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5 days ago | 
nytimes.com | Frannie Carr Toth
Jon Pareles, the chief pop music critic at The New York Times, presents a playlist full of new music. Some songs are about heartache - others are about planetary catastrophe. Lorde, "What Was That"Bambii featuring Jessy Lanza and Yaeji, "Mirror"Nilüfer Yanya, "Cold Heart"Summer Walker, "Spend It"Antropoceno featuring Parannoul, "The Waves"Image The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Kate LoPresti |Frannie Carr Toth |Rowan Niemisto |Shaad D’Souza
Earlier this year, Bruno Mars became the first artist ever to amass 150 million monthly listeners on Spotify. But unlike many of his peers, Mars has paved a path to pop stardom without cultivating a devoted fan base, maintaining a consistent aesthetic or building a world around his music. Instead, his career has been defined by his reliability as a chameleonic hitmaker.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Kate LoPresti |Frannie Carr Toth |Rowan Niemisto |Dan Powell |Jon Pareles
Jon Pareles, the chief pop music critic of The New York Times, recommends five recently released songs to listen to this weekend. They include a spooky ballad, some very twisted pop and, as usual, some love gone wrong.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Taffy Brodesser-Akner |Julia Whelan |Jack D’Isidoro |Kelly Prime |Frannie Carr Toth |John Woo | +1 more
"The force of his will is the thing I remember about him," says Taffy Brodesser-Akner, who wrote a profile of Val Kilmer for The New York Times Magazine in May 2020. "He was sure he was going to come back to his exact former self. "The two met for an interview just as a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic seemed all but certain to happen. Mr. Kilmer, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and had undergone a tracheotomy, was still performing.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Kate LoPresti |Frannie Carr Toth |Rowan Niemisto |Dan Powell |Jon Pareles
They come from different coasts and countries, with sounds ranging from folk pop to hard-nosed rap to otherworldly electronics. And this year, they're all releasing new music, going on tour or both. Jon Pareles, the chief pop music critic at The New York Times, spotlights four ascendant artists: Jensen McRae, J Noa, Oklou and Mei Semones. Image The New York Times Audio app is home to journalism and storytelling, and provides news, depth and serendipity.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Kate LoPresti |Frannie Carr Toth |Rowan Niemisto |Jon Pareles
"Arcadia," the new album by Alison Krauss & Union Station, is out today. It's the band's first release in over a decade, full of songs Krauss has been gathering since the last time they recorded together in 2011. This latest album is plaintive, with tracks about remembering historical tragedies and overcoming hard times.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Tina Antolini |Frannie Carr Toth |Rowan Niemisto |Lindsay Zoladz
Lindsay Zoladz, a pop music critic for The Times, has long been a fan of Neko Case's genre-defying music. But she says that Case's new memoir, "The Harder I Fight the More I Love You," made her appreciate Case's music anew. "Getting a slightly more linear sense of certain things that were going on in her life at the time that she wrote some of her greatest albums really gave me a new sense of clarity into her experience," Zoladz said. It also led Zoladz to re-listen to some of her favorite tracks.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
nytimes.com | Kate LoPresti |Frannie Carr Toth |Sonia Herrero |Elisheba Ittoop |Dan Powell |Melissa Kirsch | +2 more
Women in midlife are having a moment in popular culture - a steamy one. Recently, there has been a swell of books, celebrity-endorsed wellness products, and movies that center on the sexual lives of perimenopausal and menopausal women. One of those films is "Babygirl," written and directed by Halina Reijn and starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. The age-gap romance has ignited a feverish conversation about the intricacies of women's sexual power and desire.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | John K. White |Frannie Carr Toth |Lynn Levy |Rowan Niemisto |Pam Belluck
Joshua Roman used to be able to play cello for 10 hours a day without skipping a beat. But months after contracting Covid-19 in 2021, debilitating brain fog and extreme fatigue had him questioning whether he would ever play again. It has been three and a half years since Roman was diagnosed with long Covid, and he's still adapting to his medical reality and reimagining his musical future.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Frannie Carr Toth |Astead Herndon |Reid Epstein |Maggie Haberman |Nate Cohn
Tackling the big unknowns - and what we do, mostly, know - with "The Run-Up" podcast. There's the one big question when it comes to 2024: Which presidential candidate is going to win in November? Then there are lots and lots of other related questions. " The Run-Up," a weekly politics podcast from The Times, is trying to answer as many listener questions as we can - on the show, which you can subscribe to wherever you get your podcasts. And here. What else do you want to know?
