Pop Culture

The singer and songwriter’s art of elegant seduction never required him to raise his voice, or lose his desperation, humor or awareness.

By Wesley Morris

There’s fun in Battlefield 6’s multiplayer chaos, but it’s an unmoored soldiering fantasy.

By Yussef Cole

The singer, songwriter and producer’s 2000 album was the result of years in the studio listening to inspiring music, jamming and rediscovering his artistic purpose.

By Hank Shteamer

The video for “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” brought him new levels of fame, but not always the kind of attention he sought.

By Jonathan Abrams

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.

By Jon Pareles

Listen to recent releases from Geese, Doja Cat, Neko Case and more.

By Lindsay Zoladz

After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.

By Ben Sisario

The pop star’s ex-husband Kevin Federline had said in a new book that since her conservatorship ended, “It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK.”

By Matt Stevens and Julia Jacobs

The pop superstar sold four million copies of her latest album, topping a decade-old milestone by Adele. The tally included 1.3 million vinyl LPs.

By Ben Sisario

Keaton, who died on Saturday, was an actor, director and producer on multiple films and series. Her sole documentary, “Heaven,” explored popular ideas of the afterlife.

By Alexis Soloski