Music

▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube4. Angélica Garcia: “Juanita”A tip of my cap to Jon Pareles for putting this striking track on a recent Friday playlist: I am now anxiously...

Damo Suzuki, a Japanese vocalist best known for his role with the revered and influential German experimental rock group Can during its most crucial period, died on Feb. 9 at his home...

The New York Philharmonic’s spring gala is not usually of much musical interest. It tends toward mild fare — just enough to keep the donors happy before dinner and dancing.But this year,...

Ye is almost exclusively rapping in the clipped, nonlinear style he’s largely used for the last decade — short bursts of words, verses that have very little narrative cohesion. It salts a...

At one point during “This is Me … Now: A Love Story,” a character observes that watching Jennifer Lopez’s love life is like bingeing “Vanderpump Rules” — eventually you stop judging the...

The family of Brian Wilson, the musical architect whose genius helped power the Beach Boys, is seeking to place him under a conservatorship following the death of his wife, Melinda, last month.According...

2. No Doubt: “Artificial Sweetener”“The return of Saturn,” Gwen Stefani sings on this angsty new-wave-y rocker, which perfectly encapsulates a cosmic identity crisis. “Assessing my life, second-guessing.”▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music...

“Serenade” is somewhere in between, a violin concerto that Bernstein, late in the writing process, dressed up with a philosophical title whose connection to the score is tenuous at best. Yoo, to...

No one seemed to know what had happened to one of the most important bass guitars in music history, though in the decades since it went missing there had been some dramatic...

This week’s episode of Popcast (Deluxe), the weekly culture roundup show on YouTube hosted by Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli, includes segments on:Usher’s Super Bowl halftime show performance, which was a showcase...