff record.
- He became the first player since Michael Jordan in 1989 to close a series with three straight 40-point games.
- He fractured his hand in Game 7 against the Pacers that postseason and needed surgery.
- In July 2024, he signed an extension worth $156.5 million, leaving roughly $113 million on the table to give the team flexibility.
- The Knicks named him the 36th captain in franchise history in August 2024.
- He won NBA Clutch Player of the Year in 2025.
- He led the Knicks to the 2025 Eastern Conference Finals, their first since 2000.
- In December 2025, he won NBA Cup MVP as the Knicks took the tournament title.
- He crossed 10,000 career points in January 2026.
- He’s been an All-Star three straight years (2024-2026) and All-NBA Second Team three straight years.
- In the 2026 East Finals, the Knicks swept the Cavaliers and he was named series MVP.
- In Game 1 of the Finals, he scored 30, joining Willis Reed as the only Knicks to hit 30 in a Finals debut.
- In Game 4, his 36 points helped erase a 29-point deficit, the largest comeback in NBA Finals history.
- His 45 points in the Game 5 closeout set a Knicks Finals single-game record.
- He joined Michael Jordan as the only guards to score 45-plus in a Finals clincher.
- He’s one of only five players ever to win an NCAA title, Naismith Player of the Year, an NBA title, and Finals MVP, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Bill Walton.
- He’s married to high school sweetheart Ali Marks, whom he proposed to on Stevenson’s gym floor, and runs the “Roommates” podcast with teammate Josh Hart.
Genre-Bending Hitmaker Oliver Tree Dies At 32 In Rio De Janeiro Helicopter Crash
The music world lost one of its most unpredictable voices today. Oliver Tree, the singer, songwriter, producer, and filmmaker known for his bowl cut, wide-leg pants, and genre-bending catalog, died June 14, 2026, in a mid-air helicopter collision over the Recreio dos Bandeirantes neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. He was 32. Brazilian outlet O Dia named him among the six victims identified by Rio de Janeiro Civil Police following the crash. Authorities confirmed one aircraft carried five people while the other carried only its pilot, with no survivors.
Born Oliver Tree Nickell in Santa Cruz, California, on June 29, 1993, Tree built a career that refused easy categories. He moved through ska, dubstep, indie pop, hip-hop, and alternative rock, often blurring the line between earnest songwriting and absurdist performance art. He launched his recording career as “Tree” in 2010, signed to London’s R&S Records at 20, and released his debut EP ‘Demons’ in 2013, drawing early attention when Radiohead’s Thom Yorke praised his cover of “Karma Police.”
His breakthrough arrived after “When I’m Down,” his 2016 collaboration with Whethan, went viral and led to a deal with Atlantic Records. His major-label debut EP ‘Alien Boy’ followed in 2018, complete with the freestyle monster truck stunts that became part of his legend. Tree spent years cultivating a persona that was equal parts pop star and internet provocateur, setting a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest kick scooter along the way.
The albums kept coming. His debut full-length ‘Ugly Is Beautiful’ landed in 2020, followed by ‘Cowboy Tears’ in 2022 and ‘Alone in a Crowd’ in 2023. Singles like “Life Goes On” and “Miss You,” the latter a chart-climbing collaboration with Robin Schulz, gave him real international reach and platinum certifications across multiple territories.
This year marked a new chapter. Tree released his fourth and final studio album, ‘Love You Madly Hate You Badly’, on April 24, 2026, stepping away from Atlantic to put it out independently through his own Alien Boy Records. In May he announced his most ambitious run yet, a world tour spanning all seven continents, 30-plus countries, and 70-plus shows. He had been in Brazil following a June 6 performance in São Paulo, part of that ongoing world tour. The European leg was set to begin in Lisbon on July 13.
Tree leaves behind a body of work that turned self-deprecation, surrealism, and pop hooks into something wholly his own. He was a rare figure who treated the music video, the live show, and the meme as one continuous canvas.
Video: Peter Frampton Unleashes His Legendary Talk Box On “Do You Feel Like We Do” At The Oakland Coliseum In 1977
Peter Frampton hits the absolute peak of Framptonmania in this electrifying 1977 performance of “Do You Feel Like We Do” at the Oakland Coliseum Stadium, captured during Bill Graham’s legendary “Day on the Green” concert series where he co-headlined with Lynyrd Skynyrd. Backed by Bob Mayo, Stanley Sheldon, and John Siomos, Frampton stretches the song into an extended talk box showcase, shaping his 1954 Gibson Les Paul Custom into a guitar that seems to speak the lyrics. The massive outdoor crowd and the band’s tight improvisation capture exactly why ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’ became the best-selling album of 1976 and one of the defining live records of its era.
Video: Pearl Jam Tear Through The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” Live At Madison Square Garden
Pearl Jam tear through The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” live at Madison Square Garden, joined by Steve Diggle of The Buzzcocks, in a high-voltage 2003 performance from the band’s Riot Act tour that marked the first run with organist Boom Gaspar.
Electric Light Orchestra Deliver A Full 1978 Wembley Concert In “Mr. Blue Sky” Glory
Electric Light Orchestra’s full 1978 Wembley concert is streaming now, a fourteen-song run through the band’s peak era that opens with “Standing In The Rain” and “Night In The City” before rolling through “Turn To Stone,” “Telephone Line,” “Wild West Hero,” “Sweet Talking Woman,” “Mr. Blue Sky,” “Living Thing,” and a closing charge through “Roll Over Beethoven.”
Hozier And Lake Street Dive Unite For A Soaring “With A Little Help From My Friends” On The Late Show
Hozier and Lake Street Dive joined forces with Louis Cato & The Great Big Joy Machine on The Late Show for a once-in-a-lifetime performance of The Beatles’ 1967 classic “With A Little Help From My Friends,” a soaring celebration of the 10th annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert at New York City’s Beacon Theatre.
Brooklyn Indie-Pop Favorite Fia James Trades A Hollow Love For Hard Truth On “isn’t it?”
A man-child romance just met its reckoning. Brooklyn-based pop singer-songwriter Fia James continues her momentum with the release of her latest single, “isn’t it?,” out now. The track was written by Fia James, Luke Niccoli (Joji, Carly Rae Jepsen) and Corey Harper (Alex Sampson), with a video directed by Natalie Sakstrup (Zayn Malik, Kylie Minogue, Renee Rapp).
The track sees James navigating the wreckage of a “man-child” romance, trading the comfort of a shared history for the cold clarity of truth. With evocative imagery, she explores the exhausting labor of “taking care” of someone else at her own expense. The song’s central question doubles as its most biting hook, a visceral acknowledgement that the hunger of loneliness beats the slow starvation of a hollow love.
“isn’t it?” follows a breakout period for James, whose first foray into music, “Knock The Wind Out of Me,” landed on Spotify’s Best of Fresh Finds Pop 2025 playlist. Her recent single “Jealous Baby” served as an empowering anthem for anyone dealing with insecure partners and again caught the attention of Spotify editors, earning placement on Fresh Finds and Fresh Finds Pop. The song racked up over 100,000 streams in one month and drew attention from Ones To Watch, Atwood Magazine, Mundane and more.
James’ sophisticated sound continues to offer an eclectic blend, drawing on the indie-pop intimacy of Clairo and Gracie Abrams, the throwback soul of Norah Jones, and the witty songwriting of Kacey Musgraves. The track aches and bites in equal measure, a sharp showcase for one of Brooklyn’s most magnetic new voices.
James recently attended New York Fashion Week, making appearances at VALENTINO, Alice and Olivia, Love Shack Fancy, PAPER and FLAUNT events. She also made headlines after falling down the stairs in New York’s Grand Central Station while being told to “get the fuck up” by a grumpy local.
Hailing from Boston and now based in Brooklyn, Fia has spent years honing her craft, treating every gig, from dive bars to iconic venues like Irving Plaza and The Stone Pony, like her own personal Super Bowl. She’s already logged time on the road alongside indie heavy hitters such as Grayscale and Smallpools.
Genre-Fluid Hitmaker FILLY Turns Post-Heartbreak Spiral Into A Club Anthem With “Over And Over”
Heartbreak just got a high-BPM makeover. Genre-fluid hitmaker FILLY has released her new single, “Over And Over,” out now via slowplay/Interscope Records/Bamboo Artists. The track cements the Vienna-based singer, DJ, and producer as a rising star in pop and electronic music, channeling raw post-heartbreak energy into a dance number built on glossy synths and pure club momentum.
“Over And Over” captures the spiral that happens when a relationship flips from familiar to unfamiliar. The lyrics move through confusion and late-night second guessing, then land on a simple truth: even when it’s messy, there’s still hope that things will settle and be okay.
“With ‘Over and Over,’ I wanted to capture that euphoric energy of 2016 EDM while staying grounded in a very raw, human moment. The track eventually finds its heartbeat in the realization that love is a cycle worth repeating. It’s a dance record for anyone who has ever worn their heart on their sleeve and decided that, despite the mess, we’re going to be okay <333,” says FILLY.
Over the past few years, FILLY has built steady momentum on the heels of her Lollapalooza Berlin debut and a string of club dates that have established her as one to watch in electronic-pop, with her “Serious” collaboration alongside The Teenagers shining a light on her evolving album era.
Known for blending hyperpop gloss with European dance pulses, FILLY pairs sharp production with grounded narratives that set her apart. The single glides with infectious energy, a confident step from a producer who knows exactly how to move a room. It offers another peek into what’s ahead: an artist who balances her bold alien persona with real personal stories, growing her footprint across pop, dance, and pure personality, with more music already in motion.
Post-Hardcore Trio Held. Channel Inner Turmoil On New Single “Constant Tension” From Debut ‘Grey’
Three veterans of the scene just dug into the push and pull of self-reckoning. Held., the trio featuring Douglas Robinson and Sal Mignano of The Sleeping alongside Coheed And Cambria’s Josh Eppard, have released “Constant Tension,” the second preview from their debut album, ‘Grey’, out now on MNRK Heavy.
The five-minute track follows the band’s debut single, “New You Anthem ft. Frank Iero,” which Revolver praised for its lightning-strike guitar and thunderous drums, Alternative Press called rousing, and idobi described as a dazzling post-hardcore tune.
Where Held.’s introduction leaned into catharsis through connection, “Constant Tension” presents a more unsettled dynamic. Directed by Adam Thomson, the accompanying video builds on the story arc introduced with “New You Anthem,” offering a sci-fi-tinged visual companion to the themes behind ‘Grey’.
“‘Constant Tension’ stems from an everlasting battle within myself to embrace who I am via internal reflection,” Robinson explains. “It’s all of my strengths fighting against all of my weaknesses. There is a ‘constant tension,’ a violent push and pull within my mind every single day. I let myself down so much, to the point where I often feel like I have to somewhat abandon myself and step outside to try and see the bigger picture, but the hurt inside of me pulls me back into my own thoughts. I go completely blank to try and focus, which oddly enough resorts to more tension, and more clouded thoughts. It feels like an endless cycle. The lyrics to ‘Constant Tension’ mirror all of this.”
On ‘Grey’, Held. channel decades of collective experience into a debut that reflects both creative evolution and personal reckoning. “The album as a whole truly feels like it’s everything I have ever wanted to write in my time growing as a musician,” Robinson says. “This record has, in many ways, healed me…. or, it’s at least trying to.” The track lands with raw emotional force, a gripping turn from a band hitting its stride.
Produced and mixed by Jon Markson (Drug Church, Drain, The Story So Far), ‘Grey’ was recorded at the Animal Farm in Flemington, N.J. Multiple limited-edition vinyl variants are available now.