The Weekend has scored his fifth No. 1 album with “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” posting the biggest overall numbers on the Billboard chart since Taylor Swift nearly...
Rutherford Chang, a conceptual artist who turned his collection of the Beatles’ “White Album” into a meditation on the aging of a vinyl classic — and...
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 4. Dua Lipa: “Houdini” My preference, when it comes to the two recent “Houdini” releases (Houdinii?), is this...
Giveon, ‘Twenties’ “Thought that if I put you first enough / we would last for sure,” Giveon laments, with neat wordplay, in a vintage-style soul ballad...
Music superstar, beauty mogul, fashion designer and … Smurfette? Rihanna’s next big role may not be what you were expecting. On Thursday, Paramount released a trailer...
▶ Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube 4. “Sister Morphine” Though most people associate this song with the Rolling Stones since it appears on their...
The Super Bowl halftime show was at a low point in 2019. Despite an unrivaled television audience, Rihanna turned down the National Football League’s invitation to...
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music As Grammy nights go, this year’s ceremony was a pleasant surprise. Beyoncé took home the top album...
Gene Barge, one of the last surviving saxophonists of the golden age of R&B, whose career ran the gamut of 20th-century Black popular music, died on...
At the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Beyoncé finally clinched album of the year with “Cowboy Carter,” her ambitious gumbo of country and American roots music, ending...
