Dear listeners, It’s Lindsay’s editor, Caryn, here to kick off a round of guest newsletters with around 19 minutes of upbeat music from March. (If you...
For the Bronx crew ESG, another group formed by sisters — Renee Scruggins and her younger siblings Valerie, Deborah and Marie, along with a friend, Tito...
Brian James, who helped spark the punk-rock revolution in Britain in the 1970s as the lead guitarist and chief songwriter of the British band the Damned,...
Marty Callner, a pioneering director of comedy specials who set the template for the genre at HBO in the 1970s before going on to make music...
YOKO: The Biography, by David Sheff Here’s the thing about Yoko Ono, the artist and widow of the murdered rock star John Lennon (usually not identified...
“All I Want for Christmas Is You,” the perennial hit song by Mariah Carey that has become a holiday ear worm for the ages, was not...
The band’s taste in experimentation can be traced as far back as its 1987 EP, “Deathcrush,” which kicks off with the hypnotic, funereal “Silvester Anfang” by...
It’s Will Smith announcing a new album. It’s “Mamma Mia!” returning to Broadway. It’s the uptick in law school applications. And it’s absolutely spring breaking in...
2. Dolly Parton: “Two Doors Down” In this perky 1977 hit from Parton’s pop crossover era, the narrator is nursing a broken heart when she hears...
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or...
