You might think the perfect pop song is built on vibrant production choices and bouncy positivity, but an analysis of the ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...

Oasis reissue leaves me cold, plus new releases from Jethro Tull and Bradley Simpson, a Bowie re-release and a ...

Paul McCartney was asked to name his favourite song of the year. He chose The Logical Song by Supertramp. For Roger Hodgson, ...

In Everybody Loves The Sunshine, Roy Ayers uses six of the seven notes in F# Dorian mode as roots for fourths chords: F-sharp, A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp and E. Three of the resulting minor 11th chords ...

The legendary American vibraphonist, composer and pioneer of jazz-funk died Tuesday, his family said. He was 84.

Rundgren, who boycotted his Rock Hall induction, cites former Del Mar resident Bacharach as a key early influence on his ...

As metaphorical pseudonyms go, Toronto-born Tamara Lindeman’s choice of the Weather Station is a good one. Over six albums and 15 years she has tuned into the climate of global anxiety, cataloguing ...

The Lumineers’ fifth studio album, ‘Automatic,’ attempts to reconcile modernity and love lost through stripped production.

What’s the point in wasting time on people that you’ll never know?” I find myself staring into a snow globe that seems to contain all the good bits of the 1960s: a Farfisa organ in dark orange with ...

A classically trained pianist turned songwriter, he was a cornerstone of the soul group’s sound during its fertile second act ...

Two years on from her last performance in Manchester – and with three number ones, a Grammy and a Brit under her belt in the ...