Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2022 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival. Rich Fury/Getty Images hide caption
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A sixth lawsuit against the rap mogul alleges that he drugged a model before assaulting her. Scott Dudelson/Getty Images hide caption
Bad Bunny performs on SNL on Oct. 21, 2023. NBC/WIll Heath/NBC hide caption
A new album by pianist Inna Faliks features world premiere recordings of works by five composers. Rosalind Wong/Inna Faliks hide caption
Pianist Inna Faliks traces musical odyssey from Soviet Ukraine via Faustian fantasy
Sean "Diddy" Combs is pictured at the CBS Radford Studio Center in 2018 in Los Angeles. On Sunday, Combs apologized for his actions in a video that appears to show him beating his former singing protege and girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP hide caption
Since Ventura filed her lawsuit against Combs in November 2023, the mogul has faced allegations of assault in four additional suits. Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption
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The Philharmonik is the winner of the 2024 Tiny Desk Contest. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
David Sanborn, seen here performing in New York City in 2011. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images hide caption
Nemo of Switzerland, who performed the song "The Code," celebrates after winning the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday. Martin Meissner/AP hide caption
Brian Wilson, performing in Los Angeles in 2015. Kevin Winter/Getty Images hide caption
Speranza Scappucci conducts singers on stage and the orchestra in the pit for the Washington National Opera's production of Turandot. Keren Carrión/NPR hide caption
One of opera's greatest hits gets a new and happy ending in Washington
Steve Albini in his Electrical Audio studios in Chicago in 2023. John Semley/WXPN hide caption
Katy Perry pictured at an event in Los Angeles in April. She wasn't at Monday night's Met Gala, despite the fake photos of her circulating on social media. Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption
Pop star Madonna, performing Saturday night at a massive free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Duane Eddy performs at the Stagecoach Music Festival in Indio, Calif., on , April 27, 2014. Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as "Rebel Rouser" and "Peter Gunn" helped put the twang in early rock 'n' roll, died on Tuesday at age 86. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is one of two "middle-of-the-river" lighthouses left standing on the Hudson River. David Oliver/National Trust for Historic Preservation hide caption
Here's this year's list of the most endangered historic places in the U.S.
Kendrick Lamar cannot stand Drake; "Euphoria" lists the ways. Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press via Getty Images hide caption
From left, Nile Rodgers, Chappell Roan and Diplo are among the more than 280 musicians who signed a letter to senators in support of concert ticketing reforms. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images; Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images; Leon Bennett/Getty Images for MBJx David Yurman hide caption