An Unearthed Johnny Cash Recording, and 11 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Normani, Nilüfer Yanya, Thom Yorke and others.
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Hear tracks by Normani, Nilüfer Yanya, Thom Yorke and others.
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Terms were not disclosed. The parties had been arguing over the payment of legal fees and James P. Spears’s financial oversight as his daughter’s conservator.
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Answering your questions about the sound and substance of the pop superstar’s double album, and the way fans and critics have responded to it.
Sample her seven daring and eclectic albums as her latest, “All Born Screaming,” arrives.
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Andrew Davis, 80, Dies; Renowned Conductor Who Championed Britain’s Music
Celebrated for his long tenure with Lyric Opera of Chicago, he led this and other orchestras with force and a notably energetic podium presence.
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Anthony Roth Costanzo, Star Countertenor, to Lead Opera Philadelphia
Costanzo will be a rare figure in classical music: an artist in his prime who is also working as an administrator.
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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Yunchan Lim’s collection of Chopin piano études, a new recording of Terry Riley’s “In C” and works by Marc-André Hamelin are among the highlights.
Review: John Adams’s ‘El Niño’ Arrives at the Met in Lush Glory
The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.
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Cristian Macelaru, Decorated Maestro, to Lead Cincinnati Symphony
He will begin a four-year term as the orchestra’s music director in the 2025-26 season, succeeding Louis Langrée.
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This week, fans turned out for a new documentary about Jon Bon Jovi and took in a performance led by Gustavo Dudamel at the New York Philharmonic’s spring gala.
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Voice of Baceprot has electrified audiences and built a large following in Indonesia. Now the group is taking its music to the West.
By Sui-Lee Wee and Nyimas Laula
His expertise on the electromechanical Mellotron helped define the band’s progressive sound in the 1960s and ’70s on albums like “Days of Future Passed.”
By Richard Sandomir
Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the gold standard of jazz reissues.
By Giovanni Russonello
A discussion about the singer’s new album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” her “imperial era,” rumored relationships and production choices.
The rapper, Toomaj Salehi, was initially arrested after releasing music in support of the 2022 protests over the death of a young woman in police custody.
By Cassandra Vinograd and Leily Nikounazar
The singer talks about finding a new home for her first hit.
By Alex Barron, Lynn Levy, Michael Paulson and Daniel Ramirez
SFMOMA explores the galaxy of visual and technological design that has long revolved around the music we love.
By Chris Colin
The rapper, producer, actor and vegan talks about the connections between meat and masculinity, animal welfare and the environment.
By Cara Buckley
Listen to soon-to-be inductees Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest and more.
By Lindsay Zoladz
The superstar’s 11th album is a 31-song excavation of her recent relationships that is not universally loved. Our pop team dissects its sound, themes and reception.
By Jon Pareles, Ben Sisario, Lindsay Zoladz and Caryn Ganz
In “Rebel Girl,” the punk frontwoman reveals the story of her life — the men who tried to stop her, the women who kept her going and the boy who made her a mother.
By Amanda Hess and OK McCausland
Peter Gordon, who studied with Terry Riley, has always made music that is surprising but accessible. Now he’s starting his own record label.
By Rob Tannenbaum
Nine years after the release of the album that changed his life, the saxophonist is bringing new collaborators and new parts of himself into his work.
By Hank Shteamer
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The new musical doesn’t take itself too seriously and has many winning moments — almost enough to eclipse the weaknesses of its story.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
The Atlanta rapper and producer’s “We Still Don’t Trust You” reached the top of the Billboard 200 before the expected arrival of monster numbers from Taylor Swift next week.
By Ben Sisario
“Funeral for Justice,” the musician from Niger’s album due next month, amps up the urgency in his work: “I want you to know how serious this is.”
By Ben Sisario
Swift has been inescapable over the last year. With the release of “The Tortured Poets Department,” her latest (very long) album, some seem to finally be feeling fatigued.
By Matt Stevens and Shivani Gonzalez
A groundbreaking audio engineer, he provided the large-scale systems that brought tours by the Who and the Grateful Dead to life.
By Alex Williams
The new Broadway play conjures a group as dazzling as peak Fleetwood Mac. This is how five actors with limited training (one never held a bass) became rock stars.
By Alexis Soloski
In an interview, Blain-Cruz explained why an oratorio like John Adams and Peter Sellars’s “El Niño” is more difficult to stage than the usual opera.
By Joshua Barone and Lila Barth
Mary J. Blige and Ozzy Osbourne were also voted in, but Sinead O’Connor, who died last year at 56, did not make the cut.
By Ben Sisario
Olga Neuwirth’s “Keyframes for a Hippogriff,” a chaotic explosion of postmodernism, had its American premiere, conducted by Thomas Sondergard.
By Zachary Woolfe
The retooled jukebox musical, with its top-notch performances and exciting choreography, “stands out as one of the rare must-sees” in a crowded season.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
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The son of the former Supreme says in court papers that the man who sought to help his mother after she became incapacitated also took advantage of her financially.
By Julia Jacobs and Lauren Herstik
The singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist was close to Michael Jackson and Prince. After their deaths, her world crumbled and she had to rebuild on her own.
By Melena Ryzik
In David Adjmi’s new play, with songs by Will Butler, a ’70s band’s success breeds tension, and punches up the volume on Broadway.
By Naveen Kumar
The students taking Harvard University’s class on the singer are studying up. Their final papers are due at the end of the month.
By Madison Malone Kircher
Two dancers from the Russian company were set to perform at a benefit for a prestigious competition for young dancers, but they were sidelined after protests by pro-Ukrainian activists.
By Javier C. Hernández
Taylor Swift said she channeled them; Patti Smith, Lana Del Rey, the Smiths and others cited them.
By Lindsay Zoladz
Her Christian-themed music made her a fan favorite on ‘Idol’ and won her a Grammy Award in 2013.
By Christine Hauser
Hear tracks by Arooj Aftab, Cigarettes After Sex, Claire Rousay and others.
By Jon Pareles
Ex-boyfriends may be alluded to. Travis Kelce, too, fans believe. And some actual poets.
By Madison Malone Kircher
The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès.
By Joshua Barone
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Over 16 songs (and a second LP), the pop superstar litigates her recent romances. But the themes, and familiar sonic backdrops, generate diminishing returns.
By Lindsay Zoladz
The pop superstar’s latest album was preceded by a satellite radio channel, a word game, a return to TikTok and an actual library. For her fans, more is always welcome.
By Ben Sisario
Nineteen ways the app rewired our culture.
By Ashwin Seshagiri, Mike Dang, Anemona Hartocollis, Kashmir Hill, Becky Hughes, Santul Nerkar, Jordyn Holman, Michael M. Grynbaum, Ellen Barry, Vanessa Friedman, Dana G. Smith, Amanda Hess, Natasha Singer, David E. Sanger, Ben Sisario, Tiffany Hsu, Sapna Maheshwari and Brooks Barnes
The New York Philharmonic commissioned an outside investigation into its culture after a magazine article explored how it handled an accusation of sexual assault in 2010.
By Javier C. Hernández
He traded licks with Duane Allman and proved to be a worthy sparring partner. He also wrote, and sang, the band’s biggest hit, “Ramblin’ Man.”
By Alex Williams
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”
By Joshua Barone
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