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Byline: Jon Caramanica 'Twelve Carat Toothache,' the new album from the post-genre star, continues to collapse several styles into one, and hones a template adopted by a new generation, including [...]

''Twelve Carat Toothache,'' the new album from the post-genre star, continues to collapse several styles into one, and hones a template adopted by a new generation, including Tate McRae. For [...]

Hear tracks by Wynonna & Waxahatchee, Superorganism, Rico Nasty and others. Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and [...]

The Air Force 1, manufactured in Italy, will be unveiled in a new installation in Brooklyn. It was one of the designer's final projects before his death. Over the years, [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The Air Force 1, manufactured in Italy, will be unveiled in a new installation in Brooklyn. It was one of the designer's final projects before his death. [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The Pulitzer Prize-winning social commentator rapper returns after five years with 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,' an album about what's broken on the inside. Kendrick Lamar [...]

One morning in March, Emma Rogue hopped in the black Nissan Rogue she shares with her brother and pulled out from a parking spot across the street from her Lower [...]

The Pulitzer Prize-winning social commentator rapper returns after five years with ''Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers,'' an album about what's broken on the inside. Kendrick Lamar has long extracted [...]

ATLANTA -- Last June, on the red carpet at the BET Awards, Jack Harlow finished up an interview and noticed that the rapper Saweetie was nearby. He had appeared on [...]

The musician and actor discusses inspiration, growth, vulnerability and the lessons he wants to impart to his fans. Over the years, I've found myself at this studio, creating with a [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 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 [...]

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 [...]

When Jennifer Venditti was a child growing up in Saint Paul, Minn., in the days before cellphones, her parents would sometimes deposit her with a babysitter for the night, leaving [...]

Despite nods to Gen Z, this year's show favored history-minded performers like Silk Sonic, Jon Batiste, H.E.R. and Lady Gaga. There is no surer way for a young musician to [...]

The Brooklyn band Big Thief is an indie-rock breakout that has inspired both passionate fandom and committed detractors. Jon Caramanica spoke with Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone and Sam Sodomsky [...]

The pop star's second album, ''Future Nostalgia,'' is ambitious and impressive. Onstage, the production didn't match the LP's ecstasy. Many of the best Dua Lipa songs start with an easily [...]

Hear tracks by Bonnie Raitt, Kehlani, Mahalia and others. Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos. Just [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The three-part Netflix documentary 'Jeen-yuhs' shows the superstar in his earliest days, then time warps to the present, with disorienting results. No one could quite understand why [...]

The three-part Netflix documentary ''Jeen-yuhs'' shows the superstar in his earliest days, then time warps to the present, with disorienting results. No one could quite understand why the young producer [...]

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 [...]

Hear tracks by Jazmine Sullivan, Brandee Younger, Caroline Polachek and others. Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and [...]

On the first page of Will Smith's recent memoir ''Will,'' the global superstar recounts a gruesome story of watching his father strike his mother in the side of the head [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica On the first page of Will Smith's recent memoir 'Will,' the global superstar recounts a gruesome story of watching his father strike his mother in the side [...]

The singer-songwriter's ''Welcome to the Block Party'' is a refreshing and ambitious pop-country debut filled with good-humored feminist anthems and pointed songs about an ex. NASHVILLE -- In the summer [...]

Hear tracks by Koffee, Lucy Dacus, Sasami and others. Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos. Just [...]

A four-hour film on Lifetime and A&E touches on the highs and lows of a long career, but doesn't dig deep into one of pop's great risk-takers. Throughout her two-decade-plus [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica The singer-songwriter Sadie Jean performed a lovelorn track and left room for a response. Lil Yachty took the bait. But their duet isn't the track available for [...]

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 [...]

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, jazz's flexibility has been an asset. Jon Caramanica spoke with Giovanni Russonello, who covers jazz for The New York Times, and Marcus J. Moore, who writes [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica 'Dawn FM' extends and reimagines Abel Tesfaye's fixation on perfect pop that he's been chasing since the mid-2010s. There's not a moment to breathe on the new [...]

''Dawn FM'' extends and reimagines Abel Tesfaye's fixation on perfect pop that he's been chasing since the mid-2010s. There's not a moment to breathe on the new album by the [...]

Hear tracks by Burial, Amber Mark, Delaney Bailey and others. Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos. [...]

Collections from labels like Fania and Armabillion, icons including Ray Charles and J Dilla, and living artists such as Beverly Glenn-Copeland and Radiohead were welcome additions this year. In an [...]

Hear tracks by Sofia Kourtesis, Remble, Caetano Veloso and others. Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's most notable new songs and videos. [...]

Our pop music critic remembers going to concerts with his mom, who died last year. Getting gifts for my mother was never easy -- she was particular, as am I, [...]

Sixty-six tracks that tell the story of the year: a posthumous political statement, a hyperpop star finding his footing, an emerging force's debut smash and a superstar's 10-minute redo. Jon [...]

Before Charli D'Amelio became the most popular creator on TikTok -- she currently has 132 million followers -- she danced on the competitive contemporary-dance circuit in the Northeast, the sorts [...]

As a member of the group UTFO, he was heard on one of the most influential and widely imitated songs of commercial hip-hop's early years. Kangol Kid, who as a [...]

Hear tracks by FKA twigs and the Weeknd, Leon Bridges and Khruangbin, Animal Collective and others. Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week's [...]

In the second year of global quasi-paralysis, what made the most sense were, once again, albums that felt like wombs and albums that felt like eruptions. When there was nowhere [...]

For four decades, he set the critical standard for elegantly intricate assessments of music, art, literature and more, writing dynamically about the resilience and paradoxes of Black creativity and life. [...]

Fresh seasonal releases from Kelly Clarkson, Bryson Tiller, Nat King Cole and Pistol Annies span genres and generations. Holiday music is big business: Just take a look at the Billboard [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica New chart-topping albums from the two singers serve as raw excavations of relationships gone bad. Adele's new album, '30,' is about the dissolution of her marriage, and [...]

Byline: Jon Caramanica Look around at the way young men now think about clothes, design and music, and you'll see him everywhere. In recent years, it could often appear as [...]

Look around at the way young men now think about clothes, design and music, and you'll see him everywhere. In recent years, it could often appear as if there were [...]

The Velvet Underground, a band that verged on the inscrutable and tempered pop curiosity with avant-garde abrasion, is remembered in ''The Velvet Underground,'' a new documentary directed by Todd Haynes. [...]

A jazz musician snagged the most nominations, and the Weeknd, an artist who said he's boycotting the awards, found his name on the ballot. Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, Billie Eilish [...]

Known for collaborating widely and his deadpan bravado, his last solo album, ''Rich Slave,'' debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard chart last year. Young Dolph, a deeply skilled Memphis [...]

For decades this social critic has addressed the powerful influence of media, consumerism and politics. Her work anticipated how images and ideas are now disseminated. CHICAGO -- At the entrance [...]

The British singer and producer's debut release, ''To Hell With It,'' is full of familiar samples, rendered hazily. Some of the most striking music suffusing TikTok this year has come [...]