Pop and Rock Music

Mike Peters, Frontman of the Alarm, Is Dead at 66

Leading the Welsh band known for 1980s anthems like “Sixty Eight Guns,” he later became a strong voice in the fight against cancer, which he battled for decades.

By Alex Williams

Bambii de Souza, Indigo Folk Music Hozier-Byrne, Andrew (Hozier) Jessy Lanza Keszler, Eli Pop and Rock Music Rhythm and Blues (Music) Ribot, Marc Sami Galbi Sheeran, Ed Sofie Royer Streisand, Barbra These New Puritans Walker, Summer (Singer) Yaeji (Musician) Yanya, Nilufer

Barbra Streisand’s Silky Duet With Hozier, and 9 More New Songs

Hear tracks by Summer Walker, Nilüfer Yanya, Ed Sheeran and others.

By Jon Pareles

Documentary Films and Programs Malkmus, Stephen Pavement (Music Group) Pavements (Movie) Perry, Alex Ross Pop and Rock Music

‘Pavements’: A Sly Ode to the Last Band You’d Give the Biopic Treatment

Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Deaths (Fatalities) Ellis, Sarah Kate Fires and Firefighters Homosexuality and Bisexuality Minneapolis (Minn) Minnesota Music Perry, Katy Pop and Rock Music Sobule, Jill

Jill Sobule, Singer Behind ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Dead at 66

Ms. Sobule, 66, died Thursday morning in Woodbury, Minn., her publicist said. She had been scheduled to perform songs from her musical later in the week.

By Hank Sanders