Music

In recent years, Killer Mike has become a target for a certain type of leftist criticism, especially from Black activists and anticapitalists, who decried his emotional admonishment of protesters after the killing...

Andy Rourke, the bass player for the Smiths, one of the most influential bands of the 1980s, died early Friday in New York. He was 59.His death from pancreatic cancer, at Memorial...

Supernatural happenings, curses and romances, heartbreaking arias and vocal fireworks — what’s not to love?Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte” (“The Magic Flute”), a wildly popular gateway opera, has been a frequent presence on stages...

Simon begins the album in his most casual tone. Over calmly precise and rhythmically flexible guitar picking, he sings, “I’ve been thinking about the great migration.”Almost immediately, it becomes clear that the...

For music fans who came of age after Napster but before Spotify — roughly the first decade of the 2000s — the internet could seem like a kind of enchanted forest. Each...

The composer Carlos Simon is busy. Six premieres in four months busy.In February, Simon was at the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the first appearances of his “Four Black American Dances,” a romp...

“It feels like you’re in a zoo — you can’t go full animal, you know?” Overall said. “I was feeling like, within this machine and within this whole organism, I can see...

What does it mean to be a pop songwriter in 2023? Part of the job is what it has always been: coming up with catchy melodies, terse lyrics and instrumental hooks; creating...

Dear listeners,Every once in a while, I’ll be telling you about a random song I am currently obsessed with in an attempt to explore the root of this fascination (and perhaps convince...

Woven as a patchwork quilt of different sounds and influences comes the latest offering from a band of Kansas natives idly dispersed throughout different cities and states. With their first full length...