The New York Times – Music:
The 22-year-old British singer and producer learned to do things for herself early on. With “Heaven Knows,” a new album out in November, she’s preparing for bigger stages.
Author: Lindsay Zoladz
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Enough About Gram Parsons’s Death. It’s Time to Celebrate His Music.
The New York Times – Music:
The country-rock pioneer died 50 years ago at age 26 with two influential solo albums to his name, leaving a legion of “what if”s behind.
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Jamila Woods Puts Herself at the Center of “Water Made Us”
The New York Times – Music:
“Water Made Us,” a new album due Oct. 13, achieves the musician’s greatest synthesis yet between her voices as a poet and as a songwriter.
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Are We Finally Ready to Take Tammy Wynette Seriously?
The New York Times – Music:
The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood.
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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Dueted. Their Stars Were Reborn.
The New York Times – Music:
The crooner and the pop star seemed like unlikely collaborators when they joined up in 2014. But the two masters of reinvention inspired and bolstered each other’s careers.
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On Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour, the World Is Her Ball
The New York Times – Music:
The pop superstar’s first solo outing in seven years draws on the dance-music cultures that inspired her 2022 album, and her work that led up to that ecstatic release.
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Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Chemistry’ Draws on Familiar Formulas
The New York Times – Music:
With a big voice and big personal changes to sing about, Clarkson ends up with arrangements that don’t match the power and rawness of the emotions fueling them.
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Joni Mitchell Returns to the Stage, Golden and in Control
The New York Times – Music:
The singer-songwriter’s first announced concert in more than 20 years was a nearly-three-hour reimagining of her catalog that showcased her evolving, rich voice and her ever-sharp wit.
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Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’
The New York Times – Music:
The band’s first album since the death of its drummer Taylor Hawkins is explosive, emotional and inspired.