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Lila Iké Featuring H.E.R. and More New Music

Five songs for your weekend.

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Edited by Wendy Dorr

By Jon Pareles

Engineered by Alyssa Moxley and Dan Powell

Jon Pareles, chief pop music critic for The New York Times, with five new songs to listen to this weekend:

  • Twenty One Pilots, “Navigating”

  • Lila Iké and H.E.R., “He Loves Us Both”

  • Lido Pimienta, “He Venido Al Mar”

  • John Cale, “Shark-Shark”

  • Blick Bassy & RY X, “Mbondi”

Jon Pareles is the chief pop music critic for The Times

ImageThe artist H.E.R. holds a guitar performing on stage.
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Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. He studied music, played in rock, jazz and classical groups and was a college-radio disc jockey. He was previously an editor at Rolling Stone and the Village Voice. More about Jon Pareles

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