Two years ago, when Rufus Wainwright celebrated the 20th anniversary of his debut with a series of tour-de-force concerts, performing the songs that kicked off his career helped him tap into a new ...

VIENNA, Va. – Never mind when Sting talks about tantric sex. His stamina as a performer and musician should be celebrated mightily. At the scenic Filene Center at Wolf Trap Sept. 1, Sting played the ...

A huge, gloriously silly and brutally effective amalgam of abandoned styles ripe for reinvigorating — rap-metal, dream-prog, ...

I love other people’s songs. How much they’ve taught me about being human—how to think about myself and others. And, most important, how they absorb our experiences and store our memories. No matter ...

Mr. Tweedy is the singer and guitarist of the band Wilco and the author of “World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music,” from which this essay is adapted. It’s ...

Whatever grouchy critics and snide contrarians thought of them in their mid-2000’s heyday doesn’t matter anymore. It’s pretty much accepted canon at this point that My Chemical Romance are one of the ...

In fact, the songs that were huge in 2024 were still sucking up all the atmosphere. Those that did muscle through tended to ...

In the early Eighties, Michael McDonald was such an omnipresent force in the music industry that he inspired one of the greatest sketches on SCTV. It stars a bearded Rick Moranis as McDonald, who ...