Music

He wrote hits including “Goodbye Stranger” and “Bloody Well Right,” and his use of the Wurlitzer piano became one of Supertramp’s signature sounds.

By Alex Williams and Jenny Gross

Feathery boas, loopy braids, a rare Labubu and more.

By Anthony Rotunno

In the 1960s, he and his fellow singer Howard Kaylan embodied the feel-good sound of the Turtles. The two later found new fame as Flo & Eddie.

By Michael S. Rosenwald

With their “One Toke Over the Line,” he and Michael Brewer saw a musical in-joke turn into a timeless cultural phenomenon.

By Alex Williams

A shriekathon in “John Proctor Is the Villain” is the latest in a wave of young women letting their pipes loose — and exhorting anyone to join in.

By Melena Ryzik

Dance, which has been a central part of McRae’s pop persona from the beginning, is thrillingly showcased on the Miss Possessive tour.

By Margaret Fuhrer

The band’s drummer and guitarist say the singer has underpaid them for the “digital exploitation” of songs like “Every Breath You Take.” Sting’s lawyers call the claim “illegitimate.”

By Alex Marshall

Patrick Maisonet’s targets in the Seattle area included the baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki and the former football star Richard Sherman, officials said.

By Hannah Ziegler and Francesca Regalado

In his autobiographical novel, Sam Sussman grows up wondering if his affinity for the great singer-songwriter goes beyond a striking resemblance.

By David Segal and Daniel Weiss

Citing “malicious associations” with his former bandmates, the lead singer of the 1980s band said he had “no choice” but to sell to protect his health.

By Jenny Gross

Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.

By Dwight Garner, Jesse Green, Alexandra Jacobs, Gia Kourlas, Alex Marshall, Melena Ryzik, Maya Salam, Jennifer Szalai, Alissa Wilkinson and Jason Zinoman

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired the jazz great’s scores, original artwork, letters and more, providing a rare glimpse of an imaginative mind.

By Hank Shteamer

Suggestions for a wedding trip fit for tabloid royalty, where price is no object and the farther they can get away, the better.

By Danielle Pergament

A government initiative to create a Swedish “cultural canon” concerned many in the country’s cultural world. The final list has sparked debate over the choices.

By Alex Marshall

The Met, which has withdrawn $120 million from its endowment since the pandemic, reached a lucrative deal to perform in Saudi Arabia for three weeks each winter.

By Javier C. Hernández

The music of this pianist, who played with giants like Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, can feel mysterious and private, but it rewards deep listening. Explore these 11 songs.

By Giovanni Russonello

The rapper and pop star had been accused in a lawsuit of scratching and spitting on a security guard in 2018.

By Matt Stevens

On “Short n’ Sweet” last year, the singer became one of pop’s new queens of quirk. On its follow-up, “Man’s Best Friend,” she’s hiding behind her characters.

By Jon Caramanica

Cardi B’s long-awaited return, Jeff Tweedy’s low-key magnum opus, Silvana Estrada’s latest poetic release and more.

By Jon Pareles and Jon Caramanica

The innovative conductor is taking on new roles in Los Angeles and Paris, as a creative leader and a conductor. Just don’t call him a music director.

By Joshua Barone

Every summer, Salzburg, Austria, becomes the center of the classical music world, attracting some 256,000 visitors for a star-studded festival.

By Javier C. Hernández and Laetitia Vançon

With his Karlala Soundsystem, Karl Scholz is using nightclub-grade audio to ensure that neighbors gather.

By James Thomas and Amir Hamja

The 1980s pop star, who tells her story in a new memoir, chats about how she stays connected to teen culture, the glorious artifice of Las Vegas and dancing her own way.

By Phoebe Reilly

Two masked men crept into the rapper’s house in June, attacked a nanny with bear spray and stole jewelry, including a Seattle Sounders soccer championship ring, the police said.

By Michael Levenson

He drew on Russian literature for his stage works and was an eager experimenter, inspired by folk tales, religious mysticism and melodrama.

By Jonathan Kandell

Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong, the stars of “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” and the director Scott Cooper on capturing a haunted rock icon.

By Ben Sisario

In Salzburg, an anniversary of “The Sound of Music” looks grand through a child’s eyes, even if the locals are gazing elsewhere.

By Jim Tankersley and Laetitia Vançon

Chiefs fans have been cheering on their star football player’s romance with the pop star for two years. They have the T-shirts, earrings and baked goods to prove it.

By Mitch Smith

Sure, one couple stole the spotlight on Tuesday. But other couples who also got engaged had their own news to share — though some were more thrilled by the frenzy than others.

By Isabella Kwai

It’s picture-perfect, of course.

By Vanessa Friedman

In recent years, Tanglewood has become visibly more welcoming to its youngest audiences. Just ask this critic’s three kids.

By David Allen and Jillian Freyer

The journeyman musician has played a pivotal role in a wide variety of acts. An unexpected recent exit from Foo Fighters briefly made him the center of attention.

By Bob Mehr and Sinna Nasseri

A language student’s guide to the French capital highlights the culinary, literary and musical influences that quietly shape everyday life.

By Julia Webster Ayuso and James Hill

Bogie and Bacall, Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio, Beyoncé and Jay-Z: The new celebrity power couple might overshadow them all.

By Victor Mather

We asked 10 notable cultural figures — including Questlove, Ezra Klein, Kristin Cavallari and the candidates for New York City mayor — for their personal summer anthem of 2025. Their answers have range.

By Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli

Police in Indiana accused Julian Wachner, the former music director at Trinity Church in New York, of possessing sex abuse imagery purchased with cryptocurrency.

By Julia Jacobs

Hang on to the last gasps of the season — and prepare for the encroaching fall — with songs by Lana Del Rey, Maxwell, Pavement and more.

By Jon Pareles

The news was announced on Instagram: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”

By Madison Malone Kircher

The “Old Town Road” rapper was arrested last Thursday after video appeared to show him walking down a street in Los Angeles wearing only his underwear.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

He was both the longtime archivist of folk music at the Library of Congress and a widely respected singer and songwriter.

By Clay Risen

Marisha Wallace, headlining the final months of “Cabaret” in New York, returns to the city with Olivier nominations and newly minted British citizenship.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

The 27-year-old singer’s new album is a faithful revisiting of a time when country music’s revivalists were sometimes rowdy.

By Jon Caramanica and Stacy Kranitz

One member of the Northern Irish rap group, which is known for its anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian views, is accused of displaying a flag supporting Hezbollah.

By Michaela Towfighi

The guitarist and frontman chat about their fraught partnership, earliest goals and (possibly) final shows on the road.

By Rob Tannenbaum

There’s a new generation of fans for the singer known as Thompson, who uses the salute and nationalist rhetoric to cast himself as a guardian of Croatian heritage.

By Joe Orovic

The singer and songwriter proved she’s operating at the peak of her powers during a two-and-a-half-hour set that drew sharp connections between her past and present.

By Lindsay Zoladz

Nelly’s “Tip Drill” video from 2003 was instantly controversial. It’s one of many stories explored in a new docuseries about Magic City in Atlanta.

By Jonathan Abrams

Handwritten journals, durable boots, tomato seeds: the country singer and songwriter on what fueled her latest album, “Hard Headed Woman.”

By Brian Raftery

Listen to tracks by Deftones, Lila Iké, Chance the Rapper and others.

By Jon Pareles

Video showed the pop star walking down a major street in only underwear some time before an encounter with police officers.

By Jonathan Wolfe

The cult rapper, who broke out at 16 as a member of Odd Future, spoke with Popcast about cutting his own path around fame and into fatherhood.

By Joe Coscarelli and Jon Caramanica

The male soprano Samuel Mariño’s “Lumina,” a suite from Thomas Adès’s “The Tempest” and Ginastera’s string quartets are among the highlights.

The diaristic pop-soul singer is self-loathing, self-aggrandizing, irreverent, evasive and in-your-face. At 24, she’s finally arrived. But the ride is just beginning.

By Joe Coscarelli

Mr. Hinds, 51, was found unresponsive late Wednesday after an S.U.V. appeared to slam into the motorcycle he was riding near downtown Atlanta, the authorities said.

By Livia Albeck-Ripka and Ben Sisario

The country singer became the latest major artist to abandon the awards, declining to enter his chart-topping fourth album, “I’m the Problem,” for the 2026 ceremony.

By Julia Jacobs

The band emerged in the ’90s nu metal scene and quickly expanded its range. Now it sits at the nexus of heavy music and nostalgia that’s enticing new listeners.

By Mike Isaac

Trace the evolution of the genre over the decades via songs by Sister Nancy, Cutty Ranks, Super Cat and more.

By David Renard

What is the purpose of a poem, an illustration or a nonsensical phrase in a score? If it makes musicians stop and think, that’s a good start.

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim

The singer’s 12th album is being teased as a pivot back to pop bangers. On Popcast, we break down why (and why she announced it the way she did).

Over a decade, Duffy has played alongside a host of respected bands. On a new LP as Hand Habits, the musician emerges in love and more connected to their body.

By Grayson Haver Currin

The singer and songwriter was part of the beloved British girl group Little Mix. Her debut album on her own, “That’s Showbiz Baby!,” is a bold statement of self.

By Shaad D’Souza

A Florida jury convicted the hip-hop artist and his mother in a federal fraud case that centered on luxury goods, which prosecutors said that Mr. Kingston did not pay for.

By Neil Vigdor

Playing a blend of rock, R&B; and zydeco, he had a hit in 1966 with “Sweet Dreams” and inspired Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and many others.

By Clay Risen

Elvis’s ex-wife has traded lawsuits in a financial dispute with former advisers that has grown ugly with an allegation that she prematurely “pulled the plug” on her late daughter, Lisa Marie.

By Matt Stevens

Listen to tracks by Dijon, Woody Guthrie, iLe and others.

By Jon Pareles

The musical, just like the Abba songs that inspired it, has become an everlasting part of the pop-culture landscape.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

The Dallas M.C. announced a country album on a whim. Luke Combs, Shaboozey and Ella Langley took him seriously.

By Jon Caramanica, Joe Coscarelli and Jason Nocito

With Eric Clapton, he wrote “Bell Bottom Blues” and built one of the greatest — if most short-lived — supergroups of the 1970s.

By Alex Williams

She doesn’t.

By Madison Malone Kircher

The two megastars recently sat for hourslong video conversations on streaming platforms, but took different approaches to what they revealed.

By Jon Caramanica

Artists like Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, the Creator are pulling in huge audiences on the road, and YoungBoy Never Broke Again is preparing for his first-ever tour.

By Ross Scarano

Along with his side gig, Jens Lekman has put out five albums. Now he’s collaborated with David Levithan on the novel “Songs for Other People’s Weddings.”

By Tim Teeman

The pop superstar discussed her upcoming album on a podcast co-hosted by her boyfriend, the N.F.L. player Travis Kelce.

By Matt Stevens and Emmanuel Morgan

She was a poet, singer, composer and pianist whose melancholic home recordings from the 1950s hit on universal themes of despair, heartbreak, longing and loss.

By Howard Fishman

The pop superstar received a costume design award for her Netflix football halftime performance tied to her “Cowboy Carter” album.

By Derrick Bryson Taylor

Decades-old tracks by artists including Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, LL Cool J and Talking Heads are finding younger fans. Record labels hope new videos will feed their interest.

By Eric Ducker

Let songs from Lorde, boygenius, Mitski and more help push through a sticky, sludgy August.

By Dani Blum

A star mezzo-soprano, Bartoli also runs a festival and an opera house at an age when others start to retire. And she’s not slowing down.

By Joshua Barone

The singer-songwriter revealed the name of her 12th original studio album in a surprise announcement, but no other details.

By Julia Jacobs

She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing.

By Barry Singer