A veritable treasure trove of unreleased and unheard Billy Joel material has arrived alongside the conclusion of the music legend’s And So It Goes documentary.

Celebrating the life and over 60-year career of the Grammy Award-winning recording artist, Billy Joel: And So It Goes made its debut on HBO on July 18, with its second and final part premiering a week later on Friday, July 25.

Just hours after the conclusion of the film, an extensive 155-track “musical companion” was uploaded to streaming services, compiling six-and-a-half hours of unheard material and live performances from Joel’s storied career.

Alongside early tracks from his time as a member of groups such as The Hassles and The Lost Souls, the 115 songs are also accompanied by audio clips of Joel and others providing introductions to the following selections.

A number of live cuts from notable performances such as Joel’s appearance on The Old Grey Whistle Test and some recorded the day he signed with Columbia Records, are also present, as is the debut rendition of “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant” – recorded on May 6, 1977 at C.W. Post College in Long Island.

“I always wanted to write a cinematic type of song about the lives of people I knew in high school,” Joel explains of the song. “People who peaked too early.”

Though never released as a single, the near-eight-minute song was later released on The Stranger that same year and would become one of Joel’s most revered songs, along with his most-played.

Produced by Steve Cohen, Bradshaw Leigh and John Jackson, the new collection is likely to be accompanied further releases of similarly unheard material in the future. “There’s a ton of stuff that’s in his personal vault and there’s a ton of stuff that’s in Sony’s vault, with not a ton of overlap,” Jackson told Ultimate Classic Rock. “We are determined to go through both things in the coming years.

The premiere of the new documentary comes just months after the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer canceled all of his upcoming shows due to his diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus, writing in a statement at the time, “I’m sincerely sorry to disappoint our audience, and thank you for understanding.” 

His team also shared at the time that he would be undergoing “specific physical therapy” to combat the disorder, which has affected his hearing, vision, balance and performance capabilities.

Joel provided an update as to his current health status during an appearance on Bill Maher’s Club Random Podcast just last week on July 21. “I feel good,” he explained. “They keep referring to what I have as a brain disorder, so it sounds a lot worse than what I’m feeling.”

Jennifer Lopez faced a wardrobe malfunction that left her on stage in her underwear at a concert in Warsaw, Poland, on Friday night (July 25) — by shrugging it off with a smile.

Emerging from backstage following a wardrobe change, she found herself surprised with a “Happy Birthday” sing-along by her backup singers, dancers and the crowd at PGE Narodowy. But everyone in the room seemed surprised when the star’s gold skirt fell to the floor.

“Oh!” she said. “I’m out here in my underwear. That’s gonna be everywhere.”

When the garment couldn’t easily be reattached, Lopez — who turned 56 earlier in the week, on July 24 — simply threw it into the crowd.

“I’m glad that they reinforced that costume,” she joked. “And I’m glad I had underwear on. I don’t usually wear underwear.”

Whichever fan caught the skirt got to go home with a one-of-a-kind souvenir from J. Lo’s Up All Night Tour: “You can keep it,” Lopez called out. “You can have it. I don’t want it back.”

“You can have it, forever and ever,” she added with a laugh.

A good sport, Lopez uploaded a video of the whole ordeal on her official YouTube channel.

In the clip, she also told her fans and tour crew how appreciative she was of the everyone’s support.

“I am so thankful to be here in beautiful Warsaw on my birthday,” the singer announced. “I gotta tell you, surrounded by my incredible dancers, my band, my crew, everybody — I am so blessed. I don’t usually give any advice to anybody because I feel like we’re all on our own specific journey. … If I had one little piece of advice for you, it would be to do what you love, find what you love, do it, and do it with people that you love, and then you will have the most amazing life. I can say that firsthand.”

She said, “And I also want to say that I believe that the amount of happiness that you have in your heart is, is tied directly to how free you feel, and I wish you guys all the same happiness and freedom and the way you made me feel tonight. … I want you to be feel free to love, free to be who you are, free to just follow your dreams and do all the things that you want to do. I just want you to feel free.”

See J. Lo’s birthday surprise below.

Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other universities, has died. He was 97.

Longtime friend David Herder said Lehrer died Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He did not specify a cause of death.

Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s. In 2020, he even turned away from his own copyright, granting the public permission to use his lyrics in any format without any fee in return.

A Harvard prodigy (he had earned a math degree from the institution at age 18), Lehrer soon turned his very sharp mind to old traditions and current events. His songs included “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park,” “The Old Dope Peddler” (set to a tune reminiscent of “The Old Lamplighter”), “Be Prepared” (in which he mocked the Boy Scouts) and “The Vatican Rag,” in which Lehrer, an atheist, poked at the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church. (Sample lyrics: “Get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries. Bow your head with great respect, and genuflect, genuflect, genuflect.”)

Accompanying himself on piano, he performed the songs in a colorful style reminiscent of such musical heroes as Gilbert and Sullivan and Stephen Sondheim, the latter a lifelong friend. Lehrer was often likened to such contemporaries as Allen Sherman and Stan Freberg for his comic riffs on culture and politics and he was cited by Randy Newman and “Weird Al” Yankovic among others as an influence.

He mocked the forms of music he didn’t like (modern folk songs, rock ‘n’ roll and modern jazz), laughed at the threat of nuclear annihilation and denounced discrimination.

But he attacked in such an erudite, even polite, manner that almost no one objected.

“Tom Lehrer is the most brilliant song satirist ever recorded,” musicologist Barry Hansen once said. Hansen co-produced the 2000 boxed set of Lehrer’s songs The Remains of Tom Lehrer and had featured Lehrer’s music for decades on his syndicated “Dr. Demento” radio show.

Lehrer’s body of work was actually quite small, amounting to about three dozen songs.

“When I got a funny idea for a song, I wrote it. And if I didn’t, I didn’t,” Lehrer told The Associated Press in 2000 during a rare interview. “I wasn’t like a real writer who would sit down and put a piece of paper in the typewriter. And when I quit writing, I just quit. … It wasn’t like I had writer’s block.”

He’d gotten into performing accidentally when he began to compose songs in the early 1950s to amuse his friends. Soon he was performing them at coffeehouses around Cambridge, Mass., while he remained at Harvard to teach and obtain a master’s degree in math.

He cut his first record in 1953, Songs by Tom Lehrer, which included “I Wanna Go Back to Dixie,” lampooning the attitudes of the Old South, and “Fight Fiercely, Harvard,” suggesting how a prissy Harvard blueblood might sing a football fight song.

After a two-year stint in the Army, Lehrer began to perform concerts of his material in venues around the world. In 1959, he released another LP called More of Tom Lehrer and a live recording called An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, nominated for a Grammy for best comedy performance (musical) in 1960.

But around the same time, he largely quit touring and returned to teaching math, though he did some writing and performing on the side.

Lehrer said he was never comfortable appearing in public.

“I enjoyed it up to a point,” he told The AP in 2000. “But to me, going out and performing the concert every night when it was all available on record would be like a novelist going out and reading his novel every night.”

He did produce a political satire song each week for the 1964 television show That Was the Week That Was, a groundbreaking topical comedy show that anticipated Saturday Night Live a decade later.

He released the songs the following year in an album titled That Was the Year That Was. The material included the song “Who’s Next?” that ponders which government will be the next to get the nuclear bomb … perhaps Alabama? (He didn’t need to tell his listeners that it was a bastion of segregation at the time.) “Pollution” takes a look at the then-new concept that perhaps rivers and lakes should be cleaned up.

He also wrote songs for the 1970s educational children’s show The Electric Company. He told The AP in 2000 that hearing from people who had benefited from them gave him far more satisfaction than praise for any of his satirical works.

His songs were revived in the 1980 musical revue Tomfoolery and he made a rare public appearance in London in 1998 at a celebration honoring that musical’s producer, Cameron Mackintosh.

Lehrer was born in 1928, in New York City, the son of a successful necktie designer. He recalled an idyllic childhood on Manhattan’s Upper West Side that included attending Broadway shows with his family and walking through Central Park day or night.

After skipping two grades in school, he entered Harvard at 15 and, after receiving his master’s degree, he spent several years unsuccessfully pursuing a doctorate.

“I spent many, many years satisfying all the requirements, as many years as possible, and I started on the thesis,” he once said. “But I just wanted to be a grad student, it’s a wonderful life. That’s what I wanted to be, and unfortunately, you can’t be a Ph.D. and a grad student at the same time.”

He began to teach part-time at Santa Cruz in the 1970s, mainly to escape the harsh New England winters.

From time to time, he acknowledged, a student would enroll in one of his classes based on knowledge of his songs.

“But it’s a real math class,” he said at the time. “I don’t do any funny theorems. So those people go away pretty quickly.”

The 2025 Soundside Music Festival in Bridgeport, Conn., has been canceled due to “circumstances beyond our control,” organizers announced Friday (July 25).

This year’s event was scheduled for Sept. 27–28 at Seaside Park, with headliners The Killers, Weezer, Hozier and Vampire Weekend.

“Due to circumstances beyond our control, Soundside Music Festival has been cancelled,” organizers wrote in a statement on the festival’s website. “Tickets will be refunded to the original method of payment in as little as 30 days depending on your bank’s processing time.”

Soundside’s social media accounts had also been deleted as of press time.

In a statement to Billboard, organizers added, “We are deeply grateful to the City of Bridgeport, Mayor Ganim, our local partners, and all the fans for their support of the festival over the years. While we’re disappointed to have canceled this year’s show, we remain proud of the incredible musical moments we shared together in Seaside Park and the opportunity to call Bridgeport home.”

The two-day festival was also set to feature acts such as Djo, Japanese Breakfast, The Backseat Lovers, Remi Wolf, Alex Warren and The Last Dinner Party.

Soundside Music Festival originally launched in 2022 as Sound on Sound before rebranding under its current name in 2024.

Last year’s Soundside was set to be headlined by Foo Fighters, who dropped off the bill just two days before the event. The band’s withdrawal came two weeks after frontman Dave Grohl revealed on Instagram that he had fathered a child outside his marriage. The Foos were later replaced by Jack White and Greta Van Fleet.

Gwyneth Paltrow is stepping in — temporarily — to help clear the air about Astronomer.

On Friday (July 25), the Academy Award-winning actress and Goop founder appeared in a humorous new video for the tech company. The ad follows a viral incident involving former CEO Andy Byron and HR executive Kristin Cabot, who were caught on a Coldplay kiss cam during the band’s Boston concert earlier this month.

Shortly after Cabot’s resignation on Friday, Astronomer shared a social media video starring Paltrow — who was married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin from 2003 to 2016 — acting as the company’s “temporary spokesperson” on behalf of its employees.

“Thank you for your interest in Astronomer,” Paltrow says in the video, seated casually at a desk. “I’ve been hired on a very temporary basis to speak on behalf of the 300-plus employees at Astronomer. Astronomer has gotten a lot of questions over the last few days, and they wanted me to answer the most common ones.”

As questions flash on-screen — including “OMG! What the actual f—” and “How is your social media team hold-” — Paltrow offers responses that hilariously sidestep the actual drama.

“Yes, Astronomer is the best place to run Apache Airflow, unifying the experience of running data, ML and AI pipelines at scale,” she says cheerfully after the first inquiry. “We’ve been thrilled so many people have a newfound interest in data workflow automation.”

When another question begins being typed out on screen, appears the Shakespeare in Love star shifts gears again, plugging the company’s upcoming Beyond Analytics event in September.

“We will now be returning to what we do best, which is delivering game-changing results for our customers,” Paltrow concludes. “Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.”

The ad arrives in the wake of the July 15 Coldplay concert at Boston’s Gillette Stadium, where a jumbotron caught Byron with his arm around Cabot during a kiss cam segment. When the pair realized they were on screen, Byron ducked out of view while Cabot quickly turned away. Both were married to other people at the time and have since resigned from the company.

“Oh, look at these two,” Martin joked from the stage. “Oh, what? Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.”

Check out Astronomer’s ad starring Paltrow below on X.