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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Back on the road after more than a decade, emo's most theatrical outfit let its songs and fans provide the drama as it revisited its anthems about fearlessness and individuality. [...]

The first two nights of a 15-concert run at Madison Square Garden were heavy on charisma, banter and nods to the past. Over the weekend, Harry Styles began a 15-night [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The rap-rock group's first tour in more than a decade arrives at a moment of political tension, and opens with the like-minded hip-hop duo Run the Jewels. [...]

Two nights after she won three Grammys, the new pop star began her first tour with a show both rowdy and intimate. PORTLAND, Ore. -- As a pop star, Olivia [...]

Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and 50 Cent asserted the power of hip-hop's oldies generation on pop music's most-watched stage. Leading up to Sunday's Super [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The country superstar had the biggest album of 2021 despite being captured on video using a racial slur. Is he on a redemption tour, or just on [...]

Pop songs in the modern era are the products of collaboration -- singers, writers, producers, engineers and many more all have a part to play. That arrangement engenders a perennial [...]

INDIANAPOLIS -- Back in June, Kanye West was rumored to be playing a secret concert at the New York club Webster Hall after Hot 97's Summer Jam festival. Well after [...]

We'll start at the end, with the scream, because it was really a birth. The last song the young punk singer-songwriter Mitski played at the Knitting Factory on Thursday night [...]

We'll start at the end, with the scream, because it was really a birth. The last song the young punk singer-songwriter Mitski played at the Knitting Factory on Thursday night [...]

On Sunday afternoon, under a dome on the grounds of MoMA PS1, DJ Dex was spinning a set of amiable, springy techno, with flickers of funk and jazz, for a [...]

Mariah Carey wished, she said from the Beacon Theater stage on Monday night, that she could show everyone in the room how she does Christmas at home, in her personal [...]

The bonus track on ''Leaving,'' the most recent EP by the angelic ghost-soul singer Spooky Black, is called ''DJ Khaled Is My Father.'' It's typical of this young singer's output [...]

''Hot Boy,'' by Bobby Shmurda, is currently the No. 8 song in the country, according to Billboard. Let's stop for a moment and think about how remarkable that is. ''Hot [...]

Three or so years ago, Sbtrkt was one of the producers helping to rescue British dance floors from the all-engulfing blob that was dubstep, which had foregone nuance and become [...]

There are several ways to tell if a song is a hit -- by the number of radio spins, the way it infects the public consciousness, the ease with which [...]

Strictly speaking, the Janoskians show at Irving Plaza on Saturday afternoon began long before the whole crew came out onstage. For about 20 minutes, the speakers blasted a medley of [...]

It's important to remember that music has both aesthetic value and use value, though at live performances, it's generally the first of those things that gets priority. But people turn [...]

AMITYVILLE, N.Y. -- ''I'm gonna pick one person,'' Stitches said. Out in the Sunday night crowd at the Amityville Music Hall here, several young men -- and one or two [...]

Mere seconds after the band Joyce Manor's introductory guitar punch at the Bowery Ballroom on Monday night, the crowd started an eager mosh, exultantly tossing cups of beer into the [...]

In June, a rapper named Your Old Droog posted a self-titled EP on his Soundcloud page -- no photos, no videos, just songs. The music was scratchy boom-bap hip-hop, in [...]

HOLMDEL, N.J. -- In hip-hop tours this summer, two has trumped one. There was the juggernaut teaming of Jay Z and Beyonc, who have love (or maybe not, a tension [...]

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- It's difficult to think of Eminem -- perhaps the most transformational pop music figure of the 2000s, and still a multiplatinum star -- as a supplicant [...]

You know the routines by now: Romeo Santos has been doing this for too long. There will be a woman of ample proportions, and Mr. Santos will sing ''Un Beso'' [...]

Are there five more worrisome words in the world than ''You guys like reggae music?'' Let's face it -- you're probably not going to hear them at an actual reggae [...]

There's a funny clip, available on YouTube, of Todd Edwards and DJ EZ in conversation at a British festival last year. Mr. Edwards is a giant of house and garage [...]

The first thing the Agalloch frontman John Haughm does at the beginning of concerts is light incense at the foot of the stage. On Monday night at Irving Plaza, he [...]

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- For almost as long as Jay Z and Beyonc have been a couple, they have been collaborators, one artist enhancing the other by bringing things the [...]

At Rockwood Music Hall on Monday night, Alex Kinsey and Sierra Deaton told a story of how reality television works to create its own reality. As a duo, Alex & [...]

At this point, the Apollo Theater exists largely in totemic form, a repository of credibility available for loan to those seeking to cloak themselves in its legacy, whether out of [...]

Short of outright heckling, there probably aren't many more dispiriting things you can shout at a performer from the crowd than ''Are you on Spotify?'' Certainly the guy who did [...]

As party tricks go, Jennifer Lopez has the best and most effective one: Regardless of her milieu, she comes off as if she's slumming. Making records and having songs on [...]

A bunch of years ago, Erika M. Anderson made it out of South Dakota to California. Eventually, recording under the alias E M A, she released an album, ''Past Life [...]

Last month, word of the impending dissolution of the marriage of Chris Martin, frontman of Coldplay, and Gwyneth Paltrow arrived with an emphatic thud on her website, Goop.com. ''It is [...]

Frankie Cosmos's songs are alive with the raw pink of new feeling, tender to the touch. ''I'm the kind of girl buses splash with rain'' were the first words she [...]

Boys will be boys, and sometimes boys will be men, but most often boys will be struggling to figure out how much of each they should be, so they can [...]

Tahliah Barnett sings with clear voice, and she sings with her body, but on Wednesday night at Glasslands Gallery, she began her show with a whisper. Ms. Barnett, who performs [...]

Perhaps every social trend gets the anthem it deserves, but the selfie generation deserves something a little more imaginative and nurturing than ''#Selfie,'' by the New York dance music duo [...]

Six years into the supernova phase of her career, Lady Gaga is already a nostalgia act. Not in the temporal sense -- even in her prime she wasn't a particularly [...]

Three years ago, the rapper G-Eazy found a very effective way to set himself apart, releasing ''Runaround Sue,'' which was built on a sample of the 1961 Dion anthem of [...]

The most gratifying moment at this year's Grammy Awards came just after Lorde was announced as the winner of the best pop solo performance, for ''Royals.'' The camera caught her [...]

Not all second bananas are sidekicks. Take Schoolboy Q, the Los Angeles rapper and longtime running mate of Kendrick Lamar, one of hip-hop's ascendant stars. The two share a label, [...]

Rick Ross came out on the Best Buy Theater stage on Monday night somewhere in the past -- the 2010-11 era, specifically. That was the moment of his greatest triumph, [...]

''I feel so lonesome I could cry,'' Angel Olsen sings at the beginning of ''Hi-Five.'' And sure, she sounds the part -- ravaged, tense, dark, history-minded. But she's not settled [...]

It's morning in Macklemore's America. At last month's Grammys, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis won four awards, three in rap categories, the sort of pigs-flying moment that gets prognosticators to prognosticating, [...]