How Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens Navigate Pop
As she was preparing to release “Crash,” the glossiest album of her career as a solo pop artist, Charli XCX was in the doldrums. In December, the British singer and songwriter landed a high-stakes “Saturday Night Live” performance that would feature two of her friends and collaborators, Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens. After More...
Up Next for Jessie Buckley of ‘The Lost Daughter’: More Movies, and Music
The actress Jessie Buckley is a natural brunette, but her hair is currently chopped into a ragged black bob and her nails are painted the same emerald green that the writer Christopher Isherwood gave Sally More...
The Philharmonic Plans Its Return to Geffen Hall, With Fanfare
Given the dearth of female conductors among the largest American orchestras, some have argued that the Philharmonic should choose a woman as its next music director. Several rising conductors, many of them women, More...
Lil Durk and Ghost Shake Up the Billboard Chart
After eight straight weeks leading the Billboard album chart — and nine at the top overall — the “Encanto” soundtrack has finally been bumped from No. 1 by new releases from the Chicago-born rapper More...
Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met
Puts has gotten from Glass’s Minimalism a taste for using repeated figurations as a kind of sonic carpeting, but his repetitions are much less insistent. The opera begins in a watery blur, with a choir, sounding More...
Oxxxymiron, Russian Rapper, Brings a Banned Antiwar Message to Istanbul
ISTANBUL — Only a month ago it would have been an innocuous scene in Moscow: Oxxxymiron, one of Russia’s most popular rappers, performing his latest tracks onstage with a banner behind him reading: “Russians More...
Review: Gustavo Dudamel Wraps Up a Philharmonic Audition
The Fourth Symphony, in D minor, was composed nearly a decade earlier, in a wave of productivity that included Schumann’s First; but he withdrew it, later revisiting it and premiering the revision in 1853. More...
‘Jane by Charlotte’ Review: A Mother-Daughter Duet
“Jane by Charlotte,” the directorial debut of the actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg (“Antichrist”), is a meandering and elusive documentary portrait of Gainsbourg’s mother, Jane Birkin. An “It” More...
Rosalía, Back With the Album ‘Motomami,’ Sees No Boundaries
LOS ANGELES — Rosalía, the experimental Spanish pop phenom with a reputation for hyper-speed reinvention, often finds herself solving intricate musical problems of her own making. How, for instance, might More...
Where Jazz Lives Now – The New York Times
Surfacing The jazz club, with its dim lighting and closely packed tables, looms large in our collective imagination. But today, the music is thriving in a host of different spaces. A disco ball threw beads More...