Author name: Regina Frye

Kendrick Lamar’s blistering diss track “Not Like Us” might contend for song of the year and record of the year at the Grammys, making for a potentially busy early February 2025 for the Compton-born L.A. stalwart. 2 Weeks the Drake-inspired “Not Like Us,” a character assassination you can really dance to, sat atop the Billboard

Music professionals in the Recording Academy were welcomed to Grammy season this year with an impassioned plea from Chief Executive Harvey Mason Jr., who sent a letter to the group’s 13,000 or so voting members in July that urged them to “vote intentionally, deliberately, with pride and with purpose.” We’ll see what effect his entreaty

The members of Vampire Weekend are very good at this. Gathered on a recent afternoon to talk about the band’s fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us,” frontman Ezra Koenig, bassist Chris Baio and drummer Chris Tomson have agreed to play a little game in which they’ll try to name from memory LP No. 5

The viewers of “The View” talk show and the listeners of Howard Stern’s satellite radio program couldn’t be more different: older women who watch daytime television for the former versus young and middle-aged white men who have long constituted the fervent followers of the once-raunchy stylings of the latter. Yet within the span of a

Pharrell Williams is sitting with a dozen or so kids around a doughnut-shaped table filled with plastic Lego bricks. As a camera crew records their interactions, the 51-year-old singer, rapper, songwriter and producer asks each child to tell him where they like to learn; the kids answer politely, though nearly all of them are paying

The audience inside the largest auditorium at Norwalk’s new Milagro Cinemas was jazzed. Although other theaters in the multiplex played “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “Transformers One” and other hits, this crowd was celebrating one of last year’s most notable disappointments. The object of their affection was DC Comics’ “Blue Beetle,” about young Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña), who

Ten years ago, when asked if she had considered following Maggie Smith from “Gosford Park” (in which they both starred) to “Downton Abbey,” Kristin Scott Thomas could not have been more clear: She had no interest in television. “It just goes on and on,” she told the Guardian. “I get terribly bored. Series bore me.”