Music

The best new albums out June 20

Stephen Thompson

Raina Douris

Haim leaves it all behind. Hotline TNT turns it up to 11. Yaya Bey threatens fear with a good time. World Cafe host Raina Douris joins Stephen Thompson to discuss their favorite albums out today.
Arts & Culture

Juneteenth Black Arts Festival brings 4 days of celebration to San Diego

Beth Accomando

Presented by the San Diego Black Artist Collective, the festival features dance, poetry, play readings, gospel music and more through Sunday.
Arts & Culture

San Diego weekend arts events: 'Constellations,' Juneteenth DJ set and Mozart

Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend in the arts in San Diego: Mirae kh RHEE's immersive MOPA exhibit; a Juneteenth music, art and film event at Oolong Gallery; "XICANA! San Diego"; Mainly Mozart All-Star Orchestra Festival; Make Music Day; "A Streetcar Named Desire"; writer Lizz Huerta; Bro-Am Fest and more arts and live music picks.
National

Alfred Brendel, the cerebral pianist with a dry wit, dies at 94

Jeff Lunden

Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results.
Sabrina Carpenter joins the 'song of the summer' race, just in time

Stephen Thompson

"Manchild," the first single from Sabrina Carpenter's forthcoming album, Man's Best Friend, enters this week's Hot 100 singles chart at No. 1, making a late-breaking bid for "song of the summer" status in the process.
Timbaland's AI music project is a ghost in a misguided machine

Sheldon Pearce

The super-producer whose beats moved the boundaries of Top 40 radio is chasing a new revolution: digital superstars and the erasure of artistic process as we know it.
The essential listening guide to Bruce Springsteen's 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums'

Caryn Rose

It's a great day when your favorite artist releases a new record. But what if they released seven new records at once, full of music you didn't even know existed? That's what Bruce Springsteen is doing on his forthcoming box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums.
Sean Combs trial: Judge dismisses juror

Anastasia Tsioulcas

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Judge Arun Subramanian said that the juror's conflicting statements about which state he currently resides in may have been an attempt to get on and stay on the federal trial of the hip-hop mogul.
A violinist, a luthier and the historic commission that brought them together

Debbie Elliott

Ed McNulty

Eleana Tworek

For her new album, musician Anne Harris commissioned a violin from luthier Amanda Ewing, the first such professional collaboration between two Black women to be recorded.
What if being Mr. 305 was a state of mind?

Manuela López Restrepo

Mia Venkat

Ari Shapiro

Pitbull fans are honoring him the only way they know how: partying till dawn in bald caps and fake goatees.