Music

  1. Album Review
    Taylor Swift Is a 2017 Pop Machine on ‘Reputation,’ but at What Cost?

    On her sneakily potent sixth album, the pop star shifts away from her signature melodies, engaging with the competition on its terms, not hers.

  2. Three Composers on the Necessity and Pitfalls of Political Music

    David Lang, Caroline Shaw and Ted Hearne discuss their works, to be performed by the Crossing at the Institute for Advanced Study on Nov. 10 and 11.

  3. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film.

    Questlove, Salamishah Tillet and Jon Caramanica discuss depictions of rap’s old-school days as well as new series and movies with hip-hop embedded into their frameworks.

  4. Charlotte Gainsbourg Finds Her Own Voice

    For her fourth album, “Rest,” she did something she’s never done before: write her own lyrics, digging into her family’s tangled history for inspiration.

  5. Review: Son Confronts Father to End a Leonard Bernstein Festival

    12:13 PM ETThe actor Jeremy Irons is a riveting narrator in Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, with Leonard Slatkin conducting the New York Philharmonic.

  6. Encounters: A Lebanese Rocker Caught in a Human Rights Incident Over Rainbow Flags
  7. Natalie Dessay Finishes What Barbra Streisand Started
  8. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance
  9. L.A. Phil’s Youth Orchestra to Get a New, Frank Gehry-Designed Home
  11. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week
  12. Classical Music in NYC This Week
  13. Popcast: Taylor Swift’s ‘Reputation’ Is Almost Here. Let’s Discuss.
  14. Pussy Riot Takes Aim at Trump and Putin in New Song
  15. On Tour With an Islamic Pop Star Who Makes Fans Swoon
  16. Tzipora Jochsberger, Founder of a Jewish Arts School, Dies at 96
  17. Confirm or Deny: Jaron Lanier
  18. With ... Jaron Lanier: Soothsayer in the Hills Sees Silicon Valley’s Sinister Side
  19. Review: Celebrating 40 Years of Championing American Composers
  20. Hear 8 Pieces of Music That Smartened Up ‘Latin History for Morons’
  21. Taylor Swift, Entering a New Era, Sticks to a Safe Space: Tumblr
  22. Henze’s ‘The Bassarids’ Will Return to the Salzburg Festival
  23. Q&A: Vince Gill Loves All Kinds of Guitars (and Mountains)
  24. Meek Mill’s Lawyer Says Judge Showed ‘Enormous Bias’ in Sentencing
  25. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before
  26. Show Us Your Wall: Forsaking the Punk Clubs of His Youth for a Well-Stocked Library
  27. Will Taylor Swift Stream? Music Industry Is Left to Guess
  28. CDs, Not Streaming, Send Kenny Chesney to No. 1
  29. Chopin’s Heart, Pickled in a Jar, Offers Clues to His Death
  30. Hear a Newly Found Kurt Weill Song That Surprised Experts
  31. Performance Space 122 to Return to Its East Village Home
  32. How We Used VR to Explore What Music Feels Like to a Deaf Person
  33. The Look: The Ease of Monrovia’s ‘Hipco’ Clubs
  34. Popcast: How Will Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Be Remembered?
  35. 2017 Holiday Gift Guide: Arts & Leisure
  36. Playlist: The Playlist: The Return of the Real Boy Band and 10 More New Songs