Music

Doug Ingle, the lead singer and organist of Iron Butterfly, the band that turned a purportedly misheard lyric into “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” the 17-minute magnum opus that propelled acid rock into the outer reaches...

1. Sarah McLachlan: “Building a Mystery”Though music of Lilith Fair has an unfair reputation for being soft and maudlin, this hit from Sarah McLachlan’s 1997 album “Surfacing” — released the same month...

Eminem attempts to recapture past glories on his exhausting new song “Houdini,” the first single from his upcoming 12th album, “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).” Atop a garish, carnivalesque...

It was heartening, though, to see a spotlight on the violist Cynthia Phelps in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante in E flat, a double concerto that also showcased the violinist Sheryl Staples, always a...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.When you walk into the “Popcast (Deluxe)” recording studio on the second floor...

Artificial intelligence has become the dominant disrupter to music creation and distribution. And it’s only getting started.

A recently discovered guitar that John Lennon used to record multiple Beatles songs in the 1960s before it went missing for 50 years has sold at auction for $2.9 million, becoming one...

‘Girls of the Golden West’Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale; John Adams, conductor (Nonesuch)You would be hard-pressed to find a fan of John Adams and Peter Sellars’s “Girls of the Golden...

During the day’s second rehearsal, however, she tempered her enthusiasm with tacit worry about her voice. She told her tour manager that Taja would soon be backstage, probably with a prednisone prescription....

This week’s episode of Popcast (Deluxe), the weekly culture roundup show on YouTube hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, includes discussion of:The imperfect rollout of Dua Lipa’s latest album, “Radical Optimism,”...