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Lila Forde is one of the entrants to NPR's Tiny Desk Contest. She explains the story behind her song, "Brick by Brick," which took on more significance after the LA wildfires this year.

Pulp was the wittiest, bitterest star in the Britpop constellation. On More, the band's first new album in 24 years, singer Jarvis Cocker is learning to trust his feelings.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Andrew Batt, executive producer of Marianne Faithfull's posthumous EP Burning Moonlight.

Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan's famous opera house.

The Emmy-winning composer/arranger worked with a 35-piece orchestra for 27 years, creating music for The Simpsons. Clausen died May 29. Originally broadcast May 14, 1997.

With the help of Washington, D.C. go-go legends Backyard Band, Amerie sets the tone for summer with a career-spanning set.

The Family Guy creator got a trove of previously unheard arrangements written for Frank Sinatra and has released a first album of some of the songs.

Turnstile ascends. Pulp returns. Little Simz blooms. WTMD's Izzi Bavis joins Stephen Thompson to discuss the week's most compelling new releases.

The band is currently touring.

On Thursday, a woman identified as "Jane" testified that Combs, who she says she dated until he was arrested in 2024, the hip-hop mogul pressured her into sexual encounters with male escorts.