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National

High-profile women stand out on the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame shortlist

Chloe Veltman

Mariah Carey, Cher, Sinéad O'Connor, Mary J. Blige and Sade are on the latest inductee shortlist. It's notable for an institution long focused on white male artists.
On 'What Now,' Brittany Howard is a virtuoso in pursuit of a flow state

Jill Mapes

The former Alabama Shakes leader is in total control of her new album's genre-defying odyssey through this thing called life, evoking the mastery of another do-it-all maestro: Prince.
National

Seiji Ozawa, longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, has died at 88

Andrea Shea

Tom Huizenga

The pioneering Japanese-American conductor who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly decades died Tuesday.
Tinashe: Tiny Desk Concert

Alanté Serene

Tinashe's Tiny Desk performance proves her artistry has never been one-dimensional.
Economy

Snoop Dogg and Master P sue Walmart and Post for trying to sabotage their cereal

Jonathan Franklin

The rappers say that Walmart and Post Consumer Foods neglected their cereal brand and intentionally hid it in stockrooms to prevent it from being sold to customers.
The lonely throne of Usher, modern R&B's greatest showman

Sheldon Pearce

This year's Super Bowl halftime star is a rare species in pop: More entertainer than celebrity, his enduring stage presence has eclipsed his melodramas, and perhaps even his music.
The Super Bowl halftime show gives us a front-row view of the Las Vegas renaissance

Bilal Qureshi

In the post-pandemic market for maximalist entertainment, America's "capital of entertainment" has found itself at the center of a cultural revival with A-list residencies at its core.
Reexamining the 'upskirt decade' and the public ridicule of female pop stars

Scott Detrow

Gabriel J. Sánchez

Sarah Handel

The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye.
Arts & Culture

San Diego weekend arts events: Guadalupe Vidal, Nee Commission, Blacktronika and more

Julia Dixon Evans

This weekend in the arts: Barrio Art Crawl, La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, Panca, Blacktronika music and dance, Wharton's "Age of Innocence" on stage, kelp forest art, Margaret Noble and more.
8 Tracks: Portishead's Beth Gibbons is a 'passenger on no ordinary journey'

Lars Gotrich

Gibbons returns with a solo album, Lives Outgrown, and a song that wonders beyond this life. On this week's 8 Tracks, NPR Music's Lars Gotrich listens to songs that explore what happens next.