Recordings

Running through a series of sobriquets from Puffy to Diddy, the superstar producer-clothier Sean John Combs has recorded four albums of his own, including the new "Press Play," perhaps his best since his 1997 debut, "No Way Out." It's time to give Diddy his due. At the very least, he is the most.

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Music

Watching Barbra Streisand at Verizon Center last night was rather like being invited into her home for a chat and some rugelach, but for the 55-piece orchestra behind her, and the teleprompter scripting those charming lines.

Music

During Thursday's Woody Guthrie tribute concert at the sold-out Birchmere, it mattered little how Pete Seeger sounded -- there was great value in simply seeing Seeger one more time, hearing him talk about Guthrie and basking in his powerful presence.

Spotlight

Evanescence's "The Open Door" is its first studio album since 2003's "Fallen," which sold 14 million copies, about half of those in the United States. The new album came out Tuesday, but singer-songwriter Amy Lee had stepped through a metaphoric door long before: What you sense is a stronger Lee,.

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Spotlight

"It's true, America picked our music up long before any other country," says Bettie Serveert vocalist and lyricist Carol van Dyk, quite thankfully.

"When we sent that demo out in 1991, we immediately got attention."

Music

Western swing was the thing at the Kennedy Center when the musical biography A Ride With Bob coasted in for the weekend.

Recordings

Janet Jackson has discovered the fountain of youth, and the 40-year-old pop diva is celebrating by peeling off her clothes and frolicking half-naked in the water.

Music

BALTIMORE, Sept. 23 -- Dressing like a doofus is a longstanding tradition at rock festivals. It's not enough to just be there for some festival-goers; it's also important to be seen .

Dedicated in 2004 as Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, what has come to be known as the Crooked Road is long -- 253 miles of highways and back roads -- and definitely crooked, winding through 10 southwestern Virginia counties and highlighted by the eight primary landmarks we recently visited...

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