Music

Pabllo Vittar has become an A-list pop star and L.G.B.T.Q. activist in Brazil. Can she conquer the world?

Jackson owed about $40 million to the tour promoter A.E.G. in 2009, his estate’s executors said in a court filing. They said all the debts have been eliminated.

Jonathan Tunick, Stephen Sondheim’s longtime collaborator, unveiled a grand orchestration of “A Little Night Music” that deserves more than a concert.

As a performer, he was a leading figure in the early days of Nashville rock ’n’ roll. He later found success as a writer, producer and publisher.

The rapper, who got into an altercation with a security guard after winning three Grammys, has completed community service.

He and his band, the Texas Jewboys, won acclaim for their satirical takes on American culture. He later wrote detective novels and ran for governor of Texas.

For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.

His 2020 lament “$20 Bill” was covered by scores of artists and, a fellow musician said, might well be destined for the folk music canon.

Hitting New York’s East Village with Sabrina Fuentes, the 24-year-old frontwoman of the band Pretty Sick.

The singer’s over-the-top sincerity and expressiveness were once seen as irredeemably uncool. In the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion,” they have become her superpowers.

The songwriter and guitarist has long been a staple of the Washington, D.C., scene. Teaching guitar to young students helped her realize she has even more to offer.

The lawsuits say that Udio and Suno trained their products on reams of copyrighted music.

“The Who’s Tommy,” which has a rock score by Pete Townshend, will end on July 21. A national tour is in the works.

Irene Taylor, director of the new documentary “I Am: Celine Dion,” talks about the decision to include a grueling scene of the pop star in crisis.

Listen to Lorde tell her side of the story on a surprise remix with Charli XCX and more new songs.

He was the frontman for the rap-rock band Crazy Town, which was most known for the hit song “Butterfly.”

Dion’s voice made her a star. A new documentary on Amazon Prime Video brings her back to Earth, showing her intimate struggles with stiff person syndrome.

After more than seven decades onstage, the gospel and soul great decided last year that it was time to retire. Then she realized she still had work to do.

The singer’s latest album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” now has the second-most weeks at No. 1 of any Swift album.

The singer, cellist and composer has found inspiration in the city’s flourishing avant-garde. Her new LP, “Sentir Que No Sabes,” wrestles with the idea of progress.

The pop songwriter’s sixth album is in some ways her most daring release yet. Improbably, it also yielded her best opening week.

As a journalist, singer, label owner and radio producer, he fostered a community of musicians on the outskirts of Americana.

Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.

Lorde adds guest vocals to Charli XCX’s “Girl, So Confusing,” a song that muses on the complexities of female friendship, and helps create something revelatory.

Hear tracks by Mavis Staples, Jamie xx featuring Robyn, Rakim and others.

Hear a pick from each of the band’s first 10 albums.

With the Contortions and James White and the Blacks, the songwriter and saxophonist set out to challenge musicians and stir up audiences.

Our critics select 33 standouts from our weekly Playlists — and seven more tracks they had missed.

After unofficially winning a high-profile diss war with Drake, the rapper hosted a Juneteenth concert that celebrated local heroes — and his own sharp-tongued tracks.

The rapper, who was charged with trespassing and disorderly intoxication, later admitted he had been drinking alcohol and stated, “It’s Miami.”

The singer and songwriter who rose from the ’60s British folk-rock scene lost her vocals to a neurological disorder. So she wrote a batch of tracks for others to voice.

As the serene Hamptons village is overrun with news vans, the locals eat oysters and engage in some light media criticism.

Matt Shultz is a rock ’n’ roll ringmaster known for pushing himself to the brink. After a period of psychosis and an arrest, he had to put his reality back together again.

Revisiting the event’s memorable set list, 57 years later.

“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is the first new Broadway musical to announce a closing plan following Sunday’s Tony Awards.

The punk rock pioneers chose freedom — and chaos — over major labels. Pulling the plug while things are still working is one final act of rebellion.

He broke out in 2014 with “Take Me to Church.” Then listeners on TikTok found his passionate, dramatic songs and a new single made its way to No. 1.

Starting in the late 1970s, she scored multiple hit singles, including “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter” and “I Try,” but a pair of strokes in the 2000s ended her career.

The two stars brought down the house with “Empire State of Mind,” their 2009 love song to New York City, which they had recorded earlier on a grand marble staircase outside the auditorium.

Billie Eilish is No. 2, and Charli XCX debuts strong at No. 3.

The gritty, bloody and relentlessly youthful musical features some of the most effectively vivid violence seen on a Broadway stage.

The tenure of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, can be difficult to assess. That much was evident over two concerts.

Whitney White will direct the first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s popular musical, which plans to open next spring.

Azahriah, who has rapped about the joy of cannabis, has shot to fame in Hungary. That may explain why he has been applauded by the country’s conservative leader, Viktor Orban.

The British singer selected Julius’, a Manhattan tavern with a storied past, as the place to celebrate the 10th anniversary of “In the Lonely Hour.”

As Bad Bunny and other Puerto Rican musical artists explode in popularity, language instructors say more people want to learn how to speak the island’s slick, swaggering version of Spanish.

What is dad rock? You know it when you hear it, so listen to 10 songs from Wilco, the Grateful Dead, Steely Dan and more.

Hear tracks by Zsela, the Decemberists, Khalid and others.

The company has bet that new operas will attract new, more diverse audiences and revitalize a stale repertory. Is the gamble paying off?

His songs became hits for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Brenda Lee and many other artists. They were also heard on movie soundtracks.

The Met is approaching prepandemic levels of attendance. But its strategy of staging more modern operas to lure new audiences is having mixed success.

An online art collective that spent $4 million on “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” is telling fans their purchases will accelerate the one-of-a-kind album’s 2103 release date.

“Hell’s Kitchen,” “Stereophonic” and others are up for top prizes at Sunday’s ceremony. Our critic takes stock of their cast albums, all available now.

“The Comet/Poppea” radically pares down a classic and blends it with a premiere by George E. Lewis for an original show that will travel widely.

The French pop star pulled listeners close and always struck the perfect pose.

New songs from Eminem, Drake and J. Cole — plus Will Smith’s post-Slap “Bad Boys” comeback — demonstrate different paths for maturing (or not).

More than 1,000 musicians, politicians and philanthropists gathered in Harlem on Tuesday night to celebrate the theater’s 90th anniversary.

From her start in the yé-yé 1960s to the depths she plumbed as a singer-songwriter, Hardy, who died Tuesday, continued to entrance new generations of listeners.

With hit songs and an understated personality, she incarnated a 1960s cool still treasured by the French.

I was a singer heading out on tour. Losing my voice was terrifying — but it ended up teaching me everything about myself.

The Grammy-winning D.J. and music producer recommends spots in a city he loves on Jamaica’s northeast coast. A dance party makes the cut.

The multi-instrumentalist Julius Rodriguez hones a bigger, more audacious sound on his second album, “Evergreen.”

The concertmaster and first-chair violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra for decades, he took part in a diplomatic breakthrough in 1973 with concerts in Mao Zedong’s Beijing.

Brian Steel, a lawyer for the Atlanta rapper, was ordered to serve 10 weekends in jail after a dispute with the judge, further complicating a messy gang conspiracy trial.

The lawsuit by Alexander Morris, who joined the group six years ago, said the staff thought he was “delusional” when he told them he was in the Motown band.

Hear tracks by the Strokes, beabadoobee, Normani and more.

Mitsuko Uchida appeared every night at her edition of the Ojai Music Festival. The rest of the time was given to other performers.

Bogdan Roscic and Lotte de Beer are shaking the dust off Vienna’s two biggest repertory companies.

Santana’s track featuring Rob Thomas turns 25 this week. Why is it still a rock blockbuster?

“Lady Marmalade,” her hit with Labelle, is turning 50. She’s nearing 80. But the singer, designer and technologist isn’t slowing down. She’s entering a new virtual world.

Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” holds off Ateez’s “Golden Hour: Part.1.” The singer-songwriter Shaboozey opens at No. 5.

He called himself a “professional listener,” and he tended to develop lifelong relationships with the artists he worked with.

At the Park Avenue Armory, a five-hour selection of pieces from the 29-hour “Licht” cycle is best appreciated as a marathon performance.

In a unanimous decision, the university’s board of trustees also moved to disband a scholarship in Mr. Combs’s name amid investigations into abuse allegations.

She just finished playing Flannery O’Connor and released a new album. Next up: “Inside Out 2” and a new season of “Stranger Things.”

Catch the N.B.A. Finals spirit with Erykah Badu, Pixies, Kelly Clarkson and more.

Hear tracks by Soccer Mommy, Tems, Floating Points and others.

Recent tracks from Charli XCX, A.G. Cook, Caroline Polachek and St. Vincent capture the producer’s philosophy and humanity, but not necessarily her signature sound.

The pandemic-derailed tenure of Jaap van Zweden, the orchestra’s music director, was too short to give us a full sense of him, as man or maestro.

High-profile cancellations from Jennifer Lopez and the Black Keys have armchair analysts talking. But industry insiders say live music is still thriving.