Hear tracks by Perfume Genius, Lucy Dacus, Bartees Strange and others. By Jon Pareles Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the ...

As soon as the song begins, the guitar wheezes and winks, the crackle of distortion smeared on top of the quick and cackling riff like butter. Dave Wright smiles and looks uphe knows this one. “This ...

Tull’s leader thought using the 5/4 rhythm from Brubeck’s “Take Five” would be commercial suicide, but listeners proved him ...

And we are moving into fall, so we are leaving you today with one final summer song. For the last several weeks, Gwen Thompkins has been bringing us wonderful musical nuggets from guests on her ...

With his perfectly trimmed red beard, sweater vest, spectacles, and black stocking cap, Joel Danell resembles your hipster teenager’s favorite college philosophy professor. However, the albums the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with 22-year-old jazz singer Samara Joy, who recently took to the stage of legendary club Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. Her album, Linger Awhile, is out now. Late on a recent ...

Rob McConnell was a valve trombonist, arranger, composer and leader of the big band called the Boss Brass, which set a new standard for jazz writing through the use of complex passages and close ...

Music has always been an essential aspect of Samara Joy’s life. The 24-year-old jazz singer’s earliest memory of performing is at eight years old, when the Bronx, N.Y. native recalls singing songs ...