Music

One morning, when she was about 7 years old, Neko Case stood on her front porch, closed her eyes and wished with all her might to see a horse.It was a tall...

A water cooler. An electric guitar. A sash.Even if you know beforehand that the Target Margin production you’re attending will be an experimental reboot of “Show Boat,” the great-grandfather of American musicals,...

The long-simmering tension between Drake and Lamar, who had collaborated early in their careers, exploded into full-on musical beef last spring across eight rapidly released songs that included escalating personal attacks.On one...

The music producer David Mansfield flew down to Austin in May 2023 to record with Kinky Friedman, the satirical country singer, mystery novelist and twice-failed candidate for Texas governor. “I don’t think...

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube5. Devo: “Gates of Steel”“I had never heard the song before this year and it has stuck with me for two reasons. First, it’s absolutely...

He has now joined a surprisingly robust list of well-known basketball players who rap, mostly mediocrely: Allen Iverson, Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, Damian Lillard, the stars on the often awkward 1994 compilation...

On the cover of his latest album, Alexandre Kantorow’s left arm falls back behind a piano bench. A wave builds slowly from his dangled palm, up through the straight line of his...

An estimated 100,000 scores and parts by the groundbreaking 20th-century composer Arnold Schoenberg were destroyed last week when the wildfires in Southern California burned down the music publishing company founded by his...

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicOn this week’s Popcast, which was recorded live at S.O.B.’s in New York in December, Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli discuss some of the...

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube3. J Balvin and Bad Bunny: “La Canción”“Oasis,” Bad Bunny’s 2019 collaboration album with the Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin, wasn’t quite the world-dominating creative...