The 2025 Grammy Awards are on Sunday, and the nominations capture a pop music universe perhaps experiencing metamorphosis.Beyoncé has the most nods, 11 — no surprise there, as she is the most...
Read moreA guide to everything you need to know for the 67th annual awards on Sunday night.
Read moreThe other top nominees are the British “Brat” Charli XCX and the shape-shifter Post Malone (with eight nods each), followed by Lamar and Billie Eilish, with seven. Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and...
Read moreLong before Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones and Rihanna, there was Freddie Colston.Colston was just a 20-year-old student from tiny Fairbanks, La., when he traveled to Los Angeles in January 1967. He...
Read moreBarry Goldberg, an acclaimed keyboard player who slipped through a side door into the rock pantheon by taking part in Bob Dylan’s epochal electric set at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965,...
Read moreShe was a figure out of fiction, right down to her Jane Austen name. The daughter of a baroness and a British major (a spy during World War II), Marianne Faithfull —...
Read more▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube4. Doechii: “Denial Is a River”Whether or not she takes home a Grammy on Sunday, the dexterous Florida rapper Doechii is undoubtedly a star in...
Read moreSleigh Bells, ‘Wanna Start a Band?’In 2009, before hyperpop had a name, Sleigh Bells — the duo of Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller — were already slamming together power-chord riffs, drum-machine eruptions,...
Read moreOne of the most interesting and satisfying concerts of the classical music season was last week at Carnegie Hall. The conductor Raphaël Pichon, a rising star in Europe, led a version of...
Read moreWhen IC3PEAK released its last album, “Kiss of Death,” the record had all the characteristics that had made the band into a boogeyman in Russia and led authorities to try and shut...
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