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News Articles: Music News

Bad Bunny performs during his "Debi tirar mas fotos" world tour in San Jose, Costa Rica on December 5, 2025. On Sunday, Feb. 8, he will play at the halftime of Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Calif.

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  • Music

What you should know about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show

Will the Puerto Rican superstar bring out any special guests? Will there be controversy? Here's what you should know about what could be the most significant concert of the year.

February 08, 2026
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  • Anamaria Artemisa Sayre
Bad Bunny took home album of the year at the 2026 Grammys.

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  • Music

Bad Bunny wins Grammy for album of the year

At the 2026 Grammys, Bad Bunny became the first artist to win the album of the year award for a Spanish-language release. Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga also took home major awards.

February 02, 2026
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Olivia Dean accepts the award for best new artist during the 68th Grammy Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles.

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  • Music

The complete list of 2026 Grammy winners and nominees

Kendrick Lamar won the most trophies of any artist, Bad Bunny made history by taking home the album of the year award and Olivia Dean won best new artist.

February 02, 2026
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  • GPB Newsroom
President Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday after returning from a trip to Florida. He says he will move to close the Kennedy Center for two years for renovations.

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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center to close for 2 years for construction in July, Trump says

President Trump says he will move to close Washington's Kennedy Center for two years. It follows a wave of cancellations since Trump ousted the previous leadership and added his name to the building.

February 01, 2026
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Music News

Want to play a Tiny Desk concert? The 2026 Contest is now open for entries

The 2026 Tiny Desk Contest, our annual search for the next great undiscovered artist, is now officially open for entries.

January 14, 2026
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  • Bobby Carter
Bob Weir performs with the Grateful Dead at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, Calif. in 1983. A member of the Dead from its inception, Weir took few solos, but his distinctive rhythm guitar playing and emotive singing were signatures of the group.

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  • Obituaries

Bob Weir, guitarist and founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at 78

For three decades with the Grateful Dead and three more after the group ended following the 1995 death of his bandmate Jerry Garcia, Weir helped build and sustain the band's legacy across generations.

January 11, 2026
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  • Felix Contreras and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Country singer Ella Langley claims her first-ever top 10 hit this week.

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  • Music News

After the holidays, a wave of new faces shoot up the charts

The holidays are over, both on the calendar and on the pop charts, and that's great news for an assortment of beneficiaries.

January 08, 2026
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  • Stephen Thompson
Celebrated banjo player Béla Fleck, performing at the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony in Los Angeles in Feb. 2025.

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  • Performing Arts

Béla Fleck cancels Kennedy Center appearance, says it's become 'charged and political'

The 18-time Grammy Award winner is the latest musician to cancel an show at the Kennedy Center. Béla Fleck says he cannot currently perform there because it "has become charged and political."

January 07, 2026
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The Kennedy Center says it is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.

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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change

The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.

December 27, 2025
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  • Kristin Wright
1969:  Singer Sly Stone of the psychedelic soul group "Sly & The Family Stone" strums his Fender Telecaster electric guitar in 1969. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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  • Music

In Memoriam 2025: The Musicians We Lost

D'Angelo. Brian Wilson. Sly Stone. We lost these greats and so many more in 2025 — singers, producers, conductors and writers whose departures gave us a pang of loss, but whose art still lifts us up.

December 24, 2025
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  • Lars Gotrich
Musician Fela Kuti performs at Orchestra Hall in Detroit in 1986.

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  • Global Health

He's the first African musician to get a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor.

December 20, 2025
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  • Ian Brennan
Raul Malo, performing here in Nashville, Tenn. in 2014, died at the age of 60. Malo was the lead singer of The Mavericks, a band that blended country with rock and roll, blues and Latin sounds.

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  • Obituaries

Raul Malo, lead singer of The Mavericks, has died at 60

The son of Cuban immigrants, Malo and his band blended country, rock and roll, folk, jump blues, Latin music and Cajun rhythms into a distinct sound anchored by his unmistakable voice.

December 09, 2025
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  • Felix Contreras and
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Rafael Ithier of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico arrives at the Lifetime Achievement and Trustees Awards presentation in Las Vegas in 2015. Ithier has died at age 99.

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  • Obituaries

Rafael Ithier, a legend of salsa music, dies at 99

The pianist, composer and arranger spent more than six decades turning El Gran Combo into one of the premier salsa institutions of Latin America and beyond.

December 07, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Spotify Wrapped is telling users their "listening age" this year, based on what era of music they listened to more than their peers.

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  • Pop Culture

How old is your music taste? Spotify will tell you, though you may not like it

Spotify Wrapped is bluntly telling users their "listening age," which in many cases is several decades older or younger than their actual age. It's a calculated strategy.

December 05, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Guitarist, songwriter and record producer Steve Cropper poses Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn.

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  • Music News

Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies

Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84.

December 03, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
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