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Jennifer Lopez is making another go at the charts with the new single, "I Luh Ya Papi" featuring French Montana.

While a galaxy of stars were paying tribute to Lou Reed a few blocks away at the Paramount Theatre, Reed's former college classmate and fellow urban poet Garland Jeffreys, who had performed at the Reed show earlier, was back in club mode, delivering a lean, mean showcase set with the grace and class that one has come to expect from him.

Tuesday: While seemingly every rapper under the sun eventually trades in his or her microphone to step in front of a camera, Donald Glover has gone in the opposite direction.

Two hours before Lucinda Williams would bring timeless Cajun songwork, 26-year-old Alynda Lee Segarra - known best for fronting Hurray for the Riff Raff - streamlined gothic folk and Dixie breakdowns.

The always-provocative Miley Cyrus has taken outrageousness to new heights since kicking off her Bangerz tour last month .

Singer Chris Brown has managed to intrigue -- and infuriate -- the public since he first burst onto the scene in 2005.

You have to hand it to the people behind the Cellar Door Rendezvous music fest, which kicked off its two-day run at Beachland Ballroom and Tavern Friday night.

It doesn't take long to discover Delegation Music 's true intent. Made up of rappers Juda and Navi , this DMV duo wants to keep things light.

A Florida man convicted of attempted murder in a confrontation over loud music won't be sentenced until after his retrial on a murder charge.

On Sunday night at Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Cantigas , which bills itself as "Washington's premier Latino chorus," will present "Connecting Hearts and Minds: Music From the Jewish, Latin American, And Arabic Traditions."

The line for Jay-Z and Kanye West at the Austin Music Hall stretched like Black Friday at Walmart, extending all the way down Cesar Chavez.

A man has been charged with two counts of murder after crashing into a crowd of people during a police chase in Texas.

Fans before the Arcade Fire concert at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Thursday March 13, 2014.

It's been a pretty good year thus far for Mr. Mars. The Hawaiian-born singer picked up Best Pop Vocal Album for Unorthodox Jukebox at the Grammy Awards, a BRIT award for International Male Solo Artist and gave a spectacular performance during the Super Bowl half time slot .

A free performance brought together strings players from Bearden High School and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra.

The Austin Ballroom of the Convention Center bustled with this town's finest Wednesday night: fiddle phenom and scion Warren Hood, Octopus Project theremin temptress Yvonne Lambert, KUTX favorite Jay "Silver Fox" Trachtenberg, and the members of horn line Hard Proof Afrobeat.

The Metropolitan Orchestra of NJ will present its winter concert, "Simply Classical," on Sunday, March 16, at 3 p.m., in the Millburn High School Auditorium, 462 Millburn Ave., Millburn .

I heard a commotion, but nothing specific. The news kept trickling in around me as "are you okay?" texts began circulating.

What would get Lil Wayne to do another album after Tha Carter V ? Josh Homme forgives and forgets, and two hip-hop heavyweights recreate rap magic.

Red flag: an album accompanied by a navel-gazing narrative on how the artist, in response to some trauma or another, isolated herself to read and write and marinate in pain and emerged on the other side triumphantly bearing a document of that time period.