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News Articles: Music

US producer-musician Sean "Diddy" Combs poses with the Global Icon award in the press room during the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, on September 12, 2023.

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Sean Combs indicted on additional sex trafficking charges

The rap mogul, who awaits trial on sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges, faces two new counts expanding the timeline of his alleged crimes.

April 04, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Singer/songwriters Brandi Carlile and Elton John

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  • Music

Elton John and Brandi Carlile almost abandoned their new album

Elton John partnered with Brandi Carlile for a new album of duets, Who Believes in Angels? But the project almost fell apart during its first recording sessions.

April 04, 2025
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  • A Martínez and
  • Phil Harrell
Paul Butchart gives tours of musical landmarks all over Athens, Ga. In his hands is R.E.M.'s 1983 <em>Murmur</em> album, with the original trestle bridge photograph on the back cover. The bridge behind Butchart is a reconstruction, and now part of a walking and biking trail.

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R.E.M.'s hometown of Athens, Ga., still welcomes fans 45 years after the band started there

R.E.M. played its first concert there in 1980 and still draws fans to its hometown. A visit to Athens can be like a pilgrimage of the band's music.

April 03, 2025
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  • Melanie Peeples

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  • Music Interviews

Jason Isbell confronts the pain of divorce, and the possibility of new love

Jason Isbell sings about his split from musician Amanda Shires on his latest album Foxes in the Snow. "What I was attempting to do is document a very specific time where I was going through a lot of changes," he says.

April 03, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
In recent years, hardcore has transformed from an underground subculture into a mainstream phenomenon. Scowl is one of the unwitting torchbearers for this paradigm shift.

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  • Music

Hardcore has never been more visible. For Scowl, it's an opportunity to keep expanding it

Over the last few years, hardcore has transformed from an underground subculture into a mainstream phenomenon. Scowl is one of the unwitting torchbearers for this paradigm shift, but their success hasn't come without tension.

April 02, 2025
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  • Paula Mejía
Left: Playboi Carti's supersized blockbuster <em>MUSIC</em> holds at No. 1 on the album chart in its second week of release, but Morgan Wallen (right) breaks a record for songs.

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  • Music

Playboi Carti and Kendrick Lamar top the charts, but Morgan Wallen looms

Playboi Carti's supersized blockbuster MUSIC holds at No. 1 in its second week of release. Elsewhere, Kendrick Lamar's "Luther (feat. SZA)" holds at No. 1and Morgan Wallen charts a fifth top 10 hit from an album that isn't even out yet.

April 01, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Lovett’s Slater Nalley (left) has made it to Hollywood Week on “American Idol.” (Photo by Disney/Eric McCandless)

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  • News

Atlanta high school student finds his confidence on ‘American Idol’

Slater Nalley first caught American Idol fans’ attention when he auditioned with a song he wrote about his teacher’s late son. Now, he’s hoping to let America get to know him a little bit better.

April 01, 2025
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  • Sammie Purcell
When the musician Kate Nash found herself with a pile of unpaid invoices, she came up with a way to make some quick cash: she joined OnlyFans.

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  • Music

Why would a musician join OnlyFans? Because making a living is only getting harder

In a volatile music industry, some musicians are gravitating towards OnlyFans, a social media platform that has garnered a reputation for hosting sexual content.

March 31, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
Clockwise, from top left: Billie Eilish, Lady Gaga, SZA and Beyoncé.

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  • Music

100 years, 100 moments: How women shaped a century of music

The final installment in our month-long series for Women's History Month exploring 100 years of music history.

March 29, 2025
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  • Miguel Perez
This week rapper Playboi Carti's <em>MUSIC</em> tops this week's <em>Billboard </em>200.

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  • Music

Playboi Carti has the biggest streaming week since Taylor Swift — plus, Chappell Roan goes country

The rapper Playboi Carti's much-hyped MUSIC leads this week in albums. Plus, the rapper Doechii continues to make gains with her recently released "Anxiety" and Chappell Roan finds minor country chart success with "The Giver."

March 28, 2025
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  • Hazel Cills
This combination of photos shows Yolanda Saldívar (from left), who is serving a life sentence at the Patrick L. O'Daniel Unit prison in Gatesville, Texas, and Tejano music star Selena posing in Corpus Christi, Texas, on March 7, 1995.

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  • National

The woman who killed Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole

Yolanda Saldívar, the woman convicted of killing Selena Quintanilla-Perez, has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995.

March 27, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Wadada Leo Smith (left) and Vijay Iyer have known and collaborated with each other for decades. They have just released their second album as a duo, <em>Defiant Life</em>, with Smith on trumpet and Iyer on piano.

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  • Music

Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer on what it takes to lead a defiant life

On their new album, two of the most celebrated composers and players in the jazz world pay homage to the pursuit of purpose and joy found in the struggle for liberation.

March 27, 2025
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  • Nate Chinen
Justin Tyson.

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  • Music

A journey through the influences and trippy sounds of drummer Justin Tyson

A go-to drummer who has lit the scene ablaze, Tyson shares his top five drum heroes. Plus, the seasoned sideman shares tracks from his trippy debut as a band leader, the paper doors.

March 27, 2025
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  • Trevor Smith
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 20: Cleo Sol attends the Moncler Presents: The Art of Genius at Olympia London on February 20, 2023 in London, England.

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  • Music

Cleo Sol will see you now

The New York City debut from the British soul singer counters the prevailing narrative around her. As she guided fans in spiritual healing, she did it as she has her whole career: on her own terms.

March 26, 2025
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  • Sidney Madden
Lucy Dacus frames her new album, <em>Forever Is a Feeling</em>, around a vision of love as a well-tended slow burn.

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  • Music Features

For Lucy Dacus, the dreamgirl of boygenius, fantasies carry a lesson

Even as the songs on Forever Is a Feeling chronicle a love that's come to fruition in public, Dacus still creates a particular kind of safe space for the fans who delight in swooning with her.

March 24, 2025
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  • Ann Powers
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