Music Features

The only way to reach Todd Snider is to call his landline. He’s never had a cell phone. Never cared to own one, either. If you want to find him, hopefully he’s home when you ring or you’re lucky enough to run into him by happenstance. “I’ve always been into …

B efore tumbling off her Lamborghini tractor, SZA looks incredible. A strip-club veteran, she gives her leading man, Justin Bieber, something close to a lap dance, perched on this piece of lawn equipment as he drives it. Flanked by cameramen, she twists her torso and sings her latest hit single, …

Welcome to ourweeklyrundownof the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more.This week, Grupo Frontera enlist Bad Bunny for a masterclass in apologies, Latto pops off on a hot single, a glistening track off SUGA‘s debut, and the first new music from the …

Conan Gray says he’s always been a watch-from-the-sidelines kind of guy. A “non-participator,” as he puts it, the kind of person who lives vicariously through those around him. “I just watch people,” he says with a shrug, sipping a cold brew (no milk, no sugar) outside of his favorite coffee …

It’s been a long five years for Carla Morrison. You could go over the laundry list of major life changes — putting her career on hold, moving to Paris, getting married, relocating to Los Angeles, losing her father, discovering her voice — but it wouldn’t do justice to the tumult …

When the news broke in February that 18-year-old Jayquan McKenley, who recorded under the name Chii Wvttz, had been murdered in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, it sent ripples through a city already reeling from what seemed like one violent incident after another. Many seized on the slain teen’s affiliation …

To understand the appeal of NCT Dream, K-pop’s beloved young powerhouse, you first have to let go of any lingering notion that you are cool. Cool is looking as comfortable in pastel knits and denim on Zoom as you are in neon green fuzzy jackets and face gems on stage; …

“Cupid,” a 1996 ballad from the R&B group 112, is as gorgeous as it is jarring. It comes on like a lullaby, with feathery guitar and handsome multi-part harmonies. But step into the song and you’re entering a place where sweet nothings are not to be trusted. Suspicion rules, so …

For this year’s Icons & Influences issue, we asked 10 artists to pay tribute to the women who have shaped their sound, provided an example, and inspired them to break down barriers. Puerto Rican reggaeton pioneer Ivy Queen talks about the clarion call she heard in salsa legend Celia Cruz’s …

I n 2001, DMX went to Arizona to record his fourth album. By then, he had already become an unlikely superstar, a barking battle rapper turned crossover sensation. He had channeled all the pain of his first three decades on Earth, all the rhymes that had been filling up the …