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For the fifth week in a row, Swift's The Tortured Poets Department was the best-selling album in the country. Post Malone and Wallen's "I Had Some Help" repeated as the top song.

For the fifth week in a row, Swift's The Tortured Poets Department was the best-selling album in the country. Post Malone and Wallen's "I Had Some Help" repeated as the top song.

Which songs will dominate summer playlists on radio, social and streaming platforms? Avid fans and followers of pop music know that by late spring most of the candidates are already climbing the charts, so we're looking at the current top 10 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart to see which entries have a chance to be the song of the summer.

I turned to the parent next to me at the United Center and asked what she was going to do about all the, you know ... all of the swearing.

Sierra Ferrell, Patty Griffin and Hiss Golden Messenger are among the +30 artists on the inaugural Evanston Folk Festival lineup.

Critics are divided on Taylor Swift's new album "The Tortured Poets Department," a lengthy voyage through Swift's inner turmoil.

This year sees some riveting and remarkable lives—from artist Ai Weiwei to singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell—captured on the page.

Perhaps the first famous name that comes to mind when it comes to policeman arrests in a restroom is George Michael, the former Wham! singer, who was busted in April of 1998 for lewd conduct in a restroom at Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills. (The act was reportedly masturbation and some public nudity.) This story, with Michael's fame on the wane, drew almost no attention from the same national media outlets who are now pounding on the office door of Sen. Larry Craig and insisting ...

While she was the Village Voice's nightlife columnist in the aughts, Tricia Romano, author of "The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture," was also working as a DJ in New York clubs. Spinning records, it turns out, w

The Tortured Poets Department isn’t a great breakup album. It’s something newer and tricksier, for us modern idiots.