Music

How Cindy Lee became the music world's underground success story of 2024

Meaghan Garvey

One of the best albums of 2024, Diamond Jubilee, isn't on streaming services. The artist who released it, Cindy Lee, has rejected the streaming era's demands to create something entirely their own.
Arts & Culture

Pianist Inna Faliks traces musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine via Faustian fantasy

Olivia Hampton

Faliks draws from her Ukrainian-Jewish heritage and Mikhail Bulgakov's anti-censorship novel The Master and Margarita for a new album.
National

Sean Combs apologizes for 'my actions in that video' that appeared to show an assault

John Helton

Without addressing his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who is seen in the video being kicked and dragged in 2016, the hip-hop mogul says, "I was disgusted then when I did it. I'm disgusted now."
Newly surfaced video shows apparent assault by Sean Combs like claims in settled case

Anastasia Tsioulcas

On Friday, CNN published footage that appears to show the hip-hop mogul, also known as P. Diddy, physically assaulting his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
International

This wholesome banger from a group of Irish kids is the spark you need

Anastasia Tsioulcas

A shot of pure joy to start off the weekend: a charming video of kids from Cork, Ireland, rapping about finding and following their creative voice.
Billie Eilish finally remembers who she is

Leila Fadel

Phil Harrell

Speaking alongside brother/collaborator Finneas, Eilish says she discovered a new self-awareness on Hit Me Hard and Soft, after years of seeing herself through others' eyes.
On Beth Gibbons' 'Lives Outgrown,' the Portishead singer invites us in

Grayson Haver Currin

Thirty years after Portishead's debut, Gibbons' first solo album is the testament of an uncanny singer simply making it through each day.
Arts & Culture

The poetry, community and soul of The Lyrical Groove

Julia Dixon Evans

Kendrick Dial and Brisa Lauren of The Lyrical Groove perform "spoken soul" set to live instrumentation for a captivating sound that combines poetry, music and is intertwined with San Diego's rich spoken word and hip-hop history.
Arts & Culture

San Diego weekend arts events: Spoken soul, music-informed sculpture and more

Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend in the arts: The Lyrical Groove, Glen Wilson, rock journalism at Small Press Nite, Disco Riot, Jasper Johns, Don Bartletti, "Next to Normal," plus live music picks and more arts events.
Gunna can't flaunt his way out of the YSL trial's shadow

Sheldon Pearce

The rapper slipped free from the legal mess that swallowed his label and his mentor Young Thug — but on his new album, he's still in the grip of an unending image crisis.