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One's an NPR-loving mom, the other's the teen daughter of Hollywood megastars. But as two 'indigo star seeds' with a penchant for upending expectations, Jhene Aiko and Willow Smith have [...]

BECK HANSEN SITS in the control room of Capitol Records' legendary Studio B, his twiggy frame nestled in a rolling chair. The tousle-haired musician is 47 and married with two [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A couple of hours from now, Christopher Gallant will be in a Los Angeles loft, looking thoroughly at home in a mix of vibrantly patterned jackets [...]

When Zedd hosts poker night at his place, an impeccably decorated $4 million home high in the Hollywood Hills, there an no cigars smoldering in ashtrays, no clinking tumblers full [...]

They may be down one sister since Camila Cabello's messy exit from the group in December, but the women of Fifth Harmony are counting their blessings: a saucy new hit [...]

DJ KHALED'S A PROUD NEW FATHER, SVENGALI BEHIND SONG-OF-THE-SUMMER CONTENDER 'I'M THE ONE' (FEATURING ... EVERYBODY) AND SOCIAL MEDIA MASCOT TO MILLIONS. BUT CAN HE TRANSCEND LIFESTYLE GURU STATUS TO [...]

A year-and-a-half ago, NIALL HORAN was basking in the shrieks of One Direction superfans. Now, with the group in limbo and his mates making moves in everything from R&B to [...]

A rowdy trio raised together in North Atlanta, Migos cut a singularly now path to pop stardom: STEP 1 Launch a dance craze. STEP 2 Score a No. 1 with [...]

The hottest new thing in pop is Musically, a $500 million video app that makes social media stars of 13-year-olds, dismays parents and, most shockingly, delivers real results for labels [...]

Two frat-loving dudes in a Eurocentric dance world, The Chainsmokers and their monster No. 1 hit 'Closer' have cracked the pop-crossover code. Backstage with Drew Taggart and Alex Pall as [...]

RELYING ON EACH OTHER FOR A LITTLE ADVICE, LOTS OF RIBBING AND THE OCCASIONAL CIGAR-SMOKING SESSION, THESE TWO DISNEY CHILD-STAR SURVIVORS HAVE OVERCOME COCAINE [DEMI] AND BOY BAND PIGEONHOLING (NOT […]

WHILE IT BOASTS FIVE BEDROOMS, marble floors and a huge window overlooking beautiful Benedict Canyon, the Beverly Hills home Ariana Grande moved into last summer lacks any kind of decor--unless [...]

Girl groups were supposed to have been kaput when The X Factor threw together five ambitious teens with hard-knock childhoods. But as FIFTH HARMONY finally attains the upper reaches of […]

In 2015 ZAYN MALIK abruptly quit One Direction, broke off a fairy-tale pop-star engagement and overdid the hair dye. Now, as he wraps up his long-simmering creative statement--a suave, cred-building [...]

LADY GAGA IS SITTING IN HER 'sanctuary'--the sprawling, olive tree-dotted backyard of her Malibu home --when a silent, tie-clad man arrives with cocktails on a tray. 'Thank you,' she says, [...]

Justin Bieber is now 21, an age at which many people assumed (even hoped) that the prodigy-turned-superstar-turned-pariah would be a punchline, a footnote or worse. Instead, he has emerged from [...]

Not Bieber's girlfriend, not a Disney star, not a momager's daughter. An independent SELENA GOMEZ rallies from hitting 'rock bottom' as she surrounds herself with 'dope' women and releases her [...]

MUSIC STARS AREN'T LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE. THEY TRAIN HARDER, DIET MORE RIGOROUSLY AND INDULGE REGULARLY IN THE MOST RAREFIED HEALTH FADS. (PLACENTA FACIALS, ANYONE?) SONG OF THE SUMMER CONTENDER JASON [...]

FROM THE OUTSIDE, the Elysian Park recording studio looks like any other house high above Echo Park: a flat mid-century box with a roll-up garage door and a wood gate [...]

Sunday, August 28, 2011, 11:00 A.M. There is a man drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon through a straw at an oversize dinner table. He is shirtless and going bald. At least, [...]

TYLER HALEY IS ecstatic. It's soundcheck at the Echo in Los Angeles and Odd Future are preparing for a homecoming of sorts. The volatile, controversial ten-member posse--rap's most outrageously subversive [...]

JENNY LEWIS HAS been buying old paparazzi pictures of herself on eBay. In one, she and a teenage Sara Gilbert are being held aloft by Malibu from American Gladiators. In [...]

TYGA LIVES BY TWO RULES, HE says, adjusting his $188,000 Goyard neckpiece. 'No. 1 is, 'Don't listen to anybody.' ' The other? 'No one cares, bro.' To the divisive rapper's [...]

THE STARRING ROLE IN A DRAG-HEAVY Broadway musical may seem like an odd fit for a former emo-pop poster boy. But it turns out that Kinky Boots was a longtime [...]

THE IMAGE SEEMED piped into the streets of Los Angeles from San Francisco's Summer of Love. There he is, in the middle of Hollywood Boulevard, a lone tousled and shirtless [...]

IF RIVERS CUOMO HAD HIS WAY, THE NEW album from his beloved '90s band, Weezer, might have taken an unexpected turn. "I had to ban myself from listening to Spotify's […]

NICHOLAS PETRICCA'S inner child is a tiny, Technicolor bird-person. At least that's how the Walk the Moon frontman, 32, describes it within our moon meditation circle on a mid-January.evening. 'I [...]

> IN 1974, THE California Jam festival swept through the Inland Empire like a tornado. Black Sabbath connected its gear to the largest sound system that'd ever existed. Deep Purple's [...]

Though she's only 15, Danielle Bregoli is already well into her second act, having transformed from a meme-spawning Dr. Phil delinquent ('Cash Me Outside Girl') into the Atlantic-signed rapper Bhad [...]

JUICY J HOLDS A SINGLE FLOWER WITH A pair of extra-long tweezers cautiously, as if the tiny bloom is a hunk of uranium. His hand seems to lilt ever so [...]

IT WAS ON a meandering night drive through L.A. that Ben Schneider dreamed up the idea for Lord Huron's third album, Vide Noir (out April 20). Seeing the flickering grid [...]

Chris Daughtry, Prince Royce, Tyler Perry and more join forces in Fox's ambitious live musical The Passion, which brings the Bible to 2016 by replacing prayers with pop hits and [...]

I JUST WANT TO SAY, IF YOU'RE GOING crazy, take a break,' says Esperanza Spalding. The Oregon-based jazz singer-bassist sits at Beverly Hills' Avalon Hotel, lit from behind by a [...]

After helping the hip-hop legend get his swagger back on Compton, Anderson Paak--the singer that everyone from Macklemore to T.I. wants to record with--is set to jump from protege to […]

Grammy-winning a cappella kings Pentatonix don't want to be seen as a novelty anymore: 'We're competing with Rihanna and Taylor Swift' IT ALWAYS HAPPENS TO ME WHEN I'M IN an [...]

For her first-ever TV performance in July, on The Tonight Show no less, Alessia Cara opted not to wear a designer--or even slightly showy --look. The stage lights rose to [...]

I AM SO HUNG OVER,' CONFESSES Ashley Frangipane, brushing back a wisp other signature blue hair. It's a hot August afternoon in Los Angeles, where the electro-pop provocateur best-known as [...]

Look at it!' says GEORGE EZRA, 21. The English singer behind blues-pop hit 'Budapest' grins as he holds his right pinky up for inspection. It's permanently bent--the result of a [...]

'LAST TIME I WAS HERE I GOT KICKED OUT,' says the barrel-chested singer-guitarist Nathaniel Rateliff, 39, from under a wide-brimmed hat. He's sitting in The Spare Room, a small, swanky [...]

THE SONG CAME out of nowhere: seven minutes of shimmering guitar, luxurious drumroll, gauzy atmosphere, and melancholic singing. Against the odds in these quick-fix digital days, 'Loveless' surfaced on YouTube [...]

ON A RECENT Saturday night, I arrive at a Venice Boulevard event space with beers in hand, my name on a list, and dressed for a concert. A smiling host [...]

THE FIRST SIGN of peculiarity at Lost Spirits Distillery is the massive Queen of Hearts painted around the door. Knock and her eyes dart from side to side, welcoming you [...]

Your excellent report on the reviving fortunes of our coastal towns (Caterer, 22 March, page 54) touched on the off-peak potential of the conference market, but more can be said [...]

Your informative and inspiring Green October campaign will surely be viewed retrospectively as a tipping point - no longer can the UK hospitality sector claim ignorance, or justify its disinterest, [...]

PRINCE ROYCE IS LITERALLY TRYING TO FIND HIS VOICE. Eyeing a pop breakthrough with his first English-language r album, the Bronx-born bachata star met his vocal coach for the first [...]

IT'S NOON ON A THURSDAY AND THE FIVE members of Fifth Harmony are destroying a half-dozen bags of Mexican takeout. The girl group earned it, working up a sweat with […]

* LOS ANGELES HAS A COFFEE problem. When it comes to specialty joe--$7 cups, single-origin beans, light roasts--we have no national clout. In terms of scale and name recognition, I..A. [...]

In 2005, they ruled TRL. By 2010, they were out of fashion. Now, the one-time emo kings are back with a daring, politically charged album: 'If you aren't contributing to [...]

* British singer and blossoming actress Rita Ora bears little resemblance to Mia Grey, the chaste, peripheral character she plays in the Fifty Shades franchise. In real life, the 26-year-old [...]