Before the British Invasion, before Motown, before psychedelic rock, the 1950s invented the template for everything that followed. It gave us the electric guitar as a cultural weapon, the backbeat as ...

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INDIO, Calif. — It’s still spring, but attendees at Coachella are already dreaming about what the so-called song of summer might be. The honor — a somewhat arbitrary one, to be sure — is awarded to ...

Jenny Morris was at the peak of her pop powers in the late 1980s when she launched a one-woman campaign that provoked howls of derision from some Aussie music fans, promoters and venue owners.

“Who’s Madeline?” is still the year’s preeminent pop-music question. But coming up close behind that: “Where the eff is Randy Newman on the New York Times’ list of the 30 greatest living American ...

A new album from Drake is nearly here. “Iceman” releases Friday. It's his first since his extravagant loss in a very public ...

I dined at Papi Steak, one of Miami's flashiest steakhouses. Beyond its over-the-top theatrics, the food was genuinely good.

If the Michael Jackson biopic "Michael" sands down the edges of the King of Pop's rise to glory and gives viewers an overly simplistic version of events, then what it tells mostly works, thanks to the ...

Kacey Musgraves‘ Middle of Nowhere is — pretty much from start to finish — about loneliness. But don’t think that means you’re in for a bunch of gloomy ballads. Loneliness, and the art of being alone, ...

How do you measure Canto-pop’s success? You could count the songs: more than 1,000 new tracks were released in 2025. You could witness the queues of fans camping overnight outside radio stations to ...