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SoFi Stadium stands Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. The stadium is the site of NFL football's Super Bowl 56, scheduled to be played Feb. 13. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Super Bowl 56: A viewer's guide to get you through Sunday

By Joe Reedy Feb. 08, 2022 04:03 PM EST

DJ Khaled, front left, and H.E.R., front right, perform with Takeoff, from background left, Quavo and Offset, of Migos, at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 23, 2021, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
The Weeknd wins multiple honors at Billboard Awards

By Mesfin Fekadu May. 23, 2021 08:22 PM EDT

File---File photo taken Nov.20, 2020 members of South Korean K-pop band BTS pose for photographers during a press conference to introduce their new album "BE" in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-Man, file)
German radio station apologizes for comment on K-pop's BTS

By David Rising Feb. 26, 2021 07:17 AM EST

FILE - In this June 23, 2018 file photo, Kenny Chesney performs during the Trip Around the Sun Tour in Phoenix. Chesney’s No Shoes Reefs organization is helping to have an artificial reef installed off of Florida’s Atlantic Coast. The organization and other marine groups donated and installed 13 reef balls on the ocean floor off of Delray Beach in Palm Beach County. (Photo by Rick Scuteri/Invision/AP, File)
Favre, Chesney, Saban taking part in Super Bowl town hall

By The Associated Press Feb. 03, 2021 01:11 PM EST

FILE - Morgan Wallen arrives at the CMT Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn. on June 5, 2019. Wallen has apologized after a video surfaced showed him shouting a racial slur. The video, which was first published by TMZ on Tuesday night, showed him outside a home in Nashville, Tennessee yelling profanities. (AP Photo/Sanford Myers, File)
Singer Morgan Wallen suspended from label after racial slur

By Kristin M. Hall Feb. 03, 2021 12:41 PM EST

A health worker helps Luis Reyes into a car, to be taken home after recovering from COVID-19, outside the Mexico City Ajusco Medio General Hospital, Wednesday, Dec. 2. 2020. Mexico continues to report an increase in the number of coronavirus cases, with Mexico City continuing to report the biggest portion of the surge. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Mexico City hospitals are filling up, but so are the streets

By Maria Verza Dec. 04, 2020 01:00 PM EST

FILE - BTS arrives at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 26, 2020. The K-pop band is nominated for a Grammy Award for best pop duo/group performance with “Dynamite," their first song to hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
12 Grammy facts: BTS and Dr. Luke in, The Weeknd out

By Mesfin Fekadu Nov. 24, 2020 01:06 PM EST

In this Aug. 3, 2020 photo, Mickey Guyton is photographed during a remote portrait session with the photographer in New York and subject in Los Angeles. Guyton's EP, "Bridges", is set to be released on Sept. 11. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)
Mickey Guyton is speaking her truth after years of doubt

By Kristin M. Hall Aug. 13, 2020 07:48 AM EDT

Virus pushes quirky annual parade online

Jul. 04, 2020 09:38 AM EDT
WILLIMANTIC, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's quirky Boom Box Independence Day parade has gone online this year because of the pandemic for what is being dubbed the...

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2018, file photo, DJ Art Laboe sits in his Palm Springs, Calif., studio and talks about his 75 years in the radio business. Laboe, 94, and "Con Salsa!" radio host Jose Masso, 69, of Boston, are using their shows that are popular among Latinos to help bridge the isolation felt with the novel coronavirus and anxieties around national unrest. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras,File)
Legendary DJs use shows to ease virus exile among Latinos

By Russell Contreras Jun. 01, 2020 12:06 AM EDT

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2018, file photo, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami signs his autograph on his novel "Killing Commendatore" during a press conference at Waseda University in Tokyo. The acclaimed Japanese novelist Murakami, hosting a special radio show from home, painted a brighter side of the world with his favorite music, and said Friday, May 22, 2020, the fight against the coronavirus is a challenge to human wisdom in figuring out ways to help and care each other. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
Author Murakami DJs 'Stay Home' radio show to lift spirits

By Mari Yamaguchi May. 23, 2020 01:24 AM EDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, Joselia Kollie, who is the daughter of a popular gospel singer, explains how she desires to spread developmental messages through music with a song reminding Liberians of how much the country already has been through, in Gbarnga, Liberia. Liberian radio stations are getting the word out about how to prevent coronavirus, and one tune here is especially gaining praise: The person singing it is only 9 years old. (AP Photo/Jonathan Paye-Layleh)
Liberian girl's song about COVID-19 being played on radio

By Jonathan Paye-Layleh May. 06, 2020 03:31 AM EDT

FILE - This Dec. 15, 2016 file photo shows tenor Andrea Bocelli performing with The Philharmonic of New York at Madison Square Garden in New York. Bocelli will give a solo livestreamed performance on Easter Sunday from the main historic cathedral in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Evan Agostini, File)
Bruce Springsteen and Andrea Bocelli connect with music

By The Associated Press Apr. 07, 2020 02:30 PM EDT

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Apr. 07, 2020 03:36 AM EDT
JUDGE SAYS R KELLY MUST REMAIN BEHIND BARS NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has denied singer R Kelly's request to be released from jail...