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In the months leading up to the election, Donald J. Trump sat for a slew of casual and unconventional conversations with podcasters and streamers. We watched them all. Donald Trump, [...]

He was half of Outkast, the last rap act to win album of the year -- 20 years ago. His latest nominations are for 'New Blue Sun,' an expression of [...]

A look at the nominations' unexpected and intriguing story lines, including the role of an absent Drake, the validation of André 3000's flute music and overlooked gems. The names headlining [...]

At 74, the singer and songwriter returns to arenas with a message of healing and understanding. He's using trademark exuberance and joy to deliver it. It was a little after [...]

The rising pop singer has been transparently navigating the demands of fame -- onstage and online -- as she's grown from cult queer-pop hero to zeitgeist-shaping star. For Chappell Roan, […]

The breakout girl group went public with complaints against its parent company, Hybe, which has just released a new TV series and film about the control it exerts over stars. [...]

For her first headlining tour in an innovative three-decade career, Elliott unleashed a relentless and exhilarating display of theatrical and visual ambition. It's nearly impossible to fathom that until this [...]

Not long after Tremaine Emory resigned his position as Supreme's creative director last summer, he came across an image of an old hoodie from the brand emblazoned with one of [...]

With the release of ''Cowboy Carter,'' Beyoncé's eighth solo album and the one that finds her exploring -- and testing -- the boundaries of country music, much of the early [...]

The singer and songwriter has become one of pop's least expected new stars. On opening night of his arena tour, he showcased the bond with his fans that brought him [...]

Shane Gillis hosted ''S.N.L.,'' the show that rebuffed him. Ye topped the Billboard chart after making antisemitic remarks. Has the mainstream given up on banishing bad actors? Last weekend, the [...]

The opening night of the pop star's Guts World Tour had sparkle and abandon, but making her songs feel big didn't require much besides the songs themselves. As a pop [...]

The app once offered seemingly endless chances to be charmed by music, dances, personalities and products. But in only a few short years, its promise of kismet is evaporating. How [...]

''Vultures 1,'' the rapper's album with Ty Dolla Sign, arrived on the 20th anniversary of his debut, ''The College Dropout.'' The old Kanye, the new Kanye. Kanye then, Kanye now. [...]

In a halftime set that touched on more than a dozen songs, the R&B star delivered a raucous Atlanta party and a lesson in intimate showmanship. A few minutes into [...]

His choice to become a post-9/11 culture-war champion overshadowed the work of a musician who was funnier, subtler and more politically slippery than his most famous work let on. It [...]

The most awarded artists were diverse on Sunday night. How those winners received their honors, however, differed mightily. Sunday night at the 66th annual Grammy Awards, Jay-Z accepted the Dr. [...]

Performing live for the first time with musicians from his solo LP, the onetime Outkast rapper played various flutes, said little and tried to change perceptions. Toward the end of [...]

ValTown, an account on X and other social media platforms, spotlights gangs and drug kingpins of the 1980s and 1990s -- and how crime and celebrity often intersect. Beginning in [...]

For the last year, celebrations of hip-hop's first five decades have attempted to capture the genre in full, but some early stars and scenes all but disappeared long before anyone [...]

An interview with one of the year's surprise success stories in the music industry, who's become known as much for emotional openness as for hit songs. Few artists had a [...]

A few weeks of political brouhaha this summer obscured a different story: The genre is moving, in fits and starts, from the political to the personal. For a spell this [...]

Whitney Houston's gospel music, Future's prolific mixtape run, a chunk of Joni Mitchell's archives and a soundtrack of Brooklyn's early discos arrived in new packages this year. Artists were eager [...]

Seventy-one tracks that asked big questions, found new kinship between genres and helped us see the good in Ken. Jon Pareles | Jon Caramanica | Lindsay Zoladz Fumbling Toward Ecstasy [...]

Our critics on 10 new holiday albums from Cher, Robert Glasper, Sabrina Carpenter and more. There is no one correct way to celebrate the holiday season in song. For some, [...]

On ''Pink Friday 2,'' the rapper remains a star navigating hip-hop on sometimes untested terms. But even as she's receded from the center of the genre, her lessons remain. Before [...]

Many of the LPs that made an impact this year, including SZA's ''SOS'' and Olivia Rodrigo's ''Guts,'' came from looking inward. Jon Pareles | Jon Caramanica | Lindsay Zoladz The [...]

A look at the Grammys' most unexpected and interesting story lines, including Olivia Rodrigo's intergenerational rock battle with the Rolling Stones. Young women from across genres -- along with the [...]

On the streets, in the piercer's chair, and amidst piles of clothes with the silhouette king of downtown New York. A fit pic provocateur, full-time flaneur and occasional stylist, Beenslackin, [...]

The Agushto Papa podcast has become the go-to media outlet for the rising stars of música mexicana. When the four hosts of the Agushto Papa podcast -- all Mexican Americans [...]

The rapper's new album, ''For All the Dogs,'' comes after a summer of live-show triumph and extra-musical boredom. The dominant preoccupation of the hip-hop internet in recent days has been [...]

Backstage at the MTV Video Music Awards last month, at the Prudential Center in Newark, the out-of-nowhere Mexican superstar Peso Pluma gathered his band for an inspirational talk. That night, [...]

In the inaugural show at Sphere, a $2.3 billion venue, a band unafraid of pomp and spectacle was sometimes out-pomped and out-spectacled. Perhaps the true gift of Las Vegas is [...]

On her new LP, the rapper turns out tracks about her musical prowess and lust that show she's not interested in making music the way today's biggest stars do. It [...]

If you want to get to the studio at Sean Combs's house, pass the purple Anish Kapoor sculpture, then saunter into the living room, stopping to marvel at Kerry James [...]

On her second album, ''Guts,'' which flaunts rock brashness and singer-songwriter intimacy, the sudden pop star is showing just how fraught life is at the top. One of the fundamental [...]

The pop singer's new single dismantles a former paramour who was entranced by fame, borrowing a tactic from Swift's career-shifting ''Dear John.'' On ''Drivers License,'' one of the great singles [...]

Earlier this month, Pharrell Williams was in the men's atelier on the second floor of Louis Vuitton's corporate office in Paris, sunglasses on, surveying his new perch. ''Listen,'' he said [...]

NASHVILLE -- The spoils of fame are coming fast for the emerging country star Bailey Zimmerman. The Texas singer-songwriter Cody Johnson gave him a standing offer to come ride horses [...]

The joke-cracking Scottish musician's melodramatic ballad ''Someone You Loved'' is a blockbuster. Figuring out his next moves became more complicated than he'd anticipated. The first thing you have to know [...]

After two appearances at the Coachella festival this month, the enigmatic British producer and singer brought an evening of nostalgia to Knockdown Center in Queens. Tuesday night at Knockdown Center [...]

Morgan Maher's new book, ''Girls in Bed,'' captures a young generation of creative talent in confidently vulnerable images. LOS ANGELES -- Last December, the photographer Morgan Maher was crashing at [...]

In a floor-through loft in SoHo one Friday night in January, Vincent Ferraro was selling luxury clothing. Sort of. On one side of the room, a tattoo artist covered a [...]

The opening night of the star's Eras Tour traversed her 10-album career, revisiting crossover hits, rowdier experiments and more restrained singer-songwriter material. GLENDALE, Ariz. -- The most meaningful Taylor Swift [...]

What's at stake for a 22-year-old trilingual rapper who became a TikTok sensation by talking dirty and who aspires to be the president of Palestine? A lot. In the clip [...]

The R&B star's first New York arena show supporting her blockbuster album ''SOS'' was a deft mix of styles and sounds, with guests Cardi B and Phoebe Bridgers. SZA's performance [...]

After seven years largely away from the stage, the singer and mogul used the halftime show to perform a dozen hits, nod to her nonmusical business and announce that she's [...]

Hear tracks by Luke Combs, Jessie Ware, Indigo de Souza and others. Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs [...]

The awards show needs to build bridges between generations. That means convincing once-overlooked upstarts to show up as elders. Around midway through the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday night, [...]

Last year, the Bronx rapper emerged from the drill scene with a pop-friendly sound, and attracted the attention of Drake. Now she's releasing her first EP. On a cold, damp [...]