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News Articles: Music

Album cover for <em>Drinking In Here</em>, a new collection of traditional drinking songs from the Lomax Archive.

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  • History

These catchy old songs aren't as think as you drunk they are

People are drinking less these days, but drinking songs never go out of style. The Lomax Archive is dropping a new album of traditional songs this week.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
A witness, identified as "Jane" and with her face obscured in courtroom sketches to protect her identity, testified this week that over the course of their three-year relationship, Sean Combs (seen here at left) pressured her to have sex with male escorts while he watched. Combs has pleaded not guilty to charges that include sex trafficking.

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  • Music

Sean Combs' ex describes relationship marked by 'manipulation': 'I couldn't say no'

The woman who dated Combs until his arrest described the relationship in complex terms — traumatic but sometimes loving — and seemed to be working through her feelings about it on the witness stand.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Christian pop singer Forrest Frank's hit "Your Way's Better" has been a fixture on the <em>Billboard</em> Hot 100 chart for weeks.

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  • Music

Christian music is experiencing a pop breakthrough

Once largely confined to insular networks, contemporary Christian music is having a breakthrough moment on the pop charts with artists like Brandon Lake and Forrest Frank.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • Emma Madden
Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers has spent much of her decades-long career commissioning new works by contemporary composers.

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  • Music Interviews

Three albums in 3 months? No sweat for violinist Anne Akiko Meyers

The ambitious violinist has an insatiable appetite for new music, much of which she's commissioned herself.

June 13, 2025
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Iman Maani
A new timeless voice: Los Angeles singer-songwriter Annahstasia.

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  • Music

The best new albums out June 13

Annahstasia enters the chat. The Cure reimagines a lost world. Mary Halvorson demonstrates why she's a MacArthur genius. WRTI's Nate Chinen joins Stephen Thompson to share their favorite albums out June 13.

June 13, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson and
  • Nate Chinen
Brian Wilson in 1965.

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  • Obituaries

Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82

The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.

June 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Powers and
  • Chloe Veltman
Sean Combs, shown speaking in Washington, D.C., in 2023, faces federal criminal charges that include racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. He has pleaded not guilty.

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  • Music

Witness testifies about Sean Combs' 'hotel nights': 'I was repulsed'

The woman, who dated Combs, testified that she repeatedly told him she did not want to participate in the drug-fueled encounters with escorts he requested, but felt pressured to comply.

June 11, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Brian Wilson in 1965

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  • Music

Brian Wilson: NPR's interviews, concerts and appreciations

The Beach Boys' co-founder Brian Wilson has died at the age of 82, leaving behind a storied legacy as one of pop music's greatest songwriters and producers. Here are NPR's best interviews, concerts and appreciations of the late artist.

June 11, 2025
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  • Hazel Cills
Morgan Wallen

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  • Music

The charts are ruled by Morgan Wallen, Alex Warren… and doldrums

Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem continues to dominate the charts, while long-ago chart queen Connie Francis is gathering momentum for a song from 1962.

June 11, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Tunde Adebimpe

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  • Music

How a forgotten tape recorder led to Tunde Adebimpe's debut album

The TV on the Radio cofounder talks about making Thee Black Boltz.

June 10, 2025
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By:
  • Raina Douris and
  • Miguel Perez
The Family Stone performs at Harvard Stadium in 1969.

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  • Obituaries

Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone, has died at age 82

The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.

June 10, 2025
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By:
  • Brandon Gates
K-pop band BTS members RM, left, and V salute after being discharged from a mandatory military service in Chuncheon, South Korea, on Tuesday.

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  • Pop Culture

K-pop group BTS set to reunite as two more members complete military service

BTS has been on a break since June 2022 to focus on solo projects and serve in the South Korean military. All of the group's members are scheduled to finish mandatory enlistment by the end of June.

June 10, 2025
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By:
  • Se Eun Gong
Jarvis Cocker formed Pulp in Sheffield, England in 1978, when he was a teenager. After two decades, the band took an extended break, but it has returned with its old formula applied to a new phase of life. "I've always loved pop songs and I like the way [they make] you feel," Cocker says. "But I always wanted to try and put something that is slightly inappropriate in the lyrics."

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  • Music

Death, love, sex, mistakes, marriage and 'More.' Pulp is back after 2 decades

Pulp was the wittiest, bitterest star in the Britpop constellation. On More, the band's first new album in 24 years, singer Jarvis Cocker is learning to trust his feelings.

June 08, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Powers
In his latest album, <em>Lush Life</em>, Seth MacFarlane records  arrangements of songs originally written for the late Frank Sinatra.

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  • Music Interviews

Seth MacFarlane of 'Family Guy' uncovers Sinatra songs in new album

The Family Guy creator got a trove of previously unheard arrangements written for Frank Sinatra and has released a first album of some of the songs.

June 07, 2025
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Iman Maani
Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Radio France Philharmonic orchestra during a rehearsal at the Maison de la Radio before its inauguration on November 14, 2014, in Paris.

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  • World

South Korean maestro Chung will be the first Asian to head Italy's famed La Scala

Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan's famous opera house.

June 06, 2025
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  • Anthony Kuhn
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