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

Cortez scored the first instrumental to top the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959 with his high-energy electronic organ hit "The ...

AJ McLean is on Zoom on Monday afternoon from the dimly lighted living room of a house he’s renting in Las Vegas. Known in the late 1990s as the resident bad boy of his pop group, Backstreet Boys, ...

Long before hyperpop sprung from the cyber-ether, faceless producers across Western Europe were engineering some of the ...

At 83, the lauded Brazilian singer and songwriter whose career in music and politics has encompassed six decades is on a ...

Allah-Las bring reverberant garage-rock, surf-guitar jangle and mellow SoCal vibes to Volcanic Theatre Pub in Bend Friday.

Kelsea Ballerini's spontaneous cover of Justin Bieber's "Baby" during a hospital visit shows how raw, unscripted music ...

This year has been, well, a masterclass in chaos. There’s a government running amok with an all-out assault on both personal ...

The streaming platform revealed its 500 most played songs, with Drake, The Weeknd and Post Malone also snagging a top five ...

Power pop still popped up now and again on 80s radio. These four bands helped make sure the genre was still alive and well.

Ed Sheeran, Drake and the Weeknd scored the highest placements on Apple Music's Top 500 Streamed Songs list of the past ...