Music

Deftones Persisted for Decades. A New Generation Is Fee...

NYT > Music, Aug 20, 2025 - 06:37

The band emerged in the ’90s nu metal scene and quickly expanded its range. Now ...

Ring the Alarm for 13 Killer Dancehall Cuts

NYT > Music, Aug 19, 2025 - 14:01

Trace the evolution of the genre over the decades via songs by Sister Nancy, Cut...

How BigXthaPlug Went From Solitary Confinement to Nashv...

NYT > Music, Aug 15, 2025 - 05:09

The Dallas M.C. announced a country album on a whim. Luke Combs, Shaboozey and E...

How ‘Sleng Teng’ Spurred Reggae’s Digital Era

NYT > Music, Aug 8, 2025 - 06:19

A new reissue marks the 40th anniversary of “Under Me Sleng Teng,” considered on...

Beyoncé Isn’t Giving Up on America: Cannonball with Wes...

NYT > Music, Aug 7, 2025 - 16:30

The Cowboy Carter Tour was her most political yet. But it’s also, somehow, for e...

California’s ‘Souldies’ Scene Puts a Fresh Spin on a Be...

NYT > Music, Aug 7, 2025 - 07:27

For decades, a soft-touch style of soul music has found a strong Chicano and Lat...

‘Fleetwood Mac’ at 50: A Marvel of Serendipity and Perf...

NYT > Music, Aug 7, 2025 - 07:27

The album that turned the band into superstars is getting an anniversary rerelea...

Cannonball with Wesley Morris: Beyoncé Isn’t Giving Up ...

NYT > Music, Aug 7, 2025 - 07:27

The Cowboy Carter Tour was her most political yet. But it’s also, somehow, for e...

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Roy Hargrove

NYT > Music, Aug 6, 2025 - 07:09

This virtuoso trumpeter bridged jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul on his own records a...

Hoping to See Bad Bunny in Puerto Rico? Here Are 6 Thin...

NYT > Music, Aug 6, 2025 - 07:09

His sold-out residency highlights elements of Puerto Rican culture that many vis...

‘Dalibor’ Review: A Gently Ravishing Score, an Awkward ...

NYT > Music, Aug 3, 2025 - 13:30

The director Jean-Romain Vesperini cleverly tied together the loose strands of B...

An Ex-Stone Says the Met Has His Lost Guitar. The Museu...

NYT > Music, Aug 1, 2025 - 05:08

Representatives for Mick Taylor, the Rolling Stones’ former guitarist, said the ...

Michael Ochs, Top Collector of Rock ’n’ Roll Photos, Di...

NYT > Music, Jul 27, 2025 - 20:33

He surveyed the trash of record companies, haggled with aging photographers and ...

Chuck Mangione, Jazz Musician Known for ‘Feels So Good,...

NYT > Music, Jul 24, 2025 - 14:30

Wearing his signature fedora, he won wide popularity and 14 Grammy nominations, ...

What Is the Nicki Minaj Challenge on TikTok?

NYT > Music, Jul 24, 2025 - 14:30

Inspired by an old rap video, social media users are challenging each other to g...

Joe Farnsworth Drummed for Jazz Greats. Now He’s Becomi...

NYT > Music, Jul 24, 2025 - 05:37

Benny Golson, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner: Farnsworth spent years playing with ...

Rock’s Legends Were Messy. You’d Never Know That From T...

NYT > Music, Jul 24, 2025 - 05:37

People used to eat up salacious stories of rock ’n’ roll excess. Now they’re the...

I Don’t Know if I Believe in God, but I Believe in Gosp...

NYT > Music, Jul 22, 2025 - 05:39

How music convinced a religious skeptic to rethink faith.

Patty Griffin’s Life Fell Apart. Rebuilding Gave Her Mu...

NYT > Music, Jul 19, 2025 - 05:36

During the last 16 years, the singer-songwriter lost her voice, her parents and ...

Nine Inch Nails Revisits the ’80s, and 9 More New Songs

NYT > Music, Jul 18, 2025 - 13:32

Hear tracks by Robert Plant, Amanda Shires, Blood Orange and more.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Faces Not Just a Sentencing, but a H...

NYT > Music, Jul 4, 2025 - 09:04

The music mogul, convicted on lesser charges at his federal trial, has been accu...

Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Judas Priest Members on O...

NYT > Music, Jul 3, 2025 - 05:37

As the Prince of Darkness prepares for his final concert with Black Sabbath, adm...

Combs Was Convicted Under the Mann Act, a Law With a Lo...

NYT > Music, Jul 2, 2025 - 17:30

The law, passed in 1910, prohibits the interstate or foreign transportation of a...

What we know about the jury’s deliberations.

NYT > Music, Jul 2, 2025 - 08:33

He’s Ringo. And Nobody Else Is.

NYT > Music, Jul 2, 2025 - 05:08

As he turns 85, one of the last surviving Beatles is still musically curious, di...

Here are the charges against Sean Combs and the potenti...

NYT > Music, Jul 1, 2025 - 23:54

Oasis Ends a 15-Year Pause With a Familiar Goal: Conque...

NYT > Music, Jun 28, 2025 - 05:30

The British band is huge at home, where it’ll play its first reunion show on Fri...

Sean Combs’s Son and Kanye West Release New Song, ‘Didd...

NYT > Music, Jun 27, 2025 - 15:30

The track, which also features North West, includes a chorus where the rapper kn...

Tech C.E.O. Pays $400,000 to Conduct the Toronto Symphony

NYT > Music, Jun 27, 2025 - 10:32

Mandle Cheung, a 78-year-old amateur conductor, led a performance of Mahler’s “R...

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial: Takeaways From Prosecution’s ...

NYT > Music, Jun 27, 2025 - 07:33

After seven weeks of testimony, the government detailed to jurors why it says th...

A prosecutor lays out the racketeering evidence against...

NYT > Music, Jun 26, 2025 - 13:32

How Prosecutors Have Charged Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs With Ra...

NYT > Music, Jun 26, 2025 - 12:33

Prosecutors aim to show jurors that Sean Combs ran a criminal enterprise respons...

Key testimony for the prosecution: Cassie and ‘Jane,’ v...

NYT > Music, Jun 26, 2025 - 10:05

Wet Leg Became Indie Superheroes Overnight. Now They’re...

NYT > Music, Jun 26, 2025 - 05:35

The British act blew up with witty, sharp-edged songs. Now Rhian Teasdale is its...

5,000 Sondheim Sketches and More Head to Library of Con...

NYT > Music, Jun 25, 2025 - 11:34

The musical theater titan left behind material from beloved shows like “Sweeney ...

Listen to 3 Minutes of Brahms and It Will Change Your Day

NYT > Music, Jun 20, 2025 - 05:35

In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, Brahms holds back the...

How ‘Boots on the Ground’ Two-Stepped Onto Everyone’s S...

NYT > Music, Jun 20, 2025 - 05:35

Black Southern line dance culture, and a co-sign from Beyoncé, has helped to pop...

Barbra Streisand on the Duets That Define Her: ‘I Like ...

NYT > Music, Jun 20, 2025 - 05:35

With a new album due next week that pairs her with Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, La...

Bruce Springsteen on ‘Tracks II,’ His Box of Seven ‘Los...

NYT > Music, Jun 18, 2025 - 05:03

An album “is a record of who you are and where you were at that moment in your l...

The Pint-Size Singers at the Met Opera Children’s Choru...

NYT > Music, Jun 16, 2025 - 14:30

The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus has long been an elite training ground ...

James Lowe, Rock Outsider With the Electric Prunes, Die...

NYT > Music, Jun 12, 2025 - 16:50

His band’s output ranged from the 1966 psychedelic hit “I Had Too Much to Dream ...

Paul McCartney, Carole King and Others Pay Tribute to B...

NYT > Music, Jun 12, 2025 - 11:59

Wilson, whose death was announced on Wednesday, leaves behind an immense musical...

Met Opera’s ‘Diva Whisperer’ Retires After 18 Years

NYT > Music, Jun 12, 2025 - 11:59

Suzi Gomez-Pizzo, who is retiring as a wardrobe supervisor at the opera house af...