Music

Blink-182 has long been adult men doing teenage cosplay, and it would have been naïve of me to expect growth from a group that made its name with a hit called “What’s...

Produced by Elyssa DudleyEdited by Lynn LevyEngineered by Daniel RamirezOur classical music critics dissect Bradley Cooper’s performance as the famed conductor Leonard Bernstein in the new film “Maestro.” In his meticulous recreation...

Thomas Adès: ‘Dante’Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor (Nonesuch)This recording has so much to applaud: the achievement of Thomas Adès in writing such a clever, vivid, effective work; the ambition of...

Weakened by surgery to remove a tumor near his pancreas in January, followed by six months of chemotherapy, the high-wattage saxophonist Mars Williams learned this past summer that his treatment options were...

Anthony Parnther has a job that routinely takes him to fantastic places. Parnther, 42, makes his New York Philharmonic conducting debut this week. His destination? Wakanda: With a wave of his hand,...

Dear listeners,Musically speaking, the holidays are a time when we return to perennial favorites — the fact that the current top five artists on the Billboard Hot 100 are Mariah Carey, Brenda...

Jon Pardi, ‘Merry Christmas From Jon Pardi’For the past decade Jon Pardi has been, quite successfully, a country singer mindful of how the country singers before him conducted themselves. He’s a lightly...

5. The Beatles: “Here, There and Everywhere”With all due respect to the many (many) mixes I compiled for The Amplifier this year, the most important playlist I made in 2023 was the...

In a recent edition of The Amplifier newsletter, Lindsay Zoladz shared the music that shaped her year. She discovered the music of French singer Jacques Dutronc while on vacation in Belgium, learned...

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon MusicThe New York Times’s pop music critics have some overlap in their taste, but in their annual songs-of-the-year roundup, the differences truly reveal themselves....