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Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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, [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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. [...]

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 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. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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? [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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. [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica '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 [...]

''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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The rapper and singer has always been a master of the internet, not of music. But with his latest release, 'J Christ,' he's lost his grip on [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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, [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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, [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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, [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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 [...]