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Follow all of our Sean Combs trial coverage One day after a prosecutor calledSean Combsthe “vicious” leader of a criminal enterprise, the music mogul’s lead attorney, Marc Agnifilo, stood before a jury in lower Manhattan Friday and said his client was simply living a colorful “lifestyle” filled with swinger relationships …

Steven Keene, a New York singer-songwriter, challenges fans of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen to identify as many of the creative giants’ lyrics as they can in his rollicking new song “Thesaurus.” Just shy of four minutes, there’s nonetheless a lot to digest in Keene’s word-packed song, which he sells …

There was a period in the late Nineties and early aughts when every blockbuster movie was seemingly accompanied by an equally-popular soundtrack, with the songs and A-list artists almost as inescapable as the action on screen. From Titanic and Twilight to The Fast & The Furious, the songs released from …

LL Cool J digs into how New York City shaped the creation and evolution of rap in the new trailer for the upcoming docuseries, Hip-Hop Was Born Here. The five-part series will offer a kind of historical and musical tour of the five boroughs as LL Cool J visits the …

A teenager in Germany has been charged with helping to plot an attack on Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour concert in Vienna. The suspect, identified as Mohammad A, was accused of interpreting bomb-building instructions and translating an Islamic State terrorist group oath of allegiance for the main suspect of the attack …

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Lorde returns with the intimate, banger-filled Virgin, Reneé Rapp shares another sexy, rock-tinged single, and BigXThaPlug links up with Shaboozey for a country-rap ode to their Southern …

Asclosing arguments continuein the Sean Combs trial, the defendant’s son, Christian Combs, has released a new song called “Diddy Free” assisted by Kanye West. On Friday, Christian — under the moniker King Combs — released the seven-song Never Stop EP on streaming services, with West serving as producer on the …

Carter Faith is a bright light for the future of country— and she has her debut album out soon to prove it. On Friday, as she released her single “Sex, Drugs, & Country Music,” Faith announced that she’ll drop her LP, Cherry Valley, on Oct. 3. “Cherry Valley means everything …

Lalo Schifrin, the Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning composer behind the “Theme From Mission: Impossible,” has died at the age of 93. The composer’s son Ryan confirmed his father’s death to the Associated Press, adding that Schifrin died Thursday due to complications from pneumonia at his home in Los Angeles. The Buenos …

Lorde‘s long-awaited fourth album is here. Virgin is available to stream on all platforms now. The Grammy winner’s Virgin is the singer-songwriter’s first album in four years, following up the indie-folk LP Solar Power. She wrote and produced every song with Jim-E Stack, and the album features additional production and …