Music Features

Let’s get this out of the way: Taylor Swift dominated the year in music, and it wasn’t even close. Four-year-old songs of hers topped the charts. She sold physical albums at a head-spinning rate. Her Eras Tour was an economic stimulus in every city she played, and reignited conversations around …

When the trio known as grouptherapy. takes the stage at Toad’s Place in New Haven, Connecticut, the crowd is compact yet energized. It’s a Sunday night in the fall, and this is the smallest crowd the group has seen so far on their debut tour with the rapper Tobi Lou …

“We didn’t know what we were doing,” says Josh Schwartz, creator of The O.C. For the show’s first few episodes, the music choices were simply plucked from his own iPod. But once the now-legendary music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas came aboard, the show turned into a weekly showcase for some of …

T here are several ways to soundtrack a journey back from hell. On a Wednesday afternoon in late November, Jorge Pabón lifts himself out of his wheelchair, props himself up, and scrolls through his iTunes until the right song hits him. “Órale!” he exclaims, as the chugging guitar riffs of …

WELCOME TO OURweekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This weekJimin of BTS keeps it light, sweet and soulful on a new solo tune, Megan Thee Stallion speaks the plain pussy-powered truth, and Midland salute the Lone Star State. …

It’s been more than two decades since Mia Moretti burst onto the scene as a creative ingenue-turned-in-demand DJ, instantly capturing both the music and fashion world’s attention. But after years of playing for other people — at everything from Met Gala after-parties to this summer’s Barbie movie premiere — the …

The members of BTS may be starting their military service, but they’ve left their fans with something new to remember. On Wednesday, Disney+ will release the first two episodes of BTS Monuments: Beyond the Star, an eight-part docuseries that gives a look behind the scenes of the group’s rise to …

The first “Parental Advisory” album Metro Boomin ever owned was Nelly’s Country Grammar, which helped define hip-hop’s St. Louis sound in 2000. His mom bought it for him. That record infused in Metro a great love of and pride in his hometown of St. Louis. Of course, he already loved …

S mack in the center of Paris’ Trocadéro esplanade stands 21 Savage, face-to-face with the Eiffel Tower for the first time. It glows in the distance, across the Seine river, as a light rain falls and dusk settles around us. He’s flanked by four security guards, all dressed in black …

Earlier this month, a handful of lucky Bob Dylan fans in Europe stumbled upon a new release entitled 50th Anniversary Collection 1973 in record stores scattered across the continent. The 28-track collection consists of nothing but studio outtakes from the 1973 Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid soundtrack sessions, but …