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ABBA, Blondie, and the Notorious B.I.G. enter the National Recording Registry
Albums from ABBA, Blondie and the Notorious B.I.G. are entering the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. They're among the 25 titles announced Tuesday that have been selected for preservation as “defining sounds of the…
Music Review: Jazz pianist Fred Hersch creates subdued, lovely colors on ‘Silent, Listening’
Jazz pianist Fred Hersch fully embraces the freedom that comes with improvisation on his solo album “Silent, Listening,” spontaneously composing and performing tunes that are often without melody, meter or form.
Listening to them can be…
Maggie Rogers on ‘Don’t Forget Me,’ the album she wrote for a Sunday drive
Maggie Rogers wrote and recorded her new album, “Don’t Forget Me,” over five days last winter. Rogers tells The Associated Press the songs came quickly and chronologically, as if she was writing “different scenes in a movie." The album is…
Belarus convicts a famous dissident rock band and sentences its members to correctional labor
Belarus has convicted a famous dissident rock band, designating the band and its three members as extremist and sentencing them to two years of correctional labor. It's the latest in a yearslong crackdown on dissent that has engulfed this…
Mister Cee, a famed hip-hop DJ and key figure behind Notorious B.I.G.’s debut album, dies at 57
Mister Cee, one of hip-hop’s pioneering DJs and a New York City radio personality who played an instrumental role in the Notorious B.I.G.’s debut album, has died. He was 57. The famed disk jockey’s death was confirmed Wednesday by Skip…
Luke Combs leads the 2024 ACM Awards nominations, followed by Morgan Wallen and Megan Moroney
Luke Combs leads the nominees for the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards with eight nods to his name, it was announced Tuesday. For a fifth year in a row, he’s up for both male artist of the year and the top prize, entertainer of the…
Choreographer Lorin Latarro, rock’s whisperer on Broadway, gives flight to the Who and Huey Lewis
The quintessential rock musical “The Who’s Tommy” is thrillingly alive again on Broadway. And just a few blocks away is a new rock show featuring music by Huey Lewis and The News. The connecting tissue between them is the in-demand…
Inside Missy Elliott’s first headlining tour, with Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Timbaland
Aligning with Monday's total solar eclipse, Missy Elliott announced her first ever headlining arena tour. “Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience" will feature Elliott, Busta Rhymes, Ciara and Timbaland. The North American run…
Happy ABBA-versary! Fans mark 50 years since ‘Waterloo’ took the world by storm
Fans are celebrating 50 years since ABBA won a major battle with “Waterloo.” A half-century ago on Saturday, the Swedish quartet triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the peppy love song. At London’s Waterloo station a choir…
Glass Animals return this summer with a new album, each song exploring a ‘different side of love’
The English indie-pop band Glass Animals, who made a splash with the song “Heat Waves” a few years ago, returns this summer with an album exploring love. A few furious weeks of writing by frontman, songwriter and producer Dave Bayley ended…
Sean Paul helped bring dancehall to the masses. With a new tour, he’s ready to do it all over again
It has been 21 years since Sean Paul’s dancehall anthem “Get Busy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 and introduced new audiences to his Jamaican genres. “It’s changed for me now,” Sean Paul told The Associated Press, reflecting on the song’s…
Music Review: Lizzy McAlpine tells intimate folk-pop stories on her third album, ‘Older’
The opening track on folk-pop singer-songwriter Lizzy McAlpine’s third album, “Older,” is only one minute and 40 seconds long. In that time, “The Elevator” carries the listener into McAlpine’s internal world, climbing a steady piano melody…
Solar eclipse playlist: 20 songs to rock out to on your cosmic adventure
The April 8 total solar eclipse is quickly approaching. The right way to enjoy this rare cosmic occurrence is with a themed playlist. The Associated Press has compiled 20 songs, spanning decades, genres and themes to soundtrack your total…
Music Review: Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams sing about the power of love on ‘All This Time’
Drawing from personal experience, husband-and-wife duo Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams sing about first-rate romance on their latest collaborative album, "All This Time.”
Their marriage of 35 years — he from New York City and she from…
Travis Kelce brings back music festival in Kansas City with Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Diplo as headliners
Travis Kelce is keeping himself busy: On the heels of winning his third Super Bowl, earning a Webby nomination for his podcasting endeavors and garnering headlines for his relationship with Taylor Swift, the superstar tight end will…
