Category: Pop and Rock Music

Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’ Still Reverberates

The New York Times – Music:
Pink Floyd’s enduring blockbuster merged grandeur and malaise. Very much a product of its era, it became one of the best-selling albums of all time.
100 Gecs Shook the Underground. Can the Duo Explode … With Rock Music?

The New York Times – Music:
Laura Les and Dylan Brady’s debut spurred a subgenre called hyperpop and earned them a major-label deal. Swerving again, they’re returning with a different sound on “10,000 gecs.”
U.S. Girls’ Luxuriously Absurd Disco, and 9 More New Songs

The New York Times – Music:
Hear tracks by Gracie Abrams, Ashley McBryde and Skrillex.
Algiers Blasts Songs of Damage and Redemption on ‘Shook’

The New York Times – Music:
On its fourth album, the Atlanta band welcomes guest voices and pushes itself even harder.
V&A Museum To Open David Bowie Archive

The New York Times – Music:
The London museum will house more than 80,000 items from the star’s music career at a new David Bowie Center for the Study of Performing Arts. It will open in 2025.
The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle)

The New York Times – Music:
At 67, a member of one of post-punk’s most influential bands is releasing “I Play My Bass Loud” and reflecting on decades of work pushing boundaries.
SZA Makes It Nine Weeks at No. 1, and Rihanna Returns to Top 10

The New York Times – Music:
“SOS” is now the longest-running No. 1 album by a woman since Adele’s “25” seven years ago.
Yoko Ono Fans Ring In Her 90th Birthday With a ’60s-Style Happening

The New York Times – Music:
There was singing, dancing and bell ringing in Central Park for an artist who has lived long past the days when she was often vilified.
Huey ‘Piano’ Smith, New Orleans Rock ’n’ Roll Cornerstone, Dies at 89

The New York Times – Music:
With songs like “Don’t You Just Know It,” “Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Sea Cruise,” he put a firm backbeat behind joyful nonsense.
‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ and the Ballad of Making Rock ’n’ Roll TV

The New York Times – Music:
After more than a year of delays and adjustments, the big-budget adaptation of a best-selling novel about music, love and fame hopes to become this year’s irresistible streaming series.
Feist’s Electrifying Return, and 9 More New Songs

The New York Times – Music:
Hear tracks by Lana Del Rey, Pink, Janelle Monáe and others.
A Performance Artist Pushes the Boundaries of Drag

The New York Times – Music:
Meet Christeene, a dystopian “drag terrorist.”