Music

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.

Voice of Baceprot has electrified audiences and built a large following in Indonesia. Now the group is taking its music to the West.

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.”

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.

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.

The singer talks about finding a new home for her first hit.

SFMOMA explores the galaxy of visual and technological design that has long revolved around the music we love.

The rapper, producer, actor and vegan talks about the connections between meat and masculinity, animal welfare and the environment.

Listen to soon-to-be inductees Cher, Foreigner, A Tribe Called Quest and more.

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.

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.

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.

The new musical doesn’t take itself too seriously and has many winning moments — almost enough to eclipse the weaknesses of its story.

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.

“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.”

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.

A groundbreaking audio engineer, he provided the large-scale systems that brought tours by the Who and the Grateful Dead to life.

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.

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.

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.

Olga Neuwirth’s “Keyframes for a Hippogriff,” a chaotic explosion of postmodernism, had its American premiere, conducted by Thomas Sondergard.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The students taking Harvard University’s class on the singer are studying up. Their final papers are due at the end of the month.

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.

Taylor Swift said she channeled them; Patti Smith, Lana Del Rey, the Smiths and others cited them.

Her Christian-themed music made her a fan favorite on ‘Idol’ and won her a Grammy Award in 2013.

Hear tracks by Arooj Aftab, Cigarettes After Sex, Claire Rousay and others.

Ex-boyfriends may be alluded to. Travis Kelce, too, fans believe. And some actual poets.

The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès.

Over 16 songs (and a second LP), the pop superstar litigates her recent romances. But the themes, and familiar sonic backdrops, generate diminishing returns.

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.

Nineteen ways the app rewired our culture.

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.

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.”

The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”

For “Hyperdrama,” Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay’s first album in eight years, the duo added genre experiments and guests to its arsenal of bangers.

Hipgnosis, which owns the rights to songs by Justin Bieber and Neil Young, helped kick-start a rush on catalog sales. But its future has been in doubt.

Boots Riley, Earl Sweatshirt, Jennifer Egan, Amaarae and more tell us about their new projects.

Advice on quashing doubt and maximizing procrastination, according to Joan Baez, Kim Gordon, Bill T. Jones and Myha’la.

Seven artists on the challenges and joys of starting over, sometimes in a totally new field.

Shedding its conservative reputation, the Bavarian capital is finding unusual ways to balance tradition and innovation.

Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that started it all for them, and what (if anything) they might have done differently.

We spoke to 150 artists, some planning retrospectives and others making their debut, to ask about the process of starting something.

Seven albums and 17 years into an acclaimed solo career, the musician Annie Clark said she craved “a pummeling” on her new LP: “I want something to feel dangerous.”

Digging into “Only God Was Above Us,” an LP that’s both catchy and complex.

Breaking down the convoluted recent beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar (and Future, Metro Boomin, the Weeknd, ASAP Rocky, Rick Ross and more).