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Chris Brown’s Fortune: A Mix of Beats and Ballads, But No Regrets
Chris Brown’s ‘Fortune’ is in stores today. Don’t buy it.
Rapper Eve on Essence Music Festival, Her New Album and the Next Generation of Female MCs
“I need another word for frustration. I’ve completely gone past frustration 100 times.”
Veteran Punk-Rockers The Offspring Let Days Go By on New Album
A little less ‘Dirty Magic’, a little more huh?
The Non-Believer’s Guide to Creation Festival: 8 Things You Need to Know
The biggest Christian music festival in the country is going on now. TIME has your top questions answered
Beat Boys: The Rise of the Superstar DJ
Have we entered a new golden age of electronic dance music — or, as Deadmau5 asserts, are DJs just glorified button-pushers?
Smashing Pumpkins Regain Soul on Oceania
And why Billy Corgan is like LeBron James
Justin Bieber’s Believe: The Pop Prince Comes of Age
Ludacris, Drake and Nicki Minaj join Bieber on this third—and most mature—studio album. Let the screaming begin
Bono, Bob Dylan and Ella Fitzgerald Among Rare Interviews Soon Available to the Public
A retired music mogul will donate more than 200 audio interviews with some of the biggest names in the business to the Library of Congress
Fiona Apple’s The Idler Wheel…: Painful, Raw Parts That Form Something Beautiful
Is Fiona Apple still a machine?
Fun.: The Band Behind “We Are Young” Talks About Their Newest Hit
“We’re still not one of the cool kids, but we’re not really pop stars either.”
Exclusive: Behind the Scenes on the Set of the New Music Video From Fun.
The latest video from chart-topping band fun. (yes, lower-case “f” and punctuation intended) took things in a bit of a different direction from what fans of their single “We Are Young” might have expected. The second single …
Happy Birthday Paul McCartney: TIME Remembers the Day He Met John Lennon
An exclusive excerpt from TIME’s new book, Paul McCartney: The legend rocks on